‘appreciation pay’
Thu, 06/23/2022 - 12:00am
TOPEKA - Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday announced a $53 million program to deliver bonuses to 22,000 child care workers at licensed facilities in Kansas.
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Low monthly payments may discourage Kansas adoptions
Thu, 06/23/2022 - 12:00am
TOPEKA - A foster care program designed to support adoptive families may actually discourage adoption. Tina Miller knows this all too well.
WHO to rename monkeypox due to stigma
Thu, 06/16/2022 - 12:00am
The World Health Organization has announced it will rename the monkeypox virus after a group of scientists voiced concerns that the name is “discriminatory and stigmatizing.”
Fed watchdog: Kansas has one of highest rates for missing foster kids
Thu, 06/16/2022 - 12:00am
TOPEKA - More than 7% of Kansas foster children went missing during an 30-month period, according to a new federal watchdog’s report that places the state’s rate of runaways among the highest in the nation.
Larned State Hospital patients not safe, secure
Thu, 06/16/2022 - 12:00am
TOPEKA - A federal report on the escape of a dangerous patient from the Larned State Hospital says the state put patients in “immediate jeopardy” by failing to ensure theirsafety and security.