The fourth version of LINC’s Caring Communities Day once again will show what fun it is when families, businesses, churches, service providers, game makers, food grillers and entertainers come together to put on a completely free celebration.
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“I’m looking for my leaders,” he says. “Show me your hands if you are a leader. Raise them high!” Nearly every child is waving. “Everybody look around,” Wilson says. “These are my young people that will help you if need help.” He didn’t ask, but every one of the blue-shirt LINC staffers has made the same promise — to the children, their families and the community.
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Fired up and ready to go. “It’s that time of year,” said LINC Caring Communities Director Sean Akridge. “ . . . anticipation, excitement, joy . . . reconnecting boys and girls with their friends, reconnecting parents with their friends . . .” See what LINC has in store for the coming school year.
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LINC parent Kristen Garretson at Ingels Elementary School in Hickman Mills talks about what LINC means to her family.
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When it comes to understanding the paths through and out of poverty, the LINC teams in the training room were ready for an advanced course. So when LINC gathered its staff with specialists from the Missouri Department of Social Services to train on “Bridges out of Poverty,” the work got serious fast.
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Mike Lane and his Amyloidosis Army came to Hickman Mills with an urgent message about the pervasive but little known disease that affects at least one-in-25 people among the U.S. Black population.
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We’ve got witnesses. Children and LINC staff who were there tell the tale of explosions, bubbling concoctions and seeming magic that was the first year of LINC’s in-house S.T.E.A.M. team.
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“LINC approaches summer with a go-get-’em attitude.” So goes the energy across before and after school programs with all of LINC’s school district partners and special Freedom Schools as hundreds of children saw their summer education spiced with exciting field trips and celebrations.
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It might be a sullen child alone, head tucked down in the morning. Or an anxious child, lashing out at other children at the end of a school day. They can move hidden within the swirl of a busy classroom, and LINC is working with the Kansas City Health Department to help see to it that these children are seen, understood and comforted.
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The modern highway cruiser delivered them, joyously together, like a sleek time machine into Bessie Mays’ farthest memories. Here they were, at the Carver National Monument in Diamond, Mo., and Mays was taken back to her Mississippi childhood. “What I went through, he went through.”
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A full camp of advanced and beginning chess players finished the week with tournaments and awards Friday, culminating five days of priming young minds to build strategic skills — that, and just loving the game itself.
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It’s not that they weren’t already good teammates. LINC’s Caring Communities coordinators and the Family and Community Engagement (FaCE) Liaisons in the Kansas City Public Schools have naturally gravitated to their shared mission. But same as with the Chiefs in summer training camp, it sure helps to build a game plan.
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On the surface, the night was all about fun — bus rides together to classic sports gyms and event spaces, stopping at a corner store for 3 a.m. for treats, gaming into dawn. But there was another layer, maybe not so obvious to the boys . . .
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The experience is inspiring to the Pitcher community and to the other Caring Communities sites that are trying to empower their neighborhoods. “Shout out to the site councils,” LINC’s Andrew Smith said. “You have a chance to get out into the community and do some cool things.”
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Theresa Garza Ruiz brings a deep love of community as a public official, civic leader and U.S. Navy veteran as she takes on another role as the newest member of the LINC Commission.
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Mary Kay McPhee, a tireless advocate for the disenfranchised, the poor, the equal rights of women and for justice in health and wellness for all, died May 31 at 97 after a lifetime of wide-ranging work in social justice.
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Missouri ranks 27th in the 2025 report as the Family and Community Trust urges focus on supporting thriving kids and families.
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The LINC Morning Star meal program is part of a statewide network providing free food for children under 18. An online map and text number provides access to hundreds of locations in Missouri.
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Missouri has begun issuing federal food benefits that could reach 475,000 kids this summer. The program is designed to help families pay for food during summer months.
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