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More than a dozen LINC site coordinators plied the hallways and the offices of lawmakers in Jefferson City on Feb. 20, lifting the achievements — and the struggles — of providing free before- and after-school programming serving more than 7,600 children in and around Kansas City.
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Every year the special ed class at J.C. Harmon High School has picked out one of the great men and women featured in the latest set of local black history figures, sparking an educational adventure. LINC, the Kansas City Public Library and the Black Archives of Mid-America have been producing the materials for a decade.
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We are happy to share LINC in Photos 2019 – a visual representation of LINC's impact and presence in the community.
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LINC’s partnership with the Steve Ballmer-backed Social Solutions data revolution is turning heads.
Social Solutions, an Austin-based software company serving nonprofit organizations, recently highlighted LINC’s “innovative ways” in leveraging data in a blog post. This was the kind of partnership that Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, imagined when the Ballmer Group with his wife, Connie, invested $59 million to support Social Solutions’ work.
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Graduating families cherished moments of new wisdom, shared anxieties and mutual joys as the eight-week Families and Schools Together (FAST) program came to a close in Fort Osage.
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Founding LINC Commissioner Rosemary Smith Lowe and LINC Community Organizer Lee Bohannon were recognized by the non-profit organization Communities Creating Opportunity with their Social Movement Activist & Advocate Award for 2019.
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He’d crossed so many rivers of pain, but foster teen Dillon Spradley found an ally when LINC youth advocate Devon Robinson first appeared in the doorway of his guardian’s apartment.
LINC’s youth advocates have helped hundreds of youths in their transition from state care to living on their own, striving to help older foster children and teenagers in the juvenile justice system overcome perilous odds and become independent, thriving adults.
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If not for Star School, many Missouri teenagers like Adam would have no good educational options as they leave the juvenile justice system. The online program by LINC and the state Department of Youth Services has helped more than 630 youths since 2013.
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The first gathering of Families and Schools Together, Inc. refreshed Fort Osage parents and their children with a deep breath of community. Dinner, cooperative games, crafts, and peer support groups helped everyone appreciate the challenges and joys of parenthood. It’s not too late to join.
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The Farview community in Independence gathered for a joyous block party Aug. 17, celebrating the opening of a unique neighborhood library that shares a food pantry and other services.
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Brian Bartlett was eight years old, just days away from starting the fourth grade at Center Elementary School and LINC’s Caring Communities after-school program.
The child was killed as he slept Saturday night, Aug. 10, when a barrage of gunfire ripped through his family’s house in the 8300 block of Tracy Avenue. His mother was wounded. Investigators still have no suspect information or know of any motive for the shooting, police said.
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Finding affordable local summer and after-school programs can be a frantic scramble for Kansas City families. A new non-profit site — InPlay — has launched in KC to make that search easier. The Kauffman Foundation-funded site is open for business and seeking listings.
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What the Kansas City fellows in the 2018-2019 Education Policy Fellowship Program presented in their final scheduled time together this summer was more of a launch party of things to come.
When it comes to their chosen mission of championing education policy through a lens of equity, these EPFP fellows made it clear: We’re just getting started.
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LINC’s Chess Camp gathered some 26 kids and its companion Chess University some 16 adults to steep themselves in new strategies in the week-long programs at Genesis School.
The history of LINC’s two decades of promoting chess suggests that today’s students may well be tomorrow’s teachers.
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Students from Wendell Phillips Elementary School toured the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s provocative “30 Americans” exhibition of works by African American artists, taking on its challenging questions of “Race, History, Identity and Beauty.”
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A mental health crisis is shadowing the nation’s children and the Fort Osage School District is taking a step that many experts are saying needs to happen with urgency in communities throughout the country: Putting therapists inside their schools.
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Turn the Page KC’s Summer Reading Splash at the Sprint Center thrilled 2,000 children with new books, while outgoing Mayor Sly James took stock of the work still to be done as Kansas City chases its goal of every child reading at grade level by the third grade.
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The Ruskin Heights and Ruskin Hills neighborhoods are losing two elementary schools. The Hickman Mills School District is holding ceremonial open houses Saturday, June 8, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. because people want to come and remember.
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East High School teacher Diane Mora challenged her students — many of them refugees or migrants — to find the emotions of their lives in the songs they love — and then write about it.
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A Kansas City campaign to help hundreds of people clear their names of old criminal records got a “game changing” boost from Missouri lawmakers this week. The bill needs to be signed by Gov. Mike Parson to become law.
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