Each June, KITS, through support from Kansas State Department of Education and Kansas Department of Health and Environment, sponsors a four-day Summer Institute. The goals of the Summer Institute include:

• providing the opportunity for professional development,
• providing two college credit hours (all participants must enroll and take for credit), and
• providing in-depth training on the focused topic for the upcoming year.
  

Undergraduate credit is offered by KU.

Graduate credit is offered by:

Emporia State University - Pre-enroll through Lifelong Learning, 877-332-4249 Code CD744XD (contact Eileen Hogan, 620-341-5751, ehogan@emporia.edu)

Fort Hays State University (contact Dorothy Fulton, 785-628-5848, dfulton@fhsu.edu)

Kansas State University (contact Bronwyn Fees, 785-532-1476, fees@ksu.edu)

Pittsburg State University (contact Marti York, 620-235-4965, myork@pittstate.edu)

University of Kansas (contact Sherrie Saathoff, 785-864-0556, ssaathoff@ku.edu) and

Wichita State University (contact Linda Mitchell, 316-978-6367, linda.mitchell@wichita.edu)

The cost of tuition and enrollment fees varies by university and are the responsibility of the Summer Institute participant. Participants must be able to attend all four days. KITS provides lodging (in a residence hall or up to $150 will be reimbursed for hotel), meals and materials and a flat subsidy of $50 to cover travel. Those who choose the hotel option are not eligible for the $50 in travel as travel is allotted within the $150.

Applications will be accepted starting January 7, 2009. After March 31, remaining space will be opened up to graduate students and those outside our target audience.

Since your participation at Summer Institute is a considerable financial investment on the part of KITS, KSDE and KDHE, cancellation after May 1 requires that you return any Summer Institute materials provided, at your expense, and pay a late cancellation fee of $100.

KITS Summer Institute is open to all people working with children in Kansas. Priority is given to those professionals working with children, birth to eight, who have disabilities.

Summer Institute 2009
Topic: Evidence-based Practices for Effective Collaboration with Families

June 16-19, 2009
Location: Adams Alumni Center
University of Kansas
1266 Oread Ave.
Lawrence, Kansas

Summer Institute 2008	Summer Institute 2004
Summer Institute 2007	Summer Institute 2003
Summer Institute 2006	Summer Institute 2002
Summer Institute 2005

For more information, contact:

Misty Goosen
Kansas Inservice Training System
University of Kansas
521 JR Pearson Hall
1122 W. Campus Road
Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-0725
Fax (785) 864-3983
mistyg@ku.edu