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Working Together: Building Solutions for Children
Vision
The Alliance and its membership champions connectedness and cooperation across all public and private entities that help produce healthy and sustaining families in Kansas.
Mission
The mission of the Children's Alliance is to promote the success and influence of its member agencies to assure comprehensive, relevant and effective services in a fully integrated public private network that protects and strengthens the welfare of children and families in Kansas. We provide effective advocacy, conduct comprehensive training, deliver operational support, produce relevant research and provide consultation services to its members.
Services Provided by the Alliance
Advocacy
As an important part of its role in helping member agencies better serve children and families of Kansas, the Alliance advocates for strengthening public policy in prevention and protection services, child welfare, children's health, and juvenile justice. The advocacy efforts not only target the Kansas Legislature but also the Governor and state agencies that play a key part in formulating public policy.
Children’s Alliance Family Resource Project (CAFRP)
The Alliance has administered this project since 1991. It utilizes a network of emergency care agencies to provide resources to families in hopes to prevent children from entering state custody. Over 8,000 children are served annually.
Training Network
Since 1995, the Alliance has administered this statewide training program offering Model Approach to Partnership in Parenting and on-going training for foster and adoptive parents, agency staff, community and Social Rehabilitation Services professionals, training over 5,000 individuals annually.
Funding for classes is provided by SRS. All classes are free to anyone who wants to take them who lives in the State of Kansas.
Foster Care Recruitment Project
This project is centered out of the Alliance. Through a toll free phone number, prospective foster parents are connected to agencies in their area.
Services For Families by Member Agencies
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- Residential care
- Emergency / Temporary care
- Visitation supervision
- Transitional independent living
- Intake and assessment
- Drug and alcohol services
- Services to juvenile offenders
- Day treatment
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- Foster care
- Adoption
- Family preservation
- Mental health
- Educational services
- Parenting education
- Attendant Care
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Choices Program
Children’s Alliance is proud to be part of circulating a unique program to help children learn to make better choices. The Choices program was developed to encourage preteens/teens to stop and think about the consequences prior to making decisions. They also discover how to overcome obstacles standing in the way of happiness and realize that they are not alone in their feelings.
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