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Kansas behavioral‑health providers ask for sustained CCBHC and workforce funding
Summary
Community mental health centers, the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence and training programs urged level or restored investments (including $7.7M for the Center of Excellence and $4M for uninsured CMHC services) to sustain mobile crisis, fellowships and workforce pipelines.
Multiple mental‑health providers and educational partners told the Committee on Social Services Budget the behavioral‑health workforce and the CCBHC model continue to require dedicated funding to preserve expanded crisis services and grow the pipeline of clinicians.
Amy Campbell of the Kansas Mental Health Coalition asked the panel to increase the lottery vending‑machine fund cap to $16,000,000 to support crisis services and Clubhouse programs and to continue level funding for the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence at…
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