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SEKMHC Community Mental Health Center Program- The focus of this program will be to improve access to evidenced based and trauma informed services for individuals with SED, SMI, and COD

Award Number: H79SM085487
ORGANIZATION: CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
OPDIV: SAMHSA
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2023

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SEKMHC Community Mental Health Center Program- The focus of this program will be to improve access to evidenced based and trauma informed services for individuals with SED, SMI, and COD - The SEKMHC Community Mental Health Center Program expands mental health and substance abuse services for individuals with SED. SMI, and Co-occurring Disorders by increasing the mental health center’s capacity to provide, intake, crisis, and recovery support services in a trauma informed patient center manner. Additionally, this program enhances the stability of mental health center workforce by supporting their own mental health needs and providing training in evidenced based approaches including trauma informed service delivery and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. The Covid-19 pandemic has created an increased need for mental health services, especially for the highest need populations targeted by this project. In the first quarter of 2021 our center has seen a 6.1% increase in the number of services provided compared to the first quarter of 2020, and an even more significant 67% increase in the number of crisis services performed. The result of this increased need for services combined with the difficulty of recruiting qualified staff to a rural impoverished area has resulted in increased wait times for first time appointments. In the past year first appointment wait times have increased from 11 to 24 days. This project addresses this need by adding 5 licensed clinicians, 8 case managers, at least 1 licensed substance abuse counselor, 1 peer support worker and 10 attendant care workers. We will also add 1 information technology(IT) staff members to help support the expansion of telehealth services to improve access. To increase awareness of services and to help identify individuals in need this project will also add 2 mental health promotion and prevention staff to perform outreach activities within the community. During this project they will perform a minimum of 15 promotion activities. This project will help support staff seeking to further their education to become licensed clinicians to help meet the growing need for services. This project will support 5 case managers per year in completing their master’s degree, so that they can become therapists. One Bachelor’s level substance abuse counselor will also be supported in completing a master’s degree to become dually licensed as a mental health and substance use clinician. At the conclusion of this project the center will have at least 3 dually licensed clinicians. Center staff will receive training in evidenced based practices of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and trauma informed service delivery to not only expand services, but to improve the quality of those services. Additionally, this project hopes to improve staff retention by meeting the mental health needs of mental health providers by providing resiliency and mindfulness supports. This project will support services to 1150 individuals during the course of the project. In addition to expanding services this project establishes dedicated intake times and leverages the use of telehealth to reduce wait times for first appointments. By the end of this project wait times will be reduced from 24 days to less than 10 days for routine appointments.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2024	2021	SOUTHEAST KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER	1106 S 9TH ST	HUMBOLDT	KS	66748	ALLEN	USA	Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services	000	1	4/25/2024	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2023	2021	SOUTHEAST KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER	1106 S 9TH ST	HUMBOLDT	KS	66748	ALLEN	USA	Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services	000	1	9/11/2023	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2022	2021	SOUTHEAST KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER	1106 S 9TH ST	HUMBOLDT	KS	66748	ALLEN	USA	Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services	000	1	12/1/2021	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $4,999,999 )
2021	2021	SOUTHEAST KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER	1106 S 9TH ST	HUMBOLDT	KS	66748	ALLEN	USA	Block Grants for Community Mental Health Services	000	1	9/22/2021	NEW	$4,999,999
														Subtotal = $4,999,999

Grand Total All Awards = $4,999,999

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SEKMHC Community Mental Health Center Program- The focus of this program will be to improve access to evidenced based and trauma informed services for individuals with SED, SMI, and COD

Award Number: H79SM085487

ORGANIZATION: CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

OPDIV: SAMHSA

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2023

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