What We Do | Meet the CCSR Teams

The Community and Organizational Development (COD) team provides facilitation and capacity building support to non-profit organizations, government agencies, collaborative efforts, community coalitions, schools, and grassroots efforts.  COD facilitators help organizations gather data and input from those they serve, build team and organizational capacity in specific skill areas, work effectively with partners, develop strategic plans, track outcomes, and deal with a wide range of adaptive challenges. 
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The Research and Evaluation team is comprised of skilled researchers who develop, implement, and report findings of community-based research and evaluations.  The Research team identifies and uses cutting edge methods most appropriate for each organization or project and offers a variety of best practice methods.  Research team findings are used to enhance projects and organizations and are often published in respected scientific journals. 
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The Leadership Initiatives Team members design and facilitate leadership development experiences for Kansans. Through the Kansas Community Leadership Initiative (KCLI), the team equips community leadership program facilitators with skills, materials and technical assistance. The team also supports leadership development opportunities for youth, college students, and the Kansas Health Foundation Fellows. 
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The Consumer Empowerment team provides support to Mental Health Consumer Run Organizations (CRO) throughout Kansas.  The team focuses on building non-profit management capacity and developing leadership skills.  CCSR provides direct technical assistance to Kansas Social and Rehabilitation sponsored CROs and works with consumer leaders to sponsor statewide empowerment conferences for persons in recovery. 
Funded by state-federal partnership grant
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The Self-Help Group team supports self-help groups and organizations across Kansas and provides a comprehensive statewide database of self-help groups.  CCSR offers a phone referral service toll-free in Kansas and an online database where individuals can easily search for self-help groups by county, type, group name and/or keywords.  CCSR's website provides an online library of resources to support the growth and development of existing and new self-help groups.  
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Visioneering Wichita is a community-wide strategic plan designed to benefit the Wichita Metropolitan Statistical Area.  The Visioneering Wichita team provides technical assistance and offers leadership development to the strategic alliances made up of interested citizens and community leaders.
Supported by community partners including the Kansas Health Foundation, Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce, and Sedgwick County
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The Compassion Kansas team facilitators concentrate on building and improving the capacity of faith-based and community-based organizations in Kansas who provide services to Kansans in need.  CCSR helps facilitate those efforts through the provision of small grant awards, capacity building workshops, and technical assistance. 
Funded by Dept. of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
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Certified Peer Specialist Support Training for Medicaid Certification
The Certified Peer Specialist Basic Training Team provides a statewide training program for mental health consumers employed by Medicaid service providers in Kansas.   The team also conducts examination for state certification.   Team members support the successful implementation of peer support services through technical assistance at the state and local level, continuing education for Certified Peer Specialists, as well as workshops and presentations.
Funded by Kansas SRS Disabilities and Behavioral Health Services 
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The Community Innovations team provides support services to neighborhood development projects, grassroots community-based collaborative efforts and coalitions, and other grassroots development efforts.  Staff provides community-based strategic planning, community assessment and asset mapping, partnership and collaboration planning and development, coalition structure development, and organizational development. 
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The Wichita Youth Empowerment Partnership (WYEP) team provides facilitation and support for ten partnering youth-serving faith-based and community-based organizations (FBCBOs) that address youth violence, gang activity, and/or child abuse and neglect in Wichita.  Assistance includes supporting empowerment efforts for both youth and the organizations that serve them, as well as developing the organizational capacity of partnering organizations and assisting with coalition building that addresses identified issues.
Funded by Dept. of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families    
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Systems Transformation Evaluation
The CCSR Research and Evaluation team is working in conjunction with the State of Kansas Social & Rehabilitation Services to evaluate a five-year planning grant for a statewide systems transformation of long-term disability services.  CCSR is responsible for the overall evaluation design, data collection and analysis, and reporting on findings.
Funded by the State of Kansas Social & Rehabilitation Services

DELTA Evaluation team provides empowerment evaluation services to four coalitions around the state of Kansas, as well as a state steering committee. Empowerment Evaluators provide tools for planning, implementation and self-evaluation of programs, and mainstream evaluation as part of the planning and management of the program.  The primary objectives of the coalitions are to develop a prevention project for each community (Liberal, Emporia, Wichita, and Pittsburg), implement the project, and evaluate the project using the Getting to Outcomes model.  Getting to Outcomes (GTO) is a 10-step process used by groups, coalitions, and non-profits for planning, implementing, and evaluating initiatives and programs.
Funded by Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence