Sedgwick County Grants

 

CPAAA Administration

Aging Supportive Services

Provides meals & nutrition services to senior group setting

Provides meals & nutrition services to seniors delivered to the home

Provides meals & nutrition services to seniors delivered to the home

Family Caregiver Support Program

55+ Volunteer Program

Rural Transportation Regional Coordination for Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick, Cowley, Harper, Kingman Counties, City of Kingman, Futures Unlimited & Twin Rivers Developmental Supports.

Funding provides for outreach to Medicare-eligible individuals who may be eligible for the Low-Income Subsidy or the Medicare Savings Programs.  The grant also provides for advanced outreach and to increase public awareness in the Area Agency's planning and service area.

CPAAA will assist individuals with services needed to address  emergencies to prevent Adult Protective Services (APS) intervention.

The SMP Program is designed to reduce Medicare and Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse through distribution of materials such as brochures and handouts and coordinate activities that allow volunteers to meet with benficiaries and answer simple questions.

State Mental Health Reform funds are used to provide all medically necessary services to all persons with mental illness, especially persons in the targeted populations, who present themselves for service regardless of their ability to pay.  Priorities for service in the State Fiscal Year include: emergency treatment and first response services, liaison services and intensive strengths based case management services admitted to state mental health hospitals and alternative facilities to facilitate discharge and maintain community tenure and recovery, supported employment and housing services, annual screens for continued stay for NF/MH consumers, partiicpate in mental health disaster planning, participate in trainin gand activities that are designed to improve consumer eleigibility for federal disability benefits and Medicaid eligibility.  MHBG funds will be used to provide; crisis mobile, CSS Case management and Children's case management.  Governor's Mental Health Intitative funds will be used to provide intensive outreach and engagement services to persons in the priority target population with several areas of emphasis and complete a needs assessment and develop a personal recovery plan.  Amendment #1 provides $1,300,000 for Crisis Beds.  Amendment #2 is one time funding of $158,499 for general CMHC purpose use.

Ageement to provide Special Liquor Tax administration including working with the providers to establish outcome measures, and refining them as necessary to increase productivity.  COMCARE also receives and reviews provider invoices for corrections and appropriate documentation.  Monitoring expenditures and on site reviews are conducted.

COMCARE of Sedgwick County is the recipient of a Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) grant.  COMCARE has received this grant funding since the initation of the homeless program.  This grant helps fund outreach, screening, and diagnostic treatment, community mental health services, case management services, referrals for primary health services, technical assistance in applying for housing, and coordination of housing services.

The focus of the grant is to expaend Individual Placement Support (IPS) Supported Employment Services to adults suffering from a serious mental illness.  The goal of the grant is to strengthen the existing infrastructure needed to maintain and expand supported employment services throughout the State of Kansas.

 

The City of Wichita has identified additional funding for a dedicated case manager that will work specifically with Drug Court clients. This position will provide services to engage clients, assist with access to community resources to address basic needs, and to identify long-term solutions in an effort to promote recovery.

Funding for the Community Crisis Center to rpovide 23 hour crisis stabilization beds; crisis sobering services with average length of stay of 8 -12 hours; crisis acute medical detox services with average stays of 3-5 days; children's short term crisis residential services.

Internal operated programs including Juvenile Intake and Assessment (JIAC), Juvenile Intensive Supervision (JISP), Juvenile Case Management (JCM) and Evaluation/Administration.

Intensive Supervision Officers provide case supervision services to offenders refered to the program.

(The attached award letter includes fundig of other programs listed separately)

Funding to strengthen supervision, community safety and client success by increasing behavioral interventions provided by staff and through community partners to address substance abuse and mental health issues with strategies proven to reduce recidivism with adult felony offenders.

 

 

(The attached award letter includes funding for other programs listed separately)

Funding for Drug Testing and Electronic Monitoring of clients and phone system for JDF.

Purchase of Tasers.

Purchase of Computer and Large format Canon Image Printer.

Preparedness for Public Health Emergency

To increase immunization in children

Provide funding for staff to attend training meetings, workshops,

Provide group education and individual home and office visits to high-risk moms in zip codes 67208, 67214 and 67219 where there are disproportionate rates of preterm and low birth weight births and infant deaths, especially among African American moms

 

Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies.

Provides individuals the information and means to exercise personal choice in determining the number and spacing of their children, prioritizing services to low-income and high risk individuals.

Provide housing assistance certificates to eligible homeless clients and allowance for adminsitration of the program

Provide housing assistance certificates to eligible homeless clients and an allowance for administration of the program

Aviation Pathway Inspection Services

Purchase Lab equipment - Positive Pressure Manifold & Dry-Down Evaporator/Heat Module System

This grant will provide funds for the RFSC to implement new automated platform to process sexual assault screenings in order to addess a dramatic increase in sexual assault kit collections and further increases due to the implemntation of 100% of kits collected be submitted for testing instead of only 30% previously submitted for testing in Sedgwick County.

WPD shares 1/3 cost of the support personnel, benefits, contractual services and commodities for the Exploited and Missing Childrens Unit operations. 

Operate DUI checkpoint on specified days throughout the year.

Special traffic enforceemnt usually occurring during holiday weekends whioch involves manning checkpoints on selected streets and highways.

Police Equipment and Vehicle Rental includes Thermal Scopes, Computer tablets, Stealth Stats, Binoculars, furniture/chairs, staff training and other items.

Police Equipment and Vehicle Rental includes NCIC Secure Tokens, Range Ammo Bunker, Ballistic glass & paint for 2 SWAT vehicles, License plate Readers, staff training and other items.