Sedgwick County Grants

 

CPAAA Administration

Provides meals & nutrition services to senior group setting

Provides meals & nutrition services to senior group setting

Provides meals & nutrition services to seniors delivered to the home

Senior Disease Prevention Services

Various Aging Services (Attendant Care, CM, Homemaker…)

 

Resident Services Coord/Admin/Sr. Companions/Transp…

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.

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

These 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 this State Fiscal Year include: Intensive case management (CPST), Attendant Care, Peer Support, 24-hour crisis response, triage, stablization, and treatment services, Psychiatric services and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services.  Community Based Behavioral Health Services will include: 24-hour, 7 days a week emergency treatment and first response services; Crisis responsiveness; Evaluation, assessment, and treatment; Screening for admission to a state psychiatric hospital, when applicable, and any follow up on consumers of emergency services not detained for inpatient care to determine any further needs for services.   And also provide services to the non-target, uninsured population as well as those at risk of being homeless or at risk of being jailed who have a mental illness.  Additionally COMCARE will provide; Basic Outpatient Treatment Services, Basic case management services for adults and basic community-based support services for children, adolescents, and their families.  This year's contract includes an increase in funding of $543,036  to help cover the necessary costs to provide the required services of the CMHC.

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 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.

Contracting agencies provide services to juvenile offenders such as Detention Advocacy Services.  Includes funding for evaluation, case management, short term services and attorney services administration.  

 

Residential Facility & Services for adult offenders refered to the program.

(Attached award includes fundig for other programs listed separately)

Administrative services for the Community Corrections programs.

(The attached award letter funds other programs listed separately)

Funding for Drug Testing and Electronic Monitoring of clients.

Purchase of equipment including Pass through Metal Detectors and Handheld Wands, Software License.

Purchase of Media Room upgrades, Star Tech USB Duplicator , Eraser and Sanitizer.

Funds partial costs of EM staff for normal activities and full costs of one EM Planner position.

Impact of Hazardous Materials Transportation on Susceptible Populations and Organizations within Sedgwick County, Hazmat Technician and Hazwoper Trainings.

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.

Mosquito surveillance funding will pay for the Health Department to monitor mosquito numbers by setting traps and sending them to the Kansas Biological Survey, direct appropriate vector efforts (larvicidal dunking for mosquito abatement), and prevent West Nile virus in Sedgwick County.

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

Funding used to support fishing activities at Lake Afton and Sedhwick County Parks including stocking  of fish.

Bridge and Culvert Repair on 61st Steet North - Kechi.  Reimbursement of work completed in 2017.

Engineering Inspection Services on Bicycle/ Pedestrian Bridge Project Meridian & Floodway)

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.

The Toxicology Laboratory performs analysis of toxicological samples used in postmortem cases and DUI cases .  This new technology (LC/MS) will enable the laboratory to enhance analytical capabilities, to include opioid identification.  The LC/MS that is being considered is a used instrument that has been refurbished.

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.