Expand for Health Care grants

Integrated Care Grants

Area Mental Health Center, Garden City - $40,000 to partner with Greeley County Health Services and United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries to plan for the implementation of integrated care services in multiple primary and mental health care settings (one-year grant)

Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas, Inc., Topeka - $5,000 to support administering an integrated care site self-assessment to all member organizations, compiling and analyzing the data and providing summary findings to the Sunflower Foundation (three-month grant)

COMCARE of Sedgwick County, Wichita - $28,047 to plan for a bidirectional model of integrating primary care into a community mental health center (ten-month grant)

Community Health Ministry, Wamego - $38,255 to increase services and management for mental health and primary care integration (one-year grant)

E.C. Tyree Health and Dental Clinic, Wichita - $32,425 to plan for the implementation of a mental health program into the clinic’s existing primary care delivery system (six-month grant)

Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka, Inc., Topeka - $6,752 to enable three Topeka safety net agencies, a health care coordination organization and a regional school of nursing to collaborate and increase their individual and joint capacities to provide integrated primary health and behavioral healthcare services to underserved and low-income individuals and families in Shawnee County (six-month grant)

Flint Hills Community Health Center, Emporia - $200,000 to enhance integrated primary care and behavioral health services by adding training and staffing and implementing a behavioral component within existing electronic health records (two-year grant)

Health Ministries Clinic, Newton - $200,000 to partner with Prairie View Mental Health Center to expand current integrated services and add telephonic consultation services (two-year grant)

Health Partnership Clinic, Olathe - $200,000 to partner with Elizabeth Layton Center to provide behavioral health care services, consultation services and cross training for staff using the Cherokee Health Systems model of integration (two-year grant)

Heartland Medical Clinic, Lawrence - $200,000 to partner with Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center to expand integrated behavioral health care services, support a psychiatric nurse practitioner, train a biller/coder to become certified and expand to a bidirectional model of integrated care by embedding a midlevel primary care practitioner in a mental health center setting (two-year grant)

Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $5,000 to support administering an integrated care site self-assessment to all member organizations, compiling and analyzing the data and providing summary findings to the Sunflower Foundation (three-month grant)

Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $55,000 to support integration training for Kansas health care providers (six-month grant)

Labette Center for Mental Health Services, Inc., Parsons - $40,000 to build capacity to provide an integrated care "health home" for more than 200 Labette County adults with severe and persistent mental illness (one-year grant)

Salina Health Education Foundation, Salina - $153,782 to develop integration supports and infrastructure, including recordkeeping, education and training, and linkages to community resources (two-year grant)

Wyandot Center for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Kansas City - $200,000 to support a current advanced practice registered nurse, a new integrated care coordinator and a new psychosocial program coordinator (two-year grant)

General Grants

Central Plains Health Care Partnership, Wichita - $50,000 to support the development, submission and defense of an application for a federal Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) loan (six-month grant)

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, Pittsburg - $7,083 to support an organizational analysis for expansion and integration opportunities (six-month grant)

Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation, Topeka - $340,000 to implement a pilot project working with four rural communities in Kansas to establish a two-tiered, performance-based rural community health initiative (two-year grant)

Topeka Community Foundation, Topeka - $53,600 to support a planning process to help the Shawnee County Safety Net Group develop a plan to build capacity of the health care safety net and increase access to care for uninsured residents of Topeka and Shawnee County (one-year grant)

Expand for Healthy Living Grants

Sunflower Trails Grants

City of Baldwin City, Baldwin City - $55,000 to build a 2,640’ long, 6’ wide concrete multi-use path that will connect the Midland Railway train depot with a city park, senior center and senior housing complexes and trail enhancements (one-month grant)

City of Colwich, Colwich - $10,000 to build a 1,405’ long, 6’ wide concrete trail connector that will link two existing Sunflower Trails and complete a loop around a lake in a city park (six-month grant)

City of Eudora, Eudora - $32,940 to build a 2,640’ long, 8’ wide concrete shared-use trail to connect neighborhoods and school facilities with a commercial district and trail enhancements (six-month grant)

City of Fort Scott, Fort Scott - $23,588 to build a 4,330’ long, 5’ wide trail extension that will expand an existing trail around the youth activity facility in Ellis Park (six-month grant)

City of Hutchinson, Hutchinson - $29,000 to build a 1,200’ long, 10’ wide concrete trail connector that will link an existing city trail to a trailhead by a grocery store parking lot and trail enhancements (three-month grant)

City of Lyndon, Lyndon - $39,000 to build a 4,100’ long, 6’ wide concrete trail in Jones Park and trail enhancements (one-year grant)

City of Ottawa, Ottawa - $20,245 to build a 1,200’ long, 8’ wide crushed-rock trail to connect the Flint Hills Nature Trail to the Prairie Spirit Rail Trail  and trail enhancements (six-month grant)

City of Paola, Paola - $17,832 to build a 3.1 mile long, 8’ wide crushed limestone trail to provide the anchor for Paola Pathways, a system of trails throughout Paola and trail enhancements (nine-month grant)

City of Valley Center, Valley Center - $33,000 to build a half-mile long, 6’ wide concrete multi-use trail on the grounds of the McKay-Petrie Sports Complex and trail enhancements (one-year grant)

Eureka Lions Club, Eureka - $25,151 to build a 2,640’ long, 5’ wide concrete walking trail in Lions Park and trail enhancements (seven-month grant)

Hesston College, Hesston - $6,818 to build a 3,010’ long, 10’ wide crushed limestone walking trail to expand the trail system at Dyck Arboretum of the Plains (five-month grant)

Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, White Cloud - $7,105 to install lights and signage on an existing half-mile long community walking trail (six-month grant)

Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, Horton - $54,995 to build a 2,587’ long, 8’ wide multi-use trail behind the tribal wellness center and circling the ball fields and trail enhancements (six-month grant)

Mo Kan 20/20 Vision, Inc., Kansas City - $25,000 to build a 1,320’ long, 6’ wide concrete trail on the campus of J.C. Harmon High School and trail enhancements (three-month grant)

Ottawa County Health Planning Commission, Inc., Minneapolis - $15,750 to build a 2,643’ long, 5’ wide asphalt trail around Markley Grove Park in Minneapolis (one-year grant)

Pawnee County, Larned - $36,000 to build a 4,595’ long, 6’ wide concrete trail to extend an existing trail at Camp Pawnee and trail enhancements (four-month grant)

Prairie Travelers, Wichita - $1,500 to add signage to the existing 8 miles of the Prairie Sunset Trail between Garden Plain and Goddard (six-month grant)

USD #305/Salina, Salina - $11,900 to build a 1,320’ long, 6’ wide concrete walking trail on the grounds of Coronado Elementary School in Salina (seven-month grant)

USD #335/North Jackson, Holton - $1,825 to repair and reinforce three bridges and improve drainage of the existing 3.1 mile Hilltop Trail at Jackson Heights Middle/High School and trail enhancements (six-month grant)

USD #345/Seaman, Topeka - $23,125 to build a 4,430’ long, 12’ wide recycled crushed concrete multi-use trail on the grounds of Seaman High School and trail enhancements (eleven-month grant)

USD #383/Manhattan-Ogden, Manhattan - $11,261 to build a 1,760’ long, 8’ wide limestone trail on the grounds of Northview Elementary School, linking Northview Park to Northeast Park and trail enhancements (one-year grant)

USD #457/Garden City, Garden City - $15,000 to build a 1,458’ long, 8’ wide concrete walking trail extension from Mary Street to the new Garden City High School campus (one-year grant)

USD #500/Kansas City Kansas, Kansas City - $2,410 to build a 900' long, 6' wide crushed limestone walking trail on the grounds of the Noble Prentis Elementary School (six-month grant)

General Grants

Kansas Department of Health & Environment, Topeka - $5,000 to support the Kansas Obesity Summit hosted by the Governor's Council on Fitness and held in Topeka September 6, 2012 (one-month grant)

Kansas Wildscape Foundation, Lawrence - $25,000 to develop a Public Service Announcement entitled "Take a Hike" to promote Kansas trails (three-month grant)

KC Healthy Kids, Kansas City - $10,000 to support the organization and hosting of the 2013 Built Environment and the Outdoors Summit held September 25-26, 2013, in Topeka (six-month grant)

Expand for Public Information, Education & Special Initiatives grants

Heartland Foundation, St. Joseph - $5,000 to support participation by Kansas leaders in the Communities of Excellence 2050 conference, held October 4-5, 2012, to educate and develop competencies required for creating, leading and sustaining healthy, vibrant communities (one-month grant)

Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, Topeka - $62,000 to support a full-time position for a Senior Director for Health Reform Education, a Kansas health philanthropy partnership  (two-year grant)

Kansas Public Radio - KANU FM, Lawrence - $130,000 to support the continuation of the weekly statewide radio series, "Kansas Health: A Prescription for Change" (three-year grant)

Rawlins County Dental Clinic, Atwood - $8,600 for a board retreat to develop advocacy principles, an overall agenda, goals and strategies, as well as a plan to integrate advocacy into the clinic’s operations and institute a grassroots structure for future mobilization (six-month grant)

Foundation Initiated Projects

Sunflower Foundation Advocacy Fellowship, Topeka – A custom-designed program to help Kansas leaders in nonprofit health and human services organizations improve their advocacy skills

Integrated Care Learning Collaborative, Topeka – A program built upon the concepts of shared learning that provides Integrated Care Initiative grantees with educational opportunities that support the integration of primary and behavioral health care