Foundation Gives Mental Health Sector Millions in Grants
By Diane Stafford, The Kansas City Star, Mo.
Mar. 17–The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City said Thursday that it was awarding $5.7 million in grants to 49 area agencies that provide mental health services.
The foundation, created after the 2002 sale of Health Midwest properties to Hospital Corporation of America, has about $472 million in assets. This year, it will distribute about $15 million.
Steve Roling, foundation president, said agencies receiving money in this round of grants — the second of three planned for 2006 — provide services to people with mental health diagnoses plus drug abuse or alcohol abuse, to people suffering depression, and to people suffering family and child abuse. Grants ranged from $15,000 to $340,000.
Roling said the foundation looked at 93 grant proposals, which had requested more than $17 million, before selecting the recipients.
The foundation also expects to distribute about $4 million in “safety net” grants in July and about $3 million in “healthy lifestyle” grants in November, Roling said.
Agencies may now submit applications for the safety net grants.
Last year, the foundation allocated about $7 million; next year’s goal is to distribute between $23 million and $25 million, Roling said.
Eligible agencies receiving grants are located in Kansas City and in the counties served by the former Health Midwest institutions: Jackson, Cass and Lafayette in Missouri and Wyandotte, Johnson and Allen in Kansas.
The foundation also gives small grants, generally $50,000 or less, on a monthly basis.
The newly announced grants:
American Stroke Foundation, $76,609; Cabot Westside Health Center/Mattie Rhodes Center, $113,000; CASA, $100,000; Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph, $112,730; Child Abuse Prevention Association/Prevent Child Abuse America, $214,526.
Child Advocacy Services Center, $75,000; Children’s TLC Easter Seals, $89,056; Community LINC, $112,200; Comprehensive Mental Health Services, $150,000; DeLaSalle Education Center, $84,917.
Friends of Recovery Association/Oxford Houses of Kansas, $20,000; Friends of Yates, $71,915; Good Samaritan Project, $100,030; Greater Kansas City Link/KCMO School District, $132,084; Guadalupe Center, $89,720.
Harmony NCCJ, $100,000; Homefront Collaborative/The Family Conservancy, $50,000; Hope House, $50,000; Enough (multiagency collaboration), $212,520; Jackson County Safe Family Coalition/Heart of America United Way, $219,010.
Jewish Vocational Service, $15,000; Kansas City Free Health Clinic, $200,000; Lafayette County Children’s Services Fund, $33,280; Mattie Rhodes Center, $105,000; Mental Health Association of the Heartland Center for Practical Bioethics, $137,308.
Midwest Foster Care & Adoption Association/Spofford, $120,000; Municipal Correctional Institution/UMKC School of Social Work, $81,000; Olathe Family Resource Center/Johnson County Community College, $40,000; Operation Breakthrough, $65,541.
Pathways Community Behavioral Healthcare, $174,368; Preferred Family Healthcare, $123,482; Restart, $75,000; Rose Brooks Center/Friends of Yates/Safehome/New House/Hope House, $200,000; Safehome, $74,331; Salvation Army, $113,000.
Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center/Addiction Technology Transfer Center/Missouri, $249,590; Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, $62,000; Spofford/Hickman Mills C-1 School District, $100,000; Missouri/Lafayette County drug court collaboration, $132,000.
Sunflower House, $60,000; Sunshine Center, $25,850; Swope Health Services, $120,000; University of Kansas Medical Center, Center for TeleMedicine, $99,485; KU Center for Research/Project Eagle, $84,997.
TLC For Children and Families/Intensive Family Counseling, $71,546; Tri-County Mental Health Services, $85,000; Truman Medical Center, $289,005; Intervention for recidivist suicidal persons (multientity collaboration), $250,000; Wyandot Center for Community Behavioral Healthcare, $340,000.
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