Forty Acres & A Mule
Contact Person: Laurice Valentine, Director
Name of Program: Children’s Connection
Address: 7620 E. 79th Street, Kansas City, MO 64138
Telephone Number: (816) 358-9036
Funding Amount: $28,050.00
Web site: www.stjamesumc.com

Program Narrative: Children’s Connection will provide prevention services to youth and their families who are at risk of educational failure, substance abuse, truancy and juvenile delinquency. In an after school setting, four to five days weekly, youth are provided a safe & fun place to thrive and achieve while interacting with caring adults, other children and families in similar situations.

The strategies are designed to lessen the impact of the incarceration, and the prevention of intergenerational crime and incarceration. Since youth do not grow up in isolation, our service delivery model will include their families, schools, neighborhoods, other organizations, and the larger community.

Friendship House and Catherine’s Place
Contact Person: Mr. J. Gregory Morgan
Name of Program: “Kid Alive!” Drug Prevention for Children of Addicts
Address: P.O. Box 10025, Kansas City, Missouri 64171
Telephone Number: (816) 531-7788 ext. 233
Funding Amount: $21,250.00
Web site: www.friendshiphousekc.org

Program Narrative: Drug Prevention for Children of Addicts for children and youth ages 4-12 whose mothers are enrolled in our transitional housing and support services program for approximately six months. We estimate the population of children and youth who will complete our program at approximately 30 over two year’s time. Though this number may seem small, it is important to remember that what we are offering is a very intensive program matching highly trained professionals with clients and their families on a very personal basis for an extended period of time in a rather intimate setting. We have identified six risk and protective factors in the family and individual domains which we will address directly.

Girl Scouts of NE Kansas & NW Missouri
Contact Person: Mindy McDermott
Name of Program: Girl Scouting in the Urban Core
Address: 8383 Blue Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri 64133
Telephone Number: (816) 358-8750
Funding Amount: $21,250.00
Web site: www.girlsscoutsksmo.org

Program Narrative: Girl Scouts is the world’s preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls where, in an accepting and nurturing environment, girls build character and skills for success. Girl Scouts specializes in activities that are relevant to today’s girls and conducted in a safe, all-girl environment with the support of trained adult mentors.

Girl Scouts of NE Kansas & NW Missouri will increase the likelihood that girls in Jackson County, particularly girls who reside in the urban core, will strengthen personal attitudes and commitments against using drugs, alcohol and tobacco. The goal of the program is to intensify community and individual protective factors that reduce risk factors for substance abuse, by reinforcing assertiveness, cooperation and team building, decision-making, problem-solving, good communication, and community involvement. Through hands-on activities, service projects, and programs aimed specifically at promoting healthy lifestyles, approximately 1000 girls annually in a two-year period, will build self-esteem and the ability to resist peer pressure.

Grace United Community Ministries, Inc.
Contact Person: Rev. Sharon Garfield
Name of Program: Family Prevention Plan (FFP)
Address: 801 Benton Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64124
Telephone Number: (816)231-5745
Funding Amount: $21,250.00
Web site: N/A

Program Narrative: Grace United Community Ministries proposes to collaborate with COMBAT to strengthen a Family Protection Plan (FFP) envisioned as a response to the large number of children from low-income homes in the northeast area of Kansas City, Missouri who are at high-risk for substance abuse and underage drinking unless strong interventions are implemented early in their lives. The FPP is and evidence-based program addressing protective factors which increase parents role and involvement in children’s lives; provide instruction in life skills and substance abuse education for both parents and children; increase social skills by developing individual characteristics and values that promote healthy decision-making; provide community celebration events and projects which address the need for community responsibility and involvement; and, increase tutorial program services to include 25 more children.

Guadalupe Centers, Inc.
Contact Person:
Name of Program: “Somos El Futuro” Drug Prevention Program
Address: 1015 Avenida Cesar E. Chavez, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Telephone Number: (816) 421-1015
Funding Amount: $70,550.00
Web site: www.guadalupecenter.org

Program Narrative: The program is the basis of our Youth Development Program. Which also include the CALMEMCAC academic component and a sports and recreation program. CALMECAC provides a structured after school program with activities to help the students academically and provides Life Skills classes. The Life Skills program offers students the tools to develop self esteem, gain knowledge of the consequences of drug abuse, and to increase their understanding of strategies to fight the negative influences of drugs and violence in their respective communities. The sports program provides year round leagues targeted at a wide variety of from youth ages four years old to high school age youth. The goal of the program is to increase the number of youth demonstrating comprehensive life skills and help them increase their academic achievements.

Independence School District
Contact Person: Brad Smith
Name of Program: Independence School District Truancy Diversion Program
Address: 218 N. Pleasant, Independence, Missouri 64050
Telephone Number: (816) 521-2700
Funding Amount: $21,250.00
Web site: www.indep.k12.mo.us

Program Narrative: This Truancy Diversion Program is a partnership between the Independence School District, the NWCDC Weed and Seed Project, Family Court Services, Judiciary, and families in western Independence. The goal of this project is to improve school success (attendance and behavior) for at-risk students. Risk Factors- Lack of commitment to school & academic failure, lack of parent-child attachment & parental involvement in school, and Rebelliousness & risk-taking propensity/impulsivity. Key Outcomes: Increased school attendance, improved school behavior, involvement.

Independence Youth Court
Contact Person: Susan Watkins
Name of Program: Independence Youth Court (Juvenile Diversion Program)
Address: 111 East Maple, Independence, Missouri 64050
Telephone Number: (816) 325-7750
Funding Amount: $58,650.00
Web site: www.indepmo.org

Program Narrative: The Independence Youth Court (IYC) exists to hold juvenile offenders accountable for delinquent behavior, provide positive peer-led justice, reduce repeated criminal activity and promote positive youth behavior and leadership. In 2006, 650 juveniles were adjudicated and completed their sentences; IYC boasts a significant success rate as 95% did not re-offend within a one year period. These juveniles completed 29,645 hours of community service for non-profit organizations and 671 juveniles successfully completed the assigned educational programs. (Note: Some juveniles are assigned more than one educational program.)

Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council
Contact Person: Yolanda R. Young
Name of Program: Ivanhoe Positive Alternatives
Address: 3700 Woodland Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri
Telephone Number: (816) 921-6611
Funding Amount: $25,500.00
Web site: www.Incthrives.org

Program Narrative: The project will address these risk factors:

1. Low neighborhood attachment and community disorganization
2. Extreme economic deprivation
3. Lack of commitment to school
4. Lack of parent-child attachment & nurturing
5. Peer rewards for anti-social involvement
6. Rebelliousness. Additionally, these protective factors will be implemented: 1) social networks & support systems, 2) caring and support from teachers/staff, 3) bonding, 4) rewards/recognition for pro-social involvement and 5) positive relationships with adults.

Approximately 50-100 participants will be served on a monthly basis with the objectives of 1) providing programs that are culturally competent and age appropriate 2) changing attitudes and behaviors about violence/drugs. Youth and families who participate in these good, wholesome activities will develop a sense of social connectedness while decreasing incidents of violent behavior and drug use.

Kamens Angels
Contact Person: Chester Ward
Name of Program: Drug Prevention and Mentoring
Address: 925 E. 85th Street, Suite 214, Kansas City, Missouri
Telephone Number: (816) 719-2232
Funding Amount: $21,250.00
Web site: N/A

Program Narrative: This program is designed to fill the void for adult role models in the lives of 50 youth-to enhance protective factors (social skills, positive sense of self, high parental expectations, academic success, and opportunities for participation) that are important to their future goals. KAI targets its support to four domains. By acting as advocates, mentors will help high-risk youth develop self-confidence that is necessary to resist drug use.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
Contact Person: Tyrone Aiken
Name of Program: Ailey Camp
Address: 1714 E. 18th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Telephone Number: (816) 471-6003
Funding Amount: $11,050.00
Web site: www.kcfaa.org

Program Narrative: The purpose of this grant is to support KCFAA’s Ailey Camp the Group early intervention programs for urban core youth, ages 11-19. AileyCamp uses dance classes, creative writing, percussion and art and combines classes dealing with substance abuse, conflict resolution, violence prevention, sexuality education, peer relationships, self-esteem, health and nutrition to build skills mentally and physically. Students also take fieldtrips participate in a performance and interact with parents at family events. Our students are at-risk in their community, family, school and individual domains. AileyCamp and AileyCamp the Group set high expectations for students, use positive role models, promotes health and wellness, teach the dangers of drug abuse, and develop new skills.

Kansas City School District
Contact Person: Ron Hunt
Name of Program: Meet Me In The Middle
Address: 5601 Highland, Kansas City, Missouri
Telephone Number: (816) 606-2524
Funding Amount: $28,050.00
Web site: www.kcmsd.net

Program Narrative: Experimentation with alcohol and other drugs is no longer characteristic of a small proportion of youth; rather, it has become the norm among the current generation of adolescents (Schinke et al, 1991). It appears that adolescents may perceive drug experimentation as a “transition” to maturity, essentially a “rite of passage.” As a preventive strategy, MMITMPC will engage 50 high-risk adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 in an art therapy program designed to address risk factors that predispose them to “experimentation.”

Kansas City Youth Court
Contact Person: Mary Kay O’Malley
Name of Program: Kansas City Youth Court
Address: 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110
Telephone Number: (816) 235-6298
Funding Amount: $34,482.80
Web site: N/A

Program Narrative: A diversion program of the Jackson County Family Court, in collaboration with the Kansas City Police Department, for first-time, non-violent youth offenders who live in Kansas City. Using a strategy of peer adjudication and mentoring, KCYC assists young people, who have committed delinquent acts and are at risk for drug pressure and high tolerance towards drug use, by taking personal responsibility for their actions (sanctions), learning positive strategies for avoiding delinquent conduct in the future, and increasing connectedness with the community through service. The KCYC program anticipates that 80% of adjudicated offenders will not re-offend within one year following sentence completion.

Mattie Rhodes Center
Contact Person: Luis Cordova
Name of Program: Safe and Stable Families Project
Address: 1740 Jefferson Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Telephone Number: (816) 471-2536
Funding Amount: $42,500.00
Web site: www.mattierhodes.org

Program Narrative: Implement a comprehensive, culturally and linguistically competent substance abuse prevention system in an underserved area of Jackson County-Northeast Kansas City. COMBAT funding will support evidence-based interventions in response to risk factors in Community (low neighborhood attachment) and School (academic failure, low attachment) Domains; Family (lack of parental involvement) and individual (substance availability) Domains will be addressed by matching funds. Community service, evidence-based youth development programming and substance-abuse education will augment protective factors: positive cultural norms and citizen involvement, positive instructional environment, communication, assertiveness/decision-making skills. Outcomes will include: (1) Increased community connectedness and opportunities for youth (Community Domain); (2) Healthy lifestyles (Family); (3) Increased academic success (School); and, (4) Increased awareness of substance abuse (Individual).

NCADD-KC (CAN)
Contact Person: Jean Jacobs
Name of Program: Helping Our Kids: We Care and We Can
Address: 633 E. 63rd Street, Kansas City, MO
Telephone Number: (816) 361-5900
Funding Amount: $42,900.00
Web site: www.recoverycentral.org

Program Narrative: The purpose of this grant is to decrease or avoid substance abuse for these youth by education them and establishing a personal plan for healthy lifestyles. NCADD-KC will bring its evidence-based programs, CAN and CARE, to work with identified youth to achieve the following outcomes: reduced isolation, guilt and shame; the creation of a support group (bonding); increased positive feelings about self and the future (healthy beliefs with clear standards for behavior); and understanding the family diseases of addiction (positive family dynamics).

NCADD-KC Jackson County Schools Collaborative
Contact Person: Jean Jacobs
Name of Program: Jackson County Schools Collaborative
Address: 633 E. 63rd Street, Kansas City, MO
Telephone Number: (816) 361-5900
Funding Amount: $38,250.00
Web site: www.recoverycentral.org

Program Narrative: This collaboration of 11 School Districts uses the Student Assistance Program (SAP) model as its evidenced-based prevention strategy. It is a school-wide early identification and referral process that is targeted to the whole child. Steps to the SAP process include identification, intervention, assessment, referral and support.

NCADD-KC Violence Interruption Program and Substance Abuse Prevention (VIP/SAP)
Contact Person: Jean Jacobs
Name of Program: Violence Interruption Program and Substance Abuse Prevention (VIP/SAP)
Address: 633 E. 63rd Street, Kansas City, MO
Telephone Number: (816) 361-5900
Funding Amount: $21,250.00
Web site: www.recoverycentral.org

Program Narrative: This proposal requests funding to stabilize and continue a pilot project with the staff at Summit Ridge Academy in Lee’s Summit Schools, utilizing a well-established program The Violence Interruption Program (VIP), combined with substance abuse prevention (SAP) and motivation enhancement activities. Attendance at Summit Ridge is restricted to students displaying school risk factors: antisocial behavior, academic failure or lack of commitment to school. The project works in the entire school climate by enriching the protective factors of opportunities for pro-social involvement, healthy belief systems and clear standards for behavior, with a positive instructional climate and a caring, support staff resulting in student behavioral change.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Kansas City, Missouri
Contact Person: Augusta Wilbon
Name of Program: 49/63-NHS COMBAT Program
Address: 5835 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Telephone Number: (816) 822-7703 ext. 211
Funding Amount: $25,500.00
Web site: www.nhsofkcmo.org

Program Narrative: This project will fund 1.5 neighborhood coordinator positions, which will focus on these individual-and community-domain factors: Social/physical disorder; low community attachment; youth in trouble; delinquent behavior. Protective factors- Build social cohesion, positive social norms, safe/healthy environments, perception of adult/peer support. Major outcome sought-Abate graffiti, party houses, drug sites; monitor unsupervised youth; reduce youth recidivism; strengthen neighborhood leadership; event participation, and positive norms.

Niles Home for Children
Contact Person: Roxane V. Johnson
Name of Program: Drug Education Empowerment Program
Address: 1911 E. 23rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64127
Telephone Number: (816) 241-3448
Funding Amount: $23,800.00
Web site: www.nhc-kc.org

Program Narrative: The program will address three risk factors that are prevalent among Niles youth: a family history of substance abuse, early and persistent antisocial behavior, and academic failure beginning in late elementary school. The program incorporates positive activities that demonstrate measurable outcomes: youth will be empowered to take control over their antisocial behaviors and academic struggles, and be equipped with protective skills to overcome potential substance use and abuse.

Old Northeast, Inc.
Contact Person: Cathy Lay
Name of Program: Northeast Mobile Crime Watch
Address: 6612 Independence Ave., Kansas City, MO 64125
Telephone Number: (816) 483-6754
Funding Amount: $76,500.00
Web site: www.one-inc.org

Program Narrative: Collaborations with law enforcement, service providers, individuals, and community are factors that trigger the positive results achieved by Northeast Mobile Crime Watch. Northeast Mobile Crime Watch lays the ground work for the preventing youth experimenting with drugs by: Focus on drug/crime prevention specific to the Spanish speaking program, addressing insufficient community resources; deterring the availability of drugs.

Operation Breakthrough, Inc.
Contact Person:
Name of Program: Youth Empowerment Program
Address: 3039 Troost Ave., Kansas City, MO
Telephone Number: (816) 329-2552
Funding Amount: $22,950.00
Web site: www.operationbreakthrough.org

Program Narrative: A peer mentor/leadership development program for the Center’s at-risk black urban youth, and operated by Operation Breakthrough staff. The boy’s program will be facilitated by members of the group 100 Black Men. The girl’s group will be facilitated by Family Advocates. The purpose of both groups is to empower the Center’s at-risk youth to become positive leaders in their schools and communities through activities designed to improve academic performance and regard for school; improve self-esteem and social literacy; reduce at-risk behaviors, including substance abuse, crime, violence and teen pregnancy; and increase positive community engagement.

Ozanam
Contact Person: Linda Hosman
Name of Program: Behavior Intervention Support Team (BIST)
Address: 421 E. 137th Street, Kansas City, MO 64145
Telephone Number: (816) 508-3652
Funding Amount: $23,800.00
Web site: www.ozanam.org

Program Narrative: The Behavior Intervention Support Team (BIST) is and outreach program of Ozanam that has partnered for several years with COMBAT in their mission to stop violence and prevent children from using drugs. BIST provides students with skills to make appropriate life choices even in the midst of chaos. BIST will continue to train educators to address students who are experiencing academic failure and a lack of commitment to school.

Reach Out America
Contact Person: Lucy L. Webb
Name of Program: Serving Jackson County’s Underserved Schools
Address: 3003 NW Oak crest Drive, Kansas City, MO 64151
Telephone Number: (816) 415-0011
Funding Amount: $21,250.00

Program Narrative: Reach Out America prevents children from experimenting with drugs; the program works. Reach Out identifies children’s needs; utilizes interactive, sensory and high-tech teaching techniques to address those needs; develops positive responses; and effectively reports outcomes following the model of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP).

ReDiscover
Contact Person: Alan Flory
Name of Program: ReDiscover COMBAT Prevention Program
Address: 901 NE Independence Ave., Lee’s Summit, MO 64086
Telephone Number: (816) 246-8000
Funding Amount: $106,250.00
Web site: www.rediscovermh.org

Program Narrative: The project will mitigate risks and enhance protective factors among youth at-risk for substance abuse. It will link the efforts of Police, prevention, and treatment providers through the delivery of prevention programming and support for crime reduction, safety and treatment. Assessment, counseling, education and referral will be provided in 7 middle and high schools. An estimated 800 youth will enroll/complete; and added 6,000 will participate in ancillary activities.

Rose Brooks Center, Inc.
Contact Person: Stephanie Milby
Name of Program: Project SAFE
Address: P.O. Box 320599, Kansas City, MO 64132
Telephone Number: (816) 523-5550
Funding Amount: $76,500.00
Web site: www.rosebrooks.org

Program Narrative: Rose Brooks Center’s Project SAFE program is a unique and dynamic school based prevention program that addresses the multiple domains of community, school, and the individual’s risk factors of: favorable attitudes toward use of substances; lack of attachment and involvement in school; aggressive behavior; isolation, and lack of knowledge about the negative consequences of using illegal substances. The protective factors of Prevention Specialists who are caring adults located in the schools offer students individual counseling, weekly peer support groups, and specialized prevention curriculum.

Twelfth Street Heritage Development Corp.
Contact: Rodney S. Bland
Name of Program: Community Crime Prevention
Address: 2000 E. 12th Street, Kansas City, MO 64127
Telephone Number: (816) 471-0334
Funding Amount: $ 64,174.15
Web site: www.lisc.org

Program Narrative: Develop and sustain protective factors in the Community Domain for the 12th Street Neighborhoods, and businesses. We will reorganize efforts, which succeeded in the past to counter risk factors of availability of illegal substances to youth, community norms that support illegal substance use, and low neighborhood attachment. We expect to see, through collaboration of all stakeholders in the neighborhood, reduction in illegal substance use and related crime, plus making the neighborhood a safe place for residents to work, live and play.

W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center
Contact Person:
Name of Program: W.E.B. DuBois Learning Center
Address: 5501 Cleveland, Kansas City, MO 64130
Telephone Number: (816) 523-3339
Funding Amount: $34,000.00
Web site: www.duboislc.org

Program Narrative: The project will provide academic, mentoring, technology and rites of passage services to address poor or decreased education opportunities, social/life skills, lacking cultural awareness and pride and the impacts of an economically stressed environment. Major outcome expected include expanded community outreach, improved academic achievement and school behavior, improved communications with adults, increased levels of parental, family and volunteer involvement, stronger and increased community collaborations and increase enrollment in computer and technology courses.

Westside Community Action Network Center, Inc.
Contact Person: Lynda M. Callon
Name of Program: Substance Abuse Intervention Program
Address: 2136 Jefferson Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
Telephone Number: (816) 842-1298
Funding Amount: $21,250.00
Web site: www.westsidecan.org

Program Narrative: This program seeks to identify and address pre-treatment issues of users/abusers through intake, assessment and referral to Spanish language counseling facilities and providing Spanish materials directing those needing assistance for substance abuse stress factors and triggers including information for mental health, anger management, family counseling.

Whatsoever Community Center
Contact Person: Charlie Gascich
Name of Program: Whatsoever
Address: 1201 Ewing Ave., Kansas City, MO 64126
Telephone Number: (816) 231-0227
Funding Amount: $26,350.00
Web site: www.whatsoevercc.org

Program Narrative: This program will address the risk factors of low neighborhood attachment and community organization by incorporating a community service partnership with Old Northeast, lack of commitment to school by providing a quality after school and summer program, and peer reward for antisocial involvement by strengthening self-esteem and assets in our youth. Our expected outcomes will be and increase in community members participating in community betterment projects, youth dedicated to scholastic advancement and decreases in ant-social behavior.

Women’s Employment Network
Contact Person: Mary L. Sauique
Name of Program: Dimensions Program
Address: 720 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO 64106
Telephone Number: (816) 822-8083
Funding Amount: $21,250.00
Web site: www.kcwen.org

Program Narrative: The Proposed WEN project impacts community, family and individual domains. Our focus on building the self-esteem of women makes positive outcomes possible in each domain. One hundred percent of the women coming to WEN enter the Dimensions program, which includes a substance abuse prevention curriculum, or they are referred to agencies more specialized in substance abuse intervention and treatment.

Grant Match Agencies

ArtsTech
Contact Person: Ricardo Fierro
Name of Program: Students Tech Academy
Address: 1522 Holmes Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
Telephone Number: (816) 461-0201
Funding Amount: $ 22,500

Program Narrative: The STA provides a unique and non-duplicated service to Jackson County. Disenfranchised youth require the opportunity to economically provide for them-selves. This service is an equity issue among the target population. By teaching marketable technology skills to non-traditional learners and by supplying a free computer and a tool repair kit to students who have successfully completed the training, the power of technology becomes accessible to youth people that typically do not participate in quality of life advancements.

Benilde Hall
Contact Person: Kent Jewell
Name of Program: Benilde Hall
Address: 3220 E. 23rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64127
Telephone Number: (816) 842-5836
Funding Amount: $ 90,000

Program Narrative: Benilde Hall provides housing and treatment services to keep recovering homeless substance abusers from retuning to the streets and prior lifestyles. Benilde Hall provides housing and services 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. The Benilde Hall program “Holistic” approach focuses on relapse prevention and education, employment development and assistance, spirituality, recovery support systems development, education assistance and placement, family and life skills training, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy-an intensive cognitive behavioral therapy that instructs clients on emotional regulation techniques, distress tolerance skills, and healthy cognitive processing.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City
Contact Person: Yolanda Robinson (Hawthorne), Shaniece Garlington (Leslie), Brigette Harris (Thornberry) and Vanessa Labarrie (East Side)
Name of Program: Smart Moves
Address: Hawthorne- 16995 Dover Lane, Leslie- 432 South Leslie in Independence, Thornberry-3831 E. 43rd Kansas City, MO and East Side- 5101 E. 24th Street, Kansas City, MO
Telephone Number: Hawthorne (816) 257-7010, Leslie (816) 461-1422, Thornberry (816) 861-6300 and East Side (816) 241-5252
Funding Amount: $ 99,600.00

Program Narrative: The Clubs are open before and after school as well as on the school holidays and in the summertime, providing young people with an alternative to harmful and potentially destructive behaviors. Besides providing that safe haven for youth, the Clubs offers a program called Smart Moves, to address the use of drugs and alcohol. Smart Moves is administered at each of the sites with components that are age-appropriate and relevant to the challenges faced by the youth of Jackson County. A nationally proven drug, alcohol and teen pregnancy program, Smart Moves utilizes trained adults and peers to help youth identify and develop strategies about the various ways to deal with and resist peer and environmental pressures.

Forty Acres & A Mule

Jackson County CASA
Contact Person: Carole Dyer
Name of Program: CASA
Address: 625 E. 26th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
Telephone Number: (816) 842-2272
Funding Amount: $ 45,000

Program Narrative: Jackson County CASA is a safety net program for abused and neglected children. Our volunteers are trained to identify report and seek assistance for our children with at risk behaviors. Examples are emotional trauma, anti-social behaviors, anger management and drug issues. The Jackson County Family Court and Jackson County CASA work together to see that the children placed in this agency receive all necessary care required so that, our children can become productive citizens in our community.

Jackson County Family Court
Contact Person: Brian Johnson
Name of Program: Nightlights
Address: 2729 Gillham, Kansas City, MO 64108
Telephone Number: (816) 881-6559
Funding Amount: $ 63,003.08

Program Narrative: The program is designed to address serious and potentially violent juvenile offenders who are either under pre-adjudication supervision, on probation, or re-entering the community from residential placements. The night Light program serves primarily as a probation/re-entry service provider of supervision and coordinated services, and is utilized as a graduated sanction to assist primary Juvenile Probation Officers in maintaining or stabilizing youth in the community.

Kansas City Police Athletic League
Contact Person: Captain Rex A. Tarwater
Name of Program: PAL
Address: 1801 White, Kansas City, MO 64127
Telephone Number: (816) 234-5444
Funding Amount: $ 37,500.00

Program Narrative: The Police Athletic League of Kansas City, Inc. offers disadvantaged youth the opportunity to interact with Kansas City, Missouri Police Officers and create positive relationships by participating in cultural, character development, and sports programs. With the assistance and support of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, PAL is committed to reducing juvenile crime and victimization throughout the entire city. PAL programs and activities are designed to instill values of integrity, responsibility, self-motivation and teamwork with the end result of improving the quality of life for at-risk youth.

Mattie Rhodes Center
Contact Person: Luis Cordova
Name of Program: Explore/Youth Prevention Program
Address: 148 N. Topping, Kansas City, MO
Telephone Number: (816) 241-3780
Funding Amount: $ 12,000

Program Narrative: The Explore/Youth Prevention Services program provides young people with access to prevention and intervention services, anger management, and activities, which facilitate positive connections among program participants and adults. As an overall agency, Mattie Rhodes Center bridges cultures and communities through arts, mental health and social services.

Operation Breakthrough
Contact Person: Kim Davis
Name of Program: Youth Empowerment Program
Address: 3039 Troost Ave., Kansas City, MO 64109
Telephone Number: (816) 756-3511
Funding Amount: $ 17,952.00

Program Narrative: The Operation Breakthrough Youth Empowerment Program is a peer mentor/leadership development program for the Center’s at-risk black urban youth. The program is directed by Operation Breakthrough’s social workers. The purpose of the both boys’ and girls’ groups is to empower the Center’s at-risk youth to become positive leaders in their schools and communities through activities designed to improve academic performance and regard for school.

ReDiscover
Contact Person: Marsha Page
Name of Program: Rediscover Treatment and Prevention
Address: 901 NE Independence, Lee’s Summit, MO 64086
Telephone Number: (816) 246-8000
Funding Amount: $ 234,000

Program Narrative: ReDiscover will serve South Kansas City and Grandview residents. Services include the full range of drug treatment, including intensive residential treatment, intensive day treatment, three levels of outpatient, transportation, and community transition services.

ReStart
Contact Person: Amanda Guy and Donnie Wilson
Name of Program: Education/Prevention groups for youth
Address: 918 E. 9th Street, Kansas City, MO 64106
Telephone Number: (816) 472-5664 ext. 238 or ext. 255
Funding Amount: $ 37,500.00

Program Narrative: Restart conducts substance abuse assessments on all youth entering our Youth Emergency Shelter, and on all families in our Family Emergency Shelter and Family Transitional Living programs. We treat addicted individuals through counseling, support groups, and other interventions, and we offer comprehensive on-site drug and alcohol education/prevention programs for children, youth and adults.

S.T.O.P Organization Against Crime and Violence
Contact Person: Lisa F. Moore
Name of Program: S.T.O.P.
Address: 3449 Prospect Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64128
Telephone Number: (816) 861-3256
Funding Amount: $ 18,750

Program Narrative: This center will provide a place for many to receive much needed resources such as employment training, educational tutoring, life coaching, crisis assistance for runaways and current gang members who need a safe place to come too detour the gang life. We at S.T.O.P. are working on faith-based solutions that will decrease the number of violent crimes that take place daily in our urban core.

Trans A Sis
Contact Person: Kathy Thomas
Name of Program: Trans A Sis
Address: 3535 Garfield, Kansas City, MO 64128
Telephone Number: (816) 536-5717
Funding Amount: $ 18,750

Program Narrative: Provide the necessary resources/support to assist women through lives transition from drug use/abuse and many other destructive sub-lifestyles such as violent crimes, physical abuse, prostitution, abandonment, etc. The program is designed to assess the need of each client to determine the path of corrective action necessary to create a positive living outcome.

Truman Medical Center
Contact Person: Kay Connelly
Name of Program: Teen MOM’s
Address: 2301 Holmes, Kansas City, MO
Telephone Number: (816) 404-5541
Funding Amount: $ 65,625

Program Narrative: StartRight Teen MOMs is a comprehensive mentoring program for pregnant and parenting teenage girls and their families. We help young women deal with substance abuse (either their own, their child’s father’s, or family members), complete their education, prepare for jobs, nurture their babies, delay additional childbearing and have positive relationships. We help young mothers become more nurturing, competent, and productive, so they do not escape into drugs or alcohol; do not prostitute themselves for income; do not abuse their children out of frustration and ignorance; or stay with an abusive partner just because he helps pay the bills.

Whatsoever Community Center
Contact Person: Charlie Gascich
Name of Program: Youth Development Program
Address: 1201 Ewing Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64126
Telephone Number: (816) 231-0227
Funding Amount: $ 58,800

Program Narrative: Youth Development program includes an after school program, summer program, G.E.D. preparation, English Language learning, boxing club, Girls and Boys leadership groups and WY Productions. This program continues to evolve to meet the needs of our youth and young adults to help them be successful in life and school. By increasing school success, self-esteem, life skills and positive relationships we help to reduce the amount of drug related crime, drug usage and abuse.