| |
Adult
Services
|
| Adult
Protective Services: |
| |
Services to vulnerable
adults age 18 and above, without regard to income,
to prevent or alleviate abuse, neglect, exploitation,
or fiduciary abuse. Vulnerable adults are those
individuals who are unable to protect their own
interests and who are harmed or threatened with
harm through action or inaction by themselves or
others.
|
| Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Assessment Centers: |
| |
SRS funds five regional
alcohol and drug assessment centers that provide
on-site assessment and referrals to the treatment
service that best meets customer needs.
|
| Assistive
Technology: |
| |
SRS receives state
general funds to provide assistive technology for
Kansans with disabilities. Through a cooperative
agreement, the administration of this fund is out-sourced
to United Cerebral
Palsy of Kansas (UCPK), Wichita.
|
| Blind,
Services for the: |
| |
Services for persons
who are blind, visually impaired or deaf-blind including
Vocational Rehabilitation; The Rehabilitation Center
for the Blind (RCB); Kansas Seniors Achieving Independent
Living (KAN-SAIL); The Business Enterprise Program
(BEP); Kansas Industries for the Blind (KIB).
|
| Child
Support Enforcement: |
| |
CSE is a federal,
state, private, and county operation, providing
a full range of child and medical support services,
from establishing paternity and establishment of
support orders to modifications and enforcement
through state staff and contractors.
|
| Community
Mental Health Services |
| |
Since mental health reform,
the focus has been and continues to be reducing
the dependence on costly and intrusive services
provided by state mental health hospitals (SMHHS).
The role of SMHHS is seen as a provider of acute
care, thus providing a safety net for Kansans
who require inpatient mental health services.
|
| Community
Residential Services (for Adults): |
| |
SRS Medical Policy Division
oversees the
Medicaid reimbursement for the 14 nursing facilities
for mental health (nfmh) in the state which are
licensed by the Kansas Department of Health and
Environment.
|
| Community Supports and Services |
| |
This program sets
policy for the delivery of community services to
persons with disabilities and the use of state and
federal funds. Services are delivered through Community
Developmental Disability Organizations, Centers
for Independent Living, and other community partners.
|
| Consumer-run Organizations |
| |
SRS provides funding
for local mental health consumer-run organizations.
These groups provide a range of consumer-run, self-help
services throughout the state and are independent
of local community mental health centers. Services
include drop-in centers, temporary shelter, and
transportation.
|
| Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Kansas Commission for |
| |
KCDHH offers advocacy,
information and referral, sign language interpreter
registration, coordination of interpreting services,
and the Kansas Quality Assurance Screening for certification
of sign language interpreters.
|
| Developmental Disabilities - State Institutions: |
| |
Parsons
State Hospital and Training Center and the Kansas
Neurological Institute provide training and support
for residents toward meeting their individual goals.
Staff work closely with Community Developmental
Disability Organization staff to create and support
opportunities for placement of clients in their
respective home communities.
|
| Disability
Determination Services: |
| |
(DDS) makes initial
and first-level appellate disability and blindness
determinations for the Social Security Administration
on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claims filed
in Kansas. DDS also conducts reviews of the cases
of individuals already receiving benefits to determine
if they continue to quality for benefits; conducts
hearings in cases where SSDI or SSI eligibility
is found to have ceased; and makes Medicaid eligibility
determinations for individuals who do not meet the
financial requirements for SSI.
|
| Food
Assistance (FS): |
| |
The Food Assistance (food stamp)
program is offered to individuals and families with
income below 130 percent of the national
poverty level.
|
| Funeral
Assistance: |
| |
The Funeral Assistance program
provides funds for low-cost funerals for some public
assistance recipients.
|
| General
Assistance (GA): |
| |
A state-funded cash
assistance program for adults who cannot support
themselves because of a serious physical or mental
disability. General Assistance recipients must pursue
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) eligibility.
|
| Home
and Community Bases Services (HCBS): |
| |
Home
and Community Based services for persons with mental
retardation or other developmental disabilities
are made possible through Medicaid waivers. These
services are intended as an alternative to institutional
services. Each waiver offers services for a specifc
group: Head Injury, Technology Assistance, Physical
Disability, Frail and Elderly, Developmental Disabilities,
and Children with Severe Emotional Disturbance.
Under each waiver category you will find information
about the eligibility group, level of care requirements,
case management, financial eligibility rules, services,
quality assurance, and other waiver facts.
|
| Independent
Living (medical) |
| |
The division manages programs
in independent living which offer an array of
services for individuals requiring assistance
with personal, nursing/medical, and social needs.
These services allow individuals to remain in
their own home as an alternative to costly institutional
care.
|
| Intermediate
Care Facilities/MR (Private): |
| |
These are privately operated
intermediate care facilities for persons with mental
retardation or related conditions. The facilities
are funded by Medicaid, must serve at least four
persons per facility, and provide continuous active
treatment in compliance with federal regulations.
|
| Kansas
Works |
| |
work
program services exist to maximize the effectiveness
of public resources; to empower individuals and
families to become more self-sufficient through
employment; and to develop opportunities for present
and future generations to escape dependence on
public assistance.
|
| Medical
Assistance: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for programs
that deliver an array of health care services to
eligible Kansans. Included within the Health Care
Policy Division is Medicaid and Medical Policy;
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery;
Community Supports and Services, which includes
oversight and policy for the systems serving persons
with physical and developmental disabilities; and
Management Operations. Also included is oversight
of the state’s mental health and retardation hospitals
and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
|
| Medical
Assistance - Children: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for programs
that deliver an array of health care services to
eligible Kansans. Included within the Health Care
Policy Division is Medicaid and Medical Policy;
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery;
Community Supports and Services, which includes
oversight and policy for the systems serving persons
with physical and developmental disabilities; and
Management Operations. Also included is oversight
of the state’s mental health and retardation
hospitals and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
This Section of Information and Links focuses on
Medical Assitance and Services for Children.
|
| Medical
Assistance - Pregnant Women: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for
programs that deliver an array of health care
services to eligible Kansans. Included within
the Health Care Policy Division is Medicaid and
Medical Policy; Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Treatment and Recovery; Community Supports and
Services, which includes oversight and policy
for the systems serving persons with physical
and developmental disabilities; and Management
Operations. Also included is oversight of the
state’s mental health and retardation hospitals
and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
This Section of Information and Links focuses
on Medical Assitance and Services for Pregnant
Women.
|
| Medical
Spenddown: |
| |
Under
Medicaid rules, States are mandated to provide
medical assistance for persons that are eligible
for either AFDC or SSI cash benefits. In addition,
there are also mandates for coverage of children
and pregnant women under poverty level guidelines
as well as other groups such as children in foster
care and adoption support. These groups are referred
to as the "categorically needy."
States
also have the option to cover persons who would
be eligible for one of the programs listed above
except for income. This group is referred to as
the "medically needy." Kansas has historically
operated a medically needy program and coverage
is currently provided to children up to age 18,
pregnant women, and the elderly and disabled.
Coverage can also be provided to caretaker relatives
of dependent children such as parents, grandparents,
aunts and uncles but Kansas eliminated this coverage
in September 1991. The medically needy concept
allows for persons with income in excess of the
categorically needy standards to "spenddown"
that excess through application of medical expenses
and thereby qualify for medical assistance.
|
| Mental
Health Hospitals: |
|
Since mental health reform,
the focus has been and continues to be reducing
the dependence on costly and intrusive services
provided by state mental health hospitals (SMHHS).
The role of SMHHS is seen as a provider of acute
care, thus providing a safety net for Kansans
who require inpatient mental health services.
|
| Newborn
Protection: |
|
Having
a baby is a life changing event that can be both
joyful and scary. Because of this, not everyone
is ready to care for an infant and raise a child.
The parent or parents of an infant less than 45
days old can leave their unharmed baby with an
employee of a city or county health department,
fire station, or medical facility under the Newborn
Protection Act without being prosecuted.
|
|
Substance
Abuse Treatment and Recovery: |
| |
SRS (satr) administers
state and federal funds, assures quality of care
standards, promotes effective public policy, and
develops and evaluates programmatic and human resources
to reduce tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use in
Kansas. In five service delivery regions, satr contracts with
a statewide network of 70 private providers to provide
treatment services including detoxification, outpatient,
residential, and clinically indicated continuing
care services.
|
| Sexual
Predator Treatment Program: |
| |
Ensures
the safe, secure and humane care of residents committed
by the courts to the program. The program strives
to: provide a safe and secure commitment confinement
for the residents, public and staff; provide treatment
opportunities and behavioral education activities
for residents; maintain positive facility/unit living
and working environments; manage human, equipment
and fiscal resources responsibly; and, maintain
cooperative working relationships with the external
environment.
|
| Vocational
Rehabilitation (VR): |
| |
Vocational Rehabilitation
services are the cornerstone of our efforts to help
people with disabilities become gainfully employed
and self-reliant. Vocational Rehabilitation plans
emphasize individualized community-based services,
integration and consumer choice. Services
may in-clude vocational assessment; counseling and
guidance; physical and mental restoration; training;
rehabilitation technology; job placement, supported
employment, and transition planning services for
students with severe disabilities.
|
| Weatherization
(K-WAP) |
| |
The
Kansas Weatherization Assistance Program (K-WAP)
operates year round and is an energy conservation
program that helps qualified households pay for
home weatherization needs. Stop getting zapped
by those high energy bills. Take steps toward
conserving energy and lowering utility bills by
applying for weatherization today.
|
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|
Child
Services
|
| Adoption
Services: |
| |
Services
to benefit children whose parental rights have been
terminated or relinquished by providing the child
with a permanent family.
|
| Assistive
Technology: |
| |
SRS receives state
general funds to provide assistive technology
for Kansans with disabilities. Through a cooperative
agreement, the administration of this fund is
out-sourced to United
Cerebral Palsy of Kansas (UCPK), Wichita.
|
| Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Assessment Centers: |
| |
SRS funds five regional
alcohol and drug assessment centers that provide
on-site assessment and referrals to the treatment
service that best meets customer needs.
|
| Blind,
Services for the: |
| |
Services for persons
who are blind, visually impaired or deaf-blind including
Vocational Rehabilitation; The Rehabilitation Center
for the Blind (RCB); Kansas Seniors Achieving Independent
Living (KAN-SAIL); The Business Enterprise Program
(BEP); Kansas Industries for the Blind (KIB).
|
| Community
Mental Health Services |
| |
Since mental health reform,
the focus has been and continues to be reducing
the dependence on costly and intrusive services
provided by state mental health hospitals (SMHHS).
The role of SMHHS is seen as a provider of acute
care, thus providing a safety net for Kansans
who require inpatient mental health services.
|
| Consumer-run Organizations |
| |
SRS provides funding
for local mental health consumer-run organizations.
These groups provide a range of consumer-run, self-help
services throughout the state and are independent
of local community mental health centers. Services
include drop-in centers, temporary shelter, and
transportation.
|
| Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Kansas Commission for |
| |
KCDHH offers advocacy,
information and referral, sign language interpreter
registration, coordination of interpreting services,
and the Kansas Quality Assurance Screening for certification
of sign language interpreters.
|
| Developmental Disabilities - State Institutions: |
| |
Parsons
State Hospital and Training Center and the Kansas
Neurological Institute provide training and support
for residents toward meeting their individual goals.
Staff work closely with Community Developmental
Disability Organization staff to create and support
opportunities for placement of clients in their
respective home communities.
|
| Disability
Determination Services: |
| |
(DDS) makes initial
and first-level appellate disability and blindness
determinations for the Social Security Administration
on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claims filed
in Kansas. DDS also conducts reviews of the cases
of individuals already receiving benefits to determine
if they continue to quality for benefits; conducts
hearings in cases where SSDI or SSI eligibility
is found to have ceased; and makes Medicaid eligibility
determinations for individuals who do not meet the
financial requirements for SSI.
|
| Family
Preservation: |
| |
Intensive
in-home services offered to families who are in
imminent danger of having a child come into the
custody of the department and removed from their
home unless the family can make the changes necessary
to provide adequate care and safety. These services
assist the family in identifying and understanding
the problems within the family that place a child
at risk of out-of-home placement and assist them
in finding ways to change how the family unit functions.
|
| Family
Services: |
| |
Essential
services to children and families including child
protective services, family based assessments, family
support services, eligibility determination, and
information and referral. These services are provided
by Children and Family Services staff in the local
srs offices.
|
| Foster
Care/Reintegration: |
| |
Services
provided to children and families when the court
has found the child to be in need of care and the
parents are not able to meet the safety and care
needs of the child.
|
| Head
Start and Early Head Start: |
| |
In
1998, the Kansas Legislature approved a state Early
Head Start initiative as a joint endeavor with the
federal government. Early intervention through high-quality
programs enhances children’s development during
their formative years, enables parents to be better
caretakers and teachers to their children, and helps
parents meet their own goals, including economic
independence.
|
| Health Wave |
| |
Health
Wave began January 1, 1999 under Title xxi of the
Social Security Act, providing health insurance
for uninsured children through a combination of
state and federal funds.
|
| Home
and Community Bases Services (HCBS): |
| |
Home
and Community Based services for persons with mental
retardation or other developmental disabilities
are made possible through Medicaid waivers. These
services are intended as an alternative to institutional
services. Each waiver offers services for a specifc
group: Head Injury, Technology Assistance, Physical
Disability, Frail and Elderly, Developmental Disabilities,
and Children with Severe Emotional Disturbance.
Under each waiver category you will find information
about the eligibility group, level of care requirements,
case management, financial eligibility rules, services,
quality assurance, and other waiver facts.
|
| Independent
Living (youth): |
| |
Services
to youth over age 16 who are in foster care or who
were in foster care to help them transition to independence.
These youth are to be assessed in their knowledge
and skills related to daily living, money management,
education, and employment.
|
| Medical
Assistance: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for programs
that deliver an array of health care services to
eligible Kansans. Included within the Health Care
Policy Division is Medicaid and Medical Policy;
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery;
Community Supports and Services, which includes
oversight and policy for the systems serving persons
with physical and developmental disabilities; and
Management Operations. Also included is oversight
of the state’s mental health and retardation hospitals
and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
|
| Medical
Assistance - Children: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for programs
that deliver an array of health care services to
eligible Kansans. Included within the Health Care
Policy Division is Medicaid and Medical Policy;
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery;
Community Supports and Services, which includes
oversight and policy for the systems serving persons
with physical and developmental disabilities; and
Management Operations. Also included is oversight
of the state’s mental health and retardation
hospitals and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
This Section of Information and Links focuses on
Medical Assitance and Services for Children.
|
| Medical
Assistance - Pregnant Women: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for
programs that deliver an array of health care
services to eligible Kansans. Included within
the Health Care Policy Division is Medicaid and
Medical Policy; Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Treatment and Recovery; Community Supports and
Services, which includes oversight and policy
for the systems serving persons with physical
and developmental disabilities; and Management
Operations. Also included is oversight of the
state’s mental health and retardation hospitals
and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
This Section of Information and Links focuses
on Medical Assitance and Services for Pregnant
Women.
|
| Medical
Spenddown: |
| |
Under
Medicaid rules, States are mandated to provide
medical assistance for persons that are eligible
for either AFDC or SSI cash benefits. In addition,
there are also mandates for coverage of children
and pregnant women under poverty level guidelines
as well as other groups such as children in foster
care and adoption support. These groups are referred
to as the "categorically needy."
States
also have the option to cover persons who would
be eligible for one of the programs listed above
except for income. This group is referred to as
the "medically needy." Kansas has historically
operated a medically needy program and coverage
is currently provided to children up to age 18,
pregnant women, and the elderly and disabled.
Coverage can also be provided to caretaker relatives
of dependent children such as parents, grandparents,
aunts and uncles but Kansas eliminated this coverage
in September 1991. The medically needy concept
allows for persons with income in excess of the
categorically needy standards to "spenddown"
that excess through application of medical expenses
and thereby qualify for medical assistance.
|
| Mental
Retardation: |
| |
State
Mental Retardation Hospitals provide training and
support for residents toward meeting their individual
goals. Staff work closely with Community Developmental
Disability Organization staff to create and support
opportunities for placement of clients in their
respective home communities.
|
| Mental
Health Hospitals: |
| |
State
Mental Health Hospitals provide safe and supportive
environments for people with serious mental illness
needing acute care services or long term treatment.
|
| Newborn
Protection: |
|
Having
a baby is a life changing event that can be both
joyful and scary. Because of this, not everyone
is ready to care for an infant and raise a child.
The parent or parents of an infant less than 45
days old can leave their unharmed baby with an
employee of a city or county health department,
fire station, or medical facility under the Newborn
Protection Act without being prosecuted.
|
| Permanent
Guardianship: |
| |
While
foster care does provide safety and structure for
many children, its very nature implies lack of permanency.
When the courts have determined that a child cannot
go home, permanent guardianship is an option that
can be used.
|
| Substance
Abuse Treatment and Recovery: |
| |
SRS (satr) administers
state and federal funds, assures quality of care
standards, promotes effective public policy, and
develops and evaluates programmatic and human resources
to reduce tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use in
Kansas. In five service delivery regions, satr contracts with
a statewide network of 70 private providers to provide
treatment services including detoxification, outpatient,
residential, and clinically indicated continuing
care services.
|
| Weatherization
(K-WAP) |
| |
The
Kansas Weatherization Assistance Program (K-WAP)
operates year round and is an energy conservation
program that helps qualified households pay for
home weatherization needs. Stop getting zapped
by those high energy bills. Take steps toward
conserving energy and lowering utility bills by
applying for weatherization today.
|
Back to the top
|
Family
Services
|
| Adoption
Services: |
| |
Services
to benefit children whose parental rights have been
terminated or relinquished by providing the child
with a permanent family.
|
| Adoption
Subsidy: |
| |
State and federal
statutes provide for adoption support payments to
assist adoptive families in meeting the special
needs of the children they adopt. SRS staff are
responsible for identifying children who have special
needs that present financial barriers to adoption.
|
| Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Assessment Centers: |
| |
SRS funds five regional
alcohol and drug assessment centers that provide
on-site assessment and referrals to the treatment
service that best meets customer needs.
|
| Child
Care: |
| |
The Child Care program provides
subsidized child care to welfare recipients to help
them obtain employment, leave welfare, and stay
employed; to low-income employed families and to
Food Stamp recipients engaged in employment, education,
and training.
|
| Child
Care and Quality Initatives: |
| |
Over
$2 million annually is provided to the Kansas Department
of Health and Environment for licensing and monitoring.
Quality child care is promoted by grants to public
agencies, non-profit agencies, and private employers
who establish child care for employees. Grants are
also made available to individual licensed home
providers through the resource and referral net-work.
|
| Child
Support Enforcement: |
| |
CSE is a federal,
state, private, and county operation, providing
a full range of child and medical support services,
from establishing paternity and establishment of
support orders to modifications and enforcement
through state staff and contractors.
|
| Commodity
Food Distribution: |
| |
The five federally-funded commodity
programs provide food for distribution to low-income
households, charitable institutions, soup kitchens,
elderly food programs, pregnant or nursing
women, and children under the age of five.
|
| Community
Mental Health Services |
| |
Since mental health reform,
the focus has been and continues to be reducing
the dependence on costly and intrusive services
provided by state mental health hospitals (SMHHS).
The role of SMHHS is seen as a provider of acute
care, thus providing a safety net for Kansans
who require inpatient mental health services.
|
| Family
Preservation: |
| |
Intensive
in-home services offered to families who are in
imminent danger of having a child come into the
custody of the department and removed from their
home unless the family can make the changes necessary
to provide adequate care and safety. These services
assist the family in identifying and understanding
the problems within the family that place a child
at risk of out-of-home placement and assist them
in finding ways to change how the family unit functions.
|
| Family
Services: |
| |
Essential
services to children and families including child
protective services, family based assessments, family
support services, eligibility determination, and
information and referral. These services are provided
by Children and Family Services staff in the local
srs offices.
|
| Food
Assistance (FS): |
| |
The Food Assistance (food stamp)
program is offered to individuals and families with
income below 130 percent of the national
poverty level.
|
| Foster
Care/Reintegration: |
| |
Services
provided to children and families when the court
has found the child to be in need of care and the
parents are not able to meet the safety and care
needs of the child.
|
| Head
Start and Early Head Start: |
| |
In
1998, the Kansas Legislature approved a state Early
Head Start initiative as a joint endeavor with the
federal government. Early intervention through high-quality
programs enhances children’s development during
their formative years, enables parents to be better
caretakers and teachers to their children, and helps
parents meet their own goals, including economic
independence.
|
| Independent
Living (medical) |
| |
The division manages programs
in independent living which offer an array of
services for individuals requiring assistance
with personal, nursing/medical, and social needs.
These services allow individuals to remain in
their own home as an alternative to costly institutional
care.
|
| Independent
Living (youth): |
| |
Services
to youth over age 16 who are in foster care or who
were in foster care to help them transition to independence.
These youth are to be assessed in their knowledge
and skills related to daily living, money management,
education, and employment.
|
| Kansas
Works |
| |
work
program services exist to maximize the effectiveness
of public resources; to empower individuals and
families to become more self-sufficient through
employment; and to develop opportunities for present
and future generations to escape dependence on
public assistance.
|
| Low
Income Energy Assistance (LIEAP) : |
| |
The LIEAP provides energy assistance
to households with income under 130 percent of the
national
poverty level during state fiscal year 2000.
The elderly and disabled, and families with
children are the primary groups assisted. Applications
for the annual benefit are taken during January
through March.
|
| Medical
Assistance: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for programs
that deliver an array of health care services to
eligible Kansans. Included within the Health Care
Policy Division is Medicaid and Medical Policy;
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery;
Community Supports and Services, which includes
oversight and policy for the systems serving persons
with physical and developmental disabilities; and
Management Operations. Also included is oversight
of the state’s mental health and retardation hospitals
and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
|
| Medical
Assistance - Children: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for programs
that deliver an array of health care services to
eligible Kansans. Included within the Health Care
Policy Division is Medicaid and Medical Policy;
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery;
Community Supports and Services, which includes
oversight and policy for the systems serving persons
with physical and developmental disabilities; and
Management Operations. Also included is oversight
of the state’s mental health and retardation
hospitals and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
This Section of Information and Links focuses on
Medical Assitance and Services for Children.
|
| Medical
Assistance - Pregnant Women: |
| |
The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for
programs that deliver an array of health care
services to eligible Kansans. Included within
the Health Care Policy Division is Medicaid and
Medical Policy; Mental Health, Substance Abuse
Treatment and Recovery; Community Supports and
Services, which includes oversight and policy
for the systems serving persons with physical
and developmental disabilities; and Management
Operations. Also included is oversight of the
state’s mental health and retardation hospitals
and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
This Section of Information and Links focuses
on Medical Assitance and Services for Pregnant
Women.
|
| Medical
Spenddown: |
| |
Under
Medicaid rules, States are mandated to provide
medical assistance for persons that are eligible
for either AFDC or SSI cash benefits. In addition,
there are also mandates for coverage of children
and pregnant women under poverty level guidelines
as well as other groups such as children in foster
care and adoption support. These groups are referred
to as the "categorically needy."
States
also have the option to cover persons who would
be eligible for one of the programs listed above
except for income. This group is referred to as
the "medically needy." Kansas has historically
operated a medically needy program and coverage
is currently provided to children up to age 18,
pregnant women, and the elderly and disabled.
Coverage can also be provided to caretaker relatives
of dependent children such as parents, grandparents,
aunts and uncles but Kansas eliminated this coverage
in September 1991. The medically needy concept
allows for persons with income in excess of the
categorically needy standards to "spenddown"
that excess through application of medical expenses
and thereby qualify for medical assistance.
|
| Mental
Health Hospitals: |
| |
State
Mental Health Hospitals provide safe and supportive
environments for people with serious mental illness
needing acute care services or long term treatment.
|
| Newborn
Protection: |
|
Having
a baby is a life changing event that can be both
joyful and scary. Because of this, not everyone
is ready to care for an infant and raise a child.
The parent or parents of an infant less than 45
days old can leave their unharmed baby with an
employee of a city or county health department,
fire station, or medical facility under the Newborn
Protection Act without being prosecuted.
|
| Permanent
Guardianship: |
| |
While
foster care does provide safety and structure for
many children, its very nature implies lack of permanency.
When the courts have determined that a child cannot
go home, permanent guardianship is an option that
can be used.
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| Substance
Abuse Treatment and Recovery: |
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SRS (satr) administers
state and federal funds, assures quality of care
standards, promotes effective public policy, and
develops and evaluates programmatic and human resources
to reduce tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use in
Kansas. In five service delivery regions, satr contracts with
a statewide network of 70 private providers to provide
treatment services including detoxification, outpatient,
residential, and clinically indicated continuing
care services.
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| Temporary
Assistance for Families (TAF): |
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TAF is an employment
support program for families with children.
Services provided or contracted for include job
readiness training, job retention training, subsidized
employment, structured job search, vocational education,
intensive case management, work experience placements,
on-the-job training, job coaching, job development/placement,
mentoring, and job skills training.
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| Weatherization
(K-WAP) |
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The
Kansas Weatherization Assistance Program (K-WAP)
operates year round and is an energy conservation
program that helps qualified households pay for
home weatherization needs. Stop getting zapped
by those high energy bills. Take steps toward
conserving energy and lowering utility bills by
applying for weatherization today.
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Financial
Services
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| Adoption
Subsidy: |
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State and federal
statutes provide for adoption support payments to
assist adoptive families in meeting the special
needs of the children they adopt. SRS staff are
responsible for identifying children who have special
needs that present financial barriers to adoption.
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| Child
Care: |
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The Child Care program provides
subsidized child care to welfare recipients to help
them obtain employment, leave welfare, and stay
employed; to low-income employed families and to
Food Stamp recipients engaged in employment, education,
and training.
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| Child
Support Enforcement: |
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CSE is a federal,
state, private, and county operation, providing
a full range of child and medical support services,
from establishing paternity and establishment of
support orders to modifications and enforcement
through state staff and contractors.
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| Food
Assistance (FS): |
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The Food Assistance (food stamp)
program is offered to individuals and families with
income below 130 percent of the national
poverty level.
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| Funeral
Assistance: |
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The Funeral Assistance program
provides funds for low-cost funerals for some public
assistance recipients.
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| General
Assistance (GA): |
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A state-funded cash
assistance program for adults who cannot support
themselves because of a serious physical or mental
disability. General Assistance recipients must pursue
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) eligibility.
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| Kansas
Works |
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work
program services exist to maximize the effectiveness
of public resources; to empower individuals and
families to become more self-sufficient through
employment; and to develop opportunities for present
and future generations to escape dependence on
public assistance.
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| Low
Income Energy Assistance (LIEAP) : |
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The LIEAP provides energy assistance
to households with income under 130 percent of the
national
poverty level during state fiscal year 2000.
The elderly and disabled, and families with
children are the primary groups assisted. Applications
for the annual benefit are taken during January
through March.
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| Medical
Assistance: |
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The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for programs
that deliver an array of health care services to
eligible Kansans. Included within the Health Care
Policy Division is Medicaid and Medical Policy;
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery;
Community Supports and Services, which includes
oversight and policy for the systems serving persons
with physical and developmental disabilities; and
Management Operations. Also included is oversight
of the state’s mental health and retardation hospitals
and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
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| Medical
Assistance - Children: |
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The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for programs
that deliver an array of health care services to
eligible Kansans. Included within the Health Care
Policy Division is Medicaid and Medical Policy;
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery;
Community Supports and Services, which includes
oversight and policy for the systems serving persons
with physical and developmental disabilities; and
Management Operations. Also included is oversight
of the state’s mental health and retardation
hospitals and the Sexual Predator Treatment Program.
This Section of Information and Links focuses on
Medical Assitance and Services for Children.
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| Medical
Assistance - Pregnant Women: |
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The
Division of Health Care Policy sets policy for
programs that deliver an array of health care
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