“I like LINC,” says Eleanor, a 7-year-old LINC student at Foreign Language Academy in Kansas City. “They have nice things that they do for us. We give them good days and they give us good days.”

Opening week was a hit. Take a look at how the fun and learning took off from Day One.

“What are you going to master?” LINC Caring Communities Coordinator KE Griffin asks her LINC students at Border Star Montessori School. “Is it math? Is it reading? Is it writing? Is it learning something new? It may be a challenge, but you’re never going to master anything until you challenge yourself, right?”

LINC is back for the new school year in the Kansas City, Hickman Mills, Grandview, Center, North Kansas City and Fort Osage school districts, and at charter schools, Tolbert Academy at DeLaSalle, and Genesis School — supporting children, families and neighborhoods with services for all ages, from toddlers to senior citizens as LINC has been doing for over 30 years.

See the many ways LINC is helping in your neighborhood — and how you can help — at kclinc.org.