The KELC grant is completed as of 12/31/12. Thanks!

Resources:
--KELC County Risk Factor Data
--The New Civic Infrastructure: The "How To" of Collective Impact and Getting a Better Return on Social Investment
--Family Satisfaction Survey Information
--Advocacy Resources
--Save the Children Website
--Strengthening Families Resources
--Protective Factors Surveys

Read the National
Center for Children
in Poverty Kansas Profile

Read National Defense Fund's: State of American Children and Kansas Profile

Click on the image to check out the latest KELC Newsletter. Click here for archives, or subscribe.

Ellis County

KELC County Lead: Donna Hudson-Hamilton, dhudson-hamilton@usd489.com

You and Your Young Child - a local television program devoted to early childhood. Click here to check out recent episodes.

Check out haysparents.com, The Parent Shop: the one stop shop for early childhood services in and around Hays. The Ellis County team has also sent community mailings and placed ads promoting their single point of entry phone number and website.

Connections Advocacy Flyer
Click here for pdf.

 Program Information

Early Head Start
Hays Head Start
323 W 12t
Hays, KS 67601
Donna Hudson-Hamilton,
dhudson-hamilton@usd489.com
785-623-2430

Parents as Teachers
USD#489 Parents As Teachers
2300 East 13th
Hays, KS 67601
Joan Dunn jdunn@usd489.com

Child Care Aware of Northwest Kansas - KQRIS
Northwest Kansas Child Care Resource & Referral
94 Lewis Drive
Hays, KS 67601

Jobeth Jackson jobeth@mail.hacc.info
785-625-3257
Lyndsey Crisenbery, lyndsey@hacc.info
785-625-3257

Tiny-k
Hays Area Children's Center, Inc.
94 Lewis Drive
Hays, KS 67601
Doug Greer  doug@hacc.info
785-625-3257

KAIMH
Kris Schulte kschulte@usd489.com

KCSL Healthy Families
2300 East 13th Street
Hays KS 67201
Sarah Trapp, strapp@kcsl.org
620-805-6454 ext. 1133