COVID-19 testing and UAs:
*If you have been in the near proximity of someone positive for COVID-19, we encourage you to obtain lab testing as soon as possible. However, simply telling your monitor you have been exposed will not excuse you from a requested UA. If you believe you have been exposed to the virus, but not been tested at a lab/clinic/pharmacy, take all feasible precautions to avoid a potential spread of COVID as you submit to the UA request.
*Please note; "at home" test results will not be accepted as valid documentation. You will need a confirmed lab-run test with your name and date of testing (indicating either you are awaiting pending results, or have tested positive) for you to be excused from a UA request.
*If you have tested positive for COVID via a lab/clinic/pharmacy setting, or if you are currently awaiting COVID testing results from a recent testing, please email documentation (paperwork you received from the testing site) to choices.monitoring@gmail.com. You will then need to follow-up your email with a call to your monitor, Jevon Sills, at 913-390-0100, for confirmation as to whether or not you are excused from a requested drug/alcohol UA.
Choices utilizes a contract service agreement with Averhealth for alcohol/drug testing:
Averhealth
**PIN call-in line-- (913) 232-2844**
All PIN-system monitored clients; Call the UA line after 7:00pm each evening,
including weekends and holidays,
to hear if you are requested to submit to a screen the following day.
120 E. Park St.
Olathe, KS 66061
or
8001 Shawnee Mission Parkway
Unit 100
Merriam, Kansas 66202
Averhealth's business hours are:
Monday-Friday 8:00am-6:00pm (this is a "walk-in" submission, but you must be there by 5:30pm),
and
weekends and holidays 9:00am-1:00pm (you must be there by 12:30pm).
The testing fee, as of 10/1/19, is $20, payable to Averhealth
in cash, credit, debit, money order, or cashier check
ATTENTION Johnson County DA's Office DIVERSION Monitoring Clients:
**Only your DA's Office Case Manager has the authority to excuse a UA; you must contact them directly if you experience conflicts, including travel dates, that may prohibit you from submitting your UA on time.
**You MUST also alert Choices of any requests for excused UAs, either by phone or by email.
DA's Office Case Managers:
Letitia Ferwalt--715-3099 Letitia.Ferwalt@jocogov.org
Alison Collins--715-3005 Alison.Collins@jocogov.org
Yasheen Blevins--715-3043 Yasheen.Blevins@jocogov.org
