University Daliv Kansan / Thursday. October 26, 1989
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Med Center gets grant for study to help poor
By Melanie Matthes Kansan staff writer
Beginning in January, 120 poverty-level families in Wyandotte County will be the subjects of a nearly $4.5 million federal research project of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The Med Center was awarded a $4,485,460 Comprehensive Child Development Program grant to research the effects of providing health, educational, nutritional and developmental services to low-income families expecting a child or having children younger than 1.
Jean Ann Summers, co-investigator of the research and co-author of the grant proposal, said the grant was the result of an invitation from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to apply for one of 22 grants. The applications were submitted in July and the University was officially notified of the award last week.
She said the grant would provide developmental services to 120 Wyandotte County families for five years and would research the effects of the services on the families. The services will be coordinated under a program called Project EAGLE, Early Action Guidance Leading to Empowerment.
"We know that with families who are in poverty their children are at risk for all kinds of disabilities," she sales. "You can't just do this because you cannot address the whole family's needs and then the child will benefit."
The Med Center will hire 12 Family Life Coaches, people who have gone through the same challenges that families in poverty go through, to work with the families, Summers said. The coaches will advise the families on things such as nutrition, health, child care and career choice.
The grant financing will be divided over five years and will go toward hiring of the coaches and project staff and purchase of items such as day care for the families.
Joseph Hollowell, co-investigator of the project and co-author of the grant proposal, said the project staff would begin to select the families and to coordinate the program in November. The staff will attend a meeting in Washington, D.C., with representatives of the 21 other federal programs to learn exactly what the requirements of the program are.
He said the project staff was required to have the 120 families selected by September 1990, but he expected to have some families chosen by January.
The families will be chosen on the basis of recommendations from local agencies, which are participating in the program and following government requirements, Hollowell said.
An external investigator will evaluate the project families about four times a year, he said, and will compare their progress to 120 families who will serve as a control group in the study. The control group also will be chosen from Wyandotte County.
Hollowell said that when the study was completed each family involved would, ideally, no longer be in need of services.
The national study is the result of legislation that was passed last year under the support of Sen. Edward W. Robert Wise, D-W.Va., Hollowell所支
Summers said Wyandotte County was chosen for the project because of the tremendous amount of poverty concentrated in the area.
"We had to find that many families in one area," she said. "I don't think you would be able to find them in Johnson County."
Darrel Newkirk, director of Wyandotte County Health Department and member of the project's planning committee, said the area had demonstrated a great deal of need and cooperation with the existing social service programs.
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