Should KC open hotels to sequester homeless? COVID-19 crisis looms

As Kansas City prepares for a shelter-at-home order to take effect Tuesday morning, a community crisis is developing in the area’s growing homeless population. Shelter residents are terrified, knowing many are already weak in health and shelters are overwhelmed and unable to provide the space for safe social distancing to protect them.

COVID-19 relief: Missouri announces Food Stamps, Medicaid and child care subsidy benefits will continue

Missouri has cleared the way for families and individuals on Medicaid and families receiving child care subsidies to continue receiving that aid as the nation prepares for the COVID-19 pandemic.

School Districts, pantries step up food distribution; opportunities to help

Most area districts have had this week as Spring Break to prepare for food distribution to families during the closed-school days ahead.

Homework for everyone homebound: Fill out your Census!

Something to consider as homework for all of us homebound: Fill out your Census. The U.S. Census is providing school materials for teachers and homeschoolers, but the most important lesson is make sure you’re counted.

Hickman Mills names Carl Skinner as interim superintendent

Hickman Mills’ new interim superintendent Carl Skinner, currently serves as deputy superintendent of student services. He will succeed Yolanda Cargile, who is leaving to become superintendent of the Center School District.

Digital divide now in the spotlight; sign ups available to get, give help

The digital divide that separates many families from economic and educational opportunity is a mounting concern under social isolation.

'Acting together to save lives': Schools close, focus on aid to families

LINC and area school districts now focus on how to help families get vital services of food, child care and internet connectivity as the coronavirus turns lives inside-out.

Uncertainty for the homeless and jobless

The homeless and the jobless are cast into the pandemic’s lonely maelstrom without a safety net in many situations.

The decision to shut down schools and childcare help

All area school districts will be shut down at least until early April, fully aware of the difficulties that will fall on many families already stressed by the COVID-19 coronavirus and the undoing of everyone’s daily lives.

Hickman Mills' parent-designed Family Summit better than ever

In all, more than 200 families attended the summit, the district reported. They circulated among 75 vendors, enjoyed free lunch, let their children work on craft projects, watched student performances — and many families went home with raffle prizes provided by LINC.

Need HOPE in KC's struggle with violence? Let the children rise

“The Science and Language of HOPE: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences” promotes asset-informed care — acknowledging hardship and barriers but framing education around strengths — to help children rise out of hard life circumstances.

KCPT to launch 'war on diabetes' with PBS documentary, public forum

There's a disease going around...and it's killing more people than cancer and HIV combined. Diabetes not only kills at a staggering rate, it’s one of the leading causes of leg and foot amputations, as well as blindness.

'Know your rights' seminar aims to empower tenants on housing issues

The public is invited to a tenants’ rights seminar that will help renters become better informed about a wide range of key points in Missouri state laws and city ordinances that cover landlords and tenants.

Five reasons to complete the 2020 Census (and encourage others to do the same)

The Annie E. Casey Foundation names five reasons why the U.S. census matters more than you think, and why you should encourage everyone you know in the nation to participate before the survey closes on July 31, 2020.

'Use it. Share it. Hash-tag it': KC's African American Heritage Trail launches quest to reach new audiences

A celebratory crowd cheered Kansas City’s new website that puts a growing wealth of local black history at our interactive finger tips on our phones. But their eye was on the greater audience they hope to reach: young people, their teachers, those who are unaware.

LINC staff rallies with lawmakers in support of free after-school programs

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.

State of the Fort Osage District speech looks to the next 70 years

With the aid of the Fort Osage School District’s student broadcast team, Superintendent Jason Snodgrass finally delivered his weather-preempted State of the District Speech this week.

LINC teams with Turn the Page KC, Kauffman in attacking summer learning loss with 'InPlay'

In the depths of winter, LINC focused an eye on summer. There is trouble ahead: For too many Kansas City families, the view from July 4 to the start of the next school year far away in August is a bleak one, devoid of affordable child programs.

You're invited: City to host African American Heritage Trail launch event

The public is invited to join in celebrating the launch of Kansas City’s African American Heritage Trail. The event will bring together historians and filmmakers to highlight the online virtual trail that will serve as a dynamic and evolving guided tour the Kansas City’s historic cultural sites.

Celebration cheers 25,000 inclusive books placed in the hands of Kansas City children

Turn the Page KC and LINC celebrated with Kansas City civic leaders who predicted that young lives touched by the books will soar higher on the same literary fuel that propelled them to where they are today.