Synergy Services strengthens community through comprehensive care

By Ruth Ramsey on April 18, 2019
Our Health Matters
Publisher

This comprehensive care model is complex, but the mission is not. Synergy Services, a local nonprofit, opened its Homeless Youth Campus including its Youth Resiliency Center in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2010 with the goal of providing a lifeline to families and individuals in crisis. Synergy envisions a world without family violence, abuse and neglect. […]

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Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Safety Net

Children’s Mercy offers medical home for children discovering their gender identity

By Christine Moser, PsyD on February 21, 2019
Clinical Psychologist
Children’s Mercy

When Alex was three years old, he knew that he didn’t fit the body he’d been born with. Alex and his mother eloquently describe their journey with gender dysphoria and ultimately his gender transition in Season 3 of Inside Pediatrics.   My colleague Dr. Jill Jacobson and I founded the Gender Pathways Services Clinic (GPS) […]

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Applicant Defined Grants, Behavioral Health Care, Health Care, Mental Health Care

Health Care Foundation is now Health Forward Foundation

By Bridget McCandless, MD on November 14, 2018
President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation

Most of you know us as Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City. But we also answer to the Kansas City Health Care Foundation, the Greater Kansas City Health Care Foundation, and sometimes even the health department. It can be confusing, we know. It was hard on our partners when they sometimes struggled to introduce […]

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Health Forward, Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Safety Net

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Announcing changes to Health Forward’s 2019 application deadlines

 Changes to Health Forward 2019 grants schedule

By Health Forward Grants Team on September 4, 2018

Health Forward Foundation

We are excited to announce that we will be transitioning from our current grant management system to a new system that better fits our needs and delivers a more user-friendly and efficient experience for you, our applicants. To accommodate the move to a new grants management system, we are building in downtime in our funding […]

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Applicant Defined Grants, Health Forward, Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Safety Net

New MO HealthNet policy enhances access to behavioral health services in school settings

 Mental health behavioral health

By Jasmine Burris on July 11, 2018
Program Quality and Outreach Manager
Show-Me School-Based Health Alliance

Schools have a new opportunity to meet students’ behavioral health needs, thanks to the advocacy efforts of Missouri School Boards’ Association (MSBA) School-Based Health Center Task Force and the continuing efforts of the emerging state affiliate of national School-Based Health Alliance: Show-Me School-Based Health (SMSBH). MSBA started convening school districts, community providers, and state agencies […]

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Behavioral Health Care, Mental Health Care

Health Forward responds to family separation and detention border policies

By Bridget McCandless, MD on June 28, 2018
President and CEO
Health Forward Foundation

Our focus at Health Forward has always been to advocate for the health of those in our community who are most in need. It was a promise we made at the inception of the organization in 2003. It is not only our obligation to do this, but our privilege. Over the years, we have supported […]

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Behavioral Health Care, Health Forward, Mental Health Care, Policy

District sees students succeed through school-based health services

By Allyson Klos, MS, LPC on November 16, 2017
School-based Therapist
Pathways Community Health

Eight years ago, we debuted the ACCESS program, a partnership between Pathways Community Health and Belton School District. The program started with much anticipation during the 2010-2011 school year and was implemented in all 10 schools in the district. All of the schools offer the same individual and family therapy support provided by the five […]

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Behavioral Health Care, Mental Health Care, Policy

Scaling up school-based health services

By Donna Bushur on November 15, 2017
Program Officer
Health Forward Foundation

Shannon Morris
Program Officer, Health Forward Foundation

All of us at Health Forward recognize that children who are well are more likely to succeed in school and life. That’s why we are proud to have provided nearly $7 million in grants for school-based health services, particularly mental health services (see here, here and here for examples). Read how school-based therapy is helping […]

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Behavioral Health Care, Mental Health Care, Policy

Health Forward releases two-year policy agenda

By Jessica Hembree on October 25, 2017
Policy Officer
Health Forward Foundation

Whew, these are some challenging times in health policy, and not a single one is a simple fix. Between repeal/replace attempts at the federal level, a steady drumbeat of ACA-related executive orders, dormant efforts at expanding Medicaid (looking at you here, Missouri), and a groundswell of interest from area cities that are taking the reins […]

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Health Care, Health Forward, Health Reform, Healthy Communities, Mental Health Care, Policy, Safety Net


Health Forward Blog aims to discuss health and health policy issues that impact the uninsured and underserved in our service area. To submit a blog, please contact Health Forward Communications Officer Jennifer Sykes, at jsykes@hcfgkc.org.

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