Kansas Creating Action Plan To Improve Access To Mental Health Care

The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (DADS) is creating an action plan to implement recommendations for improving access to preventative and early mental health treatment and for better coordination between state agencies, Kansas school districts, and communities. The recommendations were released on April 15, 2014, by a task force appointed by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback. The governor directed KDADS to create an action plan to first implement recommendations that can be made immediately without changing laws. The recommendations highlighted improving collaboration among state agencies that administer mental health programs or care for individuals with mental illness, making mental . . .