Sponsors
...federally funded under Title V of No Child Left Behind, is the official Parent Information Technical Assistance Center for the state of Kansas. KPRC is one of a national network of 60 PIRCs funded for five more years through 2011. The KPIRC works hand-in-hand with the KSDE State and Federal Programs office in providing you information and resources on early childhood through high school parent involvement.
…oldest and largest organization of health professionals in Kansas, brings together researchers, health service providers, administrators, teachers, and health workers in a multidisciplinary environment of professional exchange and action. The purpose of KPHA is to serve as the primary organization promoting improvement in the health of Kansans and in public health.
The KDHE Bureau of Family Health provides leadership to enhance the health of Kansas women and children through partnerships with families and communities. The KDHE Office of Local & Rural Health provides assistance to Kansas communities in establishing or modifying health care delivery systems.
Partners
...whose mission is to ensure that high-quality early education is available to all Kansas families and whose vision is that Kansas is the best state in the nation in which to raise a family.
The Kansas Pediatric Foundation supports the “Turn a Page. Touch a Mind” program enabling physicians to promote early literacy by providing early literacy education to parents and age-appropriate books at each well child visit from ages 6 months to 5 years. There are 31 reading sites across Kansas.
With Kansas based national nonprofit Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) community programs, schools, health care and business sectors are finding ways to help kids and families get healthier. Choose HKC for workshops, events,
toolkits, web site resources, staff wellness and program planning. Innovative resources, created by HKC's registered dietitians, provide six science-based nutrition and active play messages that simplify teaching and learning. For simple, best practice solutions YOU can use to model and support healthy eating and physical activity for kids and families, visit the Healthy Kids Challenge website.
One Health Kansas
One Health Kansas is an educational and outreach program intended to
increase awareness of interconnections among human, animal, and
environmental health throughout the state of Kansas.
 KSU Master of Public Health Program
A unique multidisciplinary graduate degree program involving eight academic departments in four colleges at Kansas State University, preparing individuals to better address human, animal, and community health issues on local, state, national and international levels.
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