Winter Wonderland Kicks off Wednesday Night
TARC Invites public to walk through Winter Wonderland
TARC Winter Wonderland Set Up
Few tickets left for Taste from the top
August Newsletter
TARC's Day Services gives back to the community
Lemonade Stand hopes to raise thousands for kids with special needs
65th Annual Awards
65th Annual Awards Banquet
TOPEKA, Kan. (March 25) – TARC hosted their 65th Annual Awards Celebration, Monday, March 25, 2019 at the Big Gage Shelter House. The festivities were hosted by KSNT’s Brooke Lennington and Jace Mills.
Award winners include community members, volunteers and local businesses who support TARC, a not-for-profit service organization that works to enhance the lives of people with developmental and related disabilities and their families, with service, support, advocacy and community involvement.
Community honorees include:
Customer of the Year – Newman Regional Health
Employer of the Year – PetSmart Topeka
Children’s Services Advocacy Award – The Bailey Family
Children’s Services Service and Support Award – Building Blocks Child Care
Medical Professional Award – Dr. Eleni Grammatikopoulou
Timili Gartner Award – David Hodges
Ethel May Miller Award – Barb Duncan
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TARC is a not-for-profit service organization that works to enhance the lives of people with developmental and related disabilities and their families, with service, support, advocacy and community involvement.
February Quarterly Newsletter
Feeding Clinic receives Grant
TOPEKA, Kan. – TARC’s unique feeding clinic was awarded a grant from Stormont Vail Health Foundation to help purchase new equipment.
Stormont Vail Foundation is proud to partner with TARC to individuals who are served by the feeding clinic grow to be happy and healthy. Stormont Vail Foundation is distributing charitable contributions throughout the community on behalf of Stormont Vail Health in our mission to work together to improve the health of our community.
TARC’s interdisciplinary feeding clinic was established due to community concern because the lack of resources and supports for individuals with feeding and swallowing issues. TARC’s feeding clinic focuses on the traditionally medically underserved population of children over the age of three and adults with intellectual disabilities.
The feeding clinic provides intense feeding and swallowing therapies to individuals, often requiring years of therapy before they graduate. In 2018, the feeding clinic completed 155 visits with 12 clients served.
“The funds generously donated to the TARC Feeding Clinic will significantly impact our ability to engage many of our clients in the meal prep component of eating. Which for several of our clients can be a first step to accepting a new food into their world and a stepping stone to success,” said Alisha Delgado M.A. CCC-SLP, Feeding Clinic Coordinator. “Being able to house all the equipment we need within the clinic space also increases as much as possible the home like environment to support our children generalizing the process of eating from the clinic to their homes. In addition, we can talk parents and families through the processes of how to safely modify foods they may have for dinner at home as well as now demonstrate with hands on experience to support safety of eating at home.”
About TARC
TARC is a not-for-profit service organization that works to enhance the lives of people with developmental and related disabilities and their families, with service, support, advocacy and community involvement.
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TARC Celebrates 65 Years
The History Guy from The Topeka Capital-Journal features TARC’s 65th Anniversary. Read the story here.
21st Annual Winter Wonderland raises funds for TARC
Thank you to our sponsors and the continued community support for TARC’s Winter Wonderland!
Our 21st Annual Winter Wonderland raised record funds to help us continue to provide quality service, support and advocacy for 2,500 children, families and adults with developmental, intellectual and related disabilities.
Thank you to all who contributed their time, talent and supported TARC – we were able to raise $$189,096.85 with 11,462 vehicles that visited Winter Wonderland!
TARC Announces 2019 Board Members
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Release
(Jan. 24, 2019, TOPEKA, Kan.) – TARC, Inc. announces the election of new board members to both TARC’s Operating Board and TARC Foundation Board.
TARC, Inc. Operating Board elected three new directors to serve on the board.
Lisa Alexander (Director, TARC, Inc. Operating Board has been the Chief Nursing Officer of the University of Kansas Health System St. Francis since February 2016 (she held the same position when it was St. Francis Health). She has been affiliated with St. Francis Health for her entire professional career, also serving as the Director of Maternal Child Nursing for four years.
Chad Carsten (Director, TARC, Inc. Operating Board) is the Manager, MDM Support/Field Mobility with KCP&L & Westar Energy Companies. In his current position, Chad supports significant IT projects on both Asset Management and the new customer system. Chad works with both field and office personnel on technology items concerning Meter Infrastructure and the gathering, distribution and analysis of meter data.
Clayton Devlin (Director, TARC, Inc. Operating Board) was born and raised in Topeka, KS. He graduated from Washburn Rural High School and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in Hotel Restaurant Management and a minor in business administration at Kansas State University. He is the owner and operator of Devlin’s Wine and Spirits as well as several real estate ventures.
TARC, Inc. Operating Board Officers
Board President: Karen Moore, Moore Home Team
Past Board President: Joell Chockley, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
Board Treasurer: Mike Kongs, Stormont Vail Health
Board Secretary: Richard Martinez, Kansas Department of Commerce
TARC, Inc. Operating Directors 2019-2020
- Lisa Alexander, University of Kansas Health System St. Francis
- Mary “Mert” Bradshaw, Community Volunteer
- Chad Carsten, KCP&L & Westar Energy Companies
- Clay Devlin, Devlin’s Wine & Spirits
- Nathan Girard, se2
- Judy Dowd, Cotton O’Neil Dermatology Clinic
- Carmen Hill, Security Benefit
- Molly Howey, GoTopeka
- Mike Munson, Central National Bank
- Jayme Painter, Summers, Spencer & Company, PA; SS+C Solutions, Inc.
- Randall Schumacher, Cotton O’Neil Pediatrics
TARC Foundation Board elected three new trustees to serve on the board.
Madeline Lambing (Trustee, TARC Foundation Board) joined the Washburn University Leadership Institute as the Program Coordinator/Lecturer in July 2018. Maddy’s responsibilities include serving as an advisor for the Student Leadership Council and providing mentorship for the student facilitation of programming and outreach efforts within the university.
Chad Sharp (Trustee, TARC Foundation Board) For the past sixteen years he has been involved with a variety of management positions within Hill’s Pet Nutrition and is currently the Operations Manager. His emphasis has been in operational leadership, project management and justification and continuous improvement activities.
Robert Raff (Trustee, TARC Foundation Board) He is the Vice President and General Manager for Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Robert graduated from Fredonia State University where he earned a B.A. in Broadcast Communications.
TARC Foundation Board Officers
President: Matthew Bergman, Frieden, Unrein & Forbes, LLP
Vice President: Travis Stryker, CAS Constructors, LLC
Treasurer: Todd Reeves, The Guaranty State Bank & Trust Co.
Secretary: Andrew Wiechen, Architect One
Past President: Ann Shelton, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
- TARC Foundation Board Trustees
- Carolyn Annand, Hill’s Pet Nutrition
- Lindsay Freeman, Advisors Excel
- Ron Gwaltney, KCP&L & Westar Energy Companies
- Madeline Lambing, Washburn University Leadership Institute
- Mike Morse, KS Commercial Real Estate Services
- Robert, Raff, Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
- Kim Savage, KCP&L & Westar Energy Companies
- Chad Sharp, Hill’s Pet Nutrition
- Ken Scott, Capitol Federal Savings
- Jennifer Sourk, Midwest Health, Inc.
About TARC
TARC is a not-for-profit service organization that works to enhance the lives of people with developmental and related disabilities and their families, with service, support, advocacy and community involvement.
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Cortez Holiday Light Show raises funds for TARC
TOPEKA, Kan. – Louie Cortez of the Cortez Holiday Light Show will present TARC representatives with a check from the donations gathered during the holiday light show. The Cortez Holiday Light Show is the biggest residential holiday light show in Topeka. The 2018 show ran from November 17 to January 1. The event was free to the public but did accept donations to benefit TARC and our programming.
The Cortez Light show raised $1,207 in 2017 for TARC Programming. In 2018, the light show almost doubled the donation to TARC raising $2,371.
About Cortez Holiday Light Show
The Cortez Holiday Light Show is the biggest residential holiday light show in the capital city. The show features more than 180 channels of lights, 24 RGB flood lights and over 80,000 LED lights. The show started in 2009 and has grown each year since then. In 2017, the Cortez Holiday Light Show raise more than $1,200 to benefit TARC, a local non-profit who puts on Winter Wonderland each year at Lake Shawnee.
About TARC
TARC is a not-for-profit service organization that works to enhance the lives of people with developmental and related disabilities and their families, with service, support, advocacy and community involvement.
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