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Kansas committee hears bill to replace 'crisis' centers with community-based juvenile stabilization centers
Summary
The Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care held a hearing on HB 2639, which would rename juvenile crisis intervention centers as juvenile stabilization centers, broaden admission criteria to 'need of stabilization,' allow a DCF funding transfer of $2 million, and prioritize crossover youth while raising concerns about mandatory detention language and clinical gatekeeping.
A state House committee on Friday heard testimony on House Bill 26 39, which would rename existing statutory 'juvenile crisis intervention centers' as 'juvenile stabilization centers' and change admission and oversight rules for those facilities.
Natalie Scott of the Revisor's Office told the Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care that HB 2639 "changes the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers," removes the statutory definition of "behavioral health crisis" as an admission criterion, and revises several Kansas Statutes Annotated (KSA) cross-references and intake provisions. Scott also said the bill includes a provision that on 07/01/2026 the director of accounts and reports shall transfer $2,000,000 from the Evidence Based Programs account to a DCF special revenue fund for juvenile stabilization services.
Proponents described the centers as short-term,…
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