Dccca

Child placing agency (cpa) specialists recruit, train, license, and provide ongoing support to foster and adoptive families across Kansas and Missouri. Dccca staff provide a broad range of support to foster adoptive families 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Dccca has provided child placing agency services since 2001. Dccca's cpa has worked with approximately 852 families in the past year either as potential foster or adoptive families or as licensed foster families. Dccca's cpa helped support over 1106 children. We kan drive enrolled 121 youth in driver's education courses, purchased auto insurance policies for 31 youth, and supported 64 youth in obtaining some form of licensure. Family preservation staff provide in-home interventions to assist in crisis by improving parenting and family functioning. While keeping children safe, Dccca supports families 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Dccca utilizes evidence-based sobriety treatment and recovery teams model to enhance outcomes for families with substance use needs. Dccca initially began family preservation services in 1997. Dccca provided services to 852 families during the fiscal year 2023.

Dccca's community-based initiatives span four states. Prevention services programs design and develop learning modules and training resources focused on substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion, suicide prevention, and problem gambling prevention. Dccca has specific prescription drug and opioid misuse prevention efforts in Kansas and Oklahoma. Dccca's community-based services division also offers strategic planning and meeting facilitation services for community organizations and mental health first aid training in Kansas, Dccca has three primary projects: a statewide training and technical assistance project, a state-wide opioid and prescription drug misuse project, and a federal drug-free communities initiative in douglas county. Within the Kansas prescription drug prevention efforts, Dccca maintains contracts with the Kansas department for aging and disability services and the Kansas department of health and environment to collaborate with key stakeholders to maintain and update the Kansas strategic plan to address prescription drug and opioid misuse. Dccca also coordinates naloxone distribution and safe storage and disposal methods for prescription drugs and opioids. Dccca utilizes funds from the douglas county government to leverage federal drug-free communities dollars to address substance misuse among youth and build community partnerships in douglas county. In Oklahoma, Dccca has three primary projects focused on opioid misuse prevention, stimulant misuse prevention, and mental health first aid. The opioid and stimulant projects focus on community-based planning and implementation of evidence-based strategies; education focused on the medical availability of prescription drugs, emphasizing safe use, storage, and disposal of prescription drugs, and promotion of naloxone administration. Dccca operates traffic safety programs in Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Missouri. In Kansas, we provide public information and education on occupant protection, impaired driving, novice drivers, distracted driving, older drivers, motorcycle safety, and underage drinking. In Kansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa we offer the seatbelts are for everyone (safe) program, which is a teen-led, peer-to-peer program designed to reduce the number of motor vehicle related injuries and fatalities among teens. Additionally, in Missouri, Dccca offers to booster to belts program which is an interactive way for teens to teach children (k-3rd grade) the importance of wearing a seat belt and using a booster seat.

Dccca behavioral health has been providing treatment services in Kansas for almost 50 years, starting in douglas county in 1974 and expanding to cover other areas of the state. During the fiscal year, Dccca's substance use disorder treatment programs served 2,196 individuals, while 62 children received care from our licensed childcare centers while their mother's received treatment. Additionally, 39 individuals received outpatient mental health services.dccca behavioral health is committed to helping clients receive medication-assisted treatment by connecting them with licensed prescribers. With state funding, Dccca programs can provide access to medications for uninsured individuals. During the past year, 64 people received medication-assisted treatment through Dccca programs. Dccca's women's recovery center in wichita, in partnership with the Kansas department of aging and disability services, was awarded a 3-year grant from samhsa to focus on substance-using pregnant and post-partum women. The program, called Kansas helping empower and recover together (ks-heart), is a yearlong family-centered approach to substance use treatment and recovery for pregnant and parenting women. Dccca behavioral health continues to prioritize peer support activities, including the social detox services which provided detox services to 191 individuals, and the Dccca family preservation program which collaborates with the sobriety treatment and recovery (start) program.

Dccca inc.'s other programs carry out our mission to provide social and community services that improve the safety, health and well-being of those we serve. Dccca's programs are consistent with best practices in the industry and are accredited through the council on accreditation (coa). Additional information can be found at www.dccca.org.