Integrated Outcomes Technical Assistance

Staff: Chris Smith
(11/05) This contract with the Kansas Head Start Association has been undertaken as a final phase to a previous contract with the Kansas Association of Community Action Programs. All of the work has focused on providing workshops and training to direct support and administrative staff regarding integrated outcomes for children and families. (Read the full story.)

Laboratory Models of Maladaptive Escape Behaviors

June 1, 2005 for $1.25 million (5-year R01) (7/05) The purpose is to study environmental conditions that make typically reinforcing conditions aversive for persons with developmental disabilities and chronic destructive behaviors. (Read the full story.)

Increasing Access to Information Technology Subcontract with the Great Plains ADA & IT Center, University of Missouri

Pamela Cress
(5/05) Since 2001 the LSI at Parsons has subcontracted with the Great Plains ADA & IT Center to increase access to information technology (IT) for persons with disabilities. The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research funds a network of 10 ADA and IT Centers, formerly called Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs). (Read the full story.)

Kansas Association of Community Action Programs

Chris Smith
(3/05) Since the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act in 1964, Community Action Programs have been providing anti-poverty programs in the U.S. Many of these agencies have an emphasis on the provision of Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. (Read the full story.)

Southeast Kansas Community Action Program Mental Health Contract

Staff: Chris Smith
(1/05) Chris Smith and Dave Lindeman have been working for over 3 years now with the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program (SEK-CAP, Inc.) in Girard, Kansas on a contract to provide technical assistance regarding program evaluation and continuous improvement processes. (Read the full story.)