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National START team recommends Sedgwick County pilot to improve crisis care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Summary
County CDDO and the National Center for START Services presented an evaluation finding START is a good fit for Sedgwick County and recommended using state grant funds to pilot a START team and resource-center model to reduce ER, inpatient and jail use among high-need individuals.
County disability-services staff and consultants from the National Center for START Services on Tuesday told commissioners that START — a 35-year-old evidence-based model for crisis prevention and intervention for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) — appears to fit Sedgwick County’s system and could reduce costly emergency and inpatient use for a small group of high-need individuals.
“We made the recommendations back to the community that indeed it looks like the start model is a really, really good fit for, for your community,” Dr. Karen Wiegley, acting director of the National Center for START Services at the University of New Hampshire, said during the briefing. Jeanette Livingston, deputy director of CDDO Services, said the county’s application for state grant dollars to begin a START team will appear on the commission’s agenda next week and added, “We’re not asking for additional county dollars.”
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