Just a little more than a day before the Chiefs were to kick off the new football season, the NFL came to town to celebrate — and surprise — one of LINC’s partners in the work of spreading healthy, locally grown food.
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The summer food benefits will be added automatically to EBT cards for most qualifying families. Other families need to apply and the deadline is August 31, 2024.
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“LINC is wonderful, it’s a lifesaving program,” said Neeco Sims, a LINC parent and grandparent. “It gives me time to focus while my kids are productive. They can do their homework, have all kinds of activities, and learn things like coping skills, which help them when they get home.”
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It was back-to-school week for the LINC Caring Communities sites, highlighting once more the wide array of services standing ready in LINC’s work of making stronger families together.
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The set-up could hardly be better. LINC and KCPS, as both are enjoying renewed strength, organized a meeting of their school leaders ahead of the school year to better understand the many things they can do together inside and outside of the classroom to help children and families thrive.
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We dropped in at Hickman Mills Middle School where Jason Terry, NBA star and coach, led the four day Hickman Mills & Jason Terry Relentless Mental Health and Basketball Camp. LINC helped support the camp organized by Cyrus Rodgers’ Faces of the Future Foundation. Take a look at the camp’s hard work and the important mission.
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Caring Communities shined as beautiful as ever. More than 2,000 people joined a community celebration at the third annual citywide fair at 27th and Prospect. It was a beautiful day of “caring, loving and respectful people, all coming together.” See the stories and reactions to the day that tell why we are filled with such joy and gratitude.
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They know what Bolton is getting at. This is what it means to be a caring community here in Kansas City, where 183 people died of homicide in 2023, many of them 18 and younger; here, where in 2024, by early August, 90 more have died. “You all feel it,” Bolton says. “This is what the people coming to you are going through.”
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LINC’s Caring Communities Day — Version 3.0 — just gets bigger and better. All the free food, entertainment, music, dancing, games, prizes and family resources return Saturday, Aug. 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Morning Star Youth and Family Life Center on the corner of 27th Street and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Mo. See why it's a big party with a big mission.
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Bert Berkley was LINC’s founder and our champion. He was the people’s champion. Berkley created LINC 32 years ago in a firm belief in the wisdom and power of communities. He believed in the right of families and neighborhood leaders to shape their own destinies from their homes, schools and meeting halls.
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Start the music. Raise the curtain. Teenagers, this is for you. Kansas City is piloting a TeenTix program that is giving teenagers opportunities to attend top Kansas City shows for only $5 a ticket.
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LINC students joined groups of youths from across the city who gathered together to share their experiences, learn from each other and to collaborate with youth and adult advocates who are working to end violence in Kansas City.
Read More ...The LINC Commission will meet on Monday, July 15, 2024, 4 p.m., at the Kauffman Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
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Everyone who comes to LINCWorks “is on a journey,” said Program Director Sonny Williams. “It’s what shapes the person. And we walk with them.”
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Somewhere on the other end of their walk, a job waits. It might be cleaning some tools, weeding a tomato plot, mending a fence. But no rush. The walk along a gravel path in these 10 acres under a south Kansas City summer sky is just as much a part of the BoysGrow experience.
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Check out some of the sights — and sounds — of LINC’s Summer 2024. The rapping with Healthy Hip Hop, honing basketball skills at NBA star Christian Braun’s Champ Camp, water play at Phillips Elementary and drumming with the Urban Bucket Brigade Bootcamp were some of the highlights of an adventurous season of recreation, adventure and learning.
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“We have a good heart,” said Faxon student Zykhale, 12. When his classmates began imagining making Faxon’s playground accessible for their classmate, Elvis, and other students with disabilities, “we all liked the idea and we went with it.”
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LINC’s overnight adventure combines passion for sports with a serious mission to help young boys and men make strong decisions in life.
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LINC’s Mighty Wild Eagles Drill Team and Drum Line got Independence’s Juneteenth celebration off to a raucous start at the Independence Uptown Market June 29, 2024.
Read More ...The LINC Commission will meet on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 4 p.m., at the Kauffman Conference Center, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
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