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PRTFs provide out-of-home residential psychiatric treatment to children and adolescents whose mental health needs cannot be effectively and safely met in a community setting. These programs are intended to provide active treatment in a structured therapeutic environment for children and youth with significant functional impairments resulting from an identified mental health diagnosis, substance use diagnosis, sexual abuse disorders, and/or mental health diagnosis with co-occurring disorder (i.e., substance-related disorders, intellectual/developmental disabilities, head injury, sexual misuse disorders, or other disabilities which may require stabilization of mental health issues).
The residential treatment facility is expected to work actively with the family and other agencies to offer strengths-based, culturally competent, trauma-informed, medically appropriate treatment designed to meet the individual needs of the residents.
There are currently 10 PRTFs in the State of Kansas.
If you have questions or concerns about programs or services at a PRTF in Kansas, please contact Linda Buchheister, Director of Children's, Prevention, and MHIT Programs, at 785-296-4744.
Facilities
Behavioral Health Services - Mental Health licenses "free-standing" community Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) in Kansas. The licensed private PRTFs in Kansas currently can be found in this document:
Questions or Concerns
If you have questions about Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF), please contact Linda Buchheister at 785-296-4744. If you have concerns about services at a PRTF in Kansas, please get in touch with the KDADS Survey, Certification and Credentialing Commission at 785-368-6375.
Complaints or concerns regarding the safety/wellness of children in PRTF settings should be reported to the Kansas Protection Report Center at 1-800-922-5330. If you are a mandatory reporter and would like to report child or adult abuse or neglect electronically, please use the new Kansas Intake/Investigation Protection System. When using the electronic report, please make note of the first question at the top of the form, indicating whether it is a child or an adult type of report.
Mental Health Resources Directory
Contact information for a variety of mental health providers, including but not limited to Advocacy Programs, Community Mental Health Centers, Consumer-Run Organizations, Nursing Facilities for Mental Health, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities, Residential Care Facilities, State Hospitals, Private Psychiatric Hospitals:
Mental Health Resources Directory May 2024
Fact Sheet & Guide
- PRTF General Information Fact Sheet
- Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) Roles & Responsibilities Guide
Resources
PRTF Standards
As of September 1, 2009
The current Service Standards for Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities in Kansas can be accessed below:
PRTF Handbook
As of January 2013
The Section III Handbook will inform you of the most recent information regarding changes related to KanCare.