KC Health Dept.'s Back to School Bash to offer free immunizations, school supplies

As parents, guardians and students excitedly and anxiously cross off the days until the first day of school, the Kansas City Health Department is helping families make it a smooth start. Appointments required, so call today.

Safe for you; see how LINC is primed for this most critical school year

We’ve learned a lot in the past year and a half. And everything we know about hardship, strength, resilience and unity has primed us for what looms as the most critical school year probably in a lifetime. Everyone has a role. Here’s ours.

'I got a scare.' LINC/Morning Star, Truman Medical Centers double down on vaccinations

The pursuit of the unvaccinated is dogged now — “drilled-down” — as Truman Medical Centers has returned with its mobile clinic to Morning Star’s community center at 27th and Prospect Avenue for moments just like this . . .

All aboard! How you and everyone can play a role in this most critical school year

We’ve learned a lot in the past year and a half. And everything we know about hardship, strength, resilience and unity has primed us for what looms as the most critical school year probably in a lifetime. But it’s going to take all of us, and here’s why.

'Whatever children and teachers need,' GEHA team delivers for Cler-Mont Elementary

Just get all the teachers to put together a list. Then GEHA representatives Karen Rutherford and Niki Nelson said they’d take it from there. See what it means to Cler-Mont Elementary School in the Fort Osage School District.

'Teetering on crisis,' KC medical directors plea for vaccination, masking; here's how to save lives

It was a roll call of pain, fear — even death. Kansas City area medical directors shared their grim accounting with the city in a public call for help Friday, beseeching a community “teetering on a precipice” to get vaccinated and to mask-up against Covid-19’s Delta variant. The Morning Star vaccination clinic is stepping up.

#GetVaccinated! Morning Star clinic opens with new hours in fight against Covid-19 Delta variant

The fight against the Covid-19 Delta variant is on in Kansas City, and LINC’s vaccination clinic with Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church and Heart to Heart International is opening for walk-ins on selected Tuesday mornings beginning July 27 at 10 a.m.

Housing crisis grows as wages fall farther behind rising rents: Out of Reach 2021 report

For most low-wage workers, decent rental housing is unaffordable — nationwide and in Missouri. In no state, metropolitan area, or county in the U.S. can a worker earning the prevailing minimum wage afford a modest two-bedroom rental home in a standard 40-hour work week.

'Find your community'; In critical year ahead, schools want you back, welcomed and safe

It doesn't matter how well — or not — you and your child managed Covid’s hard time. A common message is brewing. Children, however much they struggled with online learning, will be advanced with their peers into the next grade. Everyone will recover together. Schools’ plea: Just come back.

Covid-19's Delta variant stalks communities; spurs renewed call for vaccinations

For the fully vaccinated, the summer has opened wide to nearly all the activities we enjoyed before Covid-19. But for the many people in our Kansas City communities who remain unvaccinated, the Covid’s Delta variant brings an intensified threat that is putting Missouri at the top of the list for the rate of Covid deaths and hospitalizations.

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.

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.

Missouri National Guard's unforgettable Covid-19 vaccination mission: 'Task Force Freedom'

This wasn’t like some of their past service in the Missouri National Guard, plucking flood-marooned families from their rooftops, or supporting police forces during civil unrest, or medical support on military convoys in Iraq. “Task Force Freedom” was a fight against Covid-19 right here, at home, and it was unforgettable.

'Eat Local KC' interactive map connects families to healthy food

Fans of Kansas City’s local food community have a new way to find farms, markets, restaurants and retailers near them with a brand new tool, the Eat Local KC map.

Renters: Has the pandemic put you behind on utility bills? Rent? Apply for help now

Thousands of Kansas City-area renters can qualify for help with utility bills and rent. But you need to apply now. Millions of dollars are available through the Emergency Rent and Utility Assistance Program in program that is designed for renters only. Here’s how to apply.

Reunited! The whole family is back for LINC's KCPS programs (and it feels so good)

Startled squeals turned into laughter. Children looked delightedly into the faces of all their friends in a spontaneous glow. Everyone together. Finally. No more classroom splits by A days and B days.

National Foster Care Month celebrates advocates and the children, families they serve

May is National Foster Care Month, and LINC joins the community of advocates and supporters who help the dedicated foster parents and who help children and youth achieve full and meaningful lives.

Apply now: Help is here for Internet bills, computer needs, but funds may be limited

Some $3.2 billion in federal funds is now up for grabs to help qualifying households with Internet bills or computer needs, and local agencies want to be sure Kansas City families are getting assistance. Here’s what you need to know.

Giving 'lives back'; National Guard top brass tour Operation Vaccination

“Carry these memories and treasure this mission,” says the top command of the Missouri Air National Guard while visiting the Morning Star vaccination clinic. “You have given lives back — lives back.”

Gov. Parson praises 'model' in Covid fight: Walk in and choose your vaccine at Morning Star

Just as Gov. Mike Parson came to see the “model” in Missouri’s fight against Covid, the vaccination crusade at Morning Star’s Kansas City clinic announced its latest appeal: Now you can walk in and you can choose from any of the three available vaccines. “We know the vaccine works,” Parson said. “So we’ve got to make sure we get everybody to understand how important it is to get that vaccine to get back to somewhat of a normal life.”