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Chronic Disease Self-Management Program

Chronic Disease Self ManagementThis effective self-management education program is for people with chronic health problems. The program specifically addresses arthritis, diabetes, and lung and heart disease, but teaches skills useful for managing a variety of chronic diseases.

To learn more, email chsi@uhkc.org or call 816.404.3320.

Reaching Individual Success in Education (RISE)

Partners with the Kansas City Public School District R.I.S.E. program.

The R.I.S.E. Program is a college and career readiness mentoring program that has an intentional focus of preparing students to attend post-secondary institutions and/or technical schools. Students become part of the program beginning their freshman year of high school and obtain mentorship: academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally over the course of their time in high school. In addition to the mentorship and support, R.I.S.E. Students also participate in monthly workshops that reinforce the importance of community, authenticity, resiliency, and excellence. During monthly workshops, students navigate between sessions of their choice, that help them reach their own academic, personal, and professional goals. While the R.I.S.E. Program is open to any participant of any: race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or sex; the design of the program has been developed with intentionality on students of color.

  • Audience: 9th-12th Grade Students
  • Including High School Students at Manuel Tech from all KCPS High Schools; East, Northeast, Central, Southeast, Lincoln, and Paseo.

Topics include but not limited to:

  • Financial literacy
  • Sleep Health
  • Hand Hygiene
  • Sugar/Diabetes
  • Cholesterol
  • Sodium/Hypertension
  • Infectious Disease
  • Stress Management
  • Nutrition
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Summit Tech Client Connected Project

Client Connected Projects

CHS&I team presents an idea/problem in the community to Summit Tech Academy (STA) junior and senior allied health students. Students use peer reviewed articles and surveys to research their topic before creating a proposal presentation. The goal is for the students to utilize their critical thinking skills and create an idea to resolve the issue at hand. CHS&I team grades the final student project. Topic example: nutrition in school lunches.

University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) Internship Programs

Students from the UMKC Bachelors of Health Sciences School and UMKC Community Health nursing students apply and interview for the CHS&I internship program. The internship exposes students to community health education, the Healthy Harvest Mobile Market program, the importance of community and Social Determinants of Health. Two to three students are selected to participate in the internship per school semester (Fall/Spring). Interns are final year students that are required to fulfill credit hours to graduate.

Program Partners:

- UMKC Bachelors of Health Sciences School

- UMKC Community Health Nursing students