Smoky Hills Public Television is partnering with KCPT, KPTS, KTWU to blaze a trail for a healthier Kansas for our youth. Funded by the Kansas Health Foundation, the four PBS stations have formed Kansas Kids, a statewide project to raise awareness of services available and to promote the use of these services and resources. We also want to activate community wide thinking and planning to identify what our children need to become healthy, caring, responsible individuals. The television program is slated to air on PBS stations in 2002. Seeking Solutions Grant-funded project focuses on answers to crime and violence.
Local outreach includes show, website, writing campaign and poster contest.
The project was funded by a PBS Democracy Project grant provided by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A Journey of Hope is a national show broadcast in 1999 that provides an intimate look at a representative group of men and their families, and members of the medical community, as they work together to understand and treat prostate cancer. The local program features Kansas doctors and prostate cancer survivors discussing the detection, treatment, and issues that are involved in treating this disease. Dr. Kevin R. McDonald of Hays was featured in a local segment.