Sophia Hoffman, sixth grader at Highland Park Elementary in Lee's Summit, is competing this week at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Tune into ESPN3 to watch Hoffman compete against hundreds of spellers from around the country.
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Over 30 AmeriCorps VISTAs are preparing to work with several Kansas City area non-profits during an expanded summer school effort in the Kansas City Public School district.
About 20 of the VISTAs will be working in the LINC six-week summer school program which starts June 1.
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Two long-time LINC Caring Communities site coordinators – Janis Bankston and Erma Wright – are retiring.
Both were recognized by LINC founder Bert Berkley at the May 2015 LINC Commission meeting.
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Barbershops: another place where Kansas City is working to gets adults reading to children and books in kids' hands. Turn the Page KC, the Kansas City Public Library and LINC are cooperating to get men to reach out to kids by making free books available at several urban barbershops.
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LINC Chess is once again hosting programs this summer with LINC Chess Camp and LINC Chess University at Woodland Early Learning Center in Kansas City Public Schools. From 8 a.m. to noon starting Monday, July 27-Friday, July 31 students can improve their chess game with LINC Chess instructors during LINC Chess. Adults can sign up for LINC Chess University to become a certified LINC Chess instructor.
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Third-six grade Pitcher Elementary students will showcase their artwork created this semester during the June First Fridays event on June 5 in the Crossroads Arts District. From 6-9 p.m., student work will be displayed along with hip-hop group performances, a kid's creation station for arts&crafts, hamburgers, hotdogs, and much more.
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Martin City K-8 students won 1,000 dollars for two separate video entries to the annual Missouri Afterschool Network video contest. Students created a video with this year's theme "Afterschool Works" which supports fun and educational after school programming.
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Genesis School held their annual Slammin' & Jammin' fundraising event on May 8-9, 2015. The two-day event featured a party and auction, with a professional tennis tournament the following day. LINC produced a short video to kick-off the event.
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Over 200 students competed in five rounds of chess during the LINC Chess End of Year Tournament at Hickman Mills Freshman Center Saturday, May 9. Congratulations to all participants!
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Project Shine will once again be held this summer to clean and revitalize five schools in the Independence School District. Volunteers and supply donations are need to support cleaning and maintence efforts during Project Shine, which prepares schools for the upcoming academic year.
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Watch our video about the process of preparing 35,000 books for delivery to students this summer. Community volunteers and several organizations have helped to make this year's distribution a success.
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Text, Talk, Act conversations to be held Thursday, May 7 to work to remove stigmas surround mental illnesses through small group discussions and activities. Text, Talk, Act is held in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Bridget McCandless, CEO of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, presented on the changing health care system in America. The presentation was part of the April 20, 2015 LINC Commission Meeting.
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LINC again is organizing a major summer book distribution to get a personal book in the hands of all elementary school students in over 80 LINC Caring Communities school sites.
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Phyllis Becker has been appointed Director of the Division of Youth Services (DYS).
Missouri Department of Social Services director Brian Kinkade announced the appointment on April 17, 2015.
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LINC is deeply involved in providing summer school and summer programs. At a recent press conference KCPS Superintendent Dr. R. Stephen Green announced the opportunities and partners in their 2015 Summer Experience programs.
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The National Association of Free & Charitable Clinics (NAFC) and the Kansas City CARE Clinic will be holding a one-day free medical clinic event on Saturday, April 18, 2015, in Kansas City, Mo., at the Bartle Hall Kansas City Convention Center, for those in the area who have no or limited access to health care.
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LINC and Turn the Page KC along with AmeriCorps volunteers traveled to the First Book distribution center in St. Louis to provide 5,000 books for area children -- part of a concerted effort to get more books in the hands of children in the community.
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LINC joined several other community partnership and groups to participate in Child Advocacy Day at the Missouri State Capitol on April 1.
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The extraordinary efforts by the Hickman Mills School District to address early education needs is gaining broader community attention.
Hickman Mills early education efforts are featured on a recent segment of KCPT - the local public television station and also mentioned by Kansas City Mayor Sly James in his recent State of the City address.
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