LINC’s Caring Communities sites celebrated the power of community schools with music, student performances, science shows, art, dance, lots of fun food and more during the month of October. Check out some of the scenes.
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A brilliant fall sun shone on LINC’s first Fall Festival — and on dancing and singing students, art shows, science shows, horse rides, crafts and rows of tables where community partners displayed their resources and services available to families in south Kansas City.
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“It builds team work. It builds relationships. And it gives kids a sense of belonging to something. We want them to know they are important. We’re putting people in place that are going to teach them those skills of life.”
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LINC and Hickman Mills throw a family night tailgate party with all the ingredients of a great time for a Ruskin High School football Friday.
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The depth of SuEllen Fried’s impact in the world can be measured many ways — in the volume of her wisdom, her books on beating bullying, by the lives of incarcerated men and women that were made more meaningful, and the children and adults she inspired to their better selves. But she leaves behind simple moments of love as well.
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“It’s a new day. A new journey. We’re going to work on our community organizing . . . get members back, thriving, being safe in their community and making sure they have a stake in everything that goes on in their neighborhoods.”
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The Caring Communities Day celebration packs so much fun, LINC is doing it twice, this time heading to Kansas City’s Southland. The Fall Festival, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will bring free music, food, games, family resources and more to Longview Shopping Plaza at Blue Ridge Boulevard and Longview Road.
Read More ...The LINC Commission will meet on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, 4 p.m., at the Kauffman Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
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Following the most violent year in Kansas City’s history, award-winning filmmaker Michael Price explores successful crime reduction programs across the region in search of solutions.
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Free movie night at Starlight Theatre Saturday drew thousands from all over Kansas City, and LINC made sure its LINC kids were heard. “If you are in a LINC program,” came the call out from the stage, “I want you to scream as loud as you can!” And suddenly thousands sounded like tens of thousands.
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“Last week we talked a lot about the problems,” the Urban League's Gwen Grant said. “Today we’re going to talk about what needs to be done . . . We’re going to get to work, folks.”
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Just a little more than a day before the Chiefs were to kick off the new football season, the NFL came to town to celebrate — and surprise — one of LINC’s partners in the work of spreading healthy, locally grown food.
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The summer food benefits will be added automatically to EBT cards for most qualifying families. Other families need to apply and the deadline is August 31, 2024.
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“LINC is wonderful, it’s a lifesaving program,” said Neeco Sims, a LINC parent and grandparent. “It gives me time to focus while my kids are productive. They can do their homework, have all kinds of activities, and learn things like coping skills, which help them when they get home.”
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It was back-to-school week for the LINC Caring Communities sites, highlighting once more the wide array of services standing ready in LINC’s work of making stronger families together.
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The set-up could hardly be better. LINC and KCPS, as both are enjoying renewed strength, organized a meeting of their school leaders ahead of the school year to better understand the many things they can do together inside and outside of the classroom to help children and families thrive.
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We dropped in at Hickman Mills Middle School where Jason Terry, NBA star and coach, led the four day Hickman Mills & Jason Terry Relentless Mental Health and Basketball Camp. LINC helped support the camp organized by Cyrus Rodgers’ Faces of the Future Foundation. Take a look at the camp’s hard work and the important mission.
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Caring Communities shined as beautiful as ever. More than 2,000 people joined a community celebration at the third annual citywide fair at 27th and Prospect. It was a beautiful day of “caring, loving and respectful people, all coming together.” See the stories and reactions to the day that tell why we are filled with such joy and gratitude.
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They know what Bolton is getting at. This is what it means to be a caring community here in Kansas City, where 183 people died of homicide in 2023, many of them 18 and younger; here, where in 2024, by early August, 90 more have died. “You all feel it,” Bolton says. “This is what the people coming to you are going through.”
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LINC’s Caring Communities Day — Version 3.0 — just gets bigger and better. All the free food, entertainment, music, dancing, games, prizes and family resources return Saturday, Aug. 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Morning Star Youth and Family Life Center on the corner of 27th Street and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Mo. See why it's a big party with a big mission.
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