CRAWFORD COUNTY, Kan. – Kansas funding goals to assist create Household Useful resource Facilities in a number of native communities.
Governor Laura Kelly introduced the practically $1.8 million in funding for 10 facilities. The Kansas Division for Kids and Households granted the funds. It is a part of the division’s ongoing efforts to lower the necessity for households to have formal contact with the company. The company additionally hopes it’ll lead to fewer youth within the foster care system.
“We all know that if we may help construct the talents mandatory for households to succeed, we are able to forestall the necessity for households to have contact with DCF, particularly the kid welfare system,” Secretary Laura Howard mentioned. “These facilities will give attention to mum or dad resilience, social connections and essential mum or dad and little one growth abilities which we imagine will lead to fewer youth within the foster care system.”
The KDCF has granted funds to the next:
|
Company |
Counties Served |
Award Quantity |
|
Neighborhood Kids’s Heart |
Douglas County |
$208,300 |
|
Kansas Household Advisory Community SE |
Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Linn, Montgomery, Neosho, Osage, and Wilson Counties |
$208,300 |
|
Kansas Household Advisory Community SW |
Barton, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grey, Greeley, Harvey, Lyon, Marion, McPherson, Meade, Pawnee, Reno, Rice, Seward, and Stafford Counties |
$208,300 |
|
Kansas Kids’s Service League |
Sedgwick County |
$208,333 |
|
KU Mission Eagle |
Wyandotte County |
$208,095 |
|
Dwell Nicely NWKS |
Cheyenne, Rawlins, Decatur, Norton, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, Graham, Wallace, Logan, Gove, and Trego Counties |
$208,300 |
|
Pony Specific |
Marshall and Washington Counties |
$197,443 |
|
Turner USD 202 |
Wyandotte County; USD 202 |
$84,000 |
|
City League of Kansas |
67214 zip code in Sedgwick County |
$124,999 |
|
USD 252 Lyon Co. |
Lyon County communities of Neosho Rapids, Harford and Olpe |
$106,142 |
The overall quantity awarded was $1,762,212.
“The facilities receiving these grants function neighborhood hubs with the only real function of supporting households in their very own neighborhoods,” Governor Laura Kelly mentioned. “Offering simpler entry to packages and providers, together with job abilities coaching, early childhood packages, and dietary providers, units Kansas households up for achievement.”
In accordance with Kelly’s Workplace, Household Useful resource Facilities are designed for all households with providers at no or low value for members. Examples of providers and helps provided at a useful resource middle embrace:
- Childcare useful resource and referral
- Counseling
- Early childhood packages
- Meals financial institution, cooking, and diet packages
- Well being screenings
- Residence visiting program
- Job abilities coaching
- Authorized providers
- Literacy packages
- Guardian management and peer teams
- Play teams
- Youth management and peer teams
DCF companions with the Kansas Kids’s Service League (KCSL) to manage the Household Useful resource Heart community. KCSL will work with the communities to design and create their middle. Because the lead operator of the Guardian Helpline 1-800-Kids, KCSL provides insights on parenting and caregiver sources to assist with the success of every Household Useful resource Facilities.
The grants run by June 30, 2024, with three one-year choices to resume.
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