Layton Center provides broad mental health services in Ottawa
The Layton Center offers adolescent psychiatry, ARNPs, and Medicaid waiver options to keep care affordable. It operates in USD 290 schools and afterschool programs, runs violence prevention through Too Good for Violence and Too Good for Drugs, and extends outreach to 1168 children. Additional services include jail screening, in-home treatment, and community support for severe mental illness.
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Drake
West Franklin
Ottawa
Garfield
Otawa High School
Eisenhower Road
Judicial System
4Th Judicial District
Layton Center
Franklin County
ELC
City of
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Adapting Services After Layoffs At Layton Center
Layton Center cut 16 jobs in May 2007 causing clients to be reassigned to other therapists or case managers. Trustees note turnover is expected but praise qualified staff filling vacancies. Most clinical positions have been refilled as caseloads grow, and officials cite merger savings and administrative cost cuts.
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Layton Center
Drake
Stan Lantis
State turnback of highway 59 eyed as Ottawa seeks safeguards
Ottawa officials press for preservation of downtown activity as old highway 49 and two bridges face turnover to city and county. State pledges resurfacing and bridge repairs before transfer, with grants possible for signage and planning. Officials anticipate continued local traffic on the northern stretch and aim to keep Ottawa's retail and historic districts thriving amid the bypass.
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Ottawa
Gene Ramsey
Pat Apple
Miller
Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Cern
Richard Nienstedt
Jerry Younger
Michael Stringer
Ramsey
Pawnee Road
Franklin County
Douglas County
KDOT
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
Gardner
Ottawa Chambers of Commerce
Tom Weigand
Ottawa To Be A Rock Quarry At the North End and Fast Food At the South,” Weigand
Survey shows strong support for new high school in Ottawa
Residents weigh options for Eugene Field and Eisenhower facilities as survey returns grow. 51 percent call the issue very important, 26 percent somewhat, 8 percent unsure or not important. 55 percent of respondents are female. 8 percent live in Ottawa city limits.
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Jeanette Lowry
Tatham
Its of
Ottawa
SCLC Pulls 2008 Convention From Kansas City Over Mayor Actions
The national civil rights group plans to skip Kansas City citing Mayor Funkhouser's racial insensitivity in appointing a park board member linked to an anti illegal immigration group and his bid to oust City Manager Cauthen. NAACP talks may shift.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Wayne Cauthen
Tam
Charles Steele Jr
SCLC
The
Star
New Orleans
Funkhouser
Frances Semier
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
National Council of la Raza
Semler
National Naacp
NAACP
Steele
Cauthen
Gloria Squitiro
Mammy
Baker University Offers Interterm Taxidermy Course
Baker University in Baldwin City runs a three week interterm taxidermy course where students prepare, stuff and mount skins. By Friday the class will have stuffed deer bobcats coyotes raccoons opossums jackrabbits cottontails pheasants quail ducks Canada geese minks and a fox. A great horned owl barred owl and red tailed hawk donated by a game warden will also be mounted. Professor Roger Boyd notes pheasants are the easiest to work with.
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Baldwin City
Baker University
Roger Boyd
Boyd
Senate panel advances disaster relief bill for Kansas towns
The Ways and Means Committee voted to sponsor a measure providing 12 million dollars over three years to help flood and tornado damaged communities rebuild homes. Funding would come from Kansas Lottery ticket sales with a Friday hearing set. The plan responds to southeast Kansas floods and May tornadoes that nearly leveled Greensburg.
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Topeka
Senate
Ways and Means
Thayer
Dwayne Umbarger
Kansas
Greensburg
Kansas man may have died of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
A 53 year old Colby man died at Wesley Medical Center with CJD suspected after testing brain tissue. Officials note incubation periods run years and confirmation comes from the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center. Authorities cite CDC data on spontaneous and hereditary cases and discuss related diseases like variant CJD and chronic wasting disease in animals.
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Wichita
Kansas
Colby
Wesley Medical Center
Wesley
Paul Petitte
Joe Blubaugh
State Department of Health and Environment
United States
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
CDC
Richard Liepins
Liepins
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