Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s search for a new director now has a tentative timeline, and conversations about passing family-planning services off to Heartland Community Health Center seem to have progressed to the brink of that transition taking place.
Members of the health department’s board heard updates on both items at their Monday meeting, a month after director Dan Partridge announced ...
A study of bookings into the Douglas County Jail over the past five years found that the majority were for minor, nonviolent charges, but there were also disparities in jail admissions that suggest law enforcement officers are more frequently arresting Black people relative to the general population.
The study was presented to the county’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council last week. The data in the ...
As people around the world grapple with the prevalence of antisemitic hate speech, the University of Kansas’ Chabad Center for Jewish Life is aiming to spread a little bit of light here in Lawrence.
The center’s co-director, Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, spoke with the Journal-World about the issue of antisemitism last week and called on people everywhere to recognize just how widespread that speech has ...
Douglas County leaders agreed Wednesday night that discussion around who will run the county’s behavioral health crisis center was progressing, but they had many questions for the local provider that’s now being recommended as the entity to take charge.
Until about four hours into Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, a nonprofit called Behavioral Health Partners had been the entity vying to ...
Douglas County commissioners say it will take at least one more week to decide on a new map of districts for an expanded five-member commission — and it’ll likely be around two more years before the representatives who fill those new seats are actually elected.
Though they may not have chosen a map at their meeting on Wednesday, commissioners did seem to reach a consensus about how and when the new ...
Behavioral Health Partners, the nonprofit formed to guide Douglas County's yet-to-open crisis center, wants to step away from that responsibility and is recommending that Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center run the facility instead.
That's according to Nancy Thellman, a member of BHP's board of directors, who addressed the Douglas County Commission on behalf of the board on Wednesday night. She announced ...
