Improve access to mental health services and enable people to live healthy and resilient lives.
31
Grants
$4.7
Million funded
Grants Addressed*:
Improved Capacity
74%
Improved Access
77%
Improved Quality
87%
*Grantees could select one or more of these strategies outlined in our theory of change. Of the 2019 grantees, 70 percent chose more than one.
Amethyst Place
Belton School District #124
Center for Developmentally Disabled
Child Protection Center
Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Compass Health
Comprehensive Mental Health Services
Genesis School
Gordon Parks Elementary School
Hope House
Jewish Family Services
Jewish Vocational Service
KC CARE Health Center
KC Healthy Kids
KidsTLC
Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault
Poetry for Personal Power
reStart
Rose Brooks Center
SAFEHOME
SAVE, Inc.
Sheffield Place
Sunflower House
Synergy Services
The Family Conservancy
Tri-County Mental Health Services
Truman Medical Center Charitable Foundation
Veronica’s Voice
Vibrant Health
Welcome House
Wyandot Center
Theory of Change
Purpose
Improve the availability and quality of mental and behavioral health services.*
*Mental/behavioral health services may be referred to as “services.”
Strategies
Improve Capacity
- Advance strategies that deepen workforce and leadership capacity.
- Fund core operating support that leads to organizational improvement, builds infrastructure, or promotes sustainability.
- Develop strategic and accountable partnerships that lead to enhanced continuum of care.
Improve Access
- Promote policies, practices, and technology that increases coverage, affordability, and availability of services.
- Support place-based services and strategies.
- Encourage coordinated care and collaboration among multiple agencies and partners.
- Support outreach strategies to inform and engage target populations.
Improve Quality Practice
- Encourage the use of emerging or best practices that are evidence based.
- Support services that are family-focused, person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed.
- Support the integration of services into primary care settings.
Ultimate Impact
Mental and behavioral health supports will enable people to live healthy and resilient lives in the community.
