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Event Brings Public Health and Behavioral Health Together

Event Brings Public Health and Behavioral Health Together by Lisa Horn, Public Health Nurse Specialist, KDHE, Local Public HealthOriginally published in the Public Health Connections November 2019 newsletter. A landmark event to align the work of behavioral health and public health took place Sept. 30 at the Cyrus Hotel in Topeka. Ninety people representing behavioral […]

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Turning Small Opportunities into Big Collaboration in Kansas: Systems Thinking as a Strategy to Improving the Behavioral Health Service System

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Turning Small Opportunities into Big Collaboration in Kansas: Systems Thinking as a Strategy to Improving the Behavioral Health Service System Originally Published on the National Network of Public Health Institutes Cristi Cain, local public health program director and accreditation coordinator at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, is one of 12 participants in the

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Gathering Their Voices: Reno County Health Department Leverages Grant Funding to Elevate Community’s Concerns

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For the residents involved with the health equity work spearheaded by the Reno County Health Department, there’s reason to believe Lincoln’s tomorrow could be better than its immediate past.

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What’s in Your Soil? Communities Moving to Action

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Many of you may be familiar with the “Pair of ACEs” from the George Washington School of Public Health and the natural question that comes from this model – “What’s in your soil?” (If you aren’t familiar, learn more here.)

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Building a Resilient Health Department and Community (Part 2)

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As a follow up to last week’s post from the Barton County Health Department, Shelly Schneider shares their journey to move the work into the community through RiseUP Barton County.

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Building a Trauma-Informed – and Resilient – Health Department (Part 1)

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One of the reasons that our team wanted to create this online community was so that we can share the stories of our amazing partners from across the state who are learning more about how traumatic stress impacts their organizations and the people who they work with and alongside.

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Testing Implementation of Foundational Public Health Services in Kansas

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The Kansas Public Health Systems Group (PHSG), a partnership representing public health practice, academia, government, and charitable organizations, has explored options for implementing the foundational public health services (FPHS) since 2015.

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