The Free State Firebirds are state champions in speech and forensics — for the first time in the school’s history, according to the team’s coach. Lawrence High School came in fourth place overall at the state championship. Free State coach Kelly Thompson told the Journal-World via email that teams are allowed to enter up to 16 qualified entries. Ten of the Firebirds’ entries made it to the final ...
Just as local behavioral health leaders want to build up a crisis intervention center at the future Douglas County Recovery Campus, they want to break down some infrastructure that could stand in their way. Douglas County commissioners heard Wednesday about plans beyond the blueprint for a behavioral health and substance use crisis center that will be located at West Second and Maine streets. If the behavioral ...
County leaders will soon learn more about plans for project management for the Crisis Intervention Center on the Douglas County Recovery Campus. Douglas County commissioners will hear from Bob Tryanski, the county’s director of behavioral health projects, during their 4 p.m. Wednesday work session. A proposal from LMH Health that is included in the meeting agenda lays out some details of how the hospital ...
A message that Douglas County leaders in behavioral health and the criminal justice system shared during a Tuesday event can be boiled down simply: We’re doing well, but we can do more. The Stepping Up community recognition event, held at the Cider Gallery in East Lawrence, was planned primarily in celebration of a 56% reduction in the number of people with serious mental illness booked into the Douglas ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday gave preliminary consensus to a relatively budget-neutral plan that eliminates its contingency pool of teachers who fill its “hot spots.” Kathy Johnson, the district’s director of finances, presented a plan that would add 12 full-time equivalent, or FTE, elementary teachers, in order to meet the district’s set teacher-student thresholds for class sizes, but it also ...
You can buy just about anything online these days — now including doctors’ appointments. A new company is making that possible for folks in northeastern Kansas and the Kansas City area, but it has a broader goal of changing access to health care as we know it. Sesame, online at sesamecare.com, allows patients to book appointments with doctors, nurse practitioners, dentists, optometrists, therapists and ...