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KOSE strives to create safe, employee-centered workplaces that enable every member to feel supported, fulfilled, accomplished, and equipped to provide high-quality services to the citizens of Kansas.

A new approach to assessing suicide risk

From the Wichita Eagle.

BY MICHAEL BURKE

Last month, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shocked Kansas health officials and the public alike when it reported that the suicide rate in our state had increased 45 percent between 1999 and 2016.

Kansas’ rate easily exceeded the suicide rate of the nation overall, which the CDC reported as having risen to 25.4 percent. Kansas’ suicide rate ranks 19th overall.

Suicide has become one of our state’s most critical

KOSE is committed to helping our members achieve their goals, as such we are excited to be able to extend this amazing opportunity for our parent union, AFSCME, to our members.

It's AFSCME's mission to give you every advantage to get ahead. That's why they've partnered with Eastern Gateway Community College.

Through the AFSCME Free College benefit, you and your family members can earn an associate degree, completely online – for FREE.

Download this flyer for more information.

Learn more at freecollege.afscme.org

Kansas agency invests $810,000 in Salina, Manhattan mental health crisis centers

Kansas agency invests $810,000 in Salina, Manhattan mental health crisis centers.

07/16/2018

http://www.cjonline.com/news/20180716/kansas-agency-invests-810000-in-salina-manhattan-mental-health-crisis-centers

KOSE Responds to Inmate Attacks On Officers at Lansing Correctional Facility

The Kansas Organization of State Employees (KOSE) today expressed extreme concern for the safety of state correctional officers in the wake of erupting violence at a state run prison where, over the past several days, ten officers have been injured in inmate attacks.

KOSE April Newsletter

On March 8th dozens of members of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from around the country arrived in Wichita. Attendees from as far away as Alaska and Connecticut came to help strengthen and energize KOSE and its members through a training and mobilization program AFT conducts annually.

During the week long program participants received morning training sessions on how to engage, organize, and activate workers. Then, in the afternoons and evenings, they developed those skills as they traveled across south-central Kansas conducting worksite visits, knocking on doors and making calls to talk to KOSE members. You may have seen or heard from them yourself.