High demand for rent and utility assistance isn’t going anywhere, but community housing agencies are doing what they can to offer other forms of help, Douglas County leaders heard this week.
At the Douglas County Commission's meeting on Wednesday, housing and human services manager Gabi Sprague said that the county's Housing Stabilization Collaborative has about $873,000 in rent and utility assistance funding ...
There's enough of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone to go around in Douglas County for now, a local social safety net nonprofit says, but the real challenge will be giving the community easy ways to access it and training more emergency responders on how to use it.
At Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners got a briefing about DCCCA's distribution program, which sends naloxone — ...
DCCCA, a Douglas County nonprofit, is set to receive nearly $1 million from the Kansas Department for Children and Families to go toward a substance-use prevention program in the 2024 fiscal year.
Gov. Laura Kelly’s office on Tuesday announced nearly $20 million in Family First Prevention grant awards to agencies throughout the state. The grants are intended to create and support programs designed to keep ...
Updated at 4:18 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023
Businesses near Free State High School have reported that some students have been involved in fighting, vandalism, drug use and shoplifting in and around their establishments, according to an email from the school’s principal that was sent to the Journal-World Tuesday afternoon.
The message, an email sent by Free State Principal Amy McAnarney to the school’s ...
A Douglas County nonprofit that distributes the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, or Narcan, recently had a waiting list of more than 1,700 requests, and it says supply issues and other challenges are preventing it from fulfilling much of that demand.
That's according to a letter that social service safety-net nonprofit DCCCA sent to Douglas County, and on Wednesday the agency will be briefing county ...
Douglas County has a lot of ground to make up as it works on a blueprint for what will happen to its natural, undeveloped land in the future.
That was the message last week from the team that's working on the county's open space plan — six county staff members and some consultants from Lawrence-based Coneflower Consulting and Logan Simpson, an environmental planning firm with offices in Arizona, Colorado, ...
