The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will consider a proposal that would add three new psychiatrists to the county health system in 2019.
The proposal would have the county subsidize the cost of hiring three new psychiatrists at a cost of $350,000, said Bob Tryanski, county director of behavioral health projects. The positions would be funded from the $1.9 million the County Commission allocated in the ...
The transitional group home and apartments to be built in 2019 as part of Lawrence's newly approved behavioral health campus can’t open too soon.
“The truth is when we cut the red ribbon at the opening, we will be full,” said Mathew Faulk, housing program supervisor for Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, which will manage the housing.
County voters in November approved a quarter-cent countywide ...
After voters in May rejected a new sales tax to fund a $44 million expansion of the Douglas County Jail, county commissioners are again searching for a way to pay for an expansion to relieve inmate overcrowding.
The latest proposal would involve using $2.9 million in cuts, fee increases and other adjustments to the county’s general operating budget to free up money that could be used to make bond payments on ...
Undersheriff Gary Bunting and Assistant County Administrator Sarah Plinsky presented on Wednesday the Douglas County Commission jail expansion options that would add from 84 to 154 beds to the facility.
Bunting and Plinsky said the options, which were shared without cost estimates, realized commissioners’ requested goals that plans for an expansion provide sustainable solutions that would allow the county to ...
If Quail Run second-grade teacher Paula Barr wasn’t a born teacher, she came to the profession at a very young age, her father Steve Owens said.
“She was teaching in kindergarten,” he said. “She had all the other kids around her, teaching them.”
Owens, of Manhattan, recalled his daughter’s early love for teaching while he, his daughter’s husband, Rich Barr, and the couple’s two daughters, ...
The Lawrence school district has learned that it will receive a $262,200 grant from the Kansas Department for Children and Families to fund the district’s participation in the Kansas Reading Roadmap, Lawrence Superintendent Anthony Lewis said at Monday’s school board meeting.
The Kansas Reading Roadmap is a partnership between DCF and local school districts that couples the after-school, summer and ...
