Two truths from a virtual summit on KC’s help services: The strain on families — many of whom are experiencing severe need for the first time — has become overwhelming. But a rising wave of financial help and services is just as strong.
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Hickman Mills Superintendent Yaw Obeng is donating $10,000 of his personal funds for his “Above and Beyond” initiative to “motivate and inspire” students. Obeng will highlight students who are “reaching for the stars.”
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More than 2.3 million homeowners were 90 days or more past due on their mortgages in September. Through CARES Act funding, Legal Aid of Western Missouri can provide foreclosure prevention services to eligible Jackson County residents.
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Good, high-speed internet access is more important now than ever for work, school, or just to stay in touch with friends and family, but it can be hard to fit in your budget. The Internet Access Support Program can help.
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No more was the pandemic going to hold back what LINC and its communities yearned to give and share. The fall weather came cool and clear, and LINC’s annual Lights On Afterschool events went outside to find a rush of parents, teachers and children ready to join the fun.
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A giant bowl of blue sky and crisp autumn air seemed capable of bringing the statue of Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt to life as voters came to Arrowhead Stadium Election Day in what was for many an electric moment in their voting lives.
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The Adopt-a-Neighborhood program is launching its collaboration with Center Elementary and LINC in a virtual town hall open to all Center Elementary families Nov. 12 to learn how the legal aid program can help them. The project adds to other legal aid services helping Kansas City families.
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In south Kansas City, CAC is the frontline of homelessness prevention, providing emergency rent or utilities assistance when there is an eviction or cut-off notice, food, diapers, medical support and life skills classes.
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LINC Caring Communities in Hickman Mills threw a joint party, handing out books, snacks, candy and helpful resources for some 260 children and adults, dancing drive-thru style.
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The jarring pandemic sent the Hickman Mills School District’s campaign against chronic absence down a whole new — and unfamiliar — track. But the project with Attendance Works is proving a success, both in improving attendance and keeping students engaged during these months of distance learning.
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Tell your story to Flatland and Kansas City PBS as part of a new multimedia series examining racial bias in Missouri law enforcement traffic stops. The four-week Flatland series culminates with a Kansas City PBS town hall hosted by Nick Haines, airing Thursday, November 19.
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Moratoriums on utility shutoffs in the early months of the pandemic helped many customers through these rough times. But their bills were only delayed, not erased. Now, as winter closes in and a third wave of the pandemic builds, the debts are piling up.
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Close to 90 infants have died in sleep-related deaths a year in Missouri and nearly half of those deaths occurred while the infant slept in an adult bed. That’s why the Missouri Safe Sleep Coalition is urging parents and care providers to observe the “ABCs” of safe sleep.
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The opportunity to fill out the Census is past, and the bureau has been directed to complete the count and whatever work door-to-door canvassers can fill in by Oct. 31. Efforts to get households to fill out the Census still left many Census tracts in the orange — meaning less than 50%.
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The short answer? $80 million in potential tax revenue to the Kansas City Public Schools and more than 20 public charter schools has been diverted by tax abatement incentives to developers the past three years.
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All across LINC’s sites in six different school districts, Lights On Afterschool celebrations will be marking the shared experiences of communities that have been through so much, bringing “joy and hope to everyone.”
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This fall the annual Black History project marks ten years of celebrating great men and women who forever shaped our city and our nation with a free book compiling the stories, along with contemporary essays by local leaders.
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In a world laced with coronavirus symptoms, the need for widespread common flu vaccinations could hardly be more urgent. And that goes especially for school communities that have always been vulnerable to flu outbreaks.
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Time may be running out in getting a complete Census count. The Trump administration can end the count early after the Supreme Court approved a request to suspend a lower court order that extended the count's schedule.
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For a complicated election season, here is pertinent voting advice from attorney Jon R. Gray, a partner with Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a retired Jackson County Circuit Court judge and former attorney for the Kansas City Election Board.
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