Vicky Roper
Prevent Child Abuse Kansas Director, Kansas Children's Service League
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Vicky Roper is the Prevent Child Abuse Kansas Director at the Kansas Children's Service League (KCSL). She has worked at KCSL for nearly twenty years and in the prevention and health promotion fields all 43 years of her career. Vicky currently chairs the Kansas Power of the Positive, the coalition for the Kansas Essentials for Childhood Project, a project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that currently focuses on creating Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments through Family Friendly Workplaces. She presented on the Innovations Panel for the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Child Care's Child Care Round Table in Kansas City in 2019. The presentation was featured in their Final Report in 2021.
Creating Workplace Environments that Support Working Families
How can employers support the prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in their communities? One Kansas coalition seeks to answer this question by engaging communities to support family-friendly policy and practice change. A family friendly workplace (FFW) is supportive of a working parent's ability to provide safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments (SSNREs) for their children. An ongoing campaign supports businesses in creating conditions that not only strengthen families, but increase recruitment, retention and productivity in the workplace. Focusing on 19 FFW conditions, these efforts have also highlighted how employees experience inequity in workplace support between industries and demographic groups. The momentum for these positive changes continues to grow in Kansas, where an increasing number of local employers are beginning to see the value of offering family-friendly policies.
This session has been presented to ASTHO (Association of State and Tribal Health Organizations) and is being presented to the CDC EfC. (Centers for Disease Control Essentials for Childhood team). Dr. Joanne Klevens, retired from the CDC EfC, who founded the World Health Organization's Child Maltreatment Framework, let the Kansas team know that she agrees that we can slide our conditions within the frame she created. That will be shared in the presentation.
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