NBC Community Development

KC Healthy Kids is a non-profit organization based in Kansas City, KS, dedicated to promoting good food policy and fostering a healthy community through various initiatives. Their work includes advocating for local food systems, supporting mental health resources, and empowering youth advocacy for a brighter future. Through partnerships and events like the Organic Expo and Splitlog Farm and Orchard, KC Healthy Kids actively engages with the community to create active and vibrant neighborhoods. With a focus on education, policy advocacy, and community engagement, they strive to make a positive impact on the health and well-being of Kansas City residents. Generated from the website

Established in 1976, El Centro is a social services organization that creates and manages educational, social and economic opportunities for individuals and families. It provides a telephone reassurance program that focuses on companionship services for senior citizens. The organization offers shelter placement, case management, and individual and group counseling services for the victims of domestic violence. It also provides emergency assistance, health care management, and interpretation and translation services, as well as organizes health fairs to address the medical needs of individuals and families. El Centro operates The Academy for Children, a bilingual preschool that provides research-based educational curriculum for children and home-based instruction for parents. The organization conducts after-school activities that build self-esteem and reinforce academic studies. El Centro maintains one of its facilities in Kansas City, Kan.

The Family Conservancy, located in Kansas City, is an independent nonprofit child and family service organization. It is approved by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Children and Families. It offers various families the resources in areas, including individual and family counseling, early childhood care and education and community-based family support to the families. It has a family support center for Spanish-speaking families that provides counseling to women and their children. It hosts an empowerment group that helps women to advocate themselves against abuse in their lives. Its services also include a drug and alcohol group, a batterer s group, and a children s group. The organization offers a family empowerment program to foster academic achievement and cultural goal setting in children and youth. Its family focus program provides educational and social programs for family, children and community health care.