The AdHoc Group Against Crime's Family and Peer Support project has been designed to address the mental health issues facing families living in the Prospect corridor who are exposed to the ravages of community violence. The projects primary objectives include: 1) provide crisis intervention support to families exposed to violence; 2) facilitate peer to peer family support tailored specifically for families grieving from murder or manslaughter and 3) facilitate the exchange of information between law enforcement and the families and friends impacted by community violence. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 50%, KCMO - 48%, Johnson - 1%, Wyandotte - 1%
The focus of Alphapointe's Senior Adult Services is on the health, safety and well-being of visually impaired seniors. This program promotes self-sufficiency for seniors by teaching new skills that enable older adults to 'age in place', maintain active lifestyles and stay connected to their families and communities. Since vision loss adversely affects all aspects of a senior's health, this program provides critical access for a population that has been marginalized by a disability. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 37%, Johnson - 30%, Jackson - 23%, Cass - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%
The focus of Alphapointe's Senior Adult Services is on the health, safety and well-being of visually impaired seniors. This program promotes self-sufficiency for seniors by teaching new skills that enable older adults to 'age in place', maintain active lifestyles and stay connected to their families and communities. Since vision loss adversely affects all aspects of a senior's health, this program provides critical access for a population that has been marginalized by a disability.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 40%, Johnson - 35%, Jackson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%, Cass - 5%
The Senior Adult Services program helps continue independence for those who experience age-related vision loss. Alphapointe offers education and professional services to senior citizens, their family members and caregivers. Specialists assess the client's at-home needs and provide training in the compensatory skills of blindness, such as proficiency in independence in independent living and the use of low-vision equipment. Staff perform regular in-home visits to assist in daily activities and continue care giving.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Johnson - 25%, Jackson - 20%, Wyandotte - 5%
The American Cancer Society will address access to care by providing transportation assistance for patients to their cancer treatments. Lack of transportation is one of the leading reasons that cancer patients cite as a barrier to receiving timely and quality care. Funding will allow ACS to enhance the current transportation assistance program to better meet the needs of cancer patients within the HCFGKC service area. Specific measures include increasing the availability of gas cards and the number of trips and miles provided by the volunteer-based Road to Recovery Program. Request Amount - $25,000
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 48%, Johnson - 29%, Wyandotte - 10%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 3%, Allen - 2%
The Healthy Schools Program supports schools in developing healthy school environments and recognizes those schools that succeed through its awards program. Objectives are: (1) Establishing a healthy school environment as an education priority; (2) Providing healthy food options for students during the regular and extended school day; (3) Increasing opportunities for students to exercise and play; and (4) Developing programs for teachers and staff to become healthy role models. The Healthy Schools Program currently reaches 36,314 students in 82 schools in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. A continuation grant will continue this help and add 40 more schools. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 59%, KCMO - 40%, Allen - 1%
The purpose of this program is to address the growing problem of childhood obesity by increasing the capacity of schools to build healthy environments that promote physical activity and healthy eating for their students and staff. The program is based on the socio-ecologic model. This model suggests that by working with multiple levels of a social system over time, significant policy and environmental changes can be achieved. The program will provide 45 schools in the greater Kansas City area with intensive technical assistance on the development of policies and programs that lead to a healthy school environment. Program staff will work closely with each school and district to identify local gaps, develop locally-tailored action plans, help overcome local barriers, broker resources, and achieve sustainable change.Geographic Area: KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%, Cass - 15%, Lafayette - 15%, Jackson - 10%
Organization proposes to deliver the CDC best practice Asthma-Friendly Schools Initiative in Johnson and Wyandotte County schools in order to improve the knowledge and ability of 300 area families, district school nurses, and area physicians to diagnose, treat, and manage pediatric asthma.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 75%, Johnson - 25%
SLAM IT is a multi-year sustainable project with three components: 1) Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU), a nationally known teen tobacco use prevention program where trained teens present to younger youth within their school district/community on the importance of avoiding tobacco and embracing a healthy lifestyle; 2) the development of Clean Indoor Air (CIA) Units, which are clubs of CIA Agents (teens and young adults advocating for tobacco control issues); and, 3) CIA Units promoting a white paper developed by this organization which supports effective local tobacco control policy change.KCMO - 100%, Cass - 100%, Jackson - 100%, Lafayette - 100%, Johnson - 100%, Wyandotte - 100%
We are seeking assistance to create a new and innovative program, the Re-building Block, a street-like setting which is designed for the stroke survivor as well as other neurological disorder survivors in the Kansas City area. This new program will be located at our Missouri location and will assist the client in activities commonly participated in within the most realistic setting, a mock community. Familiar, lifelike settings from the community, such as a grocery store, bank/ATM, discount store, restaurant, car, and garden are available to use in a safe environment before venturing out into the city to try without assistance.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 35%, Johnson - 10%, Wyandotte - 5%
Amethyst Place provides treatment based, supportive housing for low-income, high-risk women who have a history of chronic substance abuse and their children. The program promotes sobriety, develops new life skills, instills effective parenting skills and prepares families for successful transitions to independent housing and interdependent living arrangements. When a family is accepted into the program, they receive professional support and 24-hour supervision in a drug and alcohol-free environment. They are involved in developing their individual treatment plan and they have access to educational opportunities to enhance their job skills, parenting and life skills, and support groups to bolster their sobriety as well as other community resources. The facility is staffed 24 hours a day to support, monitor and evaluate the progress of the residents. Amethyst Place requests $52,545 to help fund salaries and fees for the Executive Director and support staff.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 100%
Amethyst Place provides treatment based, supportive housing for low income, high-risk women who have a history of chronic substance abuse and their children. The program promotes sobriety, develops new life skills, instills effective parenting skills, and prepares families for successful transitions to independent housing and interdependent living arrangements. When a family is accepted into the program, they receive professional support and 24 hour supervision in a drug and alcohol free environment. They are involved in developing their individual treatment plan and they have access to educational opportunities to enhance their job skills, parenting and life skills, and support groups to bolster their sobriety as well as other community resources. The organization is requesting funding to help support salaries and fees for the Executive Director and support staff. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-100%
Amethyst Place provides supported housing for women who have had a history of substance abuse and their children. The program exists to promote sobriety, build and practice new life skills, and prepare the families for independent housing and interdependent living. When a family is accepted into the program, they receive support and supervision in a drug and alcohol-free environment. They are involved in a treatment plan individually developed for each family and they have access to educational and support groups as well as other community resources. The program serves seven families at a time in an apartment building in the Old Northeast section of Kansas City. They are requesting funding from HCF to help fund supportive housing for low income recovering women and their children. Funds will be used for salary support and professional fees. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
Organization requests capacity support to help fund salaries and fees for the Executive Director and support staff. The facility is staffed 24 hours a day to support, monitor and evaluate the progress of the residents.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 100%
The Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City Kansas healthy foods initiative is a comprehensive community directed project, designed to put building blocks into place to address their food resource and grocery needs. The overall goal is to encourage healthy living through good nutrition. To achieve this, the grant request is designed to help a) conduct a feasibility analysis of initiating a food cooperative or a grocery store for the area, b) provide expert assistance in shaping a business plan and c) complete the business plan. The initiative planners are committed to achieving this in a culturally sensitive, and locally relevant, manner. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 100%
Working with health coordinators and school nurses in the KCMSD Charter School arena and the Samuel Rodgers Health Clinic and its cohort of dentists, ArtsTech and Storytellers will continue to distribute oral hygiene materials to 1,500 K-8 students and leverage comprehensive dental exams for 200 Medicaid and non-Medicaid-eligible children. Charter schools' populations of the lowest free and reduced lunch students (approximately 85 percent) will be identified, and those are the schools this project serves. Final reports of this project, Reach 2007 and 2009, Health Care of Greater KC 2008, demonstrated Flash's unqualified success. More children went to a dentist than projected, engaging good oral hygiene presentations were welcomed by children and school staff, the comic coloring book was a tremendous motivator for children to have their parents return permission forms, and capacity for building the McCoy 'Panda' dental clinic were some of the outstanding results from this initiative. Expanding this program to reach more underserved poor children is imperative if the goal is have all children lead healthy lifestyles. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 100%
Associated Youth Services is requesting an 18-month grant in the amount of $75,722 in support of an existing program component, a new fitness and healthy lifestyles component for at-risk teens; and the evaluation of a pilot personal fitness challenge model. The Hip Hop For Health: Hip and Fit Project aims to provide critical health care information and screenings to 3,000 Wyandotte County youth through a health fair format. Secondary students are targeted to increase knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding nutrition and exercise. The youth will be encouraged to join an ongoing after-school fitness group which will promote increasing activity levels and healthy eating.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
Kansas City's Medicine Cabinet provides emergency medical assistance to low income uninsured and underinsured individuals in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. The Medicine Cabinet provides direct client assistance in five specific areas: dental emergencies, diabetic supplies, durable medical goods, prescriptions and vision care. Kansas City's Medicine Cabinet utilizes a voucher system and partners with seven social service agencies which provide intake at fourteen area sites. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 26%, Jackson - 23%, Wyandotte - 22%, Johnson - 19%, Other - 4%, Cass - 1%
Kansas City's Medicine Cabinet provides emergency medical assistance to low income uninsured and underinsured individuals in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Medicine Cabinet provides direct client assistance in five specific areas: dental emergencies (including dentures), diabetic supplies, durable medical equipment (including hearing aids), prescriptions and vision care. Kansas City's Medicine Cabinet utilizes a voucher system and partners with eight social service agencies which provide intake at 17 area sites. The Medicine Cabinet also partners with six domestic violence shelters to provide assistance to their residents.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 32%, Wyandotte - 28%, Jackson - 21%, Johnson - 16%, Lafayette - 1%, Cass - 1%, Other - 1%
To provide emergency medical assistance to low income, uninsured and under insured individuals in the Kansas City metropolitan area in the following categories: dental emergencies, diabetic supplies, durable medical goods, prescriptions and vision care.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-37%, Wyandotte-33%, Johnson-15%, Jackson-14%, Cass-1%
Kansas City's Medicine Cabinet provides emergency medical assistance to low income uninsured and underinsured individuals in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Medicine Cabinet provides direct client assistance in five specific areas: dental emergencies (including dentures), diabetic supplies, durable medical equipment (including hearing aids), prescriptions and vision care. Kansas City's Medicine Cabinet utilizes a voucher system and partners with eight social service agencies which provide intake at 15 area sites. The Medicine Cabinet also partners with six domestic violence shelters to provide assistance to their residents.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 32%, Wyandotte - 28%, Jackson - 21%, Johnson - 16%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%, Other - 1%
Benilde Hall, which serves homeless, chemically dependant men, requests multi-year funding to provide on-site mental health services and medication adherence to men with co-occurring disorder, substance abuse and mental illness. Support would provide: implementation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy groups; individual therapy for those residents with the greatest need; medication compliance program; and staff training on mental illness & treatment.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
Expanded and enhanced services to dual disorder clients through development of Skills Assignment Groups and Process Therapy Groups. Homework/Handout Group, Skills Coaching Group, and Advanced Dialectic Behavior Therapy Group would be added to existing DBT therapy services. The request would also increase the amount of slots for a contract psychologist to provide individual therapy to the neediest clients.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
Funding provides mental health services for homeless addicts in treatment. Services provided include group & individual counseling, DBT, psychological services, nursing and med tech support. Upon entering the program, all were homeless and all were abusing drugs and/or alcohol. More than 57% of those served are veterans. The primary drugs of choice for the population served were cocaine and marijuana. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of clients had a mental illness in addition to addiction issues. The majority of the clients (68%) have medical issues and 75% had no health insurance.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 100%
The Black Health Care Coalition (BHCC) will engage in capacity building and sustainability activities to strengthen the agencies community collaborations, programming and funding opportunities. BHCC, with the help of community stakeholders, will identify programming and services gaps in the areas of health prevention and education. An action oriented and effective coalition will be established to streamline resources and offer comprehensive health promotion activities.
KCMO - 60%, Wyandotte - 30%
The Black Health Care Coalition will implement 'Unlocking Your Potential' in two middle schools in the urban core of Kansas City, Missouri. The program is designed to build youth assets, leadership skills, conflict resolution skills and parental engagement. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 100%
Healthy Generations is a culturally competent, evidence-based program to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among inner city residents of Kansas City, Missouri. Health Generations will link Church Nurses and Community Outreach Nurses to promote the awareness of modifiable CVD risk factors, provide screening to appropriate evaluation and treatment and provide case management services.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson- 70%, Wyandotte - 30%
The Black Health Care Coalition will conduct the 'SISTA' (Sisters Informing Sisters on the Topics of AIDS) program for African American women in the Jackson County Jail and the Kansas City Municipal Correctional Institution. SISTA is an evidence based HIV female prevention program that was designed to be culturally specific for African Americans. The SISTA sessions develop HIV prevention strategies, healthy self-esteem and positive decision making skills amongst participants. We will conclude the program with Community Information Fairs where participants will receive HIV testing, health screenings and community services after they have left these short term correctional settings.Geographic Area Served: Jackson-60%, KCMO-40%
SMART Moves is a nationally acclaimed comprehensive prevention program designed to help youth resist alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, as well as premature sexual activity. SMART Moves features engaging, interactive, small-group activities that increase participants' peer support, enhance their life skills, build their resiliency and strengthen their leadership skills. This year-round program encourages collaborations among Club staff, youth, parents and representatives from other community organizations.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 88%, Wyandotte - 12%
The Boys & Girls Clubs request $84,537 to support SMART Moves -- Healthy Relationships; a new program under the existing SMART Moves umbrella that will focus exclusively on abuse and violence prevention with Club members, staff members, and parents. Funds will support program staff salaries and partnerships between the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City, The Metropolitan Organization to Counterattack Sexual Assault (MOCSA), and the Child Protection Center (CPC). A portion of the grant will go directly to MOCSA and CPC as reimbursement for training they will provide to Club members, staff, and Club members' parents.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 91%, Wyandotte - 9%
SMART Moves (Skills Mastery and Resistance Training) is a prevention program that helps young people avoid four of the most immediate threats to their well-being: alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and teen pregnancy. The program has been scientifically evaluated and works by exposing young people to protective factors that promote positive behaviors, health, well-being and personal success. With these protective factors, young people have the tools to overcome the many challenges they face. With fun and engaging activities, SMART Moves provides information and skills needed for youth to adopt the attitudes and behaviors of healthy lifestyles and positive character development.Geographic Area Served:KCMO- 49%, Jackson County -35%, Wyandotte-16%
Annually, the Association participates in community safety fairs and school specific events. At each event, the Association gives away bicycle helmets to children in need. With each helmet, the child is educated on the importance of wearing the helmet correctly to prevent brain injury.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 69%, Wyandotte - 31%
The Intake and Outreach Specialist who will streamline the intake process thereby increasing agency capacity to respond to a rapid influx of clients, conduct educational outreach to mental health case workers so they can make referrals and improve relationships with SSA to ensure proper benefit payments are made and all matters are handled courteously and in a timely manner.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 55%, Jackson - 20%, Wyandotte - 13%, Johnson - 11%, Cass - 1%
The purpose of Client Management System (CMSv.2) Update and Expansion is threefold -- A. improve and expand CMSv.1, B. improve management of the client account in QuickBooks, and C. improve the efficiency and transparency of the administrative funds by bringing all accounting functions in house. An enhanced CMS is critical to delivery of services to indigent, disabled clients because staff will more efficiently maintain client personal information in CMS and have access to more accurate actual expense information in Quick Books. The staff will enhance capacity for daily management of administrative funds and empower Board members to provide oversight. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 45%, Johnson - 20%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 14%, Cass - 5%, Lafayette - 1%
Cabot Westside Health Center's Mental Health Awareness and Treatment Program addresses the barriers Cabot's primarily poor, Hispanic patient population face in accessing mental health services. Lack of health insurance, inability to pay for care, shortage of bilingual/Spanish providers, and lack of culturally competent services hinder access to mental health treatment. The 2008 program expands services beyond the services provided in 2007 and will increase patient access to the services of mental health professionals, provide mental health screenings to patients, and continue providing psychotropic medication free of charge to Cabot's uninsured and underinsured patient population who cannot afford prescribed medications. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 89%, Wyandotte - 7%, Johnson - 2%, Cass - 1%, Jackson - 1%
Cabot Westside Health Center's Oral Health Program promotes preventive oral health care and provides direct dental services to the predominantly uninsured, Hispanic population Cabot serves, ultimately improving patients' quality of life.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-89%, Wyandotte-7%, Johnson-2%, Cass-1%, Jackson-1%
The Cabot Triage Nurse Program will address the need for timely access to quality urgent and non-urgent medical care by providing a triage nurse (registered nurse) to evaluate the medical needs of walk-in patients and visit with patients by phone to evaluate the patient's condition, schedule an appointment with an appropriate (adult, pediatric, women's care, etc) provider as soon as possible. She will also provide medical advice for patients to help improve their condition prior to seeing the medical provider. The program will provide care for approximately 70-100 patient assessments per day.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 77%, Wyandotte - 10%, Other - 6%, Jackson - 5%, Johnson - 1%, Cass - 1%
Calvary Community Outreach Network seeks to implement a behavioral intervention that has been found to be effective in reducing sexual risks among various populations, including African American youth. Our three primary objectives are: 1) Development of age and religiously appropriate tools and activities based on youth-tailored Role Model Stories (RMS), educational interactive games, and churchwide events; 2) Training of Youth Ministry Directors, Youth Peer Leaders, and Pastors from African American churches in order to increase their skills in delivering pre-developed Tool Kit materials/activities to enhance adolescents' skills in making abstinence and safer sex decisions, the skills of their parents to talk with their children about these decisions, and churchwide support of youth; and 3) Implementation of religiously-tailored RMS-based intervention to promote sexual abstinence and safer sex with a church-based youth population. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 70%, Wyandotte - 30%
Cancer Action's Patient Services Program is designed to reduce stress by meeting critical and often life saving needs of those with cancer in the Kansas City area. The agency offers a comprehensive array of programs and services addressing the physical, social, emotional, financial and spiritual needs of people with cancer and their families. Our caring professionals and volunteers improve the quality of life for those with cancer by providing direct practical services, financial assistance, ongoing emotional support and case management, education and wellness programs offering empowerment, hope and comfort. All Cancer Action programs and services are free of charge.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-30%, KCMO-26%, Johnson-22%, Wyandotte-18%, Cass-3%, Lafayette-1%
Cancer Action's Patient Services Program is designed to reduce stress by meeting critical and often life-saving needs of those with cancer in the Kansas City area.
The agency offers a comprehensive array of programs and services addressing the physical, social, emotional, financial and spiritual needs of people with cancer and their families. Our caring professionals and volunteers improve the quality of life for those with cancer by providing direct practical services, financial assistance,
ongoing emotional support and case management, as well as education and wellness programs. Cancer Action programs and services are free of charge.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 30%, Johnson - 22%, KCMO - 21%, Wyandotte - 16%, Other - 11%
KC Community Denture Program offers older adults and persons with disabilities in Kansas City, Jackson, Cass, and Lafayette Counties of Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte Counties of Kansas access to affordable pre-denture and denture services. Most uninsured and underserved older adults lack adequate dental care to prevent edentulism, the loss of natural teeth, thus impacting every phase of their health and wellness. To ensure effective completion of client outcomes, the program provides access to transportation and case management support to help clients navigate the process required to effect healthy physical, oral, mental, and social wellness improving independent living potential.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 73%, KCMO - 13%, Wyandotte - 5%, Cass - 3%, Johnson - 3%, Lafayette- 3%
Healthy Lifestyle Choices provides access to health screenings and follow-up; real-time, multi-media health literacy education relevant to chronic conditions; referral assistance; and nurse/case management services to a minimum of 275 underserved, underinsured, and uninsured individuals who are users of ten designated emergency assistance sites in Jackson County, Kansas City, and Cass County, Missouri. The nurse/case manager visits each site twice a month to provide screenings, referrals, and follow-up services with real-time access to the health literacy web portal, Lasting Lifestyles. Short-term case management is provided to those most in need while they set and strive to achieve personal health goals.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Cass - 10%, Jackson - 10%
Community Denture Program Expansion offers seniors and persons with disabilities in Kansas City, Jackson, Cass, and Lafayette Counties in Missouri; and Johnson and Wyandotte Counties of Kansas access to affordable pre-denture and denture services. Uninsured and underserved persons no longer have adequate dental care to prevent edentulism, the loss of natural teeth, since Medicaid discontinued coverage for these services. To ensure effective participation and completion of client outcomes, the expansion includes access to transportation and a geriatric social worker for support and referrals to community resources necessary for independent living and positive overall health and wellness.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-55%, KCMO-35%, Cass-3%, Lafayette-3%, Johnson-2%, Wyandotte-2%
Healthy Lifestyle Choices provides access to health screenings and follow-up; multi-media health literacy education relevant to chronic conditions; referral assistance; health monitoring; skilled medical support at high-need sites; benefits enrollment; and case management to underserved, under/uninsured individuals who are users of ten designated emergency assistance sites in Jackson County, Kansas City, and Cass County Missouri. Nurses visit each site twice monthly to provide screenings, referrals, and follow-up services with real-time access to health literacy materials to educate participants. The program emphasis is 'People achieve better health by adopting healthy lifestyles and by accessing equitable, quality affordable health care.'
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 70%, Other - 12%, Cass - 9%, Jackson - 9%,
Healthy Lifestyle Choices provides access to health screenings and follow-up; multi-media health literacy education relevant to chronic conditions; referral assistance; health monitoring; and nurse/case management services to a minimum of 300 underserved, under-insured, and uninsured individuals who are users of twelve designated emergency assistance sites in Jackson County, Kansas City, and Cass County, Missouri. The nurse/case managers visit each site twice a month to provide screenings, referrals, and follow-up services with real-time access to the health literacy for increasing participant knowledge. Short-term case management is provided to those most in need while they strive to achieve personal health goals. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 85%, Jackson - 9%, Cass - 6%
This program assists mothers who lack resources and support systems to help them care for their newborns who are considered at risk because of health or environmental issues. As a medically based program, referrals come from medical personnel following delivery when it is determined the baby is at risk because of health issues or home environment. This is the only program wherein a pediatric nurse travels to the home within 36 hours of discharge to provide follow-up care and ensure the mother is able to care for the child. The nurse also examines the home environment for safety, infant equipment, refrigerator, formula, diapers, etc. These items are provided free of charge if needed. The target population includes mothers and newborns that are poor, uninsured or underinsured. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 45%, Wyandotte - 30%, Johnson - 20%, Jackson - 5%
The purpose of the proposed grant is to support critical early intervention clinical services to young children who have experienced abuse, neglect and/or other trauma, resulting in diminished emotional, behavioral and social functioning.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 55%, Jackson - 33.3%, Johnson - 4.2%, Cass - 3.3%, Wyandotte - 1.4%, Other - 2.8%
The project is the clinical services provided to young children in both the Day Treatment Services and Outpatient Treatment Services programs. These children have emotional, behavioral and social problems and, in some cases, developmental delays caused by the adverse effects of abuse, neglect and other traumatic experiences. Clinical services include behavioral, developmental and parenting assessment; psychiatric evaluation; individual, group and family therapy; speech/language and occupational therapy; psychiatric services; and case management designed to address the problems and develop positive social and coping skills. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-83%, KCMO-8%, Cass-7% , Johnson-2%
The Forensic Interview and Evaluation Program provides services to children ages 2-17 living in Jackson, Cass and Lafayette Counties who are alleged victims of abuse. The interviews and assessments, conducted in a safe, neutral, child friendly setting, are used to ensure children who are victims of abuse are identified, their safety secured and that they are referred for all necessary medical and mental health treatment. All services are provided with the goal of minimizing trauma imposed on child victims by the system, ensuring their physical and emotional wellbeing and restoring the victim�s sense of dignity and self esteem.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 56%, Jackson - 34%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 2%
The Child Protection Center (CPC) Program is facing a grave emergency because of an anticipated 20% increase in referrals of alleged victims of child abuse in 2010. This project will ensure that children living in Jackson, Cass and Lafayette Counties in Missouri who are victims of sexual and physical abuse are properly identified, their safety is secured and they are referred for all necessary medical and mental health treatments as soon as possible after a report of abuse. This project will support the CPC infrastructure by continuing funding for 2 Forensic Interviewer and 1 Intake Coordinator positions.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 81%, Cass - 11%, Other - 6%, Lafayette - 2%
The number of children served at the CPC is growing. To serve them more promptly the CPC must add an intake coordinator to gather information about the child over the telephone efficiently, accurately and with necessary confidentiality. Currently this task is performed by the receptionist. However, because of the heavy work load and public nature of the reception area, the intakes cannot be completed promptly and confidentiality can be breached. The CPC also is seeking funding to provide partial support for the Executive Director's salary as well as operating support including telephone service for the organization and travel reimbursement.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 93%, Cass - 6%, Lafayette - 1%
The Child Protection Center, (CPC) Inc. is requesting $75,000.00 in funding from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City to ensure that children living in Jackson, Cass and Lafayette Counties in Missouri who are victims of sexual and physical abuse are properly identified, that their safety is secured and that they are referred for any and all necessary medical and mental health treatment opportunities as soon as possible after a report of abuse. This project will fund 100% of the salary and benefits of the Intake Coordinator and 35% of the Salary and Benefits of the Executive Director. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 86%, Other 7%, Cass - 6%, Lafayette - 1%
The Child Protection Center (CPC) Program will ensure that children living in Jackson, Cass and Lafayette Counties in Missouri who are victims of sexual and physical abuse or who have witnessed a homicide or extreme violence are properly identified, that their safety is secured and that they are referred for any and all necessary medical and mental health treatment. CPC proposes to do this by maintaining the crucial Receptionist position and maintaining its current, centrally-located office site. Funding from the Health Care Foundation will provide 100% of the Receptionist salary and 50% of the yearly cost of the rent.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 81%, Cass - 11%, Other - 6%, Lafayette - 2%
The Infant/Toddler Therapy Program is a comprehensive, individualized educational and therapy program for blind or visually impaired infants from birth to age three and their families; services are provided in the home and at the Center. The goals of the Infant Program are to monitor the child's developmental skills; to assess, monitor and maximize residual, functional vision; to provide educational and emotional support to families and to provide a means for families to connect with other families. The program typically serves over 200 babies and toddlers and their families annually within a 100 mile radius of Kansas City.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 27%, Johnson - 26%, Other - 23%, KCMO - 16%, Wyandotte - 5%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 1%
The Infant/Toddler Therapy Program is a comprehensive, individualized education and therapy program for blind or visually impaired infants from birth to age three and their families. Services are provided in the home and at the Center. The goals of the program are: to monitor the child's developmental skills; to assess, monitor and maximize residual functional vision; to provide educational and emotional support to families; and, to provide a means for families to connect with other families. The program typically serves 100-150 babies and toddlers and their families annually within a 90 mile radius of Kansas City.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 38%, Jackson - 34%, KCMO - 14%, Wyandotte - 7%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen - 1%
Children's TLC requests the help of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City in ensuring that young children, birth through age five, have access to medically-necessary clinical services, as determined by their Primary Care Physician or other qualified Health Professional, regardless of their family's ability to pay. Once identified, these children will have access to physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and nursing services within their family home, other natural environments, or at the agency's Center-Based Preschool Program. Approximately 300 young children will benefit from these services each month.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 68%, KCMO - 25%, Jackson - 3%, Cass - 1%, Johnson - 1%, Other - 2%
The City of Kansas City, Mo., Health Department plans to create and engage a coalition of metropolitan area agencies and organizations dedicated to educating young children and their caregivers on the dangerous health implications of second hand smoke. In the 18-month period, we will develop and implement an educational outreach campaign and evaluate those results which will serve to direct our continuous efforts in the following 18 months.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 36%, Johnson - 25%, KCMO - 24%, Wyandotte - 9%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 2%
The purpose of this project is to assist each woman who is incarcerated at Kansas City's Municipal Correctional Institution (MCI) with the appropriate resources she will need to re-enter society and decrease her chance of re-offending. To accomplish the goal of this project, the focus will be to minimize barriers that hinder these women from successfully re-integrating into the community. The requested funding would be utilized to support two co-coordinators, two staff from UMKC, project training, project monitoring, clinical supervision and project evaluation.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 90%, Wyandotte - 7%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 1%
The Bridge Project will deliver intensive, individualized services that address the needs of inmates incarcerated at the Municipal Correctional Institution. The program will focus on inmates who currently go unserved by utilizing current programming available at MCI. The program will include diagnosis, counseling, and case management. The outcomes will end the cycle of incarceration with inmates in supportive stable housing.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 91%, Wyandotte - 7%, Cass - 2%
The Kansas City Municipal Court requests a one-year grant from HCF to support a component of the Mental Health Court (MHC) Diversion Program. MHC gives low-income persons who are charged with City ordinance violations, and who have mental health propblems, the option of accepting mental health treatment instead of going to jail. The requested HCF funding would be used by KCMC to subcontract with Legal Aid of Western Missouri to provide critical paralegal services as part of this program. The paralegal will partner with caseworkers, service providers and social service professionals to help resolve issues that are characteristic of persons with untreated mental conditions. The paralegal will also help the attorneys provide more individualized attention to defendants, all of whom require unique personal guidance.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 95%, Jackson - 4%, Cass - 1%
The purpose of the Kansas City Municipal drug court is to expand and enhance services, while eliminating barriers to substance abuse treatment.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Each year the Kansas City Municipal Drug Court (KCMDC) is faced with a growing number of chronic substance abusers. As if their addictions were not enough of a battle, 23% of our participants also report having a mental health diagnosis. At least 98% of those with a mental health diagnosis enter drug court without psychiatric medications or an active status with a community mental health provider. KCMDC feels that the actual number of co-occurring participants coming though the program to be greater than 23%, thus justifying why KCMDC should implement evidence based screening tools during participants intake into Drug Court to ensure that we are referring everyone to the appropriate services and addressing all needs.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
Active Living KC is a multi-departmental, comprehensive initiative, led by the Public Works Department of the City of Kansas City, Missouri. A grant request of $758,680 over 3 years will allow this project to facilitate policy and behavior change addressing the lack of infrastructure and programs that supports a vibrant, active, healthy environment for residents. Public Works will provide leadership to and coordinate project activities with City Planning, Health, Youth Advocacy, and Parks departments of the City of Kansas City, Missouri. Each department will work with identified community partners and other stakeholders in achieving the overall goal of creating a culture of healthy living through education and encouragement activities, and policy strategy implementation.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
This project will implement a culturally relevant training program for 5 Spanish-speaking lay health educators, by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to promote knowledge about breast cancer screening and access to available effective breast cancer screening resources in the Latino community. We will also provide breast cancer education to at least 1,500 community members and connect 200 women to early detection screenings. This project will strengthen our organization by enhancing the expertise of our current staff and leadership team and increasing the number of volunteers and cancer prevention professional committed to eliminate cancer disparities in the Latino community.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 70%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 10%
Eight organizations work in partnership to organize a Health Focus event in the Hispanic community. The goal of this initiative is to increase knowledge and awareness of the risk factors of cancer, diabetes, mental health, cardiovascular disease as well as promote healthy lifestyles to include healthy eating, physical activity and smoking cessation during the event. The project aims at increasing awareness and access to care for the uninsured/underserved participants by using a case management approach. Post event, the focus will be on a referral system to local safety net clinics so that families can have access to a medical home.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 90%, Johnson - 5%, KCMO - 5%,
Celebrating Healthy Families intends to increase awareness and access to healthcare for the uninsured/underserved Hispanic community in the Kansas City metropolitan area through case management approach. The partnership, comprised of eight organizations, organizes the event in an area with high concentration of Latinos. It works to increase knowledge and awareness of the risk factors of cancer, diabetes, mental health and cardiovascular disease; and promotes healthy lifestyles including healthy eating, physical activity, home smoking restriction and smoking cessation. The end goal of patient case management is to link those in need to a medical home for primary or chronic care management. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 90%, Johnson - 5%, KCMO - 5%
To improve health care access, CCO will focus on two critical issues: the 150,000 children in Missouri who have no health care coverage and the growing trend among hospitals required to provide charity care to sue low-income patients for unpaid medical bills. CCO will convene a religious Health Care (HC) Roundtable for the purposes of establishing a sustainable grassroots advocacy structure for health care reform in Missouri. The HC Roundtable will bring together the religious community from across the state, merging it with CCO's strong local advocacy network, to create a powerful, faith-based voice for ethical health care reform. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 60%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%, Jackson - 10%
This project has two key goals: 1) in the long-term, CCO aims to continue building an informed cadre of uninsured and under-insured citizens who can act on their own behalf to impact health care priorities in Missouri; and 2) in the near-term, CCO aims to make key health care policy changes at the local, state and national levels that will improve lives for families in Missouri, especially in Jackson, Cass, Clay and Lafayette Counties. With this application, CCO is requesting funding for the continuation and expansion of the Healthy Communities initiative. With this continued partnership, CCO will support an organizing campaign to bring the voice of grassroots leaders to local, state and national policy. Funding would primarily be used to engage a wide base of uninsured and under-insured constituency around their health care interests that will build the type of community organization needed to impact policy and affect funding decisions.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Jackson - 10%, Johnson - 4%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
Through our Holy Ground, Sacred Lives Campaign project Live Well, CCO is working to stabilize the health and well being of families in Kansas City through advocating for violence prevention in and around schools, helping to improve the safety and capacity of parks and recreation facilities, and promoting the building of urban grocery stores to increase low-income access to fresh produce.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 60%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%,
Jackson - 10%, Other 3%
CCO's Healthy Communities initiative aims to protect the health care safety net against cuts to public programs and build political support for expanded access to safety net care in Kansas City metro communities. The initiative will accomplish this aim by providing avenues for the uninsured and underinsured in key legislative districts to voice their health care needs and recommendations to Missouri and Kansas state policy makers. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-60%, Wyandotte-15%, Johnson-15%, Jackson-10%, Other-3%
Organization seeks funding for costs associated with implementing its Families and Schools Together (FAST) program in two elementary schools in Kansas City, KS. FAST is an 8-week, multi-family, early intervention/prevention program designed to build protective factors to enhance resiliency against school failure, juvenile delinquency, child abuse and substance abuse in families. The program targets the mental health and wellness of the whole family. Participant families attend eight weeks of research based structured activities designed to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors. CIS proposes to conduct two cycles (Fall and Spring) in each school. Funds are requested for materials and supplies used during the weekly activities, evaluation costs, training, stipends and staff.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
Community LINC, a homeless family safety net provider, is requesting a three year grant as a match for their government match requirement. The funds will be used to provide a variety of services that homeless families need to maintain their health. Geographic Area Served:Jackson County 100%
The project will involve an inventory and needs assessment of prevention and early intervention services for Jackson County children and adolescents. It will serve as the foundation for a transformed public health approach to prevention and intervention services. The methods include a mixed research methodology including both qualitative and quantitative. Activities include: (1) Data Collection (2) Analysis and Interpretation and (3) Dissemination of Findings.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 85%, KCMO - 15%
Interventions for CIT Clients is a system-level collaboration designed to improve access to quality health and mental health services for persons who encounter police. It addresses multiple and complex
issues of persons with mental illness and co-morbid medical conditions. CITclients receive integrated care services including crisis response, medication, health and mental health services, and ancillary support services. The initiative involves the use of evidenced-based diversion services and clinical practices to facilitate positive health outcomes, reduce crime and violence and promote recovery and self-sufficiency.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 70%, Cass - 10%, KCMO - 10%,
Lafayette - 10%
Safety Net Interventions for CIT Clients is a system-level collaboration designed to improve access to quality health and mental health service by persons who encounter police. It addresses multiple and complex issues of persons with mental illness and co-morbid medical conditions. CIT clients receive integrated care services including crisis response, medication, health and mental health services, and ancillary support services. The initiative involves the use of evidenced-based diversion services and clinical practices to facilitate positive health outcomes, reduce crime and violence and promote recovery and self-sufficiency.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
Through the Medical Enhancement for Co-Occurring Disorders project funded by the Health Care Foundation in 2006-2007, CMHS provided primary health care services for clients at 3 separate locations. CMHS successfully secured sustainable resources to continue the project but only in two of those three locations. In order for CMHS to secure sustainable funds for the final location Renaissance West (RW), CMHS is requesting funds to continue this program that provides 75 indigent, uninsured clients at RW with primary health care services including lab work, medical tests, prescribed medications, assessments, checkups, and short-term care.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The CMHS Telepsychiatry program will utilize video conferencing to provide psychiatric services such as evaluation, consultation, and medication management to patients in order to: reach clients in remote locations; provide immediate access to services for clients in crisis; maximize psychiatrist time; serve more clients; and reduce costs of transportation for clients. This program also has the potential to provide the opportunity for consultative services between psychiatrist, primary care physicians and other healthcare providers.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
Cornerstones of Care program model for working with LGBTQ by providing training and support groups. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-70%, Johnson-10%, Wyandotte-10%, KCMO-9%, Cass-1%
Children entering foster care or other out of home placements such as residential treatment are more likely to have chronic medical problems. Estimates for these children with chronic medical problems 'range from 30% and 80%, with an estimated 25% of children having three or more chronic conditions. Cornerstones of Care and its agencies serve hundreds of children each day in out-of-home placements including foster care and residential settings. While children are in our care we must provide for their physical health needs to insure their overall health and wellness and once they return to a family setting. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-41%, Johnson-33%, Cass-10%, Wyandotte-6%, Lafayette-5%, Allen-5%
Cornerstones of Care (COC) is requesting funding from HCF to fund a portion of start up costs associated with implementing a Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care program in the Kansas City area. The funds will be used to purchase equipment and supplies for the first year of implementation and start up consultation services from TFC Consultatnts, Inc., as well as to cover travel costs for four COC employees to attend the required pre-service training provided by TFC Consultants, Inc., in Oregon.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Cornerstones of Care seeks funding in the amount of $75,000 for its Organizational Alignment Project to drive COC organizational capacity and implement a new organizational strategy impacting our 1) Organizational Alignment, 2) Website/communication integration, and 3) Technology enhancements to drive performance and measure outcomes. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 30%, Johnson - 20%, Cass - 20%, Allen - 10%, Lafayette - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%
The Dramatic AIDS Education Project (DAEP) is a unique AIDS/STD prevention program provided by professional actors from The Coterie Theatre and medical professional students from U.M.K.C. School of Medicine, trained as peer educators. The program has proven to be an innovative and informative way to bring the AIDS/STD prevention message to schools, social service agencies, community centers and juvenile detention centers. DAEP has reached over 100,000 area youth, ages 13-18. The research component of the program has proven the effectiveness of a dramatic medium over a lecture medium in increasing knowledge about HIV/AIDS/STD and affecting intentions to reduce high risk behavior.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 36%, Johnson - 23%, Johnson - 16%, Wyandotte - 12%, Cass - 8%, Other - 3%,
Lafayette - 2%,
The Dramatic AIDS Education Project (DAEP) is a unique AIDS and STD prevention program provided by professional actors from The Coterie Theatre and medical profession students from UMKC School of Medicine, who are trained as peer educators. The program has proven to be an innovative and informative way to bring the AIDS and STD prevention message to schools, social service agencies, community centers and juvenile detention centers. DAEP has reached over 100,000 area youth, ages 13-18. The research component of the program has proven the effectiveness of a dramatic medium over a lecture medium in increasing knowledge about HIV/AIDS and affecting intentions to reduce high risk behavior. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 15%, Johnson - 14%, Wyandotte - 11%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 2%
The purpose of the grant is to provide funds toward a health program in the Central City Catholic Schools and to provide funds for Cristo Rey Kansas City High School toward the salaries and benefits for the part time high school nurse; full time counselor; part time physical activity coordinator; and health outreach coordinator for students and parents.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-80%, Wyandotte-20%
The purpose of this grant is to provide funding towards a health program in the Central City Catholic Schools and to provide funding for Cristo Rey Kansas City towards the salaries and benefits for the school nurse, counselor part-time physical activity coordinator and health outreach coordinator. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 80%, Wyandotte - 20
Crittenton is requesting a two-year grant award of $401,500 from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City. This grant will support Crittenton's efforts to continue providing top-quality psychiatric services to an increasing population of uninsured and underinsured children and youth in need of intensive treatment services, whose families do not have the ability to pay. Crittenton will also provide community-based services to families needing ongoing interventions following hospitalization, as well as bi-monthly training sessions for 30 support staff. This training will enhance collaboration with therapy staff and ensure full integration of evidence-based practices into the continuum of care. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-51%, Other-37%, Johnson-6%, Wyandotte-5%, Cass-1%
The Head Start Resiliency Project has been welcomed and planned collaboratively with two purposes: 1) to create a trauma informed culture among Head Start Staff by increasing awareness, knowledge level and skill of the staff who interact with young children/families affected by trauma; and, 2) to expand existing mental health treatment services to children affected by trauma. Thirteen Head Start sites in Kansas City, Kansas and one in Bonner Springs, Kansas will receive programming. The program has been designed to be sensitive to the cultural, ethnic, economic and social environment of the communities served. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 100%
This grant will support Crittenton's efforts to continue providing top-quality psychiatric services to an increasing population of uninsured and underinsured children and youth in need of intensive treatment services, who are otherwise unsupported. Crittenton will also provide community-based services to children and families needing ongoing in-home interventions, as well as full deployment of ARC skills into daily work of direct care staff, encouraging full integration of evidence-based practices and increasing collaboration to ensure consistent treatment services.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 53%, Other - 28%, KCMO - 6%, Johnson - 5%, Cass - 4%, Wyandotte - 2%, Allen - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
Cross-Lines Community Outreach, Inc. is requesting $29,478 to fund a family-style cooking/nutrition class with Wyandotte County. Wyandotte County has the lowest ranked health and unemployment index in Kansas. One of the largest factors that play a role is lack of nutrition knowledge and cooking skills. If this grant was funded, families could learn nutrition and budgeting knowledge, along with food safety and cooking skills. Adolescents would have the advantage of learning this information at a young age when they begin to have control over what they consume. In conclusion, this project would ultimately lead to a healthier lifestyle.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 100%
Changing food preferences and availability can together have a long-term positive impact on children's health. Therefore, MU Extension requests funds to:
a) partner with nine Kansas City-area schools to support policy development and environmental change that increase access to healthy foods
b) offer programs that support these policy and environmental changes, including the kindergarten program Food from the Farm and the pre-K program Early Sprouts. These 'seed to table' curricula connect children to the source of food and explore cooking. Both focus on decreasing children's fear of new foods, increasing their preference for fresh produce, and increasing availability at school.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 75%, Lafayette - 25%
KCUR Radio requests support of $35,000 to help provide local health reporting. Despite the scale and complexity of health care issues, there are only a handful of health reporters in the Kansas City area. Local health reporting provided by KCUR is vital. Reports will be broadcast during drive time when listenership is highest. KCUR will highlight health news online at www.kcur.org and www.kcur.org/health. Although this grant requests the same amount as last year, KCUR plans to increase health care coverage. The projected number of health care related stories will be measured and compared against the actual number of stories aired.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
The Empowerment Program, developed in 2001, is a collaboration between the Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Rose Brooks Center. Its mission is to serve refugee and immigrant women and their families living in Jackson County in the areas of mental health, resettlement adjustment, and domestic violence. The Program provides innovative prevention, mental health and psycho-educational outreach services with the purpose of eliminating barriers to mental health and domestic violence services. The Program is funded in part by the Jackson County Mental Health Levy to provide services in Jackson County.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Jackson - 45%, Johnson - 5%
Statistics show that 37,000 immigrants reside in Jackson County. The County's 2005 Mental Health Needs Assessment report on immigrants showed underutilization of services, waiting lists, lack of interpreters, and legal and financial problems. The Immigrant Empowerment Program, a joint effort between UMKC and the Rose Brooks Center (a domestic violence shelter), was established to provide, without charge, mental health and domestic violence services to refugee women and their families. The Program's services range from workshops on immigration and parenting issues, to help with food stamps and employment, to counseling. UMKC requests $100,000 for years 2 and 3 of the Program. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 45%, KCMO - 45%, Johnson - 10%
The Kansas City Public Mental Health Suicide Intervention project at UMKC will build on knowledge gained from an earlier project which identified the most effective methods for treating patients at risk for suicide. The new three-year project seeks to attain system-wide change. The treatment model created in the first project will be used to provide training to all KC area health professionals who interact with those at-risk for suicide. The resulting more accurate and earlier interventions will radically reduce emergency medical treatment costs and establish more effective treatments for at-risk individuals. The request is for $955,000 over three years.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
The Program to Improve Triage and Quality of Intervention for Recidivist Suicidal Persons seeks Year 3 funding. With collaborators Western Missouri Mental Health Center, Truman Behavioral Health Services and Mattie Rhodes Counseling Center, we will continue building the program to include additional mental health clinicians to further build the system to reduce suicide recidivism. Objectives include (1) continue to refine topology to triage for suicidal persons; (2) expand into new populations; (3) enhance the linkage and intervention systems; and (4) continue to help agencies improve the systems of care for persons with suicidal concerns, minimizing repeated hospitalizations.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Developing a more diverse physician and healthcare provider workforce is an important strategy for improving cultural competency in healthcare. Yet minorities remain underrepresented in medicine. The UMKC School of Medicine proposes to build on existing programs to expand the 'pipeline' of minority students entering medicine and other health sciences. Our project will fund programming in curriculum, outcomes analysis and outreach. Funding is also requested for a planning initiative that to include UMKC Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy to develop a coordinated, comprehensive and interdisciplinary 'pipeline' strategy to lay the groundwork for a sustainable urban health workforce development initiative. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 4%
The DeLaSalle Team of Care provides school-based mental health services, case management, counseling, and follow-up for at-risk youth attending DeLaSalle High School. The Team of Care uses a student-centered, strengths-based model to assist students in identifying and addressing barriers and unmet needs that are disturbing the full potential of their educational and social development. The mental health and counseling professionals are integrated into the staff providing a seamless referral and counseling system for students. This school-based program makes mental health services more accessible for students.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 100%
The purpose of the DeLaSalle Healthy Lifestyles Project is to educate students about the importance of good nutrition and exercise in their lives and to help them use this information to adopt healthier eating habits and increase their physical activity. This will be accomplished through healthy lifestyles classes where students learn about the nutritional content of various foods, develop personalized eating plans, and engage in physical activities. The University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Dietetics and Nutrition is a collaborative partner and provides consultation, classroom support, and nutrition counseling services. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 100%
The 'Team of Care' and all counseling services available at DeLaSalle aim to assist students in becoming secure, confident individuals so that they stay in school, become engaged in their learning and progress to a positive, successful future.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
The purpose of the DeLaSalle Healthy Lifestyles Project is to educate students about the importance of good nutrition and exercise in their lives and to help them use this information to adopt healthier eating habits and increase their physical activity. This will be accomplished through health/physical education classes where students will learn about nutritional content of various foods, develop personalized eating plans, and engage in physical activities. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The DeLaSalle Healthy Lifestyles Project educates students about the importance of good nutrition and exercise in their lives and helps them use this information to adopt healthier eating habits and increase physical activity. This is accomplished by using an across-the-curriculum approach in classes where students learn about the nutritional content of various foods, develop personalized eating plans, and engage in physical activities. The University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, a collaborative partner, provides consultation, classroom support, and nutrition counseling services. PE4life provides training and implementation coaching for DeLaSalle staff.
Geographic Aera Served:
Jackson - 100%
The DeLaSalle Team of Care provides essential mental health therapy, case management, and follow-up for at-risk youth attending DeLaSalle High School. The Team of Care provides client-centered, strengths based services to assist students in addressing barriers and unmet needs that are disturbing the full potential of educational and social development of the student. Therapy models include cognitive behavioral therapy and sand tray, play, art, and poetry therapeutic techniques. The Team is integrated into the staff providing a seamless treatment and referral system for students. The on-site services make mental health counseling more accessible. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-100%
Developing Potential, Inc. serves adults with developmental disabilities, autism, and behavioral support needs. Many of the people we support also have significant medical challenges. DPI's Increase Access to Services Project is designed to ensure the essential, but unfunded, services of nursing care as well as occupational, physical, and speech therapies for adults with developmental disabilities in the Kansas City metropolitan area. (This proposal requests funding only for the nursing portion of our project).Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 95%, KCMO - 5%
The Increase Access to Medical Supports for Adults with Developmental Disabilities Project will enable low-income adults with developmental disabilities in the Kansas City metropolitan area to receive nursing support for significant medical needs such as suctioning of airway, catheterization, and tube feeding. This project will also provide essential medical training for DPI staff and oversight of all medical supports provided at DPI to ensure the best possible care and treatment of the individuals we serve. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 65%, KCMO - 32%, Other - 3%
The Increase Access to Medical Supports for Adults with Developmental Disabilities Project will enable low-income adults with developmental disabilities in the Kansas City metropolitan area to receive nursing support for significant medical needs such as suctioning of airway, catheterization, and tube feeding. This project will also provide essential medical training for DPI staff and
oversight of all medical supports provided at DPI to ensure the best possible care and treatment of the individuals we serve.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 96%, KCMO - 4%
DPI requests funds from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City to assist in providing needed therapies to low income adults in the Kansas City metropolitan area who have diagnoses such as autism, down syndrome, and cerebral palsy. The grant will allow DPI to provide occupational and physical therapy activities for the over 70 individuals in need of those services. In addition, grant monies will be used to conduct therapy assessments and provide goal development for new consumers. A portion of the money will also be used to fund assistive devices and therapy equipment for the people we serve. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 65%, KCMO - 32%, Other - 3%
Organization requests funding to hire a business development manager for the agency, purchase an independent certified financial audit for FY2006 and/or FY2007, and purchase one desktop and one laptop computer for the new business development manager's position. The acquisition of the business development manager and the updated financial audit will strategically position and strengthen Dismas House's capacity and sustainability to provide valuable substance abuse counseling services to the underserved and uninsured indigent men and women re-entering society from incarceration and their families.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Dismas House of Kansas City is seeking support for an administrative and capacity building project to expand services and increase efficiencies for its community-based substance abuse addiction recovery program. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 46%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%
The Healthy Horizons project approaches a healthy lifestyle comprehensively by promoting physical activities and educational opportunities on nutrition. Project goals are to improve the nutritional program for students through an enhanced meal plan; expand fitness opportunities through a new recreation center; and enhance the programs offered by the Healthy Student Taskforce, which targets both students and community members. Donnelly College recognizes that higher education leads to better health of the individual and greater opportunities for the next generation (Baum & Ma, 2007). Healthy Horizons maximizes this benefit for our students and community. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 65%, Johnson - 14%, KCMO - 10%, Other - 9%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
The Donnelly College Mental Health Initiative employs a licensed mental health professional to better meet the mental health needs of our students. One-on-one counseling relationships are built to determine individual needs and care plans. Ongoing evaluation assesses mental health on-campus at the individual and student body level. Educational programs are provided to students, faculty, and staff to increase awareness of mental health problems and encourage acceptance of treatment in this area. Connections with local health care clinics and advocacy organizations provide specialized services above and beyond Donnelly's services.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 64%, KCMO - 13%, KCMO - 13%,
Other - 10%
Duchesne Clinic provides a wide range of integrated healthcare services for the uninsured poor in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Services include primary health care, medication assistance, mental health care, emergency dental care, vision care, and some specialist care. Because our patients (all adults) do not have any health insurance, Duchesne Clinic receives no insurance reimbursement for services, and relies on fund development to support clinic operations. Without funding for clinical staff and medical supplies, the clinic would not be able to provide services or leverage donated care from our volunteer physicians.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 100%
Duchesne Clinic requests funding for a full-time medical director to position the clinic to thrive in a changing and challenging healthcare environment, respond to increased community needs and increase clinical capacity as a medical home.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 100%
Duchesne Clinic provides a wide range of integrated healthcare services for the uninsured poor in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Services include primary health care, medication assistance, mental health care, emergency dental care, vision care, and some specialist care. As our patients (all adults) do not have any health insurance, Duchesne Clinic receives no insurance reimbursement for our services, and relies on fund development to support clinic operations. Without funding for clinical staff and medical supplies, the clinic would not be able to provide services or leverage donated care from our volunteer physicians who provide care for our patients on and off-site. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 100%
Duchesne Clinic provides a wide range of integrated healthcare services for the uninsured poor in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Services include primary health care, medication assistance, mental health care, emergency dental care, vision care, and some specialist care. As our patients (all adults) do not have any health insurance, Duchesne Clinic receives no insurance reimbursement for our services, and relies on fund development to support clinic operations. Without our core clinical staff and medical supplies, the clinic would not be able to provide services or leverage donated care from our volunteer physicians who provide care for our patients on and off-site.Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-100%
Organization seeks support from HCF to assist with the Health and Fitness Academy for the 2008 fiscal year. HCF funding would assist in providing nutrition and fitness programs to youth between the ages of 8 and 18. The organization will provide preventative health and fitness programs in the urban metropolitan Kansas City area, concentrating on meeting the health and fitness needs of youth who live in dire economic conditions that consist predominately of single parent/guardian homes. 300 youth will participate during the program year.Geographic Areas Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 50%
El Centro's Domestic Violence program, ¡Si, Se Puede!, is a systematic, culturally competent method that gives hope to battered immigrant women and their children. Since the program began in 2002, we have provided a variety of core victim services to 1,343 new unduplicated victims and continue to provide ongoing support to 80 returning victims each year. Our Victim Advocates are bilingual and culturally responsive to the diverse issues facing Hispanic victims and their children. ¡Si, Se Puede! focuses on breaking the cycle of violence through counseling, emergency support services, advocacy, a survivor's support group and a children's healing arts program. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-75%, Johnson-20%, KCMO-5%, Other-2%
Healthy Habits, Healthy Latinos is a grassroots health care initiative, targeting people aged 0-25, that addresses the first three indicators published by Healthy People 2010--Physical Activity, Overweight and Obesity, and Tobacco Use. Using a Promotoras model, community volunteers collect data for our chronic disease management registry and provide education on making behavioral changes.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
The Health Promotores program looks forward to build upon our current Program to implement a curriculum to promote weight management and weight reduction. Promotores will: 1) improve knowledge about weight gain health-related consequences, 2) promote weight control activities through participation in already established programs, and 3) promote healthy lifestyle changes among the community by encourage system changes. We also want to explore the feasibility of establishing a standardized curriculum for promotores Health Educators (HE) in Kansas City Metropolitan area; and options for certification of promotores or HEs. This has to be done as a system change -- adapting existing resources to meet the needs of first generation Latinos
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 85%, Johnson - 10%, KCMO - 5%
The Community Health Care Navigation Initiative of El Centro, Inc. Family Services creates a referral network of community health care providers and other service agencies to assist underserved and uninsured clients in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties to improve their access to health care services. A special emphasis is given to uninsured low, English-proficient Hispanic adults with chronic disease conditions. El Centro Health Care Navigators and Case Managers will assess the health care access risk factors of adult clients using a Universal Health Assessment Tool, provide referral, follow-up and support services to those at risk by removing barriers to health care. As a result of this project, more than 200 El Centro Family Services clients will demonstrate one or more successful health care access outcome. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-65%, Johnson-30%, KCMO-5%
El Centro's Patient Navigation Initiative will be culturally competent and utilize an evidence-based model of health-intervention among low-income, uninsured or underserved, primarily Hispanic, adults in Wyandotte and Johnson County. The Healthcare Navigation System will employ a Universal Health Assessment Tool to assess the health risks and barriers to healthcare of clients coming to El Centro's Argentine Family Services and Johnson County Family Services with a healthcare need, and will work with Family Services caseworkers to create a patient navigation plan to address the barriers. Typical barriers that will be addressed successfully will include: communication and language difficulties, financial and insurance difficulties, fear, distrust and/or emotional concerns. The barriers will be addressed by bilingual Patient Navigators through their connection with and within community healthcare organizations and other community resources, through patient education and patient advocacy, and through volunteer support of El Centro's Promotoras Program.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte-90%, Johnson-8%, KCMO-2%
Request is for funding of an ongoing domestic violence counseling and advocacy program. This non-denominational faith-based empowerment program, funded by federal Victims of Crimes Act funds from the Kansas Governor's Office, focuses on breaking the cycle of violence for Latina immigrant women through counseling, emergency support services, advocacy and a survivor's support group, led largely by survivors of domestic violence and a children's healing arts program. Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 85%, Johnson - 10%, Jackson - 5%
El Centro's health promotores will implement a program to educate and promote home smoking restrictions (HSR) and smoking cessation in order to reduce home-based ETS exposure for Latino families. The ETS and tobacco prevention training was created by Dr. Ana Paula Cupertino of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Cupertino, a Spanish-speaking member of the Latino community, in collaboration with Cielo Fernandez, the Promotores Manager, trained one generation of community health promoters in smoking cessation in 2008. In 2009, they will train another generation of promotores for a combined total of 20 promotores to intervene with Latino families in the context of their communities through family nights, youth nights, health fairs and through culturally-relevant venues such Salon de Bailles and Radionovellas in a twelve month period. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 80%, Johnson - 10%, KCMO - 10%
The mission of the Celebrating Healthy Families partnership is to increase awareness and access to healthcare for the uninsured/underserved Hispanic community in the Kansas City, Kansas area. Currently the partnership is comprised of eight community-based organizations who work to plan and organize Health Focus events called 'Celebrating Healthy Families', in areas with high concentration of Latinos. For the last two years, the event has been held at the Heart to Heart (H2H) Global Distribution Center, which is located in the heart of the Latino community in Kansas City, Kansas. H2H has committed to host it again in 2010
Geographic Area Served::
Wyandotte - 90%, Jackson - 10%, Johnson - 10%
Project E.A.C.H (Empowering All Children to Health) is a program designed to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity and its co-morbidities by providing children and their parents with the tools they need to achieve and sustain appropriate weight levels, eating habits and improvement in their overall health.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 80%, KCMO - 20%
Kansas City Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (KCROSC) is a collaborative project between four nonprofit agencies designed to expand substance abuse treatment options and enhance each agency's ability to coordinate recovery, mental health and family services for individual clients. KCROSC project partners include First Call, Comprehensive Mental Health Services, Mattie Rhodes Center and Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center. Affiliated agencies include a wide array of related providers. The type of intervention proposed by KCROSC is an enhanced system that will engage those suffering from substance use and co-occurring disorders sufficiently so they can access services and secure recovery.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 66%, Johnson - 13%, KCMO - 11%,
Wyandotte - 5%, Lafayette - 3%, Cass - 2%
The Kansas City Youth and Mercantile Alliance (KCYMA) is a grassroots, community initiative designed to bring area merchants, youth, parents and public policy partners together to implement innovative approaches to reduce the sale of tobacco products to youth. KCYMA is administered by First Call's Prevention department and leverages the agency's Community 2000 Coalitions' alcohol, drug and smoking prevention activities in KCMO and Cass and Lafayette counties. KCYMA exists to: 1) identify barriers to successful prevention of tobacco sales to youth, and 2) implement creative, 'win-win' solutions for merchants and families particular to each Community 2000 environment.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 50%, Cass - 25%, Lafayette - 25%
Organization proposes to provide a school-based, culturally-specific and evidence-based mental health screening and intervention program for high-risk youth aged 10-17. The proposed project design is based on Wyandotte County data that illustrated the need for innovative intervention strategies to improve the mental health status of African Americans. The data indicated that, although African Americans were exposed to high rates of violence and suffered mental health consequences (e.g. post traumatic stress disorder), they did not seek help through traditional service delivery systems. The purpose of the proposed program will be to utilize screening and intervention to link youth and families to resources necessary to address mental health conditions.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
FOY through its Della-Gill Joyce H. William Center proposes to provide a nutrition program and tobacco prevention program entitled: Eating Smart, Healing Lives. This new program will provide nutrition instruction to victims of domestic violence and children through nutrition classes, young mothers will additionally receive hands-on cooking classes and parents and children will work on the development of a vegetable/fruit garden. The project will also implement a Tobacco Prevention curriculum called Project Towards No Tobacco Use (TNT). TNT is a curriculum that aims to prevent and reduce tobacco use. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 80%, Johnson - 8%, Jackson - 6%, KCMO - 6%
In its fifth year of service, with a goal of increasing access to domestic violence (DV) advocacy and mental health services, BridgeSPAN (Safe Patient Advocacy Network) is an innovative community-wide partnership between the longstanding (25 years) Kansas City Metropolitan Family Violence Coalition (MFVC) and 33 metro-area hospitals/clinics addressing DV as a serious health care issue. The three main program components are: health care staff training; on-site direct advocacy/referral services; and policy/protocol administration. Staff Advocates from five MFVC partner DV provider organizations provide crucially needed health care staff training sessions and on-site, round-the-clock, victim advocacy and referral services.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 66%, Wyandotte - 13%, KCMO - 8%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%
The purpose of this grant is to help Gillis increase its capacity as we move toward the adoption of 'best practices' that are evidence-based and trauma-informed in our Residential and Day Treatment programs. We have spent the past several months evaluating our programs in order to better meet the increasingly complex and acute difficulties of the children and families we serve. At the same time, we are trying to effectively meet the challenges of increased regulation, changes in Medicaid, and new requirements from the state and school districts (our primary referral sources). In order to reinforce our Residential and Day Treatment programs, we will need to hire six new employees, for which we make this request.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 26%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen - 1%, Cass - 1%
Gillis is adding case management services to its day treatment program for emotionally disturbed, high-risk youth. These services will include home visits, risk assessment, safety planning, service integration and connection to other community resources. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-56%, Jackson-31%, Cass-9%, Johnson-2%, Other-2%
The Fit for Life program, developed by the council is designed to institutionalize concepts of healthy living. Recognizing that emotional health is as important as physical health, Fit for Life is a holistic program designed to increase awareness, understanding, and appreciation of one's own uniqueness; in addition to increasing physical activity and frequency of making healthy food choices.An expanded Fit for Life program will serve girls, ages 6-11 and will incorporate an array of program elements, including a council-developed Fit for Life book and patch program, whereby they receive recognition for completing a pre-determined quantity of program elements.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 42%, KCMO - 25%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 10%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 5%
This organization received a one-year grant from HCF in 2006 to develop 'Family Centered Counseling.' The goal was to implement mental health services for high-risk, HIV-positive African American women who need services, but who- for a variety of reasons- do not access mental health services offered under the Ryan White Care Act. The program addresses the barriers to care by providing a unique mix of therapeutic interventions that are culturally sensitive and consumer friendly, including: psycho-educational classes and group counseling in a social setting, combined with intensive counseling for individuals, couples and families in the home. The organization seeks funding to continue this program for an additional 19 months. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 10%
Good Samaritan Project will recruit more than 75 youth serving agencies to co-host preventive STD/HIV educational workshops, with testing, personal risk-reduction counseling and linkage to care services for more than 6,000 high-risk youth in Jackson and Wyandotte counties. Services include a new program called StepUP, which provides multi-session courses in urban middle and high schools. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-60%, Wyandotte-30%, Jackson-10%
Good Samaritan Project will conduct prevention education, testing, personal risk-reduction counseling and linkage to care for more than 3,000 high-risk youth in Jackson and Wyandotte counties.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-70%, Wyandotte-25%, Jackson-5%
Good Samaritan is seeking grant support in the amount of $10,000 for a grant writing consultant to respond to a CDC request for applications titled: 'Prevention Projects for Community-Based Organizations.' Award of the CDC grant would allow GSP to implement a science-based curriculum proven to delay sexual activity, reduce pregnancy and reduce STD/HIV infection among African American youth, 12-15. The value of the grant is $2,175,000 over 5 years. The goal of the intervention is to alter the norms of sexual behavior among 7th and 8th graders in 5 urban school districts in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 25%, Wyandotte - 25%
The School Counseling Program for At-Risk Children will provide individual and group therapy to approximately 25% of the student population at Gordon Parks Elementary School. Ninety-four percent of Gordon Parks' students live in poverty, and many are exposed to domestic violence daily. Gordon Parks' students are at high risk for depression and for becoming violent adults. This program is an in-depth counseling program that provides cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, crisis intervention, group therapy, and play and art therapy. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-100%
The School Counseling Program for At-Risk Students will provide individual and group therapy and behavior intervention support to approximately 25% of the student population at Gordon parks Elementary School. Ninety-five percent of Gordon Parks' students live in poverty, and many are exposed to domestic violence and drug abuse. Gordon Parks' students are at high-risk for mental illness and have poor access to quality mental health care. This program is an in-depth counseling and behavior program that provides cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, crisis intervention, group therapy, play and art therapy and behavior intervention strategies.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
The Counseling Program will provide cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, crisis intervention, group therapy, sand therapy, play therapy and art therapy for approximately 55 children (26% of our student population) at GORDON PARKS.Geographic Area Served: Jackson-100%
Greater Kansas City LISC will utilize a HCF grant to lead a multi-sector NeighborhoodsNOW Health Advocacy Initiative by utilizing our existing policy networks and expanding them to build partnerships and strategic alliances with complimentary community organizations, residents and other stakeholders. Our intent is to have a single point of advocacy for policies that support healthy urban neighborhoods. Stakeholders within the Networks will work together to establish priorities, identify barriers and pursue state, regional and local policy solutions that encourage physical activity and increase access to healthy foods in low-income communities in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 50%, Wyandotte - 50%
Guadalupe Centers' project proposes to facilitate opportunities for physical exercise, nutrition education and general health education targeting Hispanic youth and older adults. This project will increase knowledge regarding overall health and nutrition in addition to increasing access to physical exercise. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 95%, Cass - 5%
The Guadalupe Center's D�a Por D�a (Day By Day) Treatment Program offers Level V (Recovery Support) outpatient substance abuse treatment. D�a Por D�a provides bilingual (Spanish and English), and culturally sensitive individual and group counseling, client education, case management, and community support services. The time frame a client may participate varies, however the average length of care is between twelve to sixteen weeks. The program provides free treatment to residents throughout the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. It reaches low income, uninsured men and women. Additionally, our program provides bilingual alcohol and other drug education to the Latino community via an array of outreach efforts.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 45%, Wyandotte - 27%, KCMO - 19%, Cass - 7%, Jackson - 2%
Guadalupe Centers, Inc., (GCI) in collaboration with the Kansas City, MO Parks and Recreation Department, proposes a fundamental change in the fitness and recreation service delivery system on Kansas City's West Side. The Parks and Recreation Department and GCI agree that it would be beneficial for GCI to assume management of the Tony Aguirre Community Center. The Parks and Recreation Department will continue to absorb occupancy costs. The goal of this project is to increase community participation in physical activities.
Objective: Increase access to the community
Strategies: Reduce program fees by 10% per year over a three-year period; Provide transportation
Objective: Increase activities
Strategies: Double the hours of programming -- from 20 to 40 hours per week; Double attendance at program activities from year 1 baseline
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 90%, Wyandotte - 10%
Stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination surrounding individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities have caused enormous social and personal damage. Individuals with I/DD sometimes feel either invisible or unwelcome as they participate within our community. These diagnoses span across social, economic, and ethnic lines. TNC Community advocates for community education and inclusion. It's our firm belief that one of the most effective ways to counter this stigma associated with our consumers is community integration. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-59%, Jackson-35%, Other-6%
The Bi-State Kansas City Healthy Kids Initiative will increase healthy eating and active living opportunities by implementing policy and environmental changes at multiple levels in the 9-county region which includes Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Vulnerable populations in urban areas and children will be the primary focus of the Initiative. Key partners are KC Healthy Kids (directing the Initiative), Mid America Regional Council (with its Imagine KC effort), Weighing In Collaborative (bridging policy changes to programming), and Argentine Neighborhood Development Association and Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council (implementing the Initiative in their neighborhoods). Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 35%, Wyandotte - 30%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 10%, Cass - 3%, Other - 2%
Healthy Eating and Active Living for KC will provide advocacy services and communications support to aid the work of the Greater Kansas City Food Policy Coalition, and to advocate and advance efforts to increase healthy eating and active living opportunities and to decrease childhood obesity in Greater Kansas City. The Project will obtain a research assessment of the present food system, to inform advocacy efforts. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 35%, Wyandotte - 30%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 10%, Cass - 3%, Other - 2%
Harvesters' BackSnack program is designed to give school children access to good food on the weekends and during school holidays, by providing a backpack filled with nutritious food for each participating child to take home on Friday or the last day of school each week.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-83%, Jackson-11%, Wyandotte-6%
Harvesters' nutrition education and healthy eating programs include our main programs, Project Strength, and Kids in the Kitchen/Kids Cafe, as well as our new pilot program, Teen Eats, and other one-time and short term classes which cater to the changing needs of our agencies and their clients. These programs include hands-on cooking lessons, healthy recipes, information about nutrition and nutritious foods, as well as teen-focused 'hot topics' like body image.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 55%, Other - 26%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 6%, Lafayette - 2%, Cass - 1%
Harvesters' BackSnack program is designed to give school children access to good food on the weekends and during school holidays by providing a backpack filled with nutritious food for each participating child to take home on Friday or the last day of school each week. Harvesters provides the child-friendly, nutritious food for the program. Schools work with a community partner to pick-up the food from Harvesters, pack the backpacks, and distribute them to the children. On Monday morning, the backpacks are returned and the process starts all over again.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 22%, Jackson - 16%, Wyandotte - 14%, Johnson - 12%, Lafayette - 2%, Other - 34%
Harvesters' food distribution program acquires, transports, sorts, packages, stores, and distributes food and household products through our network to help those in need of food assistance. Food assistance prevents the short and long-term mental and physical health problems research has proven to be related to hunger and food insecurity. The food assistance individuals and families receive from Harvesters also keeps individuals from making difficult decisions about paying for medical care/medicine or for food. Through our agency network, Harvesters will distribute 36.7 million pounds of food this year to families and individuals in need.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 48%, Other - 33%, Wyandotte - 9%, Cass - 5%, Johnson - 2%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen - 1%
Harvesters' food distribution program acquires, transports, sorts, packages, stores, and distributes food and household products through our network to help those in need of food assistance. Food assistance prevents the short and long-term mental and physical health problems research has proven to be related to hunger and food insecurity. The food assistance individuals and families receive from Harvesters also keeps individuals from making difficult decisions about paying for medical care/medicine or for food. Through our agency network, Harvesters will distribute 35 million pounds of food this year to families and individuals in need. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-72%, Wyandotte-12%, Johnson-7%, Cass-5%, Lafayette-4%
Harvesters' Childhood Nutrition and Healthy Eating programs meet the immediate needs of the low-income clients while also giving them the skills and knowledge they need to make healthy choices. Both programs include a nutrition education component, a hands-on meal/snack preparation activity that is age-appropriate, and the provision of food in the form of meals or groceries.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 71%, Wyandotte - 25%, Johnson - 2%, Lafayette - 2%
Harvesters' BackSnack program is designed to give school children access to good food on the weekends and during school holidays, by providing a backpack filled with nutritious food for each participating child to take home on Friday or the last day of school each week.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 48%, Other - 30%, Wyandotte - 9%, Johnson - 6%, Cass - 5%, Lafayette - 2%
HFCS offers an array of mental health services including Outpatient Mental Health Therapy to children, families and adults to help with a wide variety of emotional and/or behavioral problems, which would not be affordable if they weren't subsidized or offered on a sliding fee scale. In-home mental health services are provided for children/adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral problems that have placed them at significant risk for out of home placement. Services are provided at varying intensities (depending on the needs of the child), links are created between clients and community resources, and a monitor service delivery is given to the child and their family. These services are highly successful in helping children remain and succeed in their home, school and community. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
The BraveHearts program for Dads provides an array of services to fathers of children, birth through age 6. Beginning with a 10-week fathering workshop series, BraveHearts offers fathers opportunities to understand the important role fathers play in their children's lives, learn how to be an active father and positively contribute to their child's well-being. Other activities include case management services, counseling, mentoring and monthly play days for dads and their children. Benefits include improved emotional health, cognitive development and coping skills of children and increased involvement of fathers who are better equipped to positively contribute to their child's well-being. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 100%
The purpose of the project is to increase the capacity of safety net clinics by leveraging HHI's ability to receive donated product that would be offered to safety net agencies free-of-charge. Participating agencies would be, among other considerations, those that serve indigent, uninsured, underinsured persons free-of-charge or on a sliding fee scale, offer a wide range of health services, and have evening and weekend operating hours. Medicines and medical supplies will be offered to these agencies based on the identified needs of each agency. Product delivery and project outcomes will be monitored and evaluated.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 50%, Wyandotte - 42%, Johnson - 8%
This capacity building program seeks to increase the staff and equipment resources of Heart to Heart International, which provide Kansas City partner organizations better access to pharmaceutical and medical supplies. The additional resources provided by grant activities will lead to improved health outcomes of indigent, uninsured and underinsured populations within Kansas City. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 30%, Wyandotte - 20%, Allen - 10%, Cass - 10%, Jackson - 10%, Johnson - 10%, Lafayette - 10%
The Homelessness Task Force was established by City Council resolution in September 2009. The Task Force is charged with developing a plan and recommendations to end homelessness in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The plan will be presented to the Kansas City City Council and the County Commissions of the entities participating in the Task Force. The Health Care Foundation grant request will provide 23% of the funding for the total Homelessness Task Force budget for the first year. The funding from the foundation will provide staff services to the Task Force and research to assist the work of the Task Force and its subcommittees in preparation of the plan and recommendations. The total amount of funding requested from the HCF is $49,500.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
Hope Care Center's Expansion Project will more than double our capacity to serve HIV/AIDS patients (from 16 to 40) in our skilled nursing facility designed exclusively for HIV/AIDS patients. This project addresses a current need, as Hope must turn away one patient for every resident we serve. Further, it addresses a forecasted 'second wave' of HIV/AIDS epidemic as people live longer with the disease, Boomers age, and more cases emerge due to lack of attention and education about risky behaviors. The project will benefit HIV/AIDS patients 5-county Kansas City metropolitan area. Long-range plans include expansion to 120 beds.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 40%, Jackson - 38, Wyandotte - 20%, Other - 2%
Housing Authority Health and Wellness Program promotes healthy lifestyle choices among public housing residents by increasing awareness through the system-wide dissemination of culturally sensitive, health-related information that addresses the specific health concerns of a minority population. The program uses printed materials, exercise programs, educational tools, play-centered learning activities, healthy food alternatives, and public events as vehicles to promote healthy habits. The Program conducts health assessments through focus groups and surveying of all households, including non-English speaking households. The program tests best practice models for youth-targeted programs that offer creative approaches to encourage nutrition and fitness goals.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
To strengthen the internal capacity of Jackson County CASA and position it to continue to increase the size and quality of its guardian ad litem services, the organization is requesting funding in the amount of $50,000 from HCF. The funds will provide substantial, critical assistance to the agency to help cover costs totaling $58,505 associated with the salary, benefits and taxes for one FTE position of Resource Development Director.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The Recruitment and Training Program is the backbone of our agency. As a volunteer-driven organization, the success of this program is a necessity to enable us to reach our goal to increase the number of volunteers recruited and trained, which allows us to succeed in reaching our ultimate goal as an agency to serve more children. The quality of service received by CASA children is dependent on the screening, recruitment and training by the CASA staff. The program consists of three parts: Volunteer screening, Initial Volunteer Training and Continuing Education. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-62%, Johnson-30%, Wyandotte-8%, Other-5%
The purpose of the Healthcare Access and Assistance program is to improve access to medical care for low-income, uninsured or underinsured individuals who lack access to affordable health care services. The program will enable us to better serve those individuals who are already approaching JFS for assistance and to expand our capacity to serve the community. The project aims to improve healthcare access through provision of care coordination and direct financial assistance for health care needs.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 60%, Johnson - 40%
Jewish Family Services (JFS) Psychiatric Medication Services Access provides psychiatric medication services to 45 low-income, uninsured residents of Jackson County, Missouri and Johnson County, Kansas. The program provides JFS mental health counseling clients access to psychiatric medication services (a psychiatric evaluation and follow up medication checks) and case management support (assistance with application for available entitlements, access to affordable psychotropic medications, coordination of care, and linkage with other community resources).
Geographic Area Served:
Johnson - 40%. KCMO - 35%, Jackson - 25%
Request to support JVS Interpreter Services, a project to raise the standard of care for limited-English proficient communities in Kansas City, Jackson, Clay and Lafayette Counties. The service provides skilled bilingual interpreters to area clinics, hospitals and agencies.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 44%, Cass - 5%, Lafayette - 1%
The JVS Cultural Bridge Project provides advanced training in mental health and domestic violence interpreting, cultural competency training and the placement of trained interpreters to assist in mental health and domestic violence cases. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-25%, Jackson-25%, Wyandotte-25%, Johnson-20, Other-14%, Cass-2%, Lafayette-2%
In 2006, HCF supported the developing of a mental health curriculum for advanced interpreters and creating a sustainability plan for continuing training. In 2007 and 2008 JVS plans to provide this twenty hour training three times a year, for a total of six three-day sessions over two years. The target audience will be interpreters who have passed Bridging the Gap with a high score, have committed to serving the non-profit service sector, and have experience as interpreters.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 28%, Cass - 10%, Wyandotte - 5%, Johnson - 5%, Lafayette - 1%, Allen -1%
The Refugee Services program provides a wide variety of social services for newly arrived refugees which includes transitional cash assistance, health benefits, housing, clothing, transportation, job placement assistance, workplace orientation, family strengthening, adjustment counseling and health/mental health service referrals.Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 75%, Other - 20%, Wyandotte - 3%, Johnson - 2%
JVS wishes to continue a program, begun in FY10, providing additional medical support for all incoming refugee clients as well as intensive medical case management for refugees who arrive in the United States with significant medical and mental health issues. This program has been modified to assist every refugee entering Kansas City, MO to establish a medical home, obtain both basic and specialized care within a reasonable time-frame, and to increase the capacity of the agency to address severe and emergent needs immediately and coordinate follow-up care. When intensive case management is needed, the coordinator is able to provide in-depth, intensive, focused case management to Refugee Medical Cases immediately upon their arrival and help sustain them until they are ready for employment or receive support from a government-sponsored program.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 20%, Cass - 8%, Johnson - 2%
JVS Cultural Bridge: Interpreter and Cultural Services provides interpreting services citywide at an affordable price to hospitals, clinics and social services agencies. The program offers Bridging the Gap, a forty-hour course in healthcare interpreting for bilingual interpreters. In addition, JVS Cultural Bridge informs young adults about health careers in interpreting, works collaboratively at the national level to establish interpreter certification and promotes awareness of the right to language access services. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-26%, Johnson-26%, Wyandotte-25%, Jackson-15%, Cass-5%, Lafatyette-2%, Allen-1%
ACORN's Healthy Lifestyles for Urban Youth Project will train urban youth to make better nutritional decisions, encourage area businesses to sell healthier food and to advocate for better and safer recreational options in Kansas City, MO and Wyandotte County.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 70%, Wyandotte - 25%, Jackson - 5%
This project funds the salary of the executive director of KCAVP. This position supervises both the direct services program for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) victims of violence as well as prevention through the outreach and education program.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 85%, Wyandotte - 8%, Johnson - 7%
The Kansas City Anti-Violence Project (KCAVP) is the only organization in Missouri and Kansas solely dedicated to providing services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and hate crimes. The organization provides information, support, referrals, advocacy, emergency assistance and housing, and other services to LGBT victims of violence (including domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes) within the Kansas City metropolitan area. KCAVP is requesting funds to support portions of the salary of their executive director, which are not specifically funded by other sources.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Jackson - 25%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%, Cass - 5%
The portion of the executive director's salary, paid by the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City gives KCAVP the much needed support to continue providing two programs: direct services for LGBT victims of violence and prevention through outreach and education. The free and confidential services to LGBT victims address the gap in services in the Kansas City metro area. The education and outreach program offers training sessions and outreach to the LGBT community and community at large about LGBT domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 45%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%, Cass - 5%
The Juniper Gardens Training Farm and Farm Business Development Program trains low-income people to grow and sell vegetables. The program, in a housing project in Kansas City, Kansas, brings fresh produce to an urban 'food desert.' The training farm has 14 ¼-acre farm sites and 57 community garden plots, with walking paths and a playground planned. Working with 3 neighborhood groups, KCCUA will create more market gardens on vacant lots. The program connects families directly to healthful food and addresses prevention of chronic diseases caused by poor diet and lack of exercise. A 3-year study will document changes in diet. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 100%
The Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture promotes health through increasing the accessibility of fresh fruits and vegetables to urban residents. KCCUA helps individuals, organizations, and neighborhoods establish and run community based farms that grow food in the neighborhoods where people live, work, shop, and play. By integrating farming and gardening into the life of the city, KCCUA is helping people change their relationship to the fruits and vegetables that are essential to a healthy lifestyle.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 43%, Jackson - 41%, Johnson - 16%
Support for advocacy, public education and outreach work by the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture. This grant funds new communication tools including a web site, and outreach materials, and adds a program assistant to help respond to increased demands for information.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 50%, KCMO - 30%, Jackson - 10%, Johnson - 10%
The 'Benton Arms Supported Housing Program' is based on a multi-organization partnership group working to help offenders with disabilities become productive members of the community through providing 14 transitional apartments to assist single men and women with mental illness and felony convictions who might otherwise end up homeless or back in the custody of the criminal justice system. The Department of Mental Health has master-leased apartment units in Jackson County, Kansas City, Missouri and KCCC has agreed to assist in locating the staff to manage the project. Staff will consist of a Live-In Program Coordinator and part-time Client Services Coordinator.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 80%, KCMO - 20%
Many offenders, to include females, have little knowledge of or experience with a strong and positive father role model. The purpose of this project is to expose and train the offenders residing on our three halfway houses in proper fathering thereby impacting on domestic violence and child abuse. Many offenders have children of their own or were children in homes were the father was absent and/or where they were abused by the dominate male figure in the family. This project seeks to break the cycle of bad/poor or absent fathering. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 56%, Jackson - 12%, Lafayette - 2%, Cass - 1%, Johnson - 1%
This project will continue funding for one MSW level case manager who will help screen Municipal Court referrals for placement in a community residential substance abuse treatment program, monitor progress, provide case management services that will assist such clients in obtaining mental health services, employment, housing and various other ancillary services. In addition, it will provide funding for transportation, I.D.,client incentives, evaluation and program support.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 30%
The provision of co-occurring treatment services to Missouri state offenders classified to two of KCCC's offender residential facilities. Co-occurring services are provided by professional staff in conjunction with the presiding probation or parole officer.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 25%
In order to deliver improved and more consistent treatment, reduce paperwork, expand capacity, reduce frustration, and increase revenues from existing funding partners, KCCC is in the process of implementing a new state of the art client care system. This solution addresses three major challenges in our organization today: scheduling, billing and automated treatment plans/electronic health records. In order to continue to provide the excellent service we are known for, and still remain competitive, KCCC must transition to an electronic billing, scheduling, treatment and reporting system.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 25%
The Schoolyard Gardens Program would include a full-time Schoolyard Gardens Coordinator and would expand the Schoolyard Gardens pilot started 1-1/2 years ago. Additional schools would be added to the program, and services to all member schools would be expanded to include site assistance, access to gardening equipment, consultation, learning modules, teacher workshops, assistance with support from suppliers, volunteers and parents, and help from program partners.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%, Johnson - 10%
The Schoolyard Gardens program promotes food gardens in schools to help children learn about nutrition and healthy eating habits by creating a space for them to grow and taste fruits and vegetables. Students also have the opportunity to develop gardening skills, increase understanding of plant science, and expand their environmental awareness. Schools are urged to follow policies which integrate gardening into the curriculum and into their food service.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 63%, Wyandotte - 17%, Jackson - 16%, Johnson - 4%
Organization is requesting a start-up grant for the establishment of a comprehensive mobile eye clinic capable of serving patients at Sojourner Health Clinic.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 95%, Jackson - 5%
The Kansas City Free Health Clinic requests funding to continue our work to improve access to high quality and culturally appropriate care for under- and uninsured patients, with particular emphasis on patients with limited English proficiency and those with chronic diseases. Requested funds will be used for September-through-November 2008 support of the General Medicine Program. The Clinic's current Foundation Defined Grant from the Health Care Foundation will end in August 2008 and the earliest that a future award could begin is December 2008. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 9%, Wyandotte - 6%, Johnson - 5%, Cass - 1%
The Kansas City Free Health Clinic requests $500,000 per year over two years to provide high quality medical and dental care at no cost to uninsured and underinsured adults in the metropolitan area. We will treat acute and chronic conditions, routine and emergency dental care. Our work emphasizes the importance of patient self-management of chronic conditions and comprehensive dental care. The Clinic employs a unique model of service delivery that pools the expertise of over 550 skilled medical and dental volunteers and 22 professional staff to provide patient care.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 11%, Other - 9%, Johnson -5%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 1%
The Kansas City Free Health Clinic will improve access to high quality and culturally effective medical and dental care for under- and uninsured patients, with emphasis on those with chronic diseases.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-77%, Jackson-10%, Wyandotte-7%, Johnson-5%, Cass-1%
The Kansas City Free Health Clinic will improve access to high quality and culturally appropriate medical and dental care for under- and uninsured patients, with a focus on patients with limited English proficiency and those with chronic diseases. Medical services include acute and chronic disease care, physical exams, TB, STD & HIV testing and women's health. Volunteers make possible specialized clinics in medication adherence, nutrition, diabetes care, dermatology, cardiology, ophthalmology, pulmonary care, podiatry, and endocrinology. The Dental Program provides preventive, prophylaxis and restorative dental services, including exams, routine cleaning, extract ions, fillings, and x-rays. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-77%, Jackson-10%, Wyandotte-7%, Johnson-5%, Other-4%, Cass-1%
Project would provide outpatient behavioral health services for underinsured and uninsured adults, ages 19-64, with depression, and/or co-occuring substance abuse and psychological issues.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 80%, Wyandotte - 9%, Johnson - 7%, Cass - 3%, Lafayette - 1%
To expand Behavioral Health Services for under- and uninsured youth and young adults, ages 18-24, and to provide behavioral health services for under- and uninsured individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders, including people with addictions to prescription medications.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 77%, Other - 14%, Johnson - 4%, Cass - 2%, Wyandotte - 2%, KCMO - 1%
This project will increase the Kansas City Free Health Clinic's capacity to provide comprehensive behavioral health services for metro area residents, ages 18 to 64, who are indigent and uninsured. A professionally-licensed corps of volunteers (i.e. therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, case managers), working with a small staff, will deliver free mental health counseling, substance abuse therapy, case management, and access to medications for approximately 1,000 unduplicated clients over three years. These patients experience depression, bi-polar disorder, substance abuse disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and borderline personality disorder. Nearly 40% have two or more co-occurring disorders. Geograhic Area Served: Jackson-80%, KCMO-11%, Johnson-5%, Wyandotte-3%, Cass-1%
The purpose of this outreach and education project is to assure that African Americans in our community understand issues related to end of life, and options for care. Information about hospice and palliative care, advance directives, how to access care and related subjects shall be provided, and how communication channels and relationships which could facilitate care shall be established. Target audiences for these efforts will include churches, health care providers, media, clubs, organizations and employers.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%, Jackson - 15%, Cass - 10%, Lafayette - 5%
The Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission proposes to conduct a Gaps Analysis focusing on the unmet reentry needs of offenders and a Feasibility Study focusing on identifying ways to improve the 'system of reentry' in Greater Kansas City in order to decrease the threat to public safety and public health associated with the increasing presence of offenders in our community. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 50%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%, Cass - 10%
We will train high school students to become Health Ambassadors to mentor middle and elementary students in healthy eating and physical fitness. High School students from Lincoln College Preparatory Academy, Central High School, Westport High School, Northeast High School, Southeast High School, and the African Centered Education Campus will participate. Each high school student will complete a semester of leadership training on Nutrition, Life Skills, Physical Fitness, and Education. Penn Valley college students, from the Physical Education Department, will provide training on teaching the residential physical Fitness Challenge and supervision of the high school students.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
A series of public discussions will be conducted over several weeks on KCPT's community affairs programs. KCPT will also seek coverage of the six children's fitness and nutrition topics through Network KC.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 60%, Wyandotte - 20%, Allen - 5%, Cass - 5%, Johnson - 5%, Lafayette - 5%
While people strive for a clear understanding of all aspects of health, most information is conflicting at best. News coverage often sets out to present the sensational - dividing instead of uniting, confusing instead of enlightening, focusing on the event and not the cause. Not only must clear and useful information and resources be presented, but a human face must be placed upon issues of health to ensure a common understanding that the health and well-being of our community is a direct result of the health and well-being of each individual resident.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 15%, Johnson - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%, Other - 5%
A city pays a high price when it lacks a vision for future growth: no direction or motivation, squandered resources, and leaving behind those most in need. Kansas City Public Television (KCPT) and the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) believe it is imperative for our region to move into the future with a clear vision and a common language with which we can advance positive, sustainable, inclusive change. To this end, KCPT and MARC will co-produce 'Imagine KC,' a year long television series to provide a vision of what our region can become through citizen engagement, education, and policy change.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 70%, Jackson - 25%, Wyandotte - 4%, Johnson - 1%, Other - 1%
Shedding Light on Depression in Multiple Sector Settings is a two year comprehensive program involving the medical community, neighborhood and faith networks, schools, multi-cultural organizations and the media in addressing and responding to issues and solutions for persons diagnosed with depression.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 40%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%, Jackson - 20%
(Year II portion of two-year Depression program - Shedding Light on Depression in Multiple Sector Settings)To build upon the work being completed under current funding to develop specific materials that will then be ready for distribution in the community through specifically-targeted cultural settings. Year II implementation will focus its endeavors on community training and distribution of the developed materials for use within the targeted community sector settings. The following targeted audiences will be focused: Medical Sector, School Sector, The Media, Community, Faith Sector and Multi-Cultural Sector and Preschoolers and their caregivers.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 40%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%
The Healthy Habits Youth Empowerment plan is establishing, for the first time in the Kansas City bi-state region, an integrated, community based, coordinated and comprehensive health promotion, prevention program targeting minority youth from four different ethnic groupings. Its purpose is to tailor unique youth and adult mentor programming tailored to specific communities throughout the bi-state area and to specific cultural norms and experiences with the target minority populations. This bi-state model has the potential to benefit almost 400,000 youth in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, including large numbers of youth from the four targeted populations.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Wyandotte - 25%, Johnson - 15%, Jackson - 15%
Score 1 for Health provides free, in-school elementary health screenings at 54 elementary schools in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. In addition to basic comprehensive health screenings to identify health challenges, Score 1 is addressing barriers to care and encouraging families to follow through on referrals generated through screenings. Additional nursing staff, a full-time Referral Tracking Coordinator, and a programs outcome analyst will bring even greater health care access to Kansas City's neediest families.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Wyandotte - 34%, Jackson - 16%
Beyond Depression in the Later Years provides training to medical students, preceptors, clergy, parish nurses, aging agencies and community members on geriatric depression and treatment. With potential to create systemic change in how quality care for geriatric depression can be delivered in the Kansas City region, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences will utilize 3 Geriatric Depression Toolkits created for 1) medical providers, 2) the community and 3) those who live with depression and their significant others.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 45%, Jackson - 25%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 11%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%
The KC Urban Youth Center (KCUYC) is using the CDC's Coordinated School Health Program to develop a comprehensive health system to address the complex needs facing our students. The successful implementation of our Healthy Choices program focusing on nutrition education and physical activity has set the pace for the rest of our health program. Yet, to effectively implement such a comprehensive system, much work remains to develop a means of sustainability and to ensure that our programs are using evidence based programs, curricula and evaluation tools. KCUYC is requesting a 12 month grant of $41,184 to create a health development team that will be tasked with determining how to expand the health program into the areas designated by the Coordinated School Health Program model. This team will be responsible for building sustainability of the health program, developing community partnerships, and researching model programs and curricula. Outcomes of the project will include a completed needs assessment and strategic plan as well as a number of funding requests and community connections. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 100%
The Healthy Choices Program seeks to address the concerns of many in the urban community about the lack of adequate nutrition and fitness for the youth, which has led to the problem of obesity. Through this project, KCUYC provides urban youth, ages 10-16, and adults nutrition and fitness education and activities through the afterschool program, Monday through Friday, as well as at weekly family events, and monthly community health events.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Healthy Choices Holistic health is at the heart of KCUYC's health care program. Students are lead in daily physical activities such as dance, yoga, basketball and football. In addition to encouraging healthy eating, students are actively engaged in growing food through our KC Urban Youth Center garden. Each of the elements of the program add to the overall ability for our students and their families to make healthy choices for life. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 100%
KC Urban Youth Center and Calvary Community Outreach Network are collaborating to spearhead a comprehensive nutrition and fitness program (Race for Health) to preclude obesity in the community for children and their families. By using the expertise of fitness, nutrition, and cycling professionals the program will challenge children involved in KCUYC and CCON's afterschool and summer programs to eat right and incorporate plenty of exercise into their daily routines.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 100%
The Kansas-Focused Medical-Legal Partnership, between Children's Mercy Hospital West Clinic and Kansas Legal Services, serves low income children and their families by addressing both health and legal needs.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 80%, Johnson - 20%
The Kansas-Focused Medical - Legal Partnership for Children will serve low income Kansas children and their families in the Metropolitan Kansas City area. The broad vision of this medical - legal partnership is to ensure that children from low income Kansas families have access in the health center setting to legal consultation and assistance where it relates directly to resolving their basic health situation. The sites for the medical-legal clinics will be located at Children's Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri, serving Kansas patients) and Children's Mercy West (Kansas City, Kansas). Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 80%, Johnson - 20%
The narrative supports a request for funding from the Health Care Foundation for two clinical programs in which students from the University of Kansas provide needed care for one of the most vulnerable populations in metropolitan Kansas City. JayDoc uses the volunteer efforts of medical students to provide medical assistance to the underserved in the Kansas City Area. The Medical-Legal Family Health Project uses the efforts of law students to increase patient health by solving the legal problems of this client base.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 62%, Johnson - 21%, Jackson - 13%, Other - 4%
Silver City Health Center, located in the Argentine community of Kansas City, Kansas, exists to address the primary care, health education and prevention needs that impede the health and well-being and impact the illness, injury and chronic disease trajectories of Wyandotte County residents. In the last year, the number of patients served at SCHC has increased by 18%, while the number of visits is up 22%. At the same time, the number of uninsured patients has increased to over 50%. Of those without insurance, 73% have incomes <100% FPL. Additional clinicians and support staff will help increase access to care. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-78%, Johnson-20%, Other-10%, KCMO-2%
JayDoc provides urgent and preventive care medical services at no charge to patients. Through the efforts of student volunteers in Social Services, JayDoc also equips patients with referrals to other Safety Net Clinics so they can find a medical home for ongoing health care. This funding provides working capital and allows JayDoc clinic to retain the services of an administrative assistant.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 63%, Johnson - 18%, Jackson - 9%
Silver City Health Center requests $200,000 from the Health Care Foundation, as a two-year award. This money will be used for general operating expenses. Specifically, we intend to use Health Care Foundation funding to support salary and benefits expenses for providers and staff. Funding will also be used to support direct program expenses, such as medical supplies, including laboratory supplies and pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment purchase and repairs.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 72%, Johnson - 25%, Other - 3%,
KC CareLink is requesting a $75,000 grant to support 2009 operations. KC CareLink's revenue has decreased creating a need for additional operating revenue in 2009. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 48%, KCMO - 32%, Wyandotte - 12%, Johnson - 2%, Allen - 1%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%, Other - 3%
This proposal highlight two clinical programs in which students from the University of Kansas provide needed care for one of the most vulnerable populations in the metropolitan area. JayDoc Free Clinic utilizes the volunteer efforts of medical students to provide essential medical evaluation and care for the medically underserved in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Medical-Legal Family Health Care Project (which has recently been dubbed 'LawHawks' ) involves law students from the University of Kansas School of Law in providing essential legal assistance to indigent patients at the Southwest Family Health Care Clinic and JayDoc Free Clinic, to help resolve chronic legal problems that affect the health of clinic patients. Using different professional methodologies, both organizations work to improve the health and medical access of the underserved population in the metropolitan area.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte-80%, Johnson-10%, Cass-5%, Jackson-5%
Achieving Youth Success through Parent Involvement is an innovative school-based mental health initiative which uses a promotora or 'promoter of health' model to connect underserved and uninsured youth, particularly Latino youth, to needed mental health services. Located at Argentine Middle School in USD 500 of Kansas City, Kansas, Youth Success has facilitated the receipt of more than 3,205 hours of services through Wyandot Mental Health Center, Mattie Rhodes Center, and private bilingual providers. Youth outcomes include: symptom reduction, improved functioning, lower truancy rates, and better academic performance. The program has also enhanced parent-school communication, especially with Latino parents.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 100%
Silver City Health Center, located in the Argentine community of Kansas City, Kansas, exists to address the primary care, health education and prevention needs that impede the health and well-being and impact the illness, injury and chronic disease trajectories of Wyandotte County residents. SCHC commits to providing high-quality, culturally-sensitive, and holistic services within the limited resources faced by many residents needing care -- meaning that we make health care affordable to the medically indigent and underserved. Our services include comprehensive primary care, preventive health education and community outreach, and tailored programs that ameliorate or substantially reduce the effects of chronic disease.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte-90%, Johnson-10%
More than 1,000 Metro-residents rely on KVC's Outpatient Services for timely access to quality mental health care annually. Of those served 75% are under-insured (i.e. Medicaid) or uninsured. Through KVC's Olathe-based clinic clients receive: Psychiatric Services: Psychiatric evaluations, medication management, ongoing treatment, telemedication management via video conferencing in satellite offices (Kansas City, Lenexa and Independence, Missouri). Therapeutic Services: Individual/Group/Family therapy, in-home services/therapy, parent education and psychological testing. KVC is a primary provider of these services to this population in Johnson and Wyandotte Counties, improving clients' functioning and ability to manage symptoms, and increasing stability for children in out-of-home care/state custody. Geographic Area Served: Johnson-62%, Other-5%, Wyandotte-29%, Cass-1%, Jackson-1%, KCMO-1%, Lafayette-1%
KVC's Psychiatric Residential Treatment will offer specialized evidence based inpatient care for children with demonstrated sexual boundary problem behaviors. With high supervision and specially trained staff, evidence shows that treatment can be effective in reducing or preventing these behaviors from becoming a life long affliction, if treated early in youth. There is a serious gap for this kind of treatment in the community.
Geographic Area Served:
Johnson - 28%, Wyandotte - 27%, Jackson - 2%, Other - 43%
Organization requests funding to support a new program at the Academy, Healthy Food for Healthy Lives. They are requesting funds to purchase materials for a 'Free Fruit Kiosk;' fruit to stock the kiosk, making fresh fruit available year-round; and materials to set up a 'Hoop House' over their organic garden in order to extend the growing season.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The Migrant Farmworkers Medical Case Management Project (MFP) in Lafayette County is a unique and highly-effective project that provides medical case managers for migrant farmworkers and their families. HCF has funded the project since 2006.
MFP serves a population identified as 'high risk' because of their mobility (moving to 3-5 locations per year), rural isolation, lack of access to healthcare or transportation, low literacy levels and their cultural barriers and limited English proficiency.
During the past four years, Legal Aid provided medical case management for 2,658 medical and dental visits, or an average of 664 visits per year.
Geographic Area Served:
Lafayette - 100%
In the Medical Case Management Project, staff from Legal Aid of Western Missouri (Legal Aid) act as medical case managers for Spanish-speaking, migrant farmworkers and their families. Each year, hundreds of immigrant agricultural workers come to Lafayette County to harvest apples and perform related farm work. In three years, the project has assisted farmworkers in 2,044 medical visits. Legal Aid case managers have helped migrant families in Lafayette County overcome language, cultural and transportation impediments that block their access to healthcare. This Migrant Farmworker Project (MFP) has also significantly reduced avoidable repeat doctor visits. Geographic Area Served: Lafayette - 100%
The Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) partners Legal Aid of Western Missouri with a growing number of healthcare providers, including Children's Mercy Hospital, their clinic at Operation Breakthrough, Swope Health Services, and the University of Kansas Medical Center. Through the MLP, medical providers can enlist lawyers to find legal solutions to healthcare problems when medical treatment is not enough.
For example, this year the MLP helped the mother of four children with disabilities to gain access to safe housing. Following the family's move, one of the children with Cystic Fibrosis exhibited a 20% improvement in lung function at her next doctor's visit.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 18%, Other- 5%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - %
The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children is a partnership between Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Children's Mercy Hospital, and other healthcare providers, in which doctors and lawyers work together to find legal solutions to children's healthcare problems, when medical treatment alone cannot cure those problems.Examples of cases handled by the project include convincing a landlord to get rid of roaches or mold in an apartment because those conditions are causing asthma problems for a child or obtaining MC+ coverage for a necessary medical treatment for which coverage has been initially denied.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-70%, Jackson-29%, Cass-1%
The Medical-Legal Partnership is a partnership between Legal Aid of Western Missouri and a growing number of local healthcare providers, including Children's Mercy Hospital, their clinic at Operation Breakthrough, and Swope Health Services. The partnership allows medical providers to call on lawyers to find legal solutions to healthcare problems when medical treatment alone is not enough. For example, this year the project helped the low-income father of a child with a lung disorder to access public housing and helped a grandmother obtain guardianship of the grandchildren sent to live with her due to her daughter's drug addiction. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-72%, Jackson-25%, Cass-2%, Lafayette-1%
The Mental Health Court Project provides individuals with mental health problems, who have been charged with city code violations, the opportunity to obtain treatment rather than going to jail. Over the last three years, the project has proven to be an extremely effective means of treating a highly vulnerable and hard-to-serve population and has allowed hundreds of participants to lead stable, healthy lives. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-100%
In the Medical Case Management Project, Legal Aid of Western Missouri's staff act as medical case managers for Spanish-speaking, migrant farmworkers and their families who come to Lafayette County each year for the apple harvest. The grant is for the project's third year. Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 100%
This project is to provide Residents and staff that serve and provide care for them, safer and more comfortable electric hospital beds. The new electric beds are more comfortable and replace outdated, crank style hospital beds and mattresses with springs, with foam matresses. Research has shown that the crank style beds have been shown to increase patient fall rates, as well as bed sore rates. When a bed sore has already been established, waterproof foam matresses and electric beds instead of crank beds will increase the rate of healing time. The salaries are for nursing staff who provide direct quality care to our elderly Residents, irrespective of their income. 98% of our Residents are two to three times the Federal poverty level.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-97%, Jackson-3%
This childhood obesity prevention collaborative addresses the dangers of overweight children by educating and motivating families and other community members. Its activities are influencing local and state policies, building public awareness, sponsoring conferences, supporting the Eat Small Campaign (a school-based nutrition and fitness education program targeting kids ages 9 to 12). Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 30%, Wyandotte - 30%, Jackson - 10%
Mattie Rhodes Center requests funding of $121,330 for the Latino Mental Health Connectivity Project. This will complete and secure the technological infrastructures in Phase 1 of a three-phased project, and the long-term outcome is to increase access for mental health care primarily to Spanish-speaking families with a seamless, end-to-end service delivery system. Components of this project include server reconfiguration and security, final (phone) rewiring for full agency-wide connectivity, hardware and software licensing, and financial accounting integration. These changes are critical to the fundamental operations of Mattie Rhodes Center, and to enable Mattie Rhodes Center to expand safety net services for the greater Spanish-speaking population. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-100%
Mattie Rhodes Center requests funding to support core safety net bilingual mental health direct services and core operating costs.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 95%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 1%,
Mattie Rhodes Center requests $682,352 over three years to pilot the first comprehensive domestic violence program for Hispanic families. Nuevo Dia, a domestic violence program currently serving women and children, will expand to include a new culturally competent batterers' intervention program, working to reduce the cycle of domestic violence in Spanish-speaking families in the Midwest. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-90%, Wyandotte-45%, Johnson-5%, Other-5%
In order to increase organizational capacity and serve the community in a more efficient and effective way, Mattie Rhodes Center (MRC) requests $60,600 to install a new telephone system, certify the Visions with Hope 360 program for Spanish-speaking families with children with disabilities; and publish and distribute a formal Cultural Competency Plan for mental health agencies serving Spanish-speaking communities. Each of the three components represents a one-time investment and will bring the community greater access to MRC's services.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 85%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
Mattie Rhodes Center requests $74,534 to support the Latino Mental Health Support and Outreach project. This will serve the Spanish-speaking community with the addition of a Service Coordinator (Case Manager) who specializes in Person-Centered Planning, and an Outreach Therapist who will conduct culturally competency training, bilingual mental health staff recruitment, and will lead group therapy. These components will provide more access to culturally competent mental health services for low-income, under- and uninsured Latino individuals and families. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 75%, Wyandotte - 20%, Other - 5%
Mattie Rhodes Center requests a multi-year grant in order to provide culturally competent individual mental health therapy, group therapy, case management, and in-school intervention services to the Hispanic community.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 90%, Wyandotte - 10%
Mattie Rhodes Center, in partnership with UMKC's Institute for Human Development, requests $248,534 over two years to pilot and implement the Salsa, Sabor y Salud program and serve Latino children 3-12 and their families with this culturally competent healthy lifestyles program. The program responds to the urgent need for initiatives that connect with and engage Latino families in daily choices that lead to a lifetime of 'energy balance' and wellness. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 100%
Request for funding would sustain the Latino Mental Health Program for indigent, Spanish-speaking clients residing in Jackson County, Missouri, as well as to enhance the ability to provide services in Kansas. Geographic Area Served:Jackson- 90%, Johnson - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%
A collaborative effort benefitting food assistance recipients where social service agencies are paired with farmers markets to promote the accessibility and affordability of and provide education about the health benefits of eating locally grown produce. Recipients of WIC (Women Infants and Children), SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), SFMNP (Senior Farmers Market Nutrition program) and SSI (Supplemental Security Income) will be targeted and encouraged to use their benefits at eight pilot farmers markets where they will receive a dollar-for-dollar match with every food assistance dollar spent. Agency staff will provide nutrition education, cooking demonstrations and recipes at the markets.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 50%, Wyandotte - 40%, KCMO - 10%
Sabbaths of Hope: The Next Steps builds upon the knowledge and energy of 4 congregations who wish to begin educational support groups for persons with depression and related issues. These groups, which will be established in Eastern Jackson County, Wyandotte County, Jackson County and the Northland, will follow the successful format of the DBSA/MHAH 'Making the Most of Your Mental Illness' series which will be continued in Johnson County. A monthly educational session and 3 weekly support meetings will provide practical information and strategies and facilitate peer support for lifestyle and other changes that assist participants in coping and recovery.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 49%, KCMO - 46%, Wyandotte - 18%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 1%
Sabbaths of Hope is a project that enables clergy and other faith leaders to recognize types and symptoms of depression, provide referral and linkage to treatment options, and offer more effective support to congregants suffering from depression. Sabbaths of Hope addresses racial/ethnic disparity issues in depressive disorders by placing particular emphasis on securing involvement of faith communities of high minority membership. Faith community participants receive training and resources to enable them to conduct educational events for congregants and colleagues. All depression related activities culminate on a regionally designated Sabbaths of Hope weekend in May of each year.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 30%, Wyandotte - 25%, Jackson - 15%, KCMO - 15%, Cass - 8%, Lafayette - 7%
To complete the installation and operation of two dental operatories at the clinic in Raytown, Missouri, by installing dental units, adding digital imaging and electronic medical records. The dental clinic will provide dental services for the underserved and uninsured residents in Jackson and surrounding counties.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 40%, Cass - 30%, Allen - 10%, KCMO - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%
Change Missouri statute to expand the State Legal Expense Fund to cover physicians, their office staff, medical practices and tertiary care facilities who donate their services to low-income, uninsured patients in the MetroCARE program.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 95%, Jackson - 5%
Northland CARE / MetroCARE / Wy/Jo Care, a bi-state, metro-wide partnership, enlists primary care and specialty physicians to provide charity health care to the medically indigent. The program links providers with the low-income uninsured through a referring entity that monitors, screens, and directs patients based on a fair and accessible process. A coordinated system divides the responsibility for caring for this vulnerable population by supplying a multitude of providers rather than over-burdening a few who donate services. To date, 631 primary care physicians and specialists participate, providing care and services through more than 3,000 patient referrals. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 36%, Wyandotte - 32%, Johnson - 18%, Other - 12%, Jackson - 1%
Northland CARE / MetroCARE is a partnership initiative to increase access to primary and specialized medical services for low-income, uninsured patients throughout Greater Kansas City via a medical care referral network. The program links providers with the low-income uninsured through a referring entity that monitors, screens, and directs patients based on a fair and accessible process. A coordinated system divides the responsibility for caring for this vulnerable population by supplying a multitude of providers rather than over-burdening a few who donate services. MetroCARE is the lead applicant organization and requests $62,500 from HCF to build program capacity. Funds will support volunteer physician recruitment and retention, ancillary, transportation, and interpretive services, and a planning grant to explore expanding services to Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 67%, Jackson - 4%, Other - 29%
MetroCARE, NorthlandCARE, Wy/Jo Care and safety net partners are implementing a volunteer network of private physicians in the metropolitan area to provide services to low income uninsured residents. A patient eligibility screening and referral system will be implemented in partnership with KC CareLink, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Greater Kansas City, the Metropolitan Medical Society of Kansas City, the Missouri Division of Family Services and the Center for Practical Bioethics. Administrative services will be provided at no cost to participating physicians.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 35%, Wyandotte - 30%, KCMO 20%, Johnson - 15%
Northland CARE / MetroCARE / Wy/Jo Care, a bi-state, metro-wide partnership, enlists primary care and specialty physicians to provide charity health care to the medically indigent. The program links providers with the low-income uninsured through a referring entity that monitors, screens, and directs patients based on a fair and accessible process. A coordinated system divides the responsibility for caring for this vulnerable population by supplying a multitude of providers rather than over-burdening a few who donate services. To date, 631 primary care physicians and specialists participate, providing care and services through more than 3,000 patient referrals. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-36%, Wyandotte-32%, Johnson-18%, Other-13% Jackson-1%,
Project goal is to first evaluate various aspects of a proposed change in utilization of emergency ambulance services and hospital emergency departments and then implement changes in how we handle requests for ambulance services.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 30%, Platte - 10%, Clay - 10%
Allied Health students attending MCC-Penn Valley will receive training within the radiologic program that will be enhanced with state-of-the-art imaging equipment and curriculum with culturally sensitive service components. More than 30% of radiologic technicians serve indigent and low-income persons during clinical rotations and when employed after graduation. The program will be delivered in the urban center and will have a focus on interacting with patients of diverse backgrounds. Students will exit the program with a greater understanding of serving indigent persons needing health care services.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-59%, Jackson-33%, Lafayette-2%, Wyandotte-2%, Johnson-2%, Cass-2%
The MCC - Collaboration Works will improve access to health care and services for the uninsured and underinsured. Individuals in need will receive new and gently used health-related equipment and supplies as well as education about health maintenance and prevention through community-driven programs and services provided by health career students. Driven and operated by MCC health care students, the program will serve as a service-learning incubator for future health care providers.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 59%, Jackson - 33%, Johnson - 2%, Lafayette - 2%, Wyandotte - 2%, Cass - 2%
YouthSpace is a healthy lifestyle promotion effort during out-of-school time for at risk youth attending Westport High School in the Kansas City Missouri District. YouthSpace engages students, with a special emphasis on freshman and sophomores, to address three developmental outcomes critical to this phase of adolescent development. Many more Westport students are impacted indirectly as the youth participating in YouthSpace create change within their school and within their communities. YouthSpace also serves as the practicum site for youth workers enrolled in the MCC -- Penn Valley Youth Worker Certificate and Youth Development Credential academic programs. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 100%
This project will provide access to photo ID's and copies of birth certificates for poor and homeless persons in the Kansas City area. Photo ID is a prerequisite to enter social and medical service systems subsequent to Homeland Security laws since 2001.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 70%, Wyandotte - 30%
This project will provide access to photo IDs and copies of birth certificates for poor and homeless persons in the Kansas City area. Photo ID is a prerequisite to enter social and medical service systems subsequent to Homeland Security laws since 2001. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 86%, Wyandotte - 10%, Other - 3%, Johnson - 1%
This project seeks to enhance the capacity of African American faith leaders and faith communities as proactive agents in the identification and treatment of depression. Targeted audiences are: 1) faith leaders, 2) faith congregations/ assemblies, and 3) individuals both faith and non-faith affiliated. Targeted within these audiences are: victims and perpetuators of domestic and/or criminal violence. Project objectives are to: 1) enhance general awareness of depression, diagnosis and modalities for treatment, 2) provide information concerning mental health facilities/services and access challenges, and 3) provide programs, forums and opportunities for the acquisition of strategies and practices that enhance and sustain mental health. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 97%, KCMO 3%
Local public health agencies in the KC metro area will continue to educate parents and other caregivers about the dangers of secondhand smoke and strategies to protect the health of young children through a targeted campaign. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 27%, KCMO - 22%, Johnson - 21%, Wyandotte - 18%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 3%
This project will seek to improve the overall health status of victims of sexual assault, with particular focus on victims within traditionally underserved populations, by eliminating barriers to accessing resources and improving health and safety. MOCSA will connect with institutions to improve the overall medical, mental, and legal needs of sexual assault victims through collaborative partnerships and systems-based advocacy. The project will build on early successes and incorporate improvements based on lessons learned.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 40%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 20%,
Wyandotte - 10%, Other - 6%, Cass - 3%, Lafayette - 1%
Mapping Individual Solutions to Trauma (MIST): Integrated Service Model represents a paradigm shift, from an office-based service delivery model to co-locating services in community agencies serving under served populations. This project will: strengthen collaborative relationships; expand dialogue about the collective response to sexual violence in the Kansas City area; provide training, technical assistance, and support to partner agencies to address assessment, prevention and treatment needs of victims; and make assessment and service delivery more sensitive and adaptable to the needs of victims. The project will build on successes learned with the pilot program, Mapping Individual Solutions to Trauma (MIST) Project. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-80%, Wyandotte-20%, Other-1%
Sexual assault and abuse is pervasive in our community and directly tied to long-term mental health problems. MOCSA seeks to lessen the negative mental health effects of sexual violence through educational interventions. The project will deliver the following results in approximately 30 school districts across the metro area: 1) students will have sexual violence safety and prevention skills, 2) parents will know how to access resources and services, and 3) school personnel will have expertise to respond effectively to disclosures of sexual abuse and incidents of sexual violence. A comprehensive project evaluation will yield new best-practice information for the field.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 72%, KCMO - 11%, Johnson - 10%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 3%
The purpose of the Mapping Individual Solutions to trauma (MIST) Project is to increase the coping skills and mental health of women and men in low-income populations and in at-risk communities who have been victims or are at risk for first-time or recurrent sexual assault.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 50%, Jackson - 50%
The Sexually Reactive Behavior (SRB): Implementing a Responsive and Effective Service Model is a comprehensive project that will: 1) provide specialized treatment to SRB children and youth ages 4-14, primarily from low-income families, 2) provide prevention and awareness presentations, 3) train professionals to increase their ability to respond effectively to the unique needs of SRB, 3) provide outreach and trainings for professionals to increase their ability to respond effectively to the unique needs of SRB and 4) identify roles, resources, and gaps in the service delivery system for SRB through use of roundtable and task force meetings.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 60%, Jackson - 40%, Other - 7%
Low income and homeless persons need photo identification (photo ID) in order to be considered by agencies to receive basic social or medical services. The need for photo ID was initiated by new Homeland Security laws following the events of 9/11/2001, and now a photo ID is required to even apply for a job.
The need for photo ID has created huge service barriers for millions of low income Americans. There are many reasons why low income and homeless persons do not have photo ID. The challenge is how to help them obtain photo ID so they can enter the network of community services they need for survival.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 44%, Johnson - 16%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 15%, Other - 8%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
The Core and Quality of Life Financial Assistance Programs are a vital service to people with MS in the Kansas City area. The goal is to help people with MS maintain personal health, independence and quality of life, to keep families together and allow people with MS to remain connected to their community. We do this by helping people find the resources they need and by providing financial support to qualifying individuals to help them navigate short-term emergencies and address larger, longer-term issues where possible that could have a significant impact on quality of life. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 43%, Johnson 42%, Wyandotte - 7%, Cass - 6%, Allen - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
Mid-America Regional Council requests funding to continue the Safe Travel - Buckle Up KC Kids program to reduce the number of unrestrained or improperly restrained Head Start child passengers piloted in 2008-2009. Adding to the Safe Travel Umbrella is a second initiative, the Safety Ambassador training, designed to address the growing need of communities to educate children about safe walking and bike practices. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 94%, Other - 6%
The over arching goal of this program will be to ensure that uninsured Early Head Start and Head Start children receive comprehensive health services and their families establish medical and dental homes. Children will complete all required physical and dental examinations as well as any necessary follow up treatment. Families for whom english is a second language will have translation services provided and families needing transportation will be transported to and from visits. This will be done in collaboration with community health providers,and lead by Head Start family advocates who will receive specialized training in helping families navigate these various systems.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
MARC, in partnership with Children's Mercy Hospital and the Kansas City Police Department, requests funding for the proposed period of March 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008. Requested funding will be utilized to pilot a program to reduce the number of unrestrained or improperly restrained Head Start child passengers. Parents/caregivers will be provided information designed to increase their understanding of the importance of properly restraining child passengers according to state laws. Safe and correct Child Passenger Seats will be provided to all Head Start children and families with an identified need.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The region's growth patterns are likely to change in the coming decades, and local officials need support and technical tools to modify regulations and policies to provide for transportation investments and facilities that encourage healthy lifestyles. The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) proposes to work with local government officials and other community stakeholders to build support for, and encourage action, to modify policies on transportation investments and facility design to support healthy lifestyles and active living.
Geographic Area Served:
Johnson - 28%, KCMO - 26%, Jackson - 18%, Other - 15%, Wyandotte - 8%, Cass - 5%
The Kansas City Bi-State Health Information Exchange will provide the platform on which the region can exchange health care information in order to enhance health care access, quality, safety and efficiency. It will leverage the considerable assets of existing Kansas City health information exchanges and provide the resources for the Kansas City community to compete for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and other funding opportunities. This project will provide the funding necessary to complete the planning and portions of the technical design phases enabling deployment in June 2010. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 47%, Wyandotte - 15%, Johnson - 13%, Jackson - 12%, Cass - 7%, Lafayette - 6%
Midwest Christian Counseling Center's Midwest Family Healing Services Program serves to provide psychotherapy to indigent and underserved victims of domestic violence and child abuse. This program is unique given MCCC's rare capacity to address issues related to faith during counseling. Through this program, our highly trained staff will provide psychotherapy to 150 victims of domestic violence and/or sexual abuse for an average of six, one-hour sessions. The effectiveness of therapy will be measured through a baseline survey administered prior to the start of services, at the sixth session and upon termination from treatment.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 55%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte 15%, KCMO - 10%, Cass - 5%
Miles of Smiles is the only comprehensive, portable dental service for children in the Kansas City metropolitan area. We are committed to treating existing dental needs for children at no cost to them. In addition, we educate children and families on the importance of oral health so it does not affect their physical health, mental well-being, overall self-esteem, and performance in school. A significant portion of our equipment is in need of replacement due to age, wear, and tear. New equipment will improve efficiency and effectiveness, and allow us to treat more children each year.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
Miles of Smiles requests a grant from the Health Care Foundation to support technology needs of our organization. Miles of Smiles provides portable dental care -- preventative and restorative -- at schools and community-based sites to low-income children in the Northland area of Kansas City, Missouri.
The proposed grant period is one year. Health Care Foundation funds will purchase a new server, provide information technology support for one calendar year, provide off-site back up for our electronic files for one calendar year, and support a portion of the Executive Director's salary for the time spent managing the technology needs of the agency.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
This project is a collaboration between the Kansas City Chronic Disease Coalition, Maria L. Boudreaux and Associates, and the Housing Authority. It will provide resources, models, methods and processes so that young families on a limited budget can plan, shop, prepare and feed their unique family a healthy diet three times a day for no more than $25/week/per person. Project activities will include static and dynamic components as well as a broader community component. Families from the Coalition and the Housing Authority will be asked to participate as models for the plan and possibly act as community facilitators in moving the project to the Kansas City metro area. During the community component, other community gatekeepers and leaders will also be recruited to participate in the program and will learn to demonstrate that they too are feeding their families a healthy diet on a fixed budget.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The Partnership for Smiles is a community-campus collaboration, which expands the capacity of safety-net dental providers to meet the oral health needs of low-income and indigent families in Greater Kansas City. The UMKC School of Dentistry places dental faculty and students in the clinics of nine safety-net dental providers, one to three days per week, to provide dental care. The participating centers include Cabot Westside Clinic, Kansas City Free Health Clinic, Operation Breakthrough, Samuel Rodgers Community Health Center, Seton Family and Health Services, Southwest Boulevard Family Health Services, Swope Parkway Health Center and TMC-Lakewood.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-70%, Jackson-20%, Johnson-5%, Wyandotte-5%
JwJ health care organizing project develops leaders from among frontline health caregivers and uninsured and underinsured working families to be powerful advocates in the broader health care justice movement in Missouri. JwJ's members are a strategic force in the public debate on comprehensive federal health care reform; among the most respected and consistent voices state level debates on eligibility for, funding of safety net health care programs; and the state's primary force advocating for caregivers and their considerations in all these debates, including their working conditions and rights. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 40%, Jackson - 30%, Cass - 20%, Lafayette - 10%
The part-time case manager, a position added in December 2009, has been successful in engaging many homeless/near-homeless persons in the Neighbor2Neighbor community to assist them in accessing health resources. Those in this community, whom we name neighbors, are challenged with a wide range of physical and mental health issues, but have had difficulty navigating the processes necessary to receive needed services. This case manager has become a crucial liaison between neighbors and the resources they need and seek. Since more are seeking her guidance, we must expand her role to respond to the need.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 90%, Wyandotte - 4%, Johnson - 3%, Jackson - 2%, Cass - 1%
A part-time social worker will engage with homeless and near-homeless persons in the Neighbor2Neighbor community in order to assist them in accessing health resources. Those in this community, whom we name 'neighbors,' are challenged with a wide range of physical and mental health issues, but are often suspicious of 'professionals from outside' and have difficulty navigating the processes necessary to receive needed services. A trusted social worker will become the crucial liaison between neighbors and the health resources they need and seek. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 90%, Johnson - 5%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 1%
Emergency Department Professional Training is an educational approach to managing unnecessary utilization of hospital emergency rooms. Emergency Department Professionals are trained to respond appropriately to persons with mental illness in crisis and divert them into community based treatment. The project improves access to community services, reduces use of emergency services, facilitates safer communities, improves health outcomes, and results in greater cost-efficiency through accurate and effective treatment.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-70%, Cass-15%, Lafayette-15%
The project will provide clinical supports and treatment to older adults with depression in Jackson County, including Grandview, Lee's Summit, South Kansas City and North Kansas City.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 75%, KCMO - 25%
With HCF support, NAMI-KC will address the demand for mental health services and supports for uninsured and underinsured residents. This request will fill immediate gaps by providing services for those most in need while addressing the long-term need for Medicaid coverage. Activities will include assessment, care coordination, linkage to mental health and ancillary support services, education and support for families and advocacy.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 65%, KCMO - 10%, Lafayette - 8%, Cass - 5%, Johnson - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%, Allen - 2%
DOCIT is a modified CIT program that trains detention officers to respond appropriately to inmates with mental illness. Training for corrections personnel improves service access, results in safer detention facilities, improves mental health outcomes, and is cost-efficient due to accurate and effective treatment. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 100%
The Detention Officer CIT Program (DOCIT) will prepare officers to respond appropriately to jail incidents involving inmates with mental illness.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 50%
The National Center for Fathering is requesting support for a special Homeless Fathering Project. This project provides services for 150 transitional living men and fathers in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas in three homeless and two re-entry facilities to target the prevention of father absence and family violence and to provide an on-going curriculum resource that addresses these issues with this at-risk population of men. This project will bring lacking expertise in fatherhood to these important community service organizations to help men develop relational skills to build and maintain the social supports associated with successful recovery and re-entry. The project's goal is to break the intergenerational cycle of absence and violence that is common to those who have witnessed family violence or experienced the risk factor of father absence in their childhood.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 50%, Wyandotte - 30%, Jackson - 20%
NCADD-KC seeks to expand its award winning, evidenced-based family services program, How to Cope; and Caring for Kids, with a grant of $75,000 from the Healthcare Foundation to help cover the costs of a credentialed substance abuse counselor and outcomes evaluator / researcher. This expansion will allow us to increase our services by replicating a successful model program, gathering further evidence of efficacy of our family programs and engage in continuous quality improvement. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 67%, Johnson - 24%, Cass - 8%, Wyandotte - 1%
This research project will determine if adding technology to an existing child abuse prevention program can improve program outcomes. Specifically, the University of Kansas is researching the effect of adding cell phones to existing Project Safecare programs in the hopes of improving program fidelity and increasing positive parenting behaviors.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 50%, KCMO - 40%, Jackson - 5%, Johnson - 5 %
The National Sports Center for the Disabled -- Kansas City (NSCD-KC) is expanding year round recreation programs for youth and young adults with disabilities in the community. Currently, we serve over 700 participants with all disabilities in a variety of therapeutic recreation programs. In 2010, our goal is to serve at least 900 participants in Kansas City. The NSCD-KC program expansion will focus on increasing the fitness of the individuals with disabilities, as well as exposing other family members to activities that everyone can participate in. Geographic Area Served: Johnson - 40%, KCMO - 25%, Jackson - 20%, Cass - 10%, Wyandotte - 5%
The 'Hip Health' initiative at the Niles Home for Children is a holistic approach to ensure that its children and staff are informed and equipped to lead healthy lifestyles. The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City awarded the initial funding for the initiative to provide medical and dental services to all residents, as well as training to youth and staff. As Niles continues to further develop the six components of the initiative, the agency believes it will realize its overall objective of equipping about 150 youth and 55 staff each year to lead healthier and more active lifestyles.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 25%, Wyandotte - 15%, Allen - 5%, Johnson - 5%
The Second Chances Program will allow Niles Home to increase various types of mental health and social services offered to clients while at Niles and after they are discharged. The agency would be working with clients' families, other agencies, and the community to offer strength-based, culturally competent, clinically appropriate treatment designed to meet the individual needs of the client, including those identified with extreme emotional and behavioral issues, and to help them reintegrate into their families and communities.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 9%, Cass - 1%
Nonprofit Connect will acquire a membership database and e-communications platform that will allow the first-time-ever offering of organizational memberships. Among other benefits, organizational members will now have free registrations for any staff member, board member or other key volunteer to all educational seminars and Learning Circles. The Health Care Foundation funding combined with the earned revenue will also allow Nonprofit Connect to hire a Member Services Manager who will launch and manage the membership database, as well as proactively promote Nonprofit Connect programs and services throughout Greater Kansas City's nonprofit sector.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 50%, Jackson - 15%, Johnson - 15%, Wyandotte - 10%, Other - 6%, Cass - 3%, Lafayette - 1%
Northland Health Care Access (NHCA), through a partnership with the North Kansas City School District and the Clay County Public Health Center, is successfully operating the Crestview Family Medical Clinic within Crestview Elementary School. The clinic provides urgent and routine care to uninsured, underinsured, and underserved children, their families and members of the community. Thanks to HCF support, the Crestview Family Medical Clinic opened August 25, 2008. The clinic is more than an expansion of the traditional school nurse role. In addition to students, the clinic serves children's families and the overall community. The role of the Nurse Practitioner includes case manager and often, social worker. During the grant year, the Clinic will expand services to other neighboring schools with high numbers of uninsured and underinsured, expanding access to health care to additional Kansas Citians in need. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 68%, Other - 30%, Jackson - 2%
Northland Health Care Access through a partnership with the North Kansas City School District and the Clay County Public Health Center will deliver much-needed health care services to uninsured and Medicaid-eligible children and their families enrolled in the district via the Crestview School-Based Clinic in Kansas City, Missouri. Geographic Area Served:KCMO -100%
Operation Breakthrough seeks grant funding to purchase new financial accounting software to improve our ability to 1) track the use of grant funds, as well as contract funding and contributed income, 2) eliminate the need for outside accounting support, and 3) produce more timely, comprehensive and accurate reports for agency management and board. These improvements will ultimately support improved delivery of social services to our target population of over 500 very low-income children and their parents/caregivers in Kansas City's urban core.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
To provide mental health support services to children and parents/care givers who suffer from mental illness, post-traumatic stress, depression, low self-esteem, and substance abuse.Geographical Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The need for which Operation Breakthrough seeks funding is dental care for working-poor parents and their children. Our center, which offers childcare and social services to more than 600 children and their families every weekday, has a state-of-the-art dental clinic on site. Among the population of parents and children we serve there is tremendous demand for dental care due to the shortage of providers who will accept Medicaid patients and the high number of working-poor parents who are uninsured. Though we have both the clinic and hundreds of patients who need dental care under our roof, our clinic sits empty several days every week because we do not have enough dental professionals willing to volunteer their time. Currently we are only able to provide preventive and corrective dental care to our 330 preschoolers, while providing some corrective care to older children. Only in very rare emergency situations are we able to serve adults. Operation Breakthrough seeks funding to enable us to operate the clinic full time, expanding the clinic's reach to include preventive and corrective care for our 300+ enrolled school-age children and their parents. Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
Operation Breakthrough began providing behavioral health services to children in 1996 and in 2005 expanded to include services for parents/caregivers. The primary objective of the program is to provide accessible, high quality, and early interventions for children suffering from multiple traumas, and to help parents/caregivers recover from their own unresolved traumas and improve skills to better cope with the many environmental stressors associated with living in poverty. Our clinical staff now cares for 120 children in therapy and 72 in psychiatric care. The clinical staff also provides individual or group therapy to 54 parents/caregivers. The program is an integral part of Operation Breakthrough's 'community of care' continuum that includes primary health, dental and vision care; occupational and speech therapy for children with developmental delays; extensive family services, including intensive case management and emergency aid; academic, socio-emotional and recreational enrichment programs for children; violence prevention education; and referrals to other community resources to expand and strengthen each family's social support network.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 95%, Jackson - 5%
Operation Breakthrough's adult health clinic allows parents to enter and remain in the workforce and offers access to needed services. The adult health clinic is located on site at Operation Breakthrough's satellite clinic of Children's Mercy Hospital. This program provides preventive and routine health care and mental health services to more than 300 adults each year. Our health program is designed to make health care more accessible to the parents/caregivers we serve, thereby reducing their reliance on costly emergency room visits and increasing the amount of preventive care and wellness education that our parents receive.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The purpose of the Oral Health Program is to provide preventive services and corrective care to children and families whose oral health needs have been neglected. Services include annual exams and cleanings, and corrective treatment as needed, including fillings, sealants, root canals, crowns, extractions, X-rays and prescriptions for antibiotics or pain relief as needed. If the severity of problems presented precludes treatment at Operation Breakthrough, patients are referred to other providers. We also provide oral health education in every preschool and school-age classroom and oral health educational materials to parents.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
Ozanam Pathways seeks to provide services that are designed to meet the immediate needs of at risk youth ages 16-23 who find themselves homeless and uninsured through no fault of their own. The aim of the project 'Path to a Brighter Future' is to enhance program capacity to provide holistic care to homeless and disenfranchised youth in the greater Kansas City vicinity. Pathways provides culturally competent support, access to health, mental health, educational services and housing for youth who have found themselves homeless and uninsured primarily due to lack of parental support as parents loose employment and homes due to the current economic conditions. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-30%, Jackson-30%, Wyandotte-26%, Johnson-10%, Other-7%, Cass-4%
This project is an expansion of the Parental Intervention in Preventing Childhood Obesity, Birth to 3 Years. It will involve:1.Training PAT programs in Allen, Johnson and Wyandotte counties.2.Distribution of the Nutrition & Fitness curriculum to 130 parent educators in the Kansas counties.3.Training and distribution of the Nutrition & Fitness curriculum to 100 professionals working in child care facilities in all six counties.4.Development and distribution of a curriculum for ages 3 to 5 years.5.Training two parent educators in the region to provide on-going technical assistance about using the curriculum with families.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 35%, KCMO - 30%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 10%, Cass - 6%, Lafayette - 3%, Allen - 1%
Partnership for Children requests a $75,000 grant to support health-related advocacy work on behalf of indigent and underserved children in Kansas City, Missouri. PFC will work with partners at the local and state levels to develop an advocacy agenda and action plan to increase children's access to quality, affordable health care services and to improve health outcomes. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 58%, Johnson - 31%, Wyandotte - 11%
Partnership for Children requests a $75,000 grant to support health-related advocacy work on behalf of indigent and underserved children in Kansas City, Missouri. PFC will work with partners at the local and state levels to develop an advocacy agenda and action plan to increase children's access to quality, affordable health care services and to improve health outcomes.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
Partnership for Children requests a $75,000 grant to support health-related advocacy work on behalf of indigent and underserved children in Kansas City, Missouri. PFC will work with partners at the local and state level to develop an advocacy agenda and action plan to increase children's access to quality, affordable health care services.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Wellness Program Implementation Project funds will be used to advance the depth and reach of an established program that imparts quality physical education for students in schools throughout the metropolitan area, and specifically includes the following activities:o Improving the quality of Physical Education programs for all elementary students in Kansas City Missouri School District (KCMSD)o Using PE4life Academies as training facilities to further the development and improvement of physical education programs in other schools and districts throughout the metro areao Training for physical educators to deliver PE4life best practices, including established protocols for data collection and evaluationGeographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Johnson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%
The purpose of our program is to provide the therapeutic touch of pets (primarily dogs) and volunteers to people who are confined in local institutions due to physical and mental disabilities. Our volunteer/pet teams serve people of every age, race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation. The target population that we will be addressing suffer from co-occurring disorders (substance abuse and psychological issues), depression, family, domestic and child abuse across the lifespan, including low income, indigent and underserved populations. Geographic Area Served: Johnson - 30%, Wyandotte - 24%, Jackson - 24%, KCMO - 20%, Cass - 2%
We have added several new facilities for the underserved, uninsured, low income in our community. Some examples are in Harrisonville and Belton in Cass County, and in Tonganoxie in Leavenworth County. This has made a tremendous difference in the lives of these sick, depressed, and lonely individuals. Many times we are the only visitors they have. For some of them, when we come is the only time they smile all week, and for some the only time they speak, TO THE DOG.
We need help with donations and adding additional volunteers so we will be able to continue our mission of Pets Helping People.
Johnson - 25%, Jackson - 24%, Wyandotte - 23%, KCMO - 19%, Cass - 7%, Other - 2%
The Healthcare Outreach and Prevention Project (HOPP) will focus on improving the healthcare access and decreasing the health disparities for residents living in Rosedale Ridge, a low-income housing community located in Rosedale, a small section of the city of Kansas City, Kansas. In addition, HOPP will provide prevention outreach services to help reduce the number of youth and families who are currently at risk for developing severe and chronic diseases (diabetes, stroke, cancer, etc.) in the future.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte- 100%
The Planned Parenthood of Kansas & Mid Missouri volunteer program plays a vital reaching a population that has limited access to basic health services. Volunteers work in health centers, and assist with fundraising, advocacy, and prevention education. In every way, volunteers help build organizational capacity to fulfill agency vision and mission.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 60%, Johnson - 30%, Wyandotte - 10%
Planned Parenthood of Kansas & Mid-Missouri has a vibrant volunteer program incorporation innovations and model management procedures to recruit, screen, train, and maintain a corps of 200 volunteers who provide support for all agency programs and administrative services. The general purpose of this grant is to continue the volunteer program, always an asset, and now critically important to advancing mission in this difficult economy. The volunteer program recruits, trains, maintains and recognizes volunteers who work in every agency department. All the work of the volunteers is ultimately to insure reproductive health services are available to all regardless of ability to pay, and to keep comprehensive human sexuality education programs available throughout the community. The major outcome of the program will be increased volunteer hours supporting services in health centers providing family planning and other reproductive health services, and expanded education programs that lead to avoiding unplanned pregnancies and preventing sexually transmitted infections. Volunteers in the health centers position the agency to meet the growing need for free or fee reduced services with less resources. Along with health services and prevention education PPKM volunteers promote healthy decisions, healthy individuals, and healthy communities. Geographic Area Served: Johnson - 35%, Jackson - 20%, KCMO - 20%, Wyandotte - 15%, Cass - 5%, Lafayette - 5%
To maintain required PPFA standards and to improve overall medical services, PPKM is in the process of upgrading its practice management systems. The result will be enhanced medical services, improved billing that will strengthen cash position of the agency, and provide management with accurate and minute-by-minute information and trends. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 74%, Johnson - 18%, Wyandotte - 4%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2, Other - 1%
Reconciliation Services (RS) has acquired new grants over the last year and in 2011 will be responsible for an $880,000 budget. RS is in need of a professional CPA consultant to manage the increased budgetary responsibility of RS. The obligation of the CPA is to assist RS in complying with the A-133 audit and to establish an integrated accounting system. To continue effectively providing services and enabling the board to meet their fiduciary obligations, RS is also in need of a new server to accommodate the increase in data and an administrative assistant to maintain that data.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 89%, Jackson - 7%, Wyandotte - 2%, Cass - 1%, Johnson - 1%
The RS Clinical Team Project increases the capacity of Reconciliation Services to provide high quality care to indigent, underinsured, and uninsured clients by hiring (2) two clinical case managers and (1) one clinical director. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-80%, Jackson-10%, Wyandotte-5%, Cass-5%, Other-2%
To further the important and needed work of providing services for uninsured and underinsured individuals, the board of Reconciliation Services hired a consultant in 2008. As a result, it has recognized the need to function according to a strategic plan and have seamless policies in place for increased effectiveness. Thus, this project will enhance the quality of services internally and externally to those in need. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 80%, Jackson - 10%, Cass - 5%, Wyandotte 5%
Emergency Client Assistance is a comprehensive program that meets the basic needs of individuals facing chronic poverty: the low income, the elderly, the homebound and the homeless. It provides assistance with shelter, utility and medical expenses, food, clothing and transportation. Medical Matters is an outreach of this program and benefits the elderly, the underserved and the medically indigent. It provides assistance with payments for prescription medications and durable medical goods; offers community resource information to support ongoing medical needs; provides free legal assistance with Medicare and Medicaid filings, Advanced Directives and Durable Power of Attorney. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 90%, Wyandotte - 10%
The Center's Emergency Client Assistance program meets the basic needs of individuals facing chronic poverty; the working poor; the elderly; the homebound and the homeless; the newly unemployed and the long term unemployed, by providing critical assists with shelter, utility and medical payments; food, clothing and transportation.
Medical Matters is an outreach of this program and benefits the medically fragile...the elderly, the underserved and the medically indigent. This program works to resolve client health issues by providing assistance with prescription medication payments, and durable medical goods, and addresses a broad spectrum of the most basic health issues.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 97%, Other - 2%, Wyandotte - 1%
Smoking Prevention and Cessation Services is a multidimensional approach to tobacco prevention and cessation. It addresses prevention, treatment, public safety and community norms concurrently. The initiative involves the use of evidenced-based clinical practices and environmental strategies to: facilitate positive health outcomes; link community partners;
track indicators; and change policies and laws.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 100%
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Services for Persons with Mental Illness and Co-Morbid Medical Conditions is a multidimensional approach to managing chronic disease. It addresses multiple conditions concurrently and focuses on improvements in psychiatric and physical health rather than symptom reduction. The initiative involves the use of evidenced-based clinical practices to facilitate positive health outcomes; links clients to community resources and ancillary services to promote treatment adherence; uses electronic records to help clinicians utilize practice guidelines, track indicators and plan care; and promotes high-quality services through coordinated policies and procedures.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
A collaboration of safety net providers seek to implement an initiative to reduce emergency room use by persons with co-occurring disorders and divert them to outpatient treatment services. Community-based Hospital Diversion Teams (HDTs) will respond to hospitals to assess individuals presenting with dual disorder symptoms. Individuals will be targeted for enrollment in detoxification services, crisis respite, and partial hospitalization. Once stabilized, individuals will receive psychiatric and addictions crisis outpatient care and ongoing, comprehensive services from an existing menu of treatment options. HDT clients will also receive housing, work incentives, transportation, health care, life skills and other dedicated services. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-80%, KCMO-20%
This program will provide Medicaid children ages 5-18 from northern Cass and southern Jackson counties (Belton, Raymore, Peculiar and Grandview communities) with needed dental care. This program will cover preventative care and dental emergencies. Covered procedures include, but are not limited to: fillings, root canals, extractions, x-rays and cleanings. Geographic Area Served: Cass - 65%, Jackson - 35%
The mission of the Jackson County Safe Family Coalition (SFC) is to reduce the co-occurrence of child abuse and domestic violence by changing policy and practice through a coordinated and integrated community response that will provide safety, enhance well-being, and provide stability for children and families. Since 2001, the SFC has been a successful collaborative initiative between child protection, adult and family courts, county and city prosecutors, judges, domestic violence shelters, law enforcement, probation and parole, social workers, and mental health service providers to collectively provided direction and expertise to improving the response to child abuse and domestic violence.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
Request should fund the addition of a staff therapist to the Mental Health Services staff and the continued support of our current clinical case worker; these personnel will provide evaluation and treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders to a greater number of the chronically homeless population. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
reStart's Mental Health Services Program utilizes a Youth Therapist to work with homeless youth ages 12 -- 18 in our Youth Emergency Shelter with counseling and mental health treatment programs so that they may become stabilized, reunite with family where appropriate and/or move into stable housing. Providing youth with access to therapy has demonstrated enormous success in increasing their reunification with family and is a vital component to breaking the potential cycle of future homelessness. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 85%, KCMO - 15%
reStart's Mental Health Services Program provides assessment, counseling, treatment and referrals for mental illness to homeless men, women, youth and families in the urban core of Kansas City. Our program seeks to remove barriers to mental health evaluation, engagement in services and improved mental health for homeless men, women and children suffering from trauma, violence, exploitation, neglect, abuse, severe and persistent mental illness and/or co-occurring disorders by delivering services to them in residential setting.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
reStart's requests $142,000 to help fund Healthy Starts, a health care education and advocacy program. By combining Healthy Starts program staff with health care volunteers and community resources, we can work to resolve three key barriers in accessing health care for homeless families and individuals sheltered at reStart. These barriers include a lack of education on health and medical services available in the community; knowledge on navigating health care systems to access regular, personal and family health care benefits; and understanding basic personal health and hygiene, including early symptoms of illness and preventative measures for common ailments.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-100%
reStart's Healthy Starts program provides health care education and health benefits advocacy to more than 200 homeless families and individuals each year. The program utilizes specialized staff and volunteers from the medical community to address health care management for homeless families and individuals with the goal of increasing their stability and independence. The program provides weekly health workshops, health screenings and health advocacy, as well as enrolls clients in health benefit programs and engages clients in community health care providers and resources to initiate proactive health care habits.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
reStart's Healthy Choices program is designed to encourage and instill healthy living habits for 800 homeless children and youth we serve by providing physical activity programs and nutritional education and planning classes to combat childhood obesity. Through organizational policy and program changes reStart will provide a multi-pronged approach to initiating healthy patterns of eating, exercising and growth among our families, children and youth.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
Riverview Health Services has developed a multifaceted approach to address the complex factors that contribute to health care disparities. Riverview's services are driven by the needs of clients and focus on safety net services, medication and medical supply access and health literacy services, including diabetes self-management education.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 85%, Johnson - 8%, Jackson - 3%, KCMO - 2%, Other - 2%
Riverview Health Services provides services for uninsured or underinsured clients to address gaps in the safety-net system. Riverview is in a unique position in the safety-net system. Many clients are referred to Riverview to address immediate needs and services before they access the safety-net healthcare clinics. Assistance is provided with medications for short-term and long-term needs, medical supplies, medical testing and education as well as connection to safety-net clinics. Riverview provides individualized and group education and management for all clients with diabetes at no charge.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 85%, Johnson - 7%, Jackson - 6%, KCMO - 2%
Riverview's experienced parish nurse and social worker reduce barriers to medical care by assisting with access to medical care, medications, medical supplies, health education and self-management skills. The health educator and dietician offer group and individualized diabetes education and provide adjustments to the diabetes treatment regimenGeographic Area Served: Wyandotte-85%, Johnson-8%, Jackson-5%, KCMO-2%
The expansion of our Outreach Therapy Program will help to provide immediate services such as individual therapy, case management and immediate access to resources to improve the lives of the women and children that we serve and to break the cycle of domestic violence.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 65%, Wyandotte - 13%, Johnson - 9%, KCMO - 8%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen - 1%
Rose Brooks Center respectfully requests funding to expand the availability of mental health services to our clients. Proposed funding will allow us to increase our Outreach Therapy Program by the expansion of one bilingual therapist, and hire a contract psychiatric nurse who will assist in assessing, treating and responding to crises among our clients with mental health disorders and/or substance abuse issues. This critical program expansion will increase accessibility to essential services among clients, and will increase the safety of our clients and staff through the availability of a medical staff to prevent and respond to crises.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 65%, Other - 11%, Jackson - 9%, Wyandotte - 8%, Johnson - 5%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
Rose Brooks Center's emergency shelter provides short-term residential services for women and children in crisis. The emergency shelter provides on-site individual, group and family counseling. Substance abuse counseling, housing and job assistance are also integral parts of the program. The emergency shelter operates from the strength-based perspective that all people have the potential to realize their hopes, dreams, needs and desires by utilizing their own strengths. Rose Brooks Center's advocates and therapists work with residents weekly throughout their stay utilizing the empowerment model to reinforce that clients can and will take charge of their lives.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-65%, Wyandotte-13%, Johnson-9%, KCMO-8%, Cass-2%, Lafayette-2%, Allen-1%
Project SAFE is a school-based violence prevention program for children in pre-school through senior high offered in 44 schools and four school districts in the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area. Group presentations, support groups and individual therapy are ongoing throughout the school year. Students can utilize the program from year to year. The program addresses various topics including family and dating violence, healthy relationships, substance abuse prevention, self-esteem, anger management, conflict resolution, safety planning, and problem solving. Over 3,000 students are seen through the Program. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-80%, Jackson-20%
The Children's Program at Rose Brooks Center provides support and services to children to prevent future violence. The Children's Program is an on-site advocacy and therapeutic program for children residing in the emergency shelter. The program provides individual and family counseling, case management, family enrichment activities and a childcare drop-in center. In 2007, the Rose Brooks Center Children's Program provided 239 children with life saving services.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 65%, Wyandotte - 13%, Johnson - 9%, KCMO - 8% Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 2%, Allen -1%
Project SAFE is a school-based violence prevention program for children age pre-school through senior high, offered in 44 schools in the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area. Group presentations, support groups and individual therapy are offered throughout the school year. The program addresses various topics including family and dating violence, healthy relationships, substance abuse prevention, self-esteem, anger management, conflict resolution, safety planning and problem solving. Over 3,000 students are seen by Project SAFE Prevention Specialists and Therapists each academic year, with many students choosing to continue participating in the program for multiple years.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 80%, Jackson - 20%
Development of a comprehensive master plan encompassing both physical and social environments for a Green Corridor running 3.9 miles in Wyandotte County, Kansas.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 100%
The Partnership for Smiles is a community-campus collaboration, which expands the capacity of safety-net dental providers to meet the oral health needs of low-income and indigent families in Greater Kansas City. The UMKC School of Dentistry places dental faculty and students in the clinics of seven safety-net dental providers, one to three days per week, to provide dental care. The participating centers include Cabot Westside Clinic, Kansas City Free Health Clinic, Operation Breakthrough, Samuel Rodgers Community Health Center, Seton Family and Health Services, Southwest Boulevard Family Health Services and Swope Health Services. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-70%, Jackson-20%, Wyandotte-10%, Other-1%
The Homeless Support Project will allow SAVE, Inc. to maintain its current capacity to provide homeless clients living with a disability such as mental illness, HIV/AIDS, or substance abuse a stable and supportive housing solution. Housing support from SAVE, Inc. enables clients to better access healthcare systems and empowers them to focus on regaining their health. The Project will provide salary support to supplement existing program grants, and offset the decrease in administrative support from SAVE, Inc.'s largest existing homeless program grant.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 78%, Johnson - 11%, Wyandotte - 11%
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute respectfully requests a grant of $118,950 for a one-year period to support Truman Medical Center and other area hospital self-pay radiation oncology patients to receive life-saving radiation treatments from the most technologically advanced equipment and highly trained staff. Truman does not have radiation oncology services. Other area hospitals will on occasion not treat self-pay patients who are unable to pay. No agency that is a 'core safety net provider' offers radiation in the Kansas City area, and this is a gaping hole in the safety net.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 100%
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute respectfully requests a grant of $172,350 for a one-year period to support Truman Medical Center and other area hospital self-pay radiation oncology patients to receive life-saving radiation treatments from the most technologically advanced equipment and highly trained staff. Truman does not have radiation oncology services. Other area hospitals will on occasion not treat self-pay patients who are unable to pay. No agency that is a 'core safety net provider' offers radiation in the Kansas City area, and this is a gaping hole in the safety net. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-100%
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute has collaborated with Truman Medical Center for the Radiation Oncology Self-Pay Initiative. This program provides life-saving radiation treatments from the most technologically advanced equipment and highly trained staff. Although Truman offers most oncology services, it does not have facilities for radiation therapy. No agency that is a 'core safety net provider' offers radiation in the greater KC area. This is a gaping hole in the safety net that Saint Luke's will fill.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-100%
Saint Luke's Medication Infusion Program for Uninsured Patients will provide physician-ordered intravenous medication (at cost) for patients who have no ability to pay for services. The program will provide continuation of physician-ordered treatment for patients who otherwise will be unable to receive care due to lack of financial resources. The program includes an agreement between Saint Luke's Hospital, to provide the medication (at cost), and Saint Luke's Home Health Services, to provide the nursing care and supervision of patient- and/or family-administered medication. Without this program, uninsured patients could not complete required treatment for infections and other life- and limb-threatening illnesses. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-35%, Jackson-25%, Wyandotte-20%, Johnson-15%, Cass-5%
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City Post Discharge Outpatient Services Clinic provides direct health care for uninsured patients. The Clinic provides outpatient care for patients needing outpatient rehabilitation therapy including physical, occupational and speech therapy, equipment to support the needed therapy, outpatient infusion services, wound care services, prosthetics and orthotics and other much needed services. Saint Luke's requests $70,000 to support the Post Discharge Outpatient Services Clinic and continue to provide care to allow these patients to heal and return to work.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 68%, Jackson -12%, Johnson - 8%, Cass - 6%, Wyandotte - 6%
Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center (SURHC) and the University of Missouri Extension Office Family Nutrition Education Program (FNEP) request a two year grant to reduce the prevalence of obesity among SURHC's WIC, pregnant women and pediatric patients. The FIT WIC program will consist of two components: the first component will consist of nutrition counseling from a registered dietitian; and, clients will also attend FNEP classes to learn how to prepare low-cost, nutritious meals. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment Program is a one-site, integrated and coordinated treatment program for medically indigent individuals in Kansas City with co-occuring substance abuse and mental health disorders. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 96%, Other - 4%
The Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center is requesting $500,000 in equipment-only grant funding to purchase new medical clinic equipment and furnishings. The new equipment and furnishings will enable the Health Center to provide an additional 25,000 patient visits to 7,200 people.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-100%
Request is to continue the ongoing work on the Co-Occurring Conditions Program. Because of startup delays, SRHC plans to request a carryover of year one grant funds under separate cover. Funding will enable them to continue identifying, treating and managing the mental health of patients enrolled in area substance abuse programs.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 89%, Johnson - 4%, Wyandotte -1%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center is requesting $75,000 to employ a Quality Management Director to oversee the Joint Commission Preparation & Accreditation Project. This individual will prepare the Health Center for accreditation and thereafter, assure processes and systems are maintained for the provision of high quality patient care the Health Center provides to 17,712 patients through 70,230 visits annually. Accreditation is a critical measure of quality care. Adopting best practices per Joint Commission requirements will enhance organizational capacity to provide exceptional health care to the patient population of predominantly uninsured and underinsured individuals and families. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 100%
Score 1 for Health helps thousands of children and families in the Greater Kansas City area live healthier, more productive lives through:
- Early identification, reporting of health challenges and comprehensive screenings of nearly 13,000 urban core children annually at 54 elementary schools in the Greater Kansas City area through a partnership with over 20 universities, community and state colleges and vo-tech programs.
- Education and promotion of healthy lifestyles for children and families.
- Referral management, one-on-one health counseling, education and assistance in overcoming barriers so that children access the treatment they need.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 50%, Wyanotte - 34%, Jackson - 16%
Score 1 for Health helps thousands of children and families in the Greater Kansas City area live healthier, more productive lives through: - Early identification, reporting of health challenges and comprehensive health screenings for 12,500 urban core children annually at 54 elementary schools in the Greater Kansas City area. - Education and promotion of healthy lifestyles for children and families. - Referral management, one-on-one health counseling, education and assistance in overcoming barriers so that children access the treatment they need. - Financial support for families through Score 1 Smiles, Score 1 Sees and Score 1 Eat Smart! Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 50%, Wyandotte - 34%, Jackson - 16%
Now in its third year, Project Hope has provided in excess of 718 oral screenings, fluoride treatments, and dental hygiene kits for low-income school children, treated over 200 uninsured children and adults with fillings, root canals, diagnostic exams, crowns and dentures, and improved Seton's overall dental care for more than 7,000 patient visits through equipment upgrades. Project Hope aims to improve access to dental care for low-income children, the working poor, mentally ill, and racial and ethnic minorities in Greater Kansas City through Adopt-a-School Dental Care, Dental Equipment Upgrades, Indigent Dental Care, and General Dental Care.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-40%, Wyandotte-25%, KCMO-17%, Johnson-8%, Lafayette-5%, Cass-5%
In these troubled economic times, Seton Center is responding to greater numbers of clients seeking assistance for growing and more complex needs. This project seeks to secure funding to support increased needs and improve safety and efficiency of current services. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 40%, Wyandotte - 25%, KCMO - 17%, Johnson - 8%, Cass - 5%, Lafayette - 5%
Providing Oral Health Care for the Uninsured and Vulnerable aims to improve access to dental care for low-income children, the working poor, mentally ill, racial and ethnic minorities, and other underserved populations in the greater Kansas City area. Last year, Seton Dental Services provided over 6,100 patient visits including fillings, root canals, diagnostic exams, crowns, and dentures. In addition, the program provided over 700 oral screenings, fluoride treatments and dental hygiene kits for low-income school children through the Adopt-a-School program.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 40%, Wyandotte - 25%, KCMO - 17%, Johnson - 8%, Cass - 5%, Lafayette - 5%
Sheffield Place's Therapeutic Services project will provide much needed mental health services to a population (homeless mothers and their children) that is resistant to traditional means and faces multiple access barriers. The purpose of this project is to improve mental, emotional, and family functioning. A minimum of 30 families (at least 30 mothers and 45 children) will receive a variety of evidence-based services from our multidisciplinary team. With the exception of some of the case management services, all services will be provided at our facility where the mothers and children live.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
Request is to support and enhance organization's Healthy Lifestyles project. This is a collaboration of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, UMKC's School of Nursing, and Sheffield Place. Program will provide on-site services designed to address the issues of physical inactivity, poor nutrition/obesity, and smoking to homeless families living at Sheffield Place.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
With the support of The Health Care Foundation, Sheffield Place will partner with The National Center on Family Homelessness, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, and the Midwest Trauma Treatment Center to bring our commitment to best practices beyond application into life transforming actions. This project is the second of a three-step process of revolutionizing the provision of services to homeless families in our nation. Funding will be used to create a fully Trauma-Informed atmosphere at Sheffield Place and improve our mental health services to homeless mothers and their children.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 10%, Wyandotte - 10%, Johnson - 5%
This project will enable Sheffield Place to establish a new standard of care and reduce barriers to care for highly traumatized homeless mothers and children. This project will build the capacity to expand services to more homeless families by providing a continuum of care that adds second tier housing and aftercare services to the existing shelter program. The project will further raise standards and eliminate barriers to appropriate care by funding the cost of accreditation through the Council on Accreditation, thereby ensuring that all programs and services are operated in accordance with nationally accepted standards in behavioral health care.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 90%, Jackson - 8%, Johnson - 1%, Other - 1%
Sheffield Place's Clinical Services project will provide much needed mental health services to a population (homeless mothers and their children) that is resistant to traditional means and faces multiple access barriers. The purpose of this project is to improve mental, emotional, and family functioning. A minimum of 30 families (at least 30 mothers and 45 children) will receive a variety of evidence-based services from our multidisciplinary team. With the exception of some of the case management services, all services will be provided at our facility where the mothers and children live. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-73%, Jackson-15%, Wyandotte-6%, Johnson-3%, Other-3%
Sheffield Place's 'Pathways to Care' project will provide homeless and formerly homeless families access to quality healthcare and ensure that they have a medical home. The purpose of this project is to improve the health of the families we serve, promote health education, and help them learn how to navigate the healthcare system. A minimum of 30-45 families will receive comprehensive, coordinated, client-centered primary healthcare services at our facility.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-75%, Jackson-10%, Wyandotte-10%, Johnson-5%
The purpose of SIDS Resources' Outreach and Education Program is to provide SIDS awareness and education to high risk populations who are at high risk and/or underserved. In addition, we will discuss safe sleep strategies for babies which, when implemented, will significantly reduce the risk for sudden infant death. We will reach out to the community by providing free 'Safe Sleep' training and through our 'Crib for Kids' initiative. Our program includes child care provider training for those who care for the high risk populations. We will expand on the use of peer instructors, an element introduced in our program last year, in order to increase the likelihood that community participants will follow through with safe sleep recommendations.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 40%, KCMO - 30%, Wyandotte - 10%, Cass - 5%, Other - 5%
The purpose of the SIDS Resources' community outreach and education program is to provide SIDS awareness and education to populations who are at high risk and/or underserved. In addition, we will discuss safe sleep strategies for babies which, when implemented, will significantly reduce the risk for sudden infant death. We will reach out to the community by providing free 'Safe Sleep' training as well as through our 'Crib for Kids' initiative. Our program includes child care provider training for those who care for the high risk populations. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 85%, Jackson - 5%, Johnson - 5%. Wyandotte - 5%
Somali Foundation, Inc. takes a hands-on approach to alleviating the disparity in healthcare access that many Somalis and other East African immigrants to this country experience through the East African Immigrant Healthcare Initiative. Our staff and volunteers assist immigrants through medical translation and interpretation, clearing up cultural misunderstandings between patients and healthcare providers, and providing transportation to healthcare provider appointments and emergency rooms. We help over 200 unduplicated clients each year with healthcare access. In addition, Somali Foundation, Inc. is proactive in fostering positive healthy lifestyles and disease prevention through nutrition classes, health fairs and other education events. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-90%, Wyandotte-7%, Johnson-3%,
Assisting refugees with accessing healthcare providers and navigating the healthcare system. Our staff is trained in the Jewish Vocational Service 'Bridging the Gap' course for medical translation and interpretation. We provide transportation as well as interpretation and are available to clients after our normal service hours.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 90%, Wyandotte - 7%, Johnson - 3%
Concern for the health of refugees has been an integral part of our services since our founding in 1999. Worried that not all refugees had private transportation to go to appointments and, more importantly, that patients might not adequately explain their health needs to physicians, SFI founders drove clients to their appointments and translated for them. The East African Healthcare Initiative was formally established in 2005, thanks to generous grants from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City and Jewish Heritage Foundation of Greater Kansas City. The current program still offers culturally competent healthcare access services plus health education.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 90%, Wyandotte - 7%, Johnson - 3%
Southwest Blvd. Family Health Care is undertaking a project to implement an electronic medical record (EMR). The EMR will be used at our main site on Southwest Boulevard, our Quindaro satellite site, and by the JayDoc Clinics which are held on-site at our main clinic. The project involves a full implementation of the electronic medical record which includes hardware upgrades for compatibility with the new software, data migration from our former scheduling system, and staff training on the new system.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 80%, KCMO - 20%
The activities of the social services programs of Family Health Care are to provide direct services and referrals for patients after needs assessments. Family Health Care provides mental health assessments, education, individual, family and group therapy, advocacy, and treatment referrals through a sliding scale for patients requiring crisis counseling and longer term supportive therapy. Referrals for other specialized services (such as in-patient treatment) are provided when needed.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 80%, Jackson - 10%, Johnson - 10%
Family Health Care's organizational capacity to provide quality direct care services for the poor in our community is expanding with increased staffing and facilities. FHC's holistic approach to healthcare access includes the provision of medical, dental, mental health care, and supportive programming, to address issues of Illiteracy, legal entanglements, lack of access to medications and limited fitness opportunities that inhibit ability of patients to achieve better health. FHC is expanding services with added staff and a second site to meet the growing needs of the uninsured poor primarily in Wyandotte County. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-80%, KCMO-10%, Johnson-10%
Family Health Care provides access to quality direct care services for individuals who are poor and uninsured or underinsured. Services include medical, dental, and mental health care, and a range of supportive services that address barriers to health for those living in poverty. Supportive services include medication assistance, social work services, literacy programming, a fitness center with a gym, fitness classes, and nutrition classes, and a medical/legal clinic. Patients served at Family Health Care are those who have limited options for care, and include uninsured pregnant women, persons with chronic conditions, and persons with HIV, and Hepatitis C.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 80%, Johnson - 10%, KCMO - 10%
This request is for funding to enhance Family Health Care's organizational capacity to provide quality direct care services for the poor in our community. FHC has a global approach to healthcare and provides medical, dental, mental health care, and special supportive programming, education and outreach to address issues of illiteracy, legal entanglements, lack of access to medications and limited fitness opportunities that inhibit ability of patients to achieve better health. Family Health Care has a firm foundation in the other two areas of capacity, facilities and staffing, and is asking for a portion of the third capacity component funds.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 80%, Johnson - 10%, KCMO - 10%
The counselors,therapists and physicians of Family Health Care offer support and treatment for a wide range of mental health problems including mood disorders (depression), adjustment disorders (grief reactions), anxiety disorders, and behavioral problems (oppositional defiant disorder). FHC's team approach ties primary health care and identification of patients in need of therapy with rapid mental health assessment and engagement. Family Health Care hosts AA open meetings and services include crisis and supportive individual, family and group therapy. We refer patients with more serious and more difficult to treat illnesses such as dissociative disorders, conduct disorders and severe psychoses to community resources. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-85%, KCMO-10%, Johnson-5%
Request for multi-year continuation of the Strengthening Families Program, which is a year-round, comprehensive, multifaceted program centered on the core service of school-based case management services offered in collaboration with local school districts. The objective of the program is to facilitate at-risk elementary and middle school-aged students' access to coordinated services for mental health, social-skills development, and other basic needs so that risk factors are reduced and protective factors are increased. Thus, it will become possible for the children to obtain the skills and resources to function successfully in their homes, school, and in the community.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
The Spofford Strengthening Families Program is offered in collaboration with metropolitan area school districts to facilitate at-risk students' access to coordinated services for mental health, social skills development, and other basic needs so that risk factors are reduced and protective factors are increased. Working in the schools, Spofford's Family Resource Specialists assess children's needs and help to bridge gaps through improved access to community resources, thus making it possible for children to obtain the skills and resources to achieve personal and academic success.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 100%
Organization requests a two-year grant from HCF to establish 'Healthy Lifestyles from the Beginning', a project that will reduce the incidence of overweight and obese children among low-income and minority families in Jackson County by helping women adopt appropriate nutrition and fitness practices during pregnancy and commit to good health habits for their child during the first year of life and beyond. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 98%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
The Medicaid Appeals Project is a partnership between Swope Health Services (Swope) and Legal Aid of Western Missouri (Legal Aid) to assist patients and clients who have been terminated from or denied Medicaid coverage. Appropriate Swope patients/clients are referred to Legal Aid who, in turn, provides legal representation for these individuals throughout their appeal to Medicaid for approval or reinstatement of Medicaid coverage. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 100%
Staff at Swope Health Services will refer their patients whose Medicaid benefits have been denied or terminated to Legal Aid of Western Missouri. LAWMO's staff will represent these Swope patients in Medicaid appeals to obtain or preserve Medicaid benefits for them.This is a replication of the Medicaid Appeals Project at Truman Medical Center, which has resulted in more than 300 TMC patients obtaining Medicaid benefits and has generated more than $2 million in revenue for TMC. That project is now fully self-funded.Demograpjhic Area Served:KCMO - 98%, Jackson - 2%
This funding would support a qualified mental health professional, or court monitor, who connects clients with mental health care, monitors their compliance with the treatment plan, and reports to the court.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
Through our Maintenance of Dental Service Levels initiative, SHS will replace funding lost due to the economic downturn with funding from the HCF. This will enable SHS to continue providing dental care to the 10,000+ dental patients that we currently serve. Our Provider Staff Replacement during EMR Training initiative will allow SHS to continue to staff our clinics with qualified temporary providers when our regular provider staff is being trained to use our new electronic medical record (EMR) system. As a result, several thousand patients who would not be able to access health care during training will now receive care.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 54%, Wyandotte - 19%, Jackson - 17%, Other - 7%, Johnson - 1%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
This program will provide one nurse case manager for adults with chronic disease. The nurse case manager will provide services for adults with chronic disease and will divide time between Swope Independence Clinic and Swope Central Clinic. Coordinating medical appointments, reminder and coaching calls will support patients in their role as empowered members of the treatment team. The nurse case manager will assess and address multiple needs of the patient so that the patient will have the resources needed to access the health care needed. In addition, the nurse case manager will provide education about diet and exercise. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-55%, Jackson-35%, Wyandotte-10%
Swope Health Services seeks funding to support one full-time dentist to provide services to uninsured adults for 24 months. Two years ago, Missouri eliminated Medicaid dental coverage for nearly all adults; Medicare does not cover routine dental care. This grant will ensure uninsured adults ages 20 and older have access to preventive and restorative dental care and a dental home, serving up to 3,000 individuals each year.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 89%, Jackson - 8%, Johnson - 2%, Cass - 1%
The Mental Health Court Diversion Program in collaboration with justice, correctional and community mental health systems is a diversion program which fosters public safety, reduces recidivism and increases treatment compliance by providing screening and case management services. This diversion program is a specialized docket for defendants with mental illness and co-occurring disorders that eschews the traditional adversarial system in a favor of a therapeutic model. Operating within three local court jurisdictions, Kansas City Municipal Court, Lee's Summit Municipal Court and Jackson County Circuit Drug Court, Division 50, defendants are offered the opportunity to participate in court supervised mental health treatment within the community in lieu of criminal sanctions. The MHCD program will provide intake/assessment, court monitoring, case management and linkage and brokerage services. Geographic Area Served: Jackson-100%
The purpose of the proposed project is to improve the health and well being of children and decrease rates of obesity and associated conditions among children into adulthood. This will be accomplished through a new program at Swope, 'Breastfeeding for Health.' The program will promote an increase in the initiation and duration rates of breast-feeding among African American women, whose breastfeeding rates are the lowest in the nation. Increasing the number of breastfed babies will result in a decreased risk of obesity and other chronic and infectious diseases of child and adulthood. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 98%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
Synergy Services' new 5.5 acre Homeless Youth Campus located in Kansas City, Missouri includes an expanded Emergency Shelter for homeless and abused youth ages 12 to 18 and a 24,000 square-foot Youth Resiliency Center. In addition to doubling our shelter capacity, the motivation to create a campus with a Youth Resiliency Center stems from our understanding of the importance of providing adolescents with an ongoing opportunity to connect to a caring and supportive community. As part of the comprehensive array of services to be offered on the Homeless Youth Campus, Synergy Services will establish an onsite medical, dental and mental health clinic in the newly constructed Youth Resiliency Center. Through Synergy's therapeutic services, contracted medical services and medical case management, the clinic will provide a safety-net for homeless and uninsured youth as well as residents of Synergy's emergency residential programs. The clinic will overcome the barriers to accessing health care and offer this vulnerable population an important ongoing connection to consistent primary care and mental health providers. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-61%, Jackson-19%, Other-12%, Wyandotte-4%, Cass-3%, Johnson-1%
Synergy Services' new 5.5 acre Homeless Youth Campus located in Kansas City, Missouri includes an expanded Emergency Shelter for homeless and abused youth ages 12 to 18 and a 24,000 square-foot Youth Resiliency Center. In addition to doubling our shelter capacity, the motivation to create a campus with a Youth Resiliency Center stems from our understanding of the importance of providing adolescents with an ongoing opportunity to connect to a caring and supportive community. As part of the comprehensive array of services offered on the Homeless Youth Campus, Synergy Services established an onsite mental, medical, and dental health clinic in the newly constructed Youth Resiliency Center. Through Synergy's therapeutic services, contracted medical and dental services and case management, the clinic provides a critical safety-net for all homeless and uninsured youth from across the community. The clinic helps to overcome the barriers to accessing health care and offer this vulnerable population an important ongoing connection to consistent physical and mental health care.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 65%, Jackson - 19%, Other - 10%, Wyandotte - 3%, Cass - 2%, Johnson - 1%
The goal of this initiative is successful replication of a multi-faceted, family-centered, public/private model of the Kansas City Metropolitan Task Force on Drug Exposed Infants to develop comprehensive services to reduce child maltreatment in families affected by substance abuse in Cass and Lafayette counties in Missouri. Geographic Area Served:Lafayette - 74%, Cass - 26%
Funding for the Weighing In On Childhood Obesity project will enable continued quarterly community convening around childhood obesity prevention by the Weighing In collaborative as well as initiation of community mapping of childhood obesity prevention projects. In addition, the collaborative's working groups will be empowered to develop and implement recommended strategies in the areas of community initiatives, school initiatives, public awareness, public policy and early childhood initiatives. Dissemination opportunities for these strategies will be informed by community mapping and sought within the collaborative's partners, including the Mother and Child Health Coalition. Finally, the collaborative will host an annual continuing education conference in years 2 and 3 to showcase multilevel community approaches to prevention of this epidemic in children's health.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 60%, Wyandotte - 25%, Johnson - 15%,
Recognizing the critical need to develop Pediatric Medical Homes for children with special health care needs, Children's Mercy is designing the Medical Coordination Clinic (MCC) and the Medical Den program. The objective is to immediately increase the capacity to effectively manage patients with complex medical conditions, while the MCC's business plan is being developed. The task of the Medical DEN program is to establish clinical and administrative support for the MCC and to improve system-wide access and coordination of care for children with special health care needs who are receiving care from multiple CMH specialists. Geographic Area Served: KCMO-48%, Wyandotte-31%, Jackson-11%, Other-5%, Johnson-4%, Cass-1%
The Child at Risk Evaluation (CARE) Clinic is the region's only open-access medical unit for children who are at risk for maltreatment. Since it's founding in 1994, the clinic has served as the area's only trans-disciplinary safety net unit that provides open access medical evaluations for children who are at risk for abuse and/or neglect. The clinic provides services seven days a week to all children from birth through adolescence. The mission is to restore, sustain, and enhance the health and developmental potential of children at risk for maltreatment.Geographic Area Served:KCMO-38%, Jackson-21%, Johnson-8%, Wyandotte-5%, Cass-4%, Lafayette-1%
Child at Risk Evaluation (CARE) Clinic, is the region's only transdisciplinary safety-net unit that provides open access medical evaluations for children who are suspected victims of maltreatment. The clinic provides services to all children from birth through adolescence; the clinic serves all children in need, regardless of a family's ability to pay. Their mission is to restore, sustain, and enhance the health and developmental potential of children at risk for maltreatment. Program components include crisis intervention services for children and families who have been sexually or physically abused, treating children with failure to thrive and providing Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Geographic Area Served: KCMO-46%, Jackson-31%, Johnson-8%, Wyandotte-5%, Other-5%, Cass-4%, Lafayette-1%
Children's Mercy seeks to further implement the chronic care or ecological model for childhood obesity in the Kansas City community. The project involves partnering with the Maternal and Child Health Coalition to assist in achieving Weighing In's recently revised goals and objectives. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 85%, KCMO - 5%, Johnson - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%
The Section on Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Clinic is the region's only multidisciplinary safety-net unit that provides open access medical evaluations for children who are suspected victims of maltreatment. The clinic provides services to all children from birth through adolescence, regardless of a family's ability to pay. Program components include Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a 12-14 week evidence-based program focusing on improving the caregiver-child relationship and increasing children's positive behaviors, and CARE Workshops, an abbreviated program for families who do not need the intensive PCIT treatment, with a focus of working with community partners to reach more families.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 41%, Other - 36%, Johnson - 12%, Wyandotte - 6%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 1%
The TIES program is an intensive multi-agency effort providing comprehensive home-based services to pregnant and postpartum women and their families affected by alcohol or other drugs and/or HIV. It's goals are to promote healthy outcomes, support drug treatment, encourage positive parenting and build on family resources. It is directed by the TIES Consortium and the TIES Advisory Council of Community Advocates. It uses a community oriented, multi-disciplinary approach to providing culturally appropriate individualized services in partnership with families addressing both their resources and challenges in meeting their goals. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 100%
The PHIT Kids evening program is a multidisciplinary, behaviorally-based weight management program for tweens, teens and parents over 24 weekly visits (active treatment) and 18 months of follow up. Due to an increase in referrals for younger children and children with special health care needs, the PHIT Kids program will expand to address the needs of these youth and families. Also, outcomes from a 12-week active treatment phase will be compared to those from the 24-week program to determine feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of a briefer intervention which may be transferable to other Children's Mercy and community settings. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 76%, Johnson - 12%, Wyandotte - 10%, Other - 3%, Cass - 1%
Organization requests funding to continue support for PHIT KIDS (Promoting Health in Teens and Kids), a multidisciplinary weight management clinic for children ages two and older who are overweight or obese. The program serves ethnically-diverse, low-income children living in Kansas City. PHIT KID's goal is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity and its co-morbidities by providing children and their parents with the tools they need to achieve and sustain appropriate weight levels and improvements in their overall health.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 75%, Jackson - 13%, Wyandotte - 7%, Johnson - 3%, Cass - 1%
The Don Bosco Youth Development Center's CHAMPS (Choosing Healthy Activities and Meals that Promote Success) program provides youth with constructive activities during out of school time when youth are most vulnerable to harmful influences and situations in their built environment. Those constructive activities include nutritional education, physical activity, drug and gang prevention, post-secondary education awareness, and participation in organized sports. The goal of CHAMPS is to instill healthy habits that carry on beyond camp, strengthen the community through its youth and families, and create neighborhoods that promote healthy lives.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
The Child of Mine project is a collaborative project between The Family Conservancy, the Kansas City Kansas Housing Authority, the Unified Government Health Department, Kansas Children's Service League and K-State Research and Extension. Conducted on-site at the Juniper Gardens Housing Development in Kansas City, Kansas, the project works to deliver prenatal and child development education and support to low-income, at-risk pregnant women and their male partners.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 100%
The Family Conservancy, in close partnership with the Kansas City Kansas Housing Authority (KCKHA), will establish a full-time presence at a KCKHA residential site to provide health and fitness programming for pregnant and parenting teens, their children and their extended family.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
Working in partnership with the Unified Government Public Health Department, The Family Conservancy seeks to introduce on-site prenatal and infant care education to high risk families living in Kansas City, Kansas public housing. Based on the success of our existing Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids program, we have identified a high need for prenatal and infant care education and access to health care services. This proposal would enable us to add programming that will target all pregnant residents at Juniper Gardens and their male partners, as well as parents of infants. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 100%
The Family Focus/Dame La Mano program provides strengths-based, culturally competent support, health, mental health and educational services to empower the Hispanic population coping with issues related to acculturation, cultural and linguistic barriers.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-50%, KCMO-35%, Wyandotte-10%, Johnson-5%
Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids provides nutrition, fitness and family support services to pregnant and parenting adolescents in Kansas City, Kansas public housing. The programming is designed to mitigate the effects of poverty on lifelong health for both parent and child by giving young parents and their extended families access to information, support, resources and hands-on experiences that introduce them to healthy diet and healthy lifestyle alternatives. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 100%
We respectfully request $49,900 in financial support for a portion of our teaching and clinical staff's taxable salary expense for one year. The money will be used to support the delivery of psychological and special education services to adolescents who present with clinical co-morbidity. Furthermore, our clientele have endured the misfortune of being both clinically and economically underserved. Under the current economic circumstances, we are seeing a dramatic reduction in the amount of tuition support that our families from the urban core and other impoverished environs can contribute to the care of their own teenagers. Our tuition and scholarship fund, supported by an annual foundation gift, cannot keep up with the demand for our services. Long before co-morbidity was a distinct clinical and social service designation, our staff began work on a comprehensive treatment model with the intention of eliminating or controlling the multiplicity of symptoms seen in overlapping disorders. For three decades we have given voice to families who, despite their best intentions, could not find treatment for their teenagers' disabilities. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 35%, Jackson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%, Johnson - 15%, Cass - 10%
The Plaza Academy's mental health clinical services are delivered by a Ph.D. Developmental and Child Psychologist who is also a research scientist. Our Clinical Director is responsible for: the individual, group, and familial therapeutic care of adolescents who present with co-morbidity accompanied by school failure and socio-familial dysfunction; the design, implementation and management of a comprehensive treatment model which controls psychiatric symptoms and elevates academic, social, and familial functioning; and, the management of an empirical research design by which we institutionally monitor, control, and adjust treatment as well as measure the program and other institutional outcomes.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 25%, Wyandotte - 25%, Cass - 10%, Jackson - 10%
The Institute is the leading provider of medical rehabilitation services for children and adults who have experienced a serious illness or injury resulting in a loss of physical and/or cognitive function. Through specialty medical rehabilitation services, the Institute helps these individuals regain lost abilities or learn new skills in order to regain their greatest level of independence.Geographic Area Served:Johnson - 24%, Jackson - 22%, KCMO - 12%, Wyandotte - 6%, Cass - 4%, Allen - 2%
The SoSA West headquarters will coordinate the acquisition, shipment, and delivery of large volume loads of donated fresh produce to Kansas City through Harvesters - The Community Food Network. The anticipated result is an additional five million pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables for those in need.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 53%, Johnson - 20%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 5%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 3%
SoSA West coordinates the acquisition, shipment, and delivery of large volume loads of donated produce -- produce that would otherwise be wasted -- to food banks and agencies west of the Mississippi River, including Kansas City's only food bank, Harvesters - The Community Food Network. SoSA West also organizes gleaning events, enlisting volunteers from faith congregations, civic and community organizations, and corporations to gather produce that is left in fields and orchards after harvest.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 22%, Jackson - 16%, Wyandotte - 14%, Johnson - 12%, Lafayette - 2%, Other - 34%
The SoSA West Headquarters coordinates the acquisition, shipment, and delivery of large volume loads of donated fresh produce to food banks and feeding agencies west of the Mississippi, including Harvesters - The Community Food Network. SoSA West also organizes gleaning events locally and across the West, enlisting volunteers from faith congregations and civic organizations to gather produce left in fields and orchards to feed people in need. Geographic Area Service: Jackson - 71%, Wyandotte - 17%, Johnson - 10%, Cass - 1%, Lafayette - 1%
The Children's Enhancement Project Assessment provides ongoing, integrated feedback to the development and implementation of wraparound services to children with serious mental, emotional or behavioral disorders in Western Missouri. These services are designed to maintain the children who previously would have been served at the Children's Inpatient Unit at Western Missouri Mental Health Center in their communities. The Center was closed in 2008.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 65%, Jackson - 16%, Cass - 10%, Lafayette - 9%
Achieving Youth Success through Parent Involvement is an innovative school-based mental health initiative which uses a promotora or 'promoter of health' model to connect underserved and uninsured youth, particularly Latino youth, to needed mental health services. Located at Rosedale Middle School in USD 500 of Kansas City, Kansas, Youth Success has facilitated the receipt of more than 1,265 hours of services through Wyandot Mental Health Center and private bilingual providers. Youth outcomes include: symptom reduction and overall improved functioning, lower truancy rates, and better academic performance. The program has also enhanced parent-school communication, especially with Latino parents. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-100%
To increase early identification of youth depression in Kansas City, Kansas schools and extend evidence-based, culturally appropriate treatment through the TeleKidcare program, which aims to bridge the gap between high healthcare need and poor access using school-based videoconferencing in the Kansas City, KS (USD 500) public schools to tackle a single public health crisis, youth depression. The proposed project, TeleHelp, will utilize the TeleKidcare partnership to expand training opportunities for USD500 and other local school professionals to recognize early warning signs of depression across children and adolescents in the Kansas City region. It will support a new interdisciplinary clinic dedicated to treating depressed youth and provide additional training to the University of Kansas Medical Center providers in culturally competent care for depressed youth.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 95%, Johnson - 5%
Maintain and enhance integrated treatment to clients with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions. Persons served will be uninsured Kansas City residents who have a serious co-occurring mental health and substance use condition. Integral to the team are the client, case manager, psychiatrist, vocational specialist, substance abuse counselor, and mental health clinician. Persons will be provided access to comprehensive array of care across mental health and/or substance abuse programs regardless of point of access. We plan to add new emphasis to integration with vocational services.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
Request is for continued support in providing services aimed to expand access to appropriate mental health care for older adults suffering from depression by heightening awareness of late life depression as a treatable illness, training volunteers and professionals involved in serving older adults, screening and linking individuals with appropriate care, and developing collaborative relationships with community partners where older persons seek services or reside. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
The project will expand and enhance Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT) services in both mental health and substance abuse programs of the agency. IDDT is an evidence-based practice for delivering services to individuals experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions. Integrated services offer mental health and substance abuse services to persons by the same treatment team in the same place, offering persons served the best opportunity for meeting their recovery goals. Additionally, the project will initiate a community coalition of mental health and substance abuse treatment organizations with the goal of sharing information, technical assistance, and advocacy.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 100%
Community-wide education (schools and community), social marketing and social norming, tobacco retailer education training, compliance checks, local and statewide advocacy (to increase tobacco tax or local licensing fee and to require appropriate compliance training), and promotion and expansion of area cessation programs will reduce the harmful effects of tobacco use by K.C. residents in Clay and Platte Counties. TCMHS will partner with Clay and Platte County Health Departments, Kansas City Police Department, and Kansas City schools in both counties (most schools in the Park Hill and North Kansas City School Districts and two schools in the Platte County RIII School District, and two schools in Liberty School District), to ensure the success of this proposal.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 100%
Truman Medical Center Charitable Foundation requests funds to recruit and hire an Advance Practice Nurse to work in the Gastrointestinal Clinic. The Advance Practice Nurse will work in collaboration with the Gastrointestinal physicians to improve access to gastrointestinal services by creating additional appointments to better serve our uninsured, underserved, and indigent patients.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 81%, Jackson - 17%, Cass - 2%
The purpose of the professional certification program is to enhance patient care outcomes and the delivery of care and services by Registered Nurses at TMC. Funding from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City will enable TMC to accomplish two key objectives: 1) reimburse expenses associated with acquiring professional certifications for 125 nurses; and, 2) reimburse continuing education expenses so that Registered Nurses may provide the best possible patient care. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 88%, Jackson - 9%, Johnson - 1%, Lafayette - 1%, Wyandotte - 1%
TMC will measure whether health care providers with intensive and extensive training in cultural competency earn higher patient satisfaction scores than untrained providers. The Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill Green Clinic offers Internal Medicine primary care for adults. We will train Green Clinic providers and compare them to untrained providers in two similar clinics. Outcomes will be measured by the Press Ganey Medical Practice Survey, which will quantify and analyze many dimensions of patient satisfaction. Our cultural competency training will be guided by published research and an expert in the UMKC School of Medicine.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 84%, Jackson - 13%, Cass - 1%, Wyandotte - 1%
Truman Medical Center, the largest provider of 'safety net' health care in the Kansas City metro area, will offer three sessions of 'BodyWorks' classes to at least 50 families of mothers and their daughters aged 9-13. The BodyWorks Toolkit for Healthy Girls and Strong Women begins with trainers who help parents serve as role models for their children. The toolkit provides parents ways to make specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight. Participants will measurably improve their nutrition and exercise habits. Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 85%, Jackson - 15%
Breastfeeding represents a first-line strategy for reducing the risks of childhood overweight and obesity. In 2008, TMC Lakewood achieved a 70% breastfeeding initiation rate and TMC Hospital Hill reached 63%--a dramatic increase from Hospital Hill's rate of 33% in 2006! But breastfeeding initiation is not enough. Therefore, TMC proposes new and intensified measures to: 1) encourage more mothers to initiate breastfeeding and maintain it for several months; 2) ensure supplementation with appropriate foods at the appropriate time; and 3) support breastfeeding mothers and increase nutritional awareness, knowledge, skills and practices that will reduce obesity/overweight risks among children. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 75%, KCMO - 25%
More than 400 patients at TMC Hospital Hill require long term use of blood thinner medication. This anticoagulation therapy prevents blood clots from forming and causing a stroke, although the serious risks associated with this therapy require close monitoring. The proposed project would ensure that patients receiving anticoagulation therapy are monitored and receive appropriate services. Geographic Area Served:KCMO-88%, Jackson-9%, Johnson-1%, Lafayette-1%, Wyandotte-1%
The Jackson County Health Department conducts three different series of nutrition and fitness classes which will serve 570 children from January 2008 through June 2009. Alisa Smith teaches the classes at churches, libraries and community centers. Reports from parents and her own observations suggest that the classes do help children eat better and exercise more. The primary reason for a grant is to allow Alisa more time for data collection and evaluation. We are requesting $78,847.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 100%
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill is upgrading services to provide more comprehensive cardiovascular care. To improve safety and convenience for our patients, we will expand testing, accelerate diagnosis, begin performing interventional cardiology (e.g., reopening blocked heart arteries) and launch a cardiac rehabilitation program. We are requesting $341,220 to hire a lead sonographer and two cardiac rehabilitation nurses for one year.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 88%, Jackson - 9%, Cass - 1%, Johnson - 1%, Wyandotte - 1%
The project is an expansion of a half-time administrative assistant position to a full time Technology Specialist/Office Manager. This is necessary to include additional responsibilities related to technology, including proficiency in and management of the patient management system; training and supervising staff to ensure accuracy of data and reporting; regular audits to monitor compliance with proper data entry procedures; regular audits to ensure accuracy of coding for proper billing and maximum revenue; as well as other technology and office management functions related to human resources, accounts payable, and inventory. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 93%, Johnson - 4%, Other - 2%, Jackson - 1%
The Turner House Children's Clinic Core Support for Staff Expansion project will enable the clinic to offer the Healthy Steps for Young Children program on a full time basis, support an additional pediatrician and interpreter, and expand the Director of Development and Marketing position to full time, with additional responsibilities related to donor development, marketing, and quality improvement. As a result, 300 additional families will benefit from Healthy Steps education; increased staff capacity will allow an additional 2,600 patients to be served, adding, adding approximately $80,000 in revenue; and (3) donor funding will be increased by 20%.
Geographic Service Area:
Wyandotte - 87%, Other - 7%, Johnson - 5%, Jackson - 1%
Turner House Children's Clinic's Staff and Space Expansion Project will expand the capacity of the clinic to provide quality health care to an increasing number of children by addressing issues related to capacity. The project will add a full-time, bi-lingual Nurse Practitioner/Clinic Manager and expand the physical space of the clinic with two exam rooms, a treatment room, and a larger waiting room. The project will improve access to care for uninsured and underserved children of Wyandotte County so that more children receive physical examinations and immunizations, and better screening for preventable and chronic conditions.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 94%, Johnson - 4%, Jackson - 2%
Turner House Children's Clinic is requesting a one-year Safety Net Grant of $250,000 as operational support for primary health care to uninsured and underserved children in Wyandotte County. Services will include acute and chronic care, well child exams, vision and hearing screens, developmental screening, and lab testing. Economic conditions are causing many families to cut back on health care because of lack of insurance and cost concerns. Thus, continued access to this care for uninsured and underserved children is essential. Operating funds will enable Turner House Children's Clinic to continue to provide culturally-competent, quality primary health care services to these children. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte-84%, Johnson-6%, Other-6%, Jackson-2%, KCMO-2%
Turner House Children's Clinic is requesting a Safety Net Grant of $250,000 as operational support for primary health care services to uninsured and underserved children in low-income areas of the metropolitan Kansas City area, particularly Wyandotte County. Increased unemployment, poverty and uninsured rates have exacerbated the need for affordable health care, taxing the limited sources for children's safety net health care in Wyandotte County. Culturally competent services provided include: Well-baby and well-child examinations, acute and chronic care, developmental screening, vision screening, immunizations, laboratory testing, lead testing, chronic disease management, medications and referrals to medical specialists.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 87%, Other - 7%, Johnson - 4%, Jackson - 1%
The Turner House Clinic Operations project is to provide core support of the organization to ensure stability of an infrastructure which has been strengthened by a staff and space expansion. The goal is to ensure access to health care for children regardless of their family's ability to pay; to provide a medical home for underserved children; reduce health care disparities for the primarily Hispanic population; and eliminate barriers to care related to provider availability.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte-94%, Johnson-4%, Jackson-2%
Healthy Families Wyandotte and Healthy Families Johnson seek to improve health measures and reduce health disparities for the maternal-child population in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties by providing intensive in-home services to pregnant women and new parents of at-risk infants at no cost to the families.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 50%, Johnson - 50%
Healthy Families Wyandotte and Healthy Families Johnson seek to improve health measures and reduce health disparities for the maternal-child population in Wyandotte and Johnson Counties by providing intensive in-home services to pregnant and new parents of at-risk infants. Services are provided at to cost to the families.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 50%, Johnson - 50%
A community's health care safety net is only as good as the ability of its residents to find its meaningful points of access. United Way 2-1-1 expanded and enhanced its information and referral capacity to increase healthcare awareness and access to services focusing on a wide array of social determinants of health. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 44%, KCMO - 42%, Wyandotte - 7%, Johnson - 4%, Cass - 2%, Lafayette - 1%
The health care advocate provides information on medical and health care resources, makes referrals to appropriate programs and services, provides advocacy for challenging situations and helps callers enroll in public sector health programs for which they are eligible.
Geographic Area Served:
Jackson - 44%, KCMO - 42%, Wyandotte - 8%, Johnson - 4%, Cass - 2%, Other - 1%
A community's healthcare safety net is only as good as the ability of its residents to find its meaningful points of access. The purpose of this grant request is to expand and enhance the excellent early results of United Way 2-1-1 in connecting low income families to the healthcare safety-net.Geographic Area Served:Jackson-44%, KCMO-42%, Wyandotte-7%, Johnson-4%, Cass-2%, Lafayette-1%
The purpose of the current project is to start a dialogue with key stakeholders regarding pediatric obesity treatment reimbursement. Specifically we propose to conduct a series of structured interviews and focus groups with 3 main stakeholder groups: 1) private insurance companies, 2) public insurance companies, and 3) businesses that purchase private insurance for their employees. To do this, we request $75,000 from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 60%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 20%
The TeleHelper project will train health professional students (the target population) in pediatric depression evaluation and treatment. Youth depression is a significant public health concern, with one in five children experiencing a depressive episode by age 18 and many more children suffering with mood-related concerns. Despite the high need for early identification, healthcare professional students receive little or no education about youth depression. The project will utilize online modules to train students across disciplines about youth depression. Training will focus on guideline-adherent skills as well as practical clinical experience, including school and daycare based telemedicine clinics.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 90%, Johnson - 5% Jackson - 5%
This project will establish a screening clinic at the Heart of America Indian Center (HAIC) in collaboration with the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC). It will serve as a culturally secure location where uninsured and underinsured American Indians (AI) in the Kansas City metroplex can receive free basic healthcare screening and culturally-appropriate health education. It will also serve as a referral system into the various safety-net facilities in the area. Additionally, it will provide medical and nursing students and social work interns at KUMC with valuable experience working with this underserved community.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 50%, KCMO - 50%
The purpose of the project is 1) to expand the current Healthy Hawks program to meet the identified demand, and 2) to add a parental health improvement component to our current intervention. Healthy Hawks is a successful pediatric obesity clinic tailored for low-income minority families in Wyandotte County. Because of current staffing limitations few children are served each year and the current grant would allow us to greatly expand these numbers. Also, due to the importance of parental health habits to child health, we propose to add an explicit parent health improvement component to our existing family based intervention.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 90%, Johnson - 80%
The current grant would provide continued support for Healthy Hawks, the family based pediatric obesity program in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The grant has 4 goals: to add a second evening of Healthy Hawks family groups; to hire an exercise specialist with child experience; to hire a dietary analyst with child experience; and to test sustainability of the program by piloting a billing program. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 85%, Johnson - 10%, Jackson - 5%
To encourage children to eat more fruits and vegetables and be more physically active, Jackson County Extension, in collaboration with University of Missouri Extension, Kansas City Community Gardens, Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City, and elementary schools in Kansas City are targeting a school garden program in Jackson County. This project will focus on at-risk fourth and fifth graders. Urban children will receive an understanding of where food comes from and they will be encouraged to be better stewards of the environment through growing school gardens. 'Eating from the Garden' teaches children about nutrition by relating nutrition to garden activities.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 80%, Jackson - 20%
KCUR is applying for a grant to fund a position for health care reporting. Regular health-related reports will air on The Walt Bodine Show, Up to Date, KC Currents, and spot news and features.Geographic Area Served:KCMO, Jackson, Johnson, Wyandotte, Lafayette & Cass Counties
KCUR is applying for a grant to fund a position for health care reporting on the air and on the web. Regular health-related reports will air on The Walt Bodine Show, Up to Date, KC Currents and spot news and features as well as a prominent web presence on KCUR's website. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 17%, Cass - 17%, Jackson - 17%, Johnson - 17%, Wyandotte - 17%, Lafayette - 15%
Organization seeks to implement a model program which makes use of culturally appropriate use of key symbols with the Vietnamese culture, to raise awareness of the importance of one's health in their lives and the benefits of prevention and care as an integral part of daily living. By modeling after the 'Health is Gold' program, VAC-KC can use the developed outreach and awareness materials to jump start its bi-state campaign.Geographic Area Served:KCMO - 50%, Johnson - 25%, Jackson - 15%, Wyandotte - 10%,
Smiles Change Lives will use the requested money to treat 40 uninsured/under-served youth who have moderate to severe malocclusions. In addition, Smiles Change Lives will purchase five new computers with dual monitors and a fundraising software system that will help staff, track, monitor and report its fundraising efforts. Geographic Area Served: Johnson-31%, KCMO-21%, Wyandotte-20%, Jackson-18%, Allen-5%, Cass-4%, Lafayette-1%
SCL respectfully requests funding from the HCFGKC to provide full orthodontic treatment, case management, and program assessment/evaluation for 20 qualified youth, as well as critically needed technological updates/upgrades to increase the capacity and efficiency of our expanding services. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 36%, Johnson - 32%, Wyandotte - 21%, Allen - 6%, Cass - 4%, Lafayette - 1%
Smiles Change Lives (SCL) works with community partners to provide access to care for children from low-income families who need, but cannot afford, braces. For this grant, 40 qualified children from counties served by HCFGKC will receive SCL program services and an average of 24 months of orthodontic treatment, which will cure their condition and bring about a lifetime health benefit. In addition, this project will increase our capacity, efficiency and transparency through database modifications and the development of a marketing plan.Geographic Area Served:Johnson-32%, KCMO-30%, Wyandotte-21%, Jackson-6%, Allen-6%, Cass-4%, Lafaytette-1%
The Vision Research Center, a program of the Vision Research Foundation of Kansas City will purchase a very cutting edge piece of equipment called the OCT/SLO Combined OCT and Confocal Scanning Ophthalmoscope CSO (SLO) System which will give the ophthalmologists an 'inside' look of the retina from all directions to provide patients with early diagnosis, research and treatment of ocular diseases.Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 86%, KCMO - 10%, Johnson - 2%, Cass - 1%, Wyandotte - 1%
The Medicare Assistance Project provides counseling, information and advocacy to help seniors and disabled persons access prescription drug and other Medicare benefits to which they are entitled. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 60%, Jackson - 36%, Cass - 2%, Other - 2%
The Medicare Assistance Project provides counseling, information and advocacy for seniors and disabled persons to enable them to gain access to prescription drugs and other Medicare benefits to which they are entitled.
Geographic Area Served:
KCMO - 60%, Jackson - 36%, Cass - 2%, Other - 2%
We propose providing our clients with much more direct access to medical care. The primary means of accomplishing this would be through hiring a Nurse Practitioner either on Saturday mornings or a designated evening for two hours per week. In addition to providing direct care, the nurse would be able to prescribe some medications and also provide instruction or information on how to obtain further medical service as required by the circumstance. Geographic Area Served:Jackson - 30%, KCMO - 30%, Johnson - 20%, Wyandotte - 20%
This grant proposal is requesting funds to increase the service capacity of K-State Research and Extension. It will be used to establish a Nutrition Resource Center. The Resource Center will be a fully functioning demonstration kitchen. The kitchen will also feature a library of reference materials for use by the public. Current staff have identified programming that will meet a need that can be offered. Extension Center staff has already identified community partners who will be able to use the center. The educational focus will be teaching healthy lifestyles to improve overall health. The evaluation component, led by Dr. Carol Fink, will assist with the future program planning, data collection tools and methods and feedback based upon ongoing evaluation. Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
To provide a program that encourages wellness through exercise, Nutrition Education, and Health Screenings that will assist with the promotion of healthier lifestyles that may result in the prevention/delay of chronic disease in older adults. This will be accomplished by contracting with the Kansas City Kansas Community College Wellness Program, YMCA, Dietician Provider, and Nurse provider, to provide scholarships for low-income seniors to attend the Wellness Center, and provide Personal Trainers, Dietician and Nurse Screenings at selected nutrition sites. Targeted emphasis will be placed on those most at risk, including, low-income, and minority populations.
Geographic Area Served:
Wyandotte - 77%, Other - 23%
Jump into Food and Fitness (JIFF), developed by the UMKC Institute for Human Development, is an inclusive program designed to benefit children with disabilities. JIFF promotes the two most important factors in fighting obesity: regular physical exercise and good nutrition. The nutrition curriculum involves the parents/family to impact the home environment and provides recipes, activities, meal plans and online resources. JIFF, including both food and fitness, will be established as a new inclusive program at several YMCA Family Centers. In addition, the YMCA Sports Department will adopt the JIFF nutrition curriculum and incorporate it into all sports and adaptive programming, benefiting over 25,000 children. Geographic Area Served: KCMO - 65%, Johnson - 20%, Cass - 5%, Wyandotte - 5%
The YMCA of Greater Kansas City in collaboration with the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Team, request a grant in the amount of $90,043 in support of the Y's Healthy Kids project. This program will be provided to 205 racially/ethnically diverse preschool children and their families at 3 community based locations in the metropolitan Kansas City area. The Y Healthy Kids project is designed to begin the project at 3 YMCA centers not involved with past grants, to improve the fitness and nutrition of children, their families and the teachers served by this project. Geographic Area Served: Jackson - 65%, Johnson - 35%
YouthSpace directly engages 60 Westport High School freshman and sophomore students over the course of their high school years to address three youth outcomes - learning to be productive, to connect, and to navigate - which are closely associated with the Health Care Foundation�s definition of mental health. Westport has committed dedicated space and access to YouthSpace members during the school day. Professional youth workers, experts at interacting with youth, begin by helping YouthSpace members explore their interests, talents and skills. Over time, with support, young people employ them in projects that positively impact their school and their communities.Geographic Service Area:Jackson - 100%
The YWCA will serve 130-150 girls over a three-year period. The girls will be served in school, after school, and during summer sessions. The YWCA's Health and Fitness staff will work directly with the Kansas City, Kansas School District's Wellness Ambassadors to provide professional development opportunities and resources for working with students. As a plan to promote 'Fitness Mentors,' the YWCA would like to support the Wellness Ambassadors by offering opportunities to access the center with students, attend health education and culinary classes and also access the YWCA's national data on the issue of health disparities. By serving as a resource to the district employees- most specifically the Wellness Ambassadors - the YWCA hopes to empower the staff to continue modeling healthy behaviors for the students. As schools adopt a culture of wellness, teachers and students must work in partnership to promote healthy lifestyles. The ultimate goal is to move the participants from thought to action and, ultimately, behavior change.Geographic Area Served:Wyandotte - 100%
The YWCA of Greater Kansas City is requesting $59,400 as a capacity building measure, to bring a new Executive Director to the YWCA. This Executive Director will be charged with implementing sustainability planning, fund raising and increasing infrastructural and staff capacity to serve the Kansas City Metropolitan Community. Geographic Area Served: Wyandotte - 61%, Jackson - 20%, Johnson - 18%, Other - 1%