The funding will facilitate 13 community mental health centers becoming certified community behavioral health clinics, according to the report.
“The CCBHC grants we are receiving from the federal government will help us build additional infrastructure for the mental health safety net in Kansas. Any resources that go toward or CCBHC investment just solidify the work done by community mental health centers and our partners in the executive and legislative branches of government and support our state-designed system,” the executive director of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, Kyle Kessler told KSNW.
To qualify as certified community behavioral health clinics, mental health centers must provide the following services:
- Crisis mental health services
- Mental health screening, assessment, and diagnosis
- Outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment
- Person-centered treatment planning
- Primary care screening and monitoring of key health indicators
- Targeted case management
- Psychiatric rehabilitation
- Peer support
- Intensive services for members of the armed forces and veteran
Review the list of grant awards and amounts here.
