LINC fall programs return safe and strong; Here's how to pre-enroll

We know you’re coming. We’re ready.

The before- and after-school programming you rely on is gearing up for a critical 2021-2022 school year — free and safe — in the Kansas City Public Schools, the Hickman Mills, Grandview and Center school districts, plus Topping Elementary in North Kansas City Schools and Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy charter school.

Pre-enroll today at kclinc.org/preenroll, and make plans to meet your LINC Caring Communities site coordinator.

LINC is following the safety guidelines of its school district partners and constantly monitoring local developments and advice from the CDC.

Learn more about our before- and after-school programs at kclinc.org/schoolcare.

We will also continue to provide broad community support in our LINC neighborhoods surrounding both our after-school sites and also our Caring Communities programs in the Fort Osage School District and Genesis School in Kansas City.

Find resources on our help page — kclinc.org/help — and our website, kclinc.org.

Also follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/kclinc, and find your individual school site’s LINC Facebook page at kclinc.org/social.

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Morning Star and LINC get donation of Mahomes cereal

Morning Star Youth and Family Life Center and LINC received a donation of cereal featuring Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

About 100,000 boxes of Hy Vee Mahomes Magic Crunch were donated to various groups including Morning Star and LINC.

The donations were arranged through a partnership with the Church of the Resurrection which worked with LINC on several food distributions.

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LINC, Morning Star clinic partners bid bittersweet goodbye to Missouri National Guard

Just like the entire vaccination mission itself, the send-off party for the Missouri National Guard was overwhelming. More than 100 people gathered on the Guard’s last day, June 15, to celebrate the work they did with a host of community partners to deliver more than 30,000 Covid-19 vaccines — most of them with LINC at the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church’s community center, serving underserved and vulnerable neighborhoods of east Kansas City.

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On your marks! LINC's summer session takes off

There’s a serious side to summer after-school programs now. There’s increased attention to academic skills coming out of the pandemic. And an awareness of children’s social and emotional well-being after so much separation and so many families still hurting. But this is still summer. And LINC’s not going to let kids down now.

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The way out of violence: Give youthful courage and grace the reins

I believe we all know who truly has to make this happen – and it’s not us. As a place-holder name, I’m calling for a new generation of “peace ambassadors.” But I expect that the young people who are going to lead us – tweens, teenagers and 20-somethings – will give this campaign their own name. Their own power.

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LINC remembers 15-year-old Terrell Bell, lost in gun violence

Terrell was tall and strong, a football player at Ruskin High School. He played basketball for LINC’s team at Symington, and was a drummer on LINC’s raucous drum line at Smith-Hale. “It’s disheartening, all this potential,” his LINC site coordinator said. “He touched so many people. We all were rooting for him.”

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