Keys is the state organization for Kansas parents and youth who have emotional, behavioral and/or educational disabilities that impact their capacity to attend neighborhood schools and/or thrive in the family and community.
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- Location:
- Topeka, KS, 66611
- Phone:
- 785-233-8732
- Mon - Fri:
- 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
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Keys for Networking, Inc. We are getting there.
Source: www.cnn.com
The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215.
Keys for Networking, Inc. Keys receives award from Community First at ten year anniversary for supporting efforts to mobilize east Topeka community to manage Abbott Community Center.
Keys for Networking, Inc. Preparing for another day in Chicago learning about Center for Medicaid Services agenda for 2009/2010 and health care reform. Excited to meet Secretary Sebelius and Medicaid Director, Cindy Mann. What a time to have a CHIPRA outreach grant and connect Keys to national health reform agenda.
Keys for Networking, Inc. James was a little boy. He has the best mother. He was nine when we met. We could get nothing for him. These mug shots and this outcome is what happens when kids do not get help.
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CJOnline identifes James Lax as one of the robbers in this story. What is as bad as the robbery is the comments that attach in the blog regarding this story. James was not a bad kid. This was before the HCBS waiver for children with SED. He could not get mental health services; USD 501 did not provide him with serv...ices, just punishments. He was moved all over the state in foster care. This is our failure as much as it is about James.Read More
Source: cjonline.com
Two men believed to be connected to a recent rash of robberies in Topeka face multiple felony charges, police said Friday. Topeka police Lt. Dean McWilliams, with the department's investigation division, said the men may be tied to two or more groups of
Keys for Networking, Inc. SRS has just posted the success indicators for the foster care contractors. Our project to assist the contractors meet the needs of youth 15+ is part of the first two indicators. The first indicator shows the students who are 18 who are high school graduates. We cannot provide the information for the second indicator until we have transcripts in December/January 2010. We are so proud to be part of this.
Source: www.srskansas.org
Education Success: Diploma or GED Young adults ending custody with the Secretary will have achieved a high school diploma or GED.
Keys for Networking, Inc. iGRAD participated in the Drop-Ins coneference in Wichita yesterday to talk with teachers and counselors about how iGRAD can help keep kids in school.
Source: www.kansas.com
Courtnie Ochs, a 17-year-old from Garden City, told her story of dropping out at a summit of students, community leaders, school administrators and parents on Tuesday. The summit’s goal is to develop ways to keep children in school.
Keys for Networking, Inc. Congratuations to Joe Suddath, who began receiving Keys' services when he was in 4th grade, and who has just graduated from high school and acheived his Eagle Scout award. This is a huge accomplishment and we are all very proud of him.
Keys for Networking, Inc. A study at the University of Michigan has found that more college students are seeking mental health services. Go to the link below to a first had account of mental health issues from the youth who have experienced them.
Source: www.npr.org
More college students than ever before are seeking psychiatric help on campus, according to recent national surveys of campus therapists. To raise awareness and dispel stigma, one innovative student theater group dramatized real-life accounts from students living with mental health problems.
Keys for Networking, Inc. Today we have 102 fans. My dream is that by Christmas we will have exactly double this. Will you help? Also check out our website, www.keys.org. Will you share here why you have decided to become a fan of Keys for Networking.
Source: www.keys.org
Parents make good choices when they have good information. Keys for Networking provides peer-to-peer, parent-to-parent informtation, support, and training to families in Kansas whose children have educational, emotional, and/or behavioral problems.
Keys for Networking, Inc. Join Keys for Networking in asking the Governor to close this place. Call/write your legislator, make sure he/she knows about this. These are our kids, all our kids.
Source: cjonline.com
Insufficient staff numbers and inadequate room checks by a Topeka juvenile residential center opened the door for a 12-year-old boy to be repeatedly raped by his roommate over three days in January 2008, a civil lawsuit claims. "The rape, sodomy,
Keys for Networking, Inc. KDHE will recognize iGRAD as a Kansas promising practice at the DropIns Conference in Wichita October 20. iGRAD helps foster youth 15+ graduate from high school. We are very proud of ourselves and excited to have such a wonderful program featured like this.
Keys for Networking, Inc. The REACH Institute has a new blog that explores child mental health, health care reform, and the was ythat research does and more often doesn't fit into the equation.
Source: thereachinstitute.wordpress.com
* 41 million uninsured Americans exhibit consistently worse clinical outcomes than the insured, and are at increased risk for dying prematurely (Institute of Medicine, 2002; Institute of Medicine, 2003a)
Keys for Networking, Inc. Man kills himself and son when forced to move boy to yet another group home. Could this happen in Kansas?
Source: www.cbc.ca
The wife of an Edmonton man who killed himself and his 11-year-old severely autistic son says her husband was overwrought with despair about plans to move the boy to another group home.
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