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The initiatives come a year after the Sedgwick County Commission signed onto a national resolution to reduce the number of people with mental illness in jail.
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The number of people booked into the Douglas County jail with serious mental illness dropped from 18% in 2014 to 10% in 2022 — and hit a low of 5.5% in 2018.
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The agreement promises services that could help hundreds of people leave nursing homes and live on their own.
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Holes punched in walls. Car headlights smashed. Windows broken. Weapons, threats, sexual comments. Children who can’t live with other children. Children...
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The Douglas County Sheriff's Office wants the county to commit to reducing the number of jail inmates who are seriously mentally ill.The office will ask…
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A Wichita organization will begin a new program next month to help people with mental illnesses cope with stressful situations.Episcopal Social Services…
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Two new programs in Topeka will provide court and dental services to people with mental illness.An alternative sentencing court run through the Topeka…
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Kansas officials must now find another $40 million dollars for the state's Medicaid program known as KanCare between now and the end of the budget year.…
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Jeff Willett with the Kansas Health Foundation says Kansans with mental illness are twice as likely to smoke as the general population.Willett recently…
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The number of mentally ill prisoners in Kansas has increased by 126 percent since 2006. Nearly two out of every five adult inmates in Kansas are…