Douglas County commissioners at their Wednesday work session will discuss possibilities for a downtown master plan that would address some space issues. The county hired the architecture firm Gould Evans to conduct a space needs study in 2017. The study found that the county's downtown buildings are out of room and that current solutions are reactive, resulting in “less-than-ideal solutions.” According ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday will hear an end-of-year report on student behavior, attendance, surveys and assessment scores. “These data points can be indicators of the general health of our school system and provide some insights on the effectiveness of programmatic decisions,” according to a memo to the board from Zachary Conrad, the district’s executive director of research, evaluation and ...
A peer specialist in Lawrence is starting up a free support group for those who experience chronic pain. Annie Ross, certified peer specialist, said she thinks the support group is needed in the community. She said clients, physicians, social workers and clergy members have told her they wish there was a group to which they could refer people. The peer support group is not supported by any particular ...
DCCCA and Douglas County hosted the second annual Behavioral Health Prevention Summit on Tuesday, and more than 220 people showed up. The daylong event was free for those who live and work within the county this year, and it offered 15 total breakout sessions. Naturally, I couldn’t attend them all, but I thought I’d share some takeaways from the ones I could. Last week, the Journal-World reported on the ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved expanding a program in which care coordinators “walk with” clients through behavioral health recovery, as its supporters put it. Bob Tryanski, the county’s director of behavioral health projects, and Stacey Cooper, supervisor of intensive case management/clinical coordinator for Heartland RADAC, talked to the commission about Intensive Care Coordination, ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will consider expanding a wraparound behavioral health program to make it available seven days a week. Intensive Care Coordination, or ICC, services are made available to some clients who visit the emergency room, have contact with law enforcement or are referred by a community partner as a result of mental health or substance use crises. ICC links and engages those ...