KanDO
PROJECT
KanDO (Kansas Disaster Outreach)
Focus:
Mitigation of traumatic incidents in a child’s life through building resilient children and communities.
About:
The KanDO project pairs direct clinical telebehavioral services with training and workforce development strategies. Trainings across universal interventions, targeted interventions and intensive interventions are paired with ongoing telementoring between the communities of learners and the specialists.
Funding:
This program was made possible by SAMHSA through the Mental Health Disaster Assistance & Emergency Mental Health Grant # H79FG000177.
Components:
Clinical services through KUMC Behavioral Pediatrics
Training/ECHOs on Psychological First Aid, Skills for Psychological Recovery, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Parent Child Interaction Therapy/Child Adult Relationship Enhancement
Goals:
- Provide direct treatment services in schools via the use of mental health professionals, behavioral health aides, peers, and other related health professionals.
- Implement processes to respond immediately on-site if a school-aged youth exhibits behavioral signs warranting the need for clinical attention.
- Provide coordinated referral, services, and follow-up to school-aged youth and their families for evidence-based school- and community-based mental health practices and services.
- Develop/implement a workforce development training plan to increase the mental health awareness and literacy of school staff, administrators, parents, and others who interact with school-aged youth to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness and link them to appropriate services.
- Establish relationships with local businesses, families, and community groups to broaden and link community resources available to students and their families impacted by disasters.