InterHab

11/12/2025

11/10/2025

We’re excited to highlight Envision, a long-standing leader in supporting individuals who are blind or visually impaired and now expanding their mission to serve the broader IDD community.

We’re proud to have Envision as a dedicated InterHab member and a strong partner in advancing quality services across our state!

We’re excited to roll out Member Highlights, a new space dedicated to celebrating the incredible work happening across our community. If your organization has something new, exciting, or noteworthy to share - an accomplishment, an initiative, an upcoming event, or even a great team moment, we’d love to feature you. Connect with the InterHab team to be included in an upcoming highlight!

11/08/2025

11/05/2025

The direct support workforce crisis remains the biggest barrier keeping people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their families from accessing the home- and community-based services (HCBS) they rely on.

As states lose the COVID-era funding that temporarily boosted wages and benefits, providers are struggling to fill the gaps left behind—now made even wider by the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts signed into law on July 4. Read ANCOR’s latest findings in their all-new report on the direct support workforce crisis: https://www.ancor.org/resources/the-state-of-americas-direct-support-workforce-crisis-2025/?utm_source=toolkit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=workforce25

Troubling findings from ANCOR's sixth annual survey of the ways community-based providers of disability services are feeling the impact of the direct support workforce crisis.

11/03/2025

We’re kicking off our new InterHab Board of Directors Highlight Series by featuring Patrick Gardner, Chief Executive Officer of COF Training Services, Inc. and current InterHab Board President. Thank you, Patrick, for your leadership, dedication, and commitment to advancing opportunities for Kansans with disabilities!

10/28/2025

10/27/2025

10/27/2025

10/26/2025

Fantastic!

The Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities is proud to launch the KCDD Women’s Health Guide written by women with IDD, for women with IDD.

This guide empowers women with intellectual and developmental disabilities to take charge of their health across every stage of life — from preventive care, nutrition, reproductive health, and hygiene to mammograms and other important screenings.

As we recognize , we celebrate all women and the right to accessible, inclusive healthcare.

Download the guide or order a copy on our website: https://www.kcdd.org/womens-health-guide

10/25/2025

Exciting News!! 🎥📽 We are on national TV! 📺 View it here!
Arrowhead West is featured on Empowered, hosted by Meg Ryan, which showcases our mission and impact on the lives of others.
The segment will air on Public Television stations nationwide and be distributed to roughly 60 million households in November.
You can view the segment here: https://www.empoweredprogram.com/features-arrowhead-west/
We are excited for everyone to see the much-anticipated video, which showcases how we empower people to live meaningful and productive lives.

10/22/2025

At Futures we hosted dental checks and handed out over 200 smile kits to children & families in our community. 🦷 Smile kits included age-appropriate toothbrushes, toothpastes, and dental floss.

A special thank-you to Dr. Small, our friend and a longtime provider in our area, for conducting oral-health checks for children in our program. Thank you also to Delta Dental of Kansas for donating the kits each year.

Good oral health really matters. We encourage children and families to build daily oral habits like teeth-brushing and flossing. There is strong evidence that poor oral health in children can affect their ability to learn, concentrate, and perform at school.

When families and children have access to simple tools and good education, it supports their well-being now and later.

10/22/2025