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Rediscover seeks funding to expand youth behavioral‑health urgent care in South Kansas City
Summary
Rediscover told the Budget Committee it plans to move its youth behavioral‑health urgent care into a larger South Kansas City facility and sought outside‑agency funding to support medication management and prescriber services to reduce wait lists.
Shannon Moss, Rediscover’s director of crisis services, told legislators that the nonprofit’s youth behavioral‑health urgent‑care clinic provides same‑day assessments, medication management and on‑site Medicaid eligibility assistance to connect people to services immediately. "We don't want you to then have to call and then sit on a wait list for 3 months," Moss said, describing the organization’s goal of same‑day access for people in crisis.
Rediscover is preparing to relocate to a renovated facility in South Kansas City to expand capacity and integrate outpatient services; the group requested county support for the medication‑management component and staffing needed to maintain one‑stop crisis and short‑term care. Legislators praised the model’s emphasis on reducing wait times and noted 988 and other crisis pathways are complementary to the urgent‑care offering.
