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Sedgwick County staff to apply for statewide crisis-service awards; mobile crisis funding also sought
Summary
Sedgwick County staff briefed commissioners on two proposed grant applications to KDADS for crisis services: operational funding for the county's crisis center and a separate application for mobile crisis response. Commissioners asked about scope, timing and whether awards would change local revenues.
Sedgwick County staff said the county will submit two grant applications to the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) to seek funding for crisis services that cover both operations at the local crisis center and mobile crisis response.
Comcare staff member Tim said the first application seeks to document and fund the full cost of crisis-services operations in the county's catchment area, and the second application is for mobile crisis teams. "So this is a change in practice for KDADS as they have, as more CMHCs have become CCBHCs, they're starting to open up crisis centers like we have," Tim said. He said KDADS issued a request for applications to…
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