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Achievement Services
for NE KS, Inc. -
CDDO for Atchison and Jackson Counties. Its charge is to work with
affiliate agencies to ensure quality services that are easy to
access and cost effective.
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Arc of Douglas County
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The Mission of the Arc of
Douglas County is to provide advocacy, education, and leadership to
empower and support individuals with developmental disabilities and
their families to live and belong in the community.
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The Arc of
Kansas
(Email link)
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Autism Support Group
-
Topeka
/ Lawrence
(Email link)
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Big Lakes Developmental Center, Inc.
- serving
individuals with developmental disabilities in Riley, Geary,
Clay and Pottawatomie counties.
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Bert Nash
Community Mental Health Center
-
Douglas County's leading choice
for quality, accessibility and innovation in behavioral health care.
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The Capper
Foundation
- The mission of The Capper Foundation is to enhance the
independence of people with physical disabilities, primarily
children. Capper enhances independence by providing the following
services: physical, occupational and speech-language therapy;
therapeutic recreation services, early intervention services,
assistive technology and professional and family training.
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Community
Developmental Disability Organizations (statewide List)
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The Consortium Inc
- Located in Topeka, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services,
designed, delivered, and managed by the people of Kansas for the
people of Kansas.
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Cottonwood,
Inc. (Lawrence CDDO)
- As a Community Service
Provider, Cottonwood's mission is to help individuals with
disabilities shape their own future. Cottonwood offers a variety of
customer driven services that emphasize the use of the community as
a learning environment. The services offered are designed to support
individuals in pursuing meaningful, person-centered outcomes and to
meet individual needs. Cottonwood offers six core services that are
broad in scope, yet specific to individual needs, interests and
desires.
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Douglas County Child
Development Association - Whether you are a
parent seeking child care resources, an early education professional
seeking help with your work, an employer trying to assist parents in
your organization, or a community organization involved with
children, we look forward to helping you obtain the information you
need.
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Every Resource
Conceivable/Resource & Referral
- Located in Topeka, ERC is a not-for-profit resource and referral
agency designed to meet the needs of families in northeast Kansas.
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Family Service &
Guidance Center - the
only agency in northeast Kansas that focuses its resources
exclusively on the unique mental health needs of children and
families. FSGC offers a vast array of specialized services and has
established a reputation of stepping forward to meet challenges.
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Hetlinger
Developmental Services, Inc.
- Hetlinger
Developmental Services, Inc. is a provider of services to people
with developmental disabilities. Formed by a group of concerned
parents and volunteers in 1961, the agency has grown both in the
number of persons served and types of services offered. As the
Community Developmental Disability Organization (CDDO)
for Lyon, Chase, Morris, and Wabaunsee Counties, the agency is
in partnership with Community Supports and Services, a division
of Health Care Policy, of the Kansas Department of Social and
Rehabilitation Services to provide a locally managed system of
developmental disabilities services throughout the state of
Kansas.
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Independence,
Inc. (Lawrence Independent Living Resource Center)
- Empowering people with disabilities to control their own lives and
to advocate for integrated and accessible communities.
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Independent Living
Center of Northeast Kansas -
providing services within the State of Kansas. Funding for programs
and services comes through grants from the Kansas Department of
Social and Rehabilitation Services Division of Community Supports
and Services, and also the Kansas Department of Rehabilitation
Services.
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InterHab -
a resource network which serves its members
through support, technical assistance and advocacy and, through its
members, provides leadership at the local, state, and national level
to support people with disabilities
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Kansas
Community Mental Health Centers
(statewide list)
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Kansas Centers for Independent Living -
represents 12
Centers for Independent Living (CIL’s). Centers provide
services to people with disabilities of all ages. Centers for
Independent Living also provide assistance to businesses and all
other entities in the community to assist them in offering
services to people with disabilities. We advocate at a state
and national level for the rights of all people with
disabilities to live in the communities of their choice.
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Kansas
TASH
- TASH is an international
association of people with disabilities, their family members, other
advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which
inclusion of all people in all aspects of society is the norm.
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Keys
for Networking Throughout
Kansas there is awakened awareness of the struggles, challenges, and
untapped possibilities for children and adolescents of all races,
cultures, and classes who have education , mental health and
behavior problems. Effective family driven advocacy ensure that
children's services remain highly visible, state and local
priorities. Individuals families, institutions, communities and the
legislative body at all levels work collaboratively and creatively
to promote success for each child.
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Lawrence Independent Living Resource Center
- Empowering people with
disabilities to control their own lives and to advocate for
integrated & accessible communities
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Learning
Disabilities Association of Kansas
- LDAK is a nonprofit,
volunteer organization whose purpose is to advance the education and
general well-being of children and adults with learning
disabilities.
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Manhattan Public
Library Services for the Visually and Physically Disabled
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Mental Health
Center for East Central Kansas
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The mission of the Mental Health
Center is to provide a comprehensive range of affordable
professional mental health and substance abuse services that are
responsive to the priority needs of the citizens of the seven county
catchment area. Prevention, evaluation, treatment, and emergency
services will be provided in the least restrictive manner possible
by a staff who have a broad spectrum of expertise.
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MOSAIC
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Mosaic opens doors to extraordinary lives so that people with
disabilities may experience God's gift of wholeness of life in all
of the wonderful ways they choose for themselves.
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Occupational Center of Central Kansas, Inc.
(OCCK) -
not-for-profit Kansas corporation dedicated to helping people with
physical or mental disabilities remove barriers to employment,
independent living, and full participation in their communities.
Our organization has been in operation since 1970. Today over 250
OCCK employees from diverse educational and professional backgrounds
pool their wide-ranging talents to build communities where everyone
belongs.
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Pawnee Mental
Health Services
-
Resource Center for Independent Living
-
committed to working with individuals, families, and communities to
promote independent living and individual choice to persons with
disabilities.
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Tarc
- Our Mission is to enhance the
lives of people with developmental and related disabilities and
their families, with service, support, advocacy, and community
involvement
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Three Rivers
Independent Living Resource Center
- Three Rivers is a nonprofit organization promoting the self
reliance of individuals with disabilities through education,
advocacy, training, and support.
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Topeka Independent Living Resource
Center
- "The Topeka Independent Living
Resource Center is a civil and human rights organization. Our
mission is to advocate for justice, equality and essential services
for a fully integrated and accessible society for all people with
disabilities."
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Topeka
& Shawnee County Library Talking Books -
Talking Books is a service of
the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Northeast Kansas Library
System & the Library of Congress National Library Service for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped.
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Trinity Respite Care
(Lawrence)
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United Way of Douglas County
- The United Way of Douglas
County is made up of many different people and agencies dedicating
themselves to improving the lives of others. Find out who these
people are and what they do for United Way.
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Independence Farms, Inc., School of Therapeutic Riding
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Offering therapeutic riding
to children who are mentally, physically or socially challenged
in a caring, fun and safe environment in Washington, KS.
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Western Kansas Talking Books
- Western Kansas Talking Books is a division of the
Kansas State Library Talking Book Program in Emporia, Kansas, and
the Northwest Kansas Library System.
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The Whole
Person Inc.
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Center for
Independent Living seeks participants for a study of Depression
among women with disabilities.
