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CPPR’s Integrated Referral and Intake System Reaches 100,000th Referral Milestone
Today, CPPR’s Integrated Referral and Intake System (IRIS) celebrates its 100,000th referral. Now with 36 IRIS community networks, which has grown from six counties in southeast Kansas to 82 counties across six states, IRIS provides the below services for families seeking support: ...
CPPR Needs Assessment for Kansas Fights Addiction Board
CPPR directors write blog series on the researcher-policymaker relationship
Executive Director Jackie Counts and Assistant Director Jessica Sprague-Jones recently published a blog series with Emerald Group Publishing on the strategies researchers can use to approach policymakers and disseminate their research. Counts and Sprague-Jones, who each have experience as researchers engaging those who influence and make policies, share how to...
How community-based organizations helped create a referral process to better serve communities
Community-based organizations provide critical social infrastructure by knowing the needs of their communities and then raising the needed connections and resources. Community-based organizations provide a variety of social services, including early childhood education, developmental disabilities, supporting basic needs like housing and food, mental health and substance abuse treatment, maternal and...
Kansas Family First Prevention’s three-year evaluation shows prevention services and supports protect family integrity
Since it was signed into law in 2018, the Family First Prevention Services Act created new opportunities for supporting children and families with the use of federal foster care funds for prevention programs. Kansas launched the Kansas Family First Prevention in 2019 with CPPR and the KU School of Social...
South by East Podcast "Generations" Q&A
This spring, the Center for Public Partnerships and Research supported Fellowship Hi-Crest’s South by East podcast and its season 2 production. Created and co-hosted by Johnathan Sublet and Brail Watson, South by East discusses “culture, the scriptures, and everything in between and how they impact southeast Topeka.” In contrast to...
Tech-Enabled Community Resilience
CPPR Associate Director Teri Garstka presented at the 2023 Good Tech Fest with Meaghan Kennedy of Orange Sparkle Ball. ...
CPPR celebrates 10 years of service
Since 2013, the Center for Public Partnerships and Research has worked with state agencies, non-profits, community coalitions, and service providers to build a world where families and children can thrive. ...
The National Association of Social Workers features KU’s Family Strong
In the December 2022-January 2023 issue of Social Work Advocates, CPPR Assistant Director Meghan Cizek and Dr. Kaela Byers of KU School of Social Welfare discuss the work behind Family Strong, a universal prevention demonstration project funded by the Administration for Children and Families. Cizek and Byers, who both serve...
The Paradox of Child Care Costs: A Case for Multiple Payers
Multiple Futures and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships
Exploring the Child Care Crisis: Multiple Futures and the Role of Public-Private Partnerships explores the variable social dynamics and business models of our present and ongoing child care crisis through specific lenses of the future. In the brief, CPPR and Openfields developed four potential scenarios to provoke creative thinking and...
Capturing an Experience
The CPPR Our Tomorrows team is partnering with organizations around the country to transform the lives of families. What sets this work apart? The ability to capture a whole experience and tap into a family's real-time needs. View the full webinar with our partners from the University of Kansas School...
Examining the Present and Future of Child Care in Kansas
CPPR explores solutions to longstanding challenges within the social service sector, such as the cost of child care, high staff turnover, and low wages. Expanding on our continuing examination of the child care landscape in Kansas and centering perspectives of child care providers, CPPR investigates the opportunities in future models. ...
Using data as a collaborative tool for the child care crisis in Kansas
The McNair Scholar experience at CPPR
The Impact of Child Care Provider Services
CPPR was happy to be a partner in Child Care Aware of America’s Provider Appreciation Day campaign for 2022. To celebrate child care providers, we highlighted the relationships between providers and the families they serve in our guest post, “Provider Appreciation Begins with Listening.” We want to continue to support...
FREE Social-Emotional Development Screening Available in Kansas
CPPR’s Erica Figueroa played a vital role in bringing the free Statewide Kansas Ages and Stages Questionnaire® (ASQ) Online subscription to providers in Kansas. ASQ Online offers providers an online subscription free of charge and reduced price on screening kits. The system saves time by enabling families to complete thel...
Survey: Parents feel more social support than non-parents
By: Jessica Sprague-Jones, Ph.D. ...
CPPR’s Child Care Planning Assessment Tool receives $25,000 Grand Prize
The University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research was awarded the $25,000 grand prize for their Child Care Planning Assessment Tool. The tool was developed in response to the child care crisis in Kansas and the United States through The Opportunity Project (TOP), an innovation program led by...
Sunflower Summer Case Study (Opens in new window)
The Center for Public Partnerships and Research (CPPR) employs change makers who translate ideas into action. The Sunflower Summer program started as an idea shared in a committee meeting, and then very quickly—with CPPR connecting and working with state agencies and organizations—the program came to life just two months later. ...
Thousands of Kansas families connect with free learning experiences
CPPR’s first Incubation Process Cohort is beginning the groundwork for MVPs
The Center for Public Partnerships and Research (CPPR) has selected the first cohort of the Incubation Process. Four teams of CPPR employees presented their incubation projects on Pitch Day, Oct. 29, to fellow staff serving on the Incubation Pitch Crew, a volunteer committee that gave feedback and evaluated if a...