~~“..the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is approving Kansas’s request for an extension of its section 1115(a) demonstration titled, “KanCare” (Project Number 11-W-00283/7), along with modifications to the demonstration that will apply during the extension period. With this approval, the KanCare demonstration extension w ill be in effect from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2023. “
“Kansas will provide new employment supports to beneficiaries with behavioral health diagnoses and eligible for a 1915(c), either by being on the waitlist or already being enrolled in the 1915(c). This voluntary pilot will be capped at 500 beneficiaries. Services will include pre-vocational support services, supportive employment services, personal assistant services, independent living skills training, assistive technology, and transportation, and are similar to services that could be offered as state plan home and community-based services (HCBS) benefit under section 1915(i) of the Social Security Act (the Act). Included in the pilot is a targeted expansion of Medicaid for individuals on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) who would normally not be eligible for Medicaid without meeting spend-down requirements and these beneficiaries will be eligible for both the pilot services and Medicaid state plan services.“
~~“The Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) Summative Assessment will have many tools available to help students navigate the online system. Some of the tools will be available to all students, while others will only be available to students who have the need identified in their Individual Education Plans, Section 504 Plans, ELL Plan or statement of student needs. Many of these tools are available currently in the interactive demos and interim assessment, but all will be available for the summative assessments. All tools and accommodations work on laptops and desktops (Windows or Mac), tablets (Chromebooks or iPads).”
~~“While the Task Force considers all recommendations in Figure 2 (page ES-vi) to be priorities, there were a number of action items that emerged as essential to the implementation of the entire plan, including: •Expanding Medicaid would undergird many of the recommendations by improving access to behavioral health services at all levels of care and allowing investment in workforce and capacity (Recommendation 2.5, page 36); •Restoring and increasing community outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment, primary care, housing, employment and peer programs will improve outcomes for individuals and families (Recommendation 1.5, page 21; Recommendation 2.1,page 26; Recommendation 2.6, page 38; and Recommendation”
~~“The KANSASWORKS State Board serves as a review board and change agent empowered with the responsibility of making recommendations to the Governor and to state agencies to align workforce development with the needs of economic development in the state.”
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~~“Categorical aid helps with the cost of implementing Individualized Education Program(IEP)services over and above the regular education that all students are entitled to receive. All expenditures claimed for reimbursement under categorical aid must have been paid from the Local Education Agency (LEA)’s special education funds All categorical aid money requested by the LEA must be deposited in its special education fund”
“KanCare is the program through which the State of Kansas administers Medicaid. Launched in January, 2013, KanCare is delivering whole-person, integrated care to more than 415,000 people across the state. Kansas has contracted with three health plans, or managed care organizations (MCOs), to coordinate health care for all people enrolled in Medicaid. More about KanCare can be found by accessing the web link.”
~~“The Workforce Alliance of South Central Kanas (WA) and Susan B Allen Hospital (SBA), in partnership with the Kansas Department of Commerce, are implementing a stay-at-work/return-to-work program, called RETAIN WORKS, Retaining Employment and Talent after Injury/Illness Network. The project will begin on June 3, 2019, with a nine-month pilot program for Butler County employers or residents through the Butler Workforce Center, in partnership with Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital (SBA) in El Dorado.
The goal is to assist individuals who become ill or injured remain in the labor force, which benefits the individual, their family, employers and the economy. The program also aims to reduce long-term work absences among project participants, and lessen the need for individuals to seek Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits.”
“The 2018 Kansas Legislature included a provision in the budget bill directing KDADS to include acquired brain injuries (ABI) into the current TBI waiver. The proviso also directed that the amended waiver serve children under the age of 16. Policy and procedural changes surrounding this expansion will emerge through the stakeholder engagement process and will be phased in over the five-year life of the waiver. The former traumatic brain injury waiver will migrate away from a strictly rehabilitative waiver to one the is both habilitative and rehabilitative in nature.”
“The State of Kansas currently operates an approved Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability (IDD) waiver that provides services to eligible children and adults. The purpose of this waiver is to provide the opportunity for innovation in providing Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS)to eligible participants who would otherwise require institutionalization in an Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability (ICF-IID). Consistent with the Developmental Disabilities Reform Act of 1995 (DDRA), the goals and objectives of the waiver continue to center around providing participants, who have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, access to services and supports which allow opportunities for choices that increase the participant’s independence, productivity, integration, and inclusion in the community. Further, this range of supports and services will be appropriated to each participant and will be provided in a manner that affords the same dignity and respect to participants with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities that would be afforded to any person who does not have a disability.”