Kansas Living Well with a Disability Participants Share Success Stories

CDC Project Team Visits RTC/IL at the University of Kansas to Observe SuccessesTwo women who have participated in a course called Living Well with a Disability through the Kansas Disability and Health Program shared their personal success stories with visitors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in March at a meeting hosted by the Research and Training Center on Independent Living (RTC/IL) at the University of Kansas.  Living Well with a Disability is a health promotion course that the RTC/IL provides in partnership with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's Disability and Health Program with funding from the CDC.  "Hearing these personal stories gives meaning to the data and other information that we report to the CDC," said Glen W. White, Ph.D., director of the RTC/IL. Representatives from the Kansas Disability & Health Program will be onsite at the June Disability & Health Partners Meeting.  (In the picture above from left: Veronica Thigpen, Lynn Nieheus, Jo Turner-Moats, Clarence Smith, Wilma Christensen, and Dianne Bradley.)

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