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Foundation Gives Mental Health Sector Millions in Grants

Posted on: Friday, 17 March 2006, 06:00 CST

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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To reach Diane Stafford, call (816) 234-4359 or send e-mail to stafford@kcstar.com.

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