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Kansas
Kansas Action for Children promotes programs that support the health of the state's children, the economic security of their families and the readiness of those children for school success. See more information on these priority issue areas:
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HEALTH
Prevention often trumps cure when it comes to good health. But systems that support prevention sometimes fall short. Children in families without insurance may get medical care that is inconsistent or delayed. Or none at all. The number of overweight or obese children and adolescents is rising quickly, endangering their health as adults. Poor health early is a barrier to success later, so Kansas Action for Children promotes children’s health from life’s first day through adolescence.
Programs that Work
Aggression Replacement Training
Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders: Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence
Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse (CBT-CSA)
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA)
Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD)
Early Risers 'Skills for Success' Program
Families And Schools Together (FAST)
Family Effectiveness Training (FET)
Keepin' it R.E.A.L. (Refuse, Explain, Avoid, Leave)
Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP)
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)
Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence
Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace
Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education
Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program
Multidimensional Family Therapy
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
Parent Child Development Center
Parenting With Love and Limits
Project Toward No Drug Abuse (Project TND)
Project Toward No Tobacco Use (Project TNT)
Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies
Protecting You / Protecting Me
Residential Student Assistance Program
Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways
School Transitional Environmental Program
Schools and Families Educating Children (SAFE Children)
Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS) for Families
Strengthening Families Program
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14
Strong African American Families (SAAF) Program
Students Managing Anger and Resolution Together Team (SMART Team)
Teaching Students to be Peacemakers
Teenage Health Teaching Modules
The Peacemakers Program: Violence Prevention for Students in Grades 4-8
TopResearch in Brief
Healthy and Safe Children outcome area
See all research briefs in this outcome area
Breastfeeding Duration and Childhood Overweight Among Low-Income Children in Kansas — Jan. 2008
Journal abstract at American Journal of Public Health website
EDUCATION — AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS
It’s estimated that about a third of Kansas students, kindergarten through 12th grade, care for themselves after school while parents work. Just 9 percent are in afterschool programs. Kansas Action for Children encourages community efforts to develop programs to engage children from working families in learning activities after school and advocates for state funding to support these programs.
Programs that Work
Research in Brief
Outcomes Linked to High-Quality Afterschool Programs: Longitudinal Findings from the Study of Promising Afterschool Programs — May 2008
Research brief at Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education website
CORAL Initiative — Feb. 2008
The Over-Scheduling Myth — Feb. 2008
Ways to Promote the Positive Development of Children and Youth — Feb. 2008
Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost? — 2008
Quality Time After School — May 2007
Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation — Apr. 2007
Assessing Substance Use and Abuse Among Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners — Mar. 2007
Assessing the Diet, Exercise, Body Image, and Weight of Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners — Mar. 2007
Assessing the Mental Health of Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners — Mar. 2007
The Impact of After-School Programs that Promote Personal and Social Skills — 2007
Impacts of a Summer Learning Program: A Random Assignment Study of Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) — Aug. 2006
Learning From Small-Scale Experimental Evaluations of After School Programs — May 2006
What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of School Time Participation — Mar. 2006
Making Out-of-School-Time Matter — Mar. 2005
All Work and No Play? Listening to What Kids and Parents Really Want from Out-of-School Time — Nov. 2004
When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st-Century Community Learning Centers Program — Oct. 2004
Left Unsupervised: A Look at the Most Vulnerable Children — Apr. 2003
Community Interventions to Promote Healthy Social Environments: Early Childhood Development and Family Housing — Feb. 2002
Academic Effects of After-School Programs — Nov. 2001
Evaluating After-School Care — 2001
When School is Out — Fall 1999
EDUCATION — SCHOOL READINESS
Eight-five percent of a child's core brain structure is formed by age 3, but that development is underwritten by less than 4 percent of our nation's total investment in education and early childhood development. Kansas Action for Children advocates for programs that enlarge the pool of skilled child caregivers, increase the knowledge, skills and abilities of parents and professionals related to the emergence of literacy and provide for publicly funded preschool.
Programs that Work
Infant Health and Development Program
Interactive Shared Book Reading
Parent Child Development Center
Phonological Awareness Training
Phonological Awareness Training plus Letter Knowledge Training
Research in Brief
Children Ready for School outcome area
ECONOMIC SECURITY
Poverty among children is much more prevalent in the United States now than 25 years ago. This puts them at risk of developmental delay and makes them less likely to get consistent and timely health care. Poverty is often linked to less positive home learning environments and lower achievement in preschool and school. Kansas Action for Children works to make the lives of children born into low- and middle-income households more financially secure.
Programs that Work
Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP)
Research in Brief
Strong Families outcome area
OTHER RESOURCES
Diplomas Count 2008: Kansas State Highlights — June 2008
Childhood Obesity State Report Cards: Kansas — 2008
State-Specific Data from State Tobacco Settlement — Dec. 2007
Reports from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Reading Across the Nation: A Chartbook for Kansas — Oct. 2007
Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard on Health System Performance, 2007: Kansas Profile — June 2007
Measuring Up 2006: The State Report Card on Higher Education (Kansas) — Sep. 2006
2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Results for Kansas — June 2006
2005 State Preschool Yearbook: Kansas Profile — Mar. 2006
State Differences in Rates of Overweight or Obese Youth — Mar. 2006
Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends — Jan. 2006
Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends — Kansas Fact Sheet — Jan. 2006
2006 State Fact Sheets: Kansas' Children — 2006
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2006 — 2006
Kansas State Juvenile Justice Profile — 2006
Obesity Report Card — 2006
State Approaches to Promoting Young Children's Healthy Mental Development — Dec. 2005
Prekindergartners Left Behind: Expulsion Rates in State Prekindergarten Systems (Kansas Fact Sheet) — May 2005
Why Rural Matters 2005: Kansas Results — May 2005
Education Watch: Kansas — Key Education Facts and Figures for the Nation — Spring 2004
Annie E. Casey Online Databases — Kansas
The Annie E. Casey Foundation provides several online databases that allow people to create customized reports about children and about issues affecting children in different geographic areas. The links below provide information specific to Kansas:
Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online — Kansas Profile
The Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online web site provides profiles of all 50 states and allows for comparison of information across all the states and compared to the country as a whole. The web site provides information on a state's demographic and economic profile; health care coverage; health status; participation and costs in the Medicaid, S-CHIP and Medicare programs; as well as health issues for specific groups (Minority Health, Women's Health, HIV/AIDS).
National Center for Children in Poverty — Kansas State Profile
No Child Left Behind Database
The Education Commission of the States offers the No Child Left Behind Database on their website. The database provides state-specific information about how states are meeting the No Child Left Behind requirements.
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