KDADS

TOPEKA – Every September, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), sponsors National Recovery Month to increase awareness of behavioral health conditions. Mental and substance use disorders are prevalent in Kansas communities, and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) believes it’s imperative that individuals understand how and where to seek help.

KDADS supports programs in prevention, treatment and recovery. Focus on recovery includes initiatives that provide one-to-one support services from peers who have been successful in the recovery process in Kansas communities. These services can effectively extend the reach of treatment beyond the clinical setting into the everyday environment.

“Individuals who experience a mental health, substance use and/or gambling disorder often feel isolated and alone. Too many people are unaware that prevention works, treatment is effective and people can and do recover,” said KDADS Secretary Tim Keck.

KDADS is working to incorporate peer support services across all of the state’s behavioral health systems:
 Consumer Run Organizations (CROs) are dedicated to improving the lives of adults with mental health issues using peer support. CROs provide one-on-one and group peer supports, self-help groups, employment support, life-skills training, health and wellness activities and support for individuals who are transitioning from state institutions to living in the community.
 Crisis Intervention Teams (CITs) provide training for law enforcement to help deal with individuals experiencing a mental health crisis they encounter. Many times this training allows individuals to be diverted from jail to treatment settings, helping them to stabilize and remain in the community.
 An important focus for KDADS is increasing peer and family supports for children with mental health needs. This is critical in engaging children and families while building the relationships needed to improve children’s overall health. Working with state’s Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) on existing programs and developing new services to meet the needs of Kansas families KDADS is expanding the services provided in the home, community settings and schools. KDADS is also implementing System of Care grant funding in pilot areas to fill gaps in service for youth with a serious emotional disturbance.
 KDADS takes a recovery-oriented approach to substance use disorder treatment for those with drug and alcohol problems, employing a coordinated network of community-based services and person-centered supports and builds on the strengths and resilience of individuals, families and communities to achieve abstinence and improved health, wellness and quality of life.
 Kansas received a grant from SAMHSA earlier this year to fund treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) in the state and to reduce the number of persons with OUD and the number of opioid overdose related deaths through prevention, treatment and recovery activities.
 Prevention coalitions across the state are diligently working to reduce underage drinking, substance abuse, suicide and other behavioral health issues. These KDADS-funded communities are providing education and awareness to schools, parents, law enforcement and other community members.
 KDADS funds problem gambling services including treatment with not out-of-pocket expense for gamblers and their concerned friends and families, and supports community-based task forces that provide education and a helpline for crisis services, ensuring that information on problem gambling prevention and treatment services are available to Kansans.
 Suicide prevention efforts statewide are supported through community prevention coalition efforts and the Kansas Suicide Hotline, which is operated at Headquarters Counseling Center in Lawrence. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among Kansans ages 15-44.

Thousands of Kansans’ lives have been transformed through recovery. Since these successes often go unnoticed by the broader population, September is an opportunity to share the successes of recovery and inform communities of available programs and services. Sharing stories of success helps to increase awareness and furthers a greater understanding about mental health, substance use and gambling disorder.

“Mental health, substance use and gambling disorders can be treated just as successfully as other health issues such as heart disease and diabetes. Support from families and communities is essential to successful recovery from any health condition,” Secretary Keck said. “KDADS believes in recovery from a mental health, substance use and/or gambling disorder. It can be done.”

SUBMITTED

DENVER – Hoban Law Group, the nation’s largest, full-service cannabis and hemp law firm, has received approvals and is now airing the first national TV spot for the cannabis industry. The advertisement marks the first time that a national TV spot has used the word ‘cannabis.’ Bob Hoban, leading legal expert in the cannabis industry and founder of Hoban Law Group, appears in the advertisement discussing the firm’s specialties and national reach.

“As the first ‘cannabusiness’ law firm, we’ve seen firsthand how the industry has significantly evolved in the last nine years,” said Bob Hoban. “We’re excited to once again make waves in the legal side of the cannabis industry, starting a new trend of legal advertising.”

The Hoban Law Group specializes in hemp, medical marijuana, and adult-use cannabis issues and worked with Denver-based producer DCP Media to create a spot that met the requirements of a variety of networks.

It wasn’t easy. Bob Hoban, the firm’s founder and namesake, told Leafly the networks wanted to make sure “we didn’t hit people over the head with the word ‘marijuana.’ So in the ad we talk about industrial hemp, and the medical and adult use marketplaces. They asked us not to flash a lot of marijuana plants, which was fine, that’s not our M.O. anyway.”

The 30-second advertisement is unique in that Hoban Law Group’s services do not include any tangible product, only legal and business consulting. This helped in receiving approvals from each network to air during primetime slots. The commercial first aired on August 21 and will continue through mid-September, airing eight times per day on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Viceland, The Weather Channel, Headline News, and Fox Business.

About Bob Hoban, Esq.
Bob Hoban is Managing Partner at Hoban Law Group, America’s premier cannabusiness law firm. Hoban is the former president of the Cannabis Business Alliance and a member of the National Hemp Association, the National Cannabis Industry Association and the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce.

About Hoban Law Group
Hoban Law Group is the nation’s only full-service cannabis business (“cannabusiness”) law firm, servicing all legal medical and adult use cannabis. Formed in 2009, Hoban Law Group is Colorado’s largest and most experienced cannabis business law firm, providing expert commercial legal advice to its clients in the regulated marijuana dispensary system and the industrial hemp industry. Hoban Law Group has attorneys in every state and territory where legalization has occurred.

For more information, visit Hoban Law Group’s website at www.hoban.law.

SBA

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration announced this week that $18 million in funding has been awarded to 44 State international trade agencies through SBA’s competitive State Trade Expansion Program (STEP), to support export growth among U.S. small businesses.

STEP is designed to increase both the number of small businesses that begin to export and the value of exports for small businesses currently exporting. Expanding the base of small business exporters and making the process as easy as possible is a key component of the Administration’s small business strategy.

“The awards will provide a solid foundation for small businesses planning to enter and set them up for success,” said SBA Administrator Linda McMahon.

Last year (FY 2016), the Kansas Department of Commerce was awarded $383,000 in STEP grant funding to support small businesses for their participation in export training, market entry programs, tradeshows, and trade missions. Kansas provided access to multiple export seminars and courses, offered by many partners like the Kansas Small Business Development Center and the US Commercial Service. In addition, Kansas provided exhibition opportunities under the U.S. Pavilion at the Paris Air Show, as well as participation in trade missions to Mexico, Brazil, China, and countries in Central Asia.

The 2017 STEP awards will allow states to assist small businesses with the information and tools they need to succeed in export related activities that are in line with the objectives of the program. These objectives include participation in foreign trade missions, foreign market sales trips, services provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as design of international marketing campaigns, export trade show exhibits, training workshops and more.

STEP awards are managed and provided at the local level by state government organizations. The program is managed at the national level by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of International Trade.

In SBA Region 7 States of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska the following new awards were made:
Iowa – Iowa Economic Development Authority – $265,000
Kansas – Kansas Department of Commerce – $380,000
Missouri – Missouri Division of Business & Community Services – $400,000
Nebraska – Nebraska Department of Economic Development – $263,720
See the full list of STEP awardees for FY 2017.

About the Small Business Administration

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 and since January 13, 2012 has served as a Cabinet-level agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, the SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam. To learn more about SBA, visit https://www.sba.gov.