Kansas City Metro Areas
General overview
The majority of facilities supporting the homeless are shelters, thus they may have the waiting list. Moreover, there is an eligibility criterion and the list of requirements, i.e., a candidate shall prove employment search, or have dependents.
HOMELESS POPULATION
(816) 483-9927
http://sheffieldplace.org/, Executive Director Email: ST
Eligibility Criterion: single mothers and homeless families. Homeless mother with up to five dependent children, or in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Services provided include housing and transitional programs for mothers, children and families. The organization is linking the homeless with employers and housing. Services are suitable for urban immigrants and ethnic minority groups.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: Clinical services provide cover specific target groups. There is the children's and family therapists who decides about the best way of treatments, and in such a way, qualified medical aid is provided. Psycho-educational groups are to assist people fighting mental dysfunctions caused by difficult life conditions. PCIT facilitates traumatized children recovery. There are similar clinical services for adults. Regular food and clothing helps to provide stable conditions, prevent malnutrition, dermatological and other illnesses. Professional support of the qualified medical staff will ensure proper recovery plan and healthcare. Psycho-educational groups are to assist people fighting mental dysfunctions caused by difficult life conditions.
http://www.hopecarecenter.org/SiteResources/Data/Templates/t1.asp?docid=514&DocName=Home
Eligibility Criterion: single mothers and homeless families. Homeless mother with up to five dependent children, or in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Services provided include: The organization creates the home-like environment allowing guaranteeing individual attention. The Hope Care Center provides short-term, long-term and Hospice residency. Along with healthcare organizes outdoor and entertainment activities in order to improve moral and psychological condition of residents.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: Shelter and other basic facilities like showers, heating, and laundry enable to obviate risks of states caused by poor hygienic conditions, frostbite, infections caused by lice and other factors. Psycho-educational groups are to assist people fighting mental dysfunctions caused by difficult life conditions.
http://www.hopefaithministries.org/our-ministries/
Eligibility Criterion: homeless and low-income residents of Kansas
Services provided include free health, vision, and dental clinics, hot meals, provide clothing and hygiene products, provide with medications, showers, laundry.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: healthy food prevents the homeless from malnutrition, and hunger, medical, dental and vision care services are at hand to diagnose and treat diseases of that segment of population, who are deprived of medical insurance and cost to pay in hospitals. Shelter and housing allows to obviate risks of states caused by poor hygienic conditions, frost bite, infections caused by lice and other factors.
(913) 321-1566
Eligibility Criterion: victims of domestic violence only.
Services provided include temporary housing, shelter.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: by allowing victims of domestic violence to find a different place to stay, the shelter protects them from the violence they face at home and helps them find a new place to stay.
(816) 753-4753
forestavenuefamilyshelter.org
Eligibility Criterion:
Services provided include starting from an initial stay of 30 days with an up to 90 day stay and a program consisting of multiple phases. The guests are provided with a case manager, who works with them and helps them set small realistic goals, improve their motivation and help them get back on their feet.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: the long period of time that is given for people to stay and the personal manager assigned to help them, all help them stay healthy and sound in order to be ready to apply for jobs, get themselves cleaned up and set their life back on track.
CHILDREN
Also suitable for Homeless People, Economically Deprived.
Homeless People, Economically Deprived, Children, Racial/Ethnic Minority and Health
website: http://www.restartinc.org/
Eligibility Criterion: homeless families from Johnson County area, with minimum one underage dependant obtaining education. There are subdivisions specialized of the particular group: children, families in need, vulnerable adults, victims of emergency and disasters. Children are the main focus of the organization. A feature of the organization is its social direction, i.e. Sport League and Civic Luncheons. Aid given is also offered for economically deprived people, at risk of losing their shelter. Sub division of the Cross-Cultural Ministry for Spanish-speaking people in need.
Services provided include: emergency shelters for staying at night, periodical living and permanent shelter. Focus groups: youth, family, adults. Special feature of the organization: outreach programs and schemes, which instead of waiting for the deprived are looking for people in need themselves.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: Examination of the mental health, provision of assistance and guidance in resolving substance abuse. Healthcare education is aimed at building sustainable skills for healthcare, risk groups testing for most widespread illnesses like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS testing.
Also suitable for Economically Deprived, Children.
website: www.salarmy-mokan.org
Eligibility Criterion: homeless families from Johnson County area, with minimum one underage dependent obtaining education. There are subdivisions specializing in particular group: children, families in need, vulnerable adults, victims of emergencies and disasters. Children are the focus of the organization. A feature of the organization is its social direction, i.e. Sport League and Civic Luncheons.
Services provided include: shelter (for the period of 3-6 month), recovery programs, psychological aid, providing utilities
How the resources that are offered address the health needs:
The emphasis is made on psychological reintegration aimed to help the victims build their way to recovery effectively. Shelter and other shelter facilities like showers, heating, and laundry enable to obviate risks of states caused by poor hygienic conditions, frost bite, infections caused by lice and other factors. Civic Luncheons are to avert malnutrition.
Also suitable for Homeless People, Economically Deprived.
website: http://www.kidstlc.org/
Eligibility Criterion: the homeless, economically deprived people, women, sexual abuse and other type of abuse victims, victims of addictions, and mental illnesses. Also available for victims of the severe weather conditions.
Services provided include: psychiatric treatment of children, community outreach, outpatient behavioral health, and autism and wellness programs, emergency crisis stabilization for children
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: safe environment contributes to recovery and prevents possible complications. Being in the community of other children and professionals children will recover quicker and this will further their social integration.
Drug use
website: http://www.axisresidentialtreatment.com/
Eligibility Criterion: men and women suffering from drug abuse, LGBT Friendly
Services provided include: detox services, treatment of behavioral disorders, dual-diagnosis treatment
How the resources that are offered address the health needs:
Professionally controlled detoxication, constant physical and psychological guidance of medical staff, Individualized care increases the effectiveness of the treatment, constant monitoring of the health condition contributes to prevent severe health problems caused by detoxication. Psychologists, licensed therapists, counselors, and other health care professionals assure that the recovery is advancing in the less harmful for the addict way. Group trainings give the adequate level of socialization to return to social life after treatment.
website: http://www.axisresidentialtreatment.com/
Eligibility Criterion: men and women suffering from drug abuse, LGBT Friendly
Services provided include: devise recovery plan, detox services, treatment of behavioral disorders, dual-diagnosis treatment
How the resources that are offered address the health needs:
Professionally controlled detoxication, constant physical and psychological guidance of medical staff allows to cure from the disease without possible complications and with minimulharm to the psychological condition of the patient.
http://www.rehabcenter.net/rehab-centers/missouri-rehab-centers/kansas-city/benilde-hall-program#inline_content
Eligibility Criterion: individuals suffering from drug addictions
Services provided include: dual diagnosis treatment for the type of people who struggle with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorder, addiction treatment for persons with HIV/AIDS, addiction, addiction treatment for seniors/older adults, court ordered addiction treatment, aftercare addiction treatment.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: Constant control and medication helps to fulfill detox and psychological guidance supports recovery and prevents from possible depression and suicidal moods.
Also suitable for Homeless People, Economically Deprived, Children.
website: http://cityunionmission.org/what-we-do/
Eligibility Criterion: the homeless, economically deprived people, women, sexual abuse and other type of abuse victims, victims of addictions, and mental illnesses. Also available for victims of the severe weather conditions.
Services provided include: the organization provides housing, clothing, meals, temporary accommodation, and psychological counsel. There are regularly organized support groups aimed at providing psychological guidance. Moreover, the on-site nurse renders services to prevent and to eliminate possible health problems. The City Union mission connects individuals with social workers and potential employers, so as to help people to solve the problem they are struggling with.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs:
Clothing and food enables to prevent typical problems caused by homelessness like improper hygienic conditions, poor sanitation, and improper temperature regime. Regular meals allow avoiding malnutrition and hunger. Recovery centers fighting with addictions and their outcomes assist effective recovery both on the psychological and physical levels. Psychological counseling helps to overcome the negative impact of home violence, addictions and poor economical condition state and thus prevent chronic depression.
(913) 636-9650
website: http://www.psykc.com/
Eligibility Criterion: both individuals and couples, including families and kids, who suffer from one of many issues, including depression, problems in the relationship and substance abuse
Services provided include: therapy, both individual and group.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: Through therapy, people first learn that they have a problem and then start fighting it. Therapy provides many options which can be specific and custom-created for each of the guests..
Sexual Minority Groups
website: healthcareguild.com
Eligibility Criterion: individuals, who face discrimination on gender and sexual basis
Services provided include: Basing on personal appeals the organization advocates rights of the sexual minority groups and individuals. Professional medical and mental health services, activities aimed at improving healthcare services for gender and sexual minorities. Organize high school GSA clubs, and cooperate with school districts in order to prohibit bullying. Give support to isolated members of LGBT Kansans. Resource center for LGBT individuals seeking competent medical support taking into account the criterion of cultural competency. The LGBT-Affirmative Therapists Guild also educates and advices practitioners.The essential part of its activities is Therapy Groups, Support Groups, and Other Community Based Connections. Psychological support of LGBT families.
Help to prevent depression and even suicidal conditions caused by discriminative environment. The organization assists in searching the appropriate medical staff and healthcare professionals. Treatment of pre-depressive conditions, support in combating specific emotional and behavior problems.
website: likeme.org
Eligibility Criterion: LGBT individuals and their families, friends, and straight allies
Services provided include: ducational sessions and social events to give the LGBT community a sense of belonging and to bring them together, support to isolated members of LGBT Kansans, the LIKEME® Organization instituted a Scholarship Fund to provide college scholarships to graduating LGBT high school seniors who demonstrate that they actively advocate for the LGBT community, or who have been severely affected by the teen suicide of an LGBT family member
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: Help to prevent depression and even suicidal conditions caused by discriminative environment and lead normal life.
website: http://pflagkc.org/
Eligibility Criterion: LGBT individuals and their families, friends.
Services provided include: psychological guidance, Support for families, allies and people who are LGBTQ. Advocacy of their right in schools, workplaces, communities and other institutions.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: Help to prevent depression and even suicidal conditions caused by discriminative environment. Prevent social alienation, which may lead to dangerous psychological conditions.
HEALTH
Curtis State Office Building, 1000 SW Jackson, Topeka, Kansas
http://www.kdheks.gov/sti_hiv/mission.htm /
Eligibility Criterion: individuals who are impacted by HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and viral hepatitis, specifically Hepatitis C.
Services provided include: provides comprehensive medical case management and prevention services.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: assistance to communicate with professional doctors and support in adhering the medication plan ensures the qualified treatment of these serious diseases, prevention programs avert further spread of the diseases. Clinical services provide professional and qualified care and treatment of HIV-positive individuals. Home-like atmosphere and organizing free-time activities allow HIV-positive people not to feel themselves isolated from the community and thus avoid severe psychological conditions.
C Walnut St, Kansas City, MO 64108urtis State Office Building, 1000 SW Jackson, Topeka, Kansas
http://www.gsp-kc.org/about-us/
Eligibility Criterion: men, women, and children affected by HIV/AIDS, able to provide proof of income not to exceed 300% of poverty and living in Missouri: Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte, and Ray; Kansas: Johnson, Miami, Leavenworth and Wyandotte or receiving primary care within the 11-county area.
Services provided include: case management of particular individual’s illness, mental support by a professional therapist, transportation services to reach medical services/ pharmacy.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: obtain qualified treatment, under a control of qualified stuff, in-time application of medication, HIV prevention services and testing for HIV, gonorrhea, and chlamydia.
Kansas City, Missouri 64171
www.saveinckc.org
Eligibility Criterion: people living with HIV, individuals, who encounter peoblems connected with difficult health situation
Services provided include: Housing for people living with HIV, support people having mental illnesses, and struggling with some abuse. Individuals suffering from severe medical conditions may also find shelter and care here.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: Medical staff provides professional and qualified assistance to HIV-positive individuals. Giving shelter prevents people suffering from severe medical conditions from possible complications. Clinical services provide professional and qualified care and treatment of HIV-positive individuals. Home-like atmosphere and organizing free-time activities allow HIV-positive people not to feel themselves isolated from the community and thus avoid severe psychological conditions.
website: http://www.lilaccenter.org/
Eligibility Criterion: People with borderline personality disorder, suicidal and self-harm victims
Services provided include: appointments for different time in the day to provide guests with effective treatment options. Also includes cognitive therapy for different victims.
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: often people with such disorders as BPD and those feeling suicidal don’t have a place to go. This center provides not only a place where they will feel like they are not crazy, but it also provides ways to avoid self-harm and thus stay healthy and free from any drugs that may have lead them to this situation.
website: http://www.kcchildtrauma.com/
Eligibility Criterion: children and adolescents with different traumas
Services provided include: hypnosis
How the resources that are offered address the health needs: through hypnosis the services promises to help children get over trauma or any suicide issues. In addition, it helps get rid of chronic headaches and any other pains that the child may be suffering. Some other possibilities include parent difficulties with teens and dissociative identity disorder.
References
The Salvation Army of Kansas & Western Missouri. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://salarmymokan.org/
My Father's House Community Services. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.my-fathers-house.com/
Overview - Sheffield Place. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://sheffieldplace.org/overview
HomelessShelterDirectory. (n.d.). Retrieved February 06, 2016, from http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/
ReStart. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.restartinc.org/
Good Samaritan Project (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.gsp-kc.org/about-us/\
Positive Connections, The Kansas STI/HIV Care Program. (n.d). Retrieved from
http://www.kdheks.gov/sti_hiv/mission.htm
Benilde Hall Program. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.rehabcenter.net/rehab-centers/missouri-rehab-centers/kansas-city/benilde-hall-program#inline_content
Hope Faith Ministries. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.hopefaithministries.org/our-ministries/
KidsTLC. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.kidstlc.org/
SAVE, Inc. (n.d). Retrieved from www.saveinckc.org
PFLAG Kansas City (n.d). Retrieved from http://pflagkc.org/
The LIKEME® Organization. (n.d). Retrieved from http//likeme.org
Addiction Recovery Rehab Treatment Center. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.axisresidentialtreatment.com/
Axis Residential Treatment. (n.d). Retrieved from http://www.axisresidentialtreatment.com/
