United Way of Wyandotte County's Family of Member Agencies
United Way of Wyandotte County's Family of Member Agencies
American Red Cross, Wyandotte County Chapter
1600 Washington Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66102
Phone: (913) 321-6314
Fax: (913) 321-0937
Email: info@
24-hour emergency response and health and safety education; immediate help for disaster and fire victims; emergency worldwide communications and assistance for military families; free smoke detectors; fire safety education, first aid, CPR, lifeguard training, health screenings, emergency first aid stations, HIV prevention education.
Funded Programs: Community Health & Safety Education; Emergency Services
Associated Youth Services
1620 S. 37th Street
P.O. Box 6145
Kansas City, KS 66106
Phone: (913) 831-2820
Fax: (913) 831-0262
Email: dvanderpool@
A community based organization serving youth by providing residential living, intensive supervision for juvenile offenders, foster care, juvenile employment, drug/alcohol and day treatment and counseling and alternative school.
Funded Programs: Drug & Alcohol Program; Home Ties; Kansas City as School
Bethel Neighborhood Center
14 South Seventh Street
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: (913) 371-8218
Fax: (913) 371-5206
E-mail: donshapley@
Helping people to help themselves. Services include senior noon program, senior activities, after-school and summer clubs for children and youth, women's support group, clothes closet, Heartland Share, Stephen Ministry Friendship program, promise site for Kansas City's Promise.
Funded Programs: Children & Youth Development; Crisis Counseling; Family Education; Senior Adult Program
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City
Wyandotte County Service Center
1017 N. 6th Street
Kansas City, KS 66101
(913) 371-1105, ext. 238
FAX: (913) 371-3251
Improving the ability of high-risk children from one parent and other non-traditional homes to succeed in life through the improvement of their self-esteem. This is accomplished through a long-term, one-to-one match with a qualified adult. Emphasis is placed on improved socialization and high school graduation.
Funded Programs: One-to-One
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kansas City
6301 Rockhill Road, Suite 303
Kansas City, MO 64131
Phone: (816) 361-3600
Fax: (816) 361-3675
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Promoting development of self-esteem, values and skills for boys and girls, ages 5 to 18 with special emphasis on youth from disadvantaged circumstances.
Funded Programs: Project Learn
Boy Scouts of America, Heartland Council
10210 Holmes
Kansas City, MO 64131
Phone: (816) 942-9333
Fax: (816) 942-8086
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Emphasis on assisting youth in building self-esteem, ethics training, self-reliance and self-respect in preparation for adulthood. Programs: Cub Scouts, a family-oriented program for boys 6-10; Boy Scouting, an outdoor and merit badge-oriented program for boys 11-17; Venturing Scouting, an individualized program for youth 14-18; Exploring, a program for young men and women 14-20 with a comprehensive look at careers and community service activities; Learnings for Life program conducted in schools to bring character development and career education to boys and girls.
Funded Programs: Traditional Scouting
Bristol Hill Evening Care
4826 County Line Road
Kansas City, KS 66106
Phone: (913) 432-2318
Care center whose purpose is to permit parents and families of developmentally disabled persons to do things together (have dinner out or attend a movie) while person with a developmental disability is enjoying enriching activities with peers and competent volunteers.
Funded Programs: Respite Care
Camp Fire U.S.A., Heartland Council
7930 State Line Road
Prairie Village, KS 66208
Phone: (913) 648-2121
Fax: (913) 648-2197
Email: fun4kids@kc-
Camp Fire challenges parents and children (5 to 18) to build character, instill values, develop positive life skills and encourage responsibility to family and community. Council services include a wide variety of outdoor and group education programs. Camp Fire clubs, residential and day camps, outdoor education, self-reliance courses, training in volunteerism and community service, inner city after-school programs, and physical fitness/life skills training for children with special needs.
Funded Programs: Club/Outdoor Programs
Cancer Action, Inc.
1831 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66102
Phone: (913) 321-8880
Fax: (913) 321-4033
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In-home assistance, transportation to treatment, bed pads, diapers, comfort items, sick room equipment, financial assistance for medications, nutritional supplements, support groups for patients, counseling, phone friends, grief group, Hispanic support, literature, videos and films, prosthesis, wigs, turbans, information and referral.
Funded Programs: Community Education; Patient Services Program; Volunteer Program
Catholic Charities/Community Services in Kansas
2220 Central Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66102
Phone: (913) 621-1504
Fax: (913) 621-4507
Services provided to individuals of all ages and religious backgrounds: emergency assistance centers; in-home support services for the elderly; Home Health, Hospice, counseling for individuals and families; employment services for refugees; adoption and pregnancy counseling; child care for children with special needs; transitional housing; refugee resettlement; substance abuse counseling; Foster Grandparents; emergency foster care; special needs for adoption and food pantries.
Funded Programs: St. Benedict's Children's Center; Wyandotte County Family Support Center
Duchesne Clinic
636 Tauromee
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: (913) 321-2626
Outpatient medical care to low-income, indigent residents of Wyandotte County; medical services to the homeless.
Funded Programs: Health Care Clinic
Economic Opportunity Foundation
1542 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66102
Phone: (913) 371-7800
Fax: (913) 371-0457
E-mail: ladora@
Head Start, homeless assistance, housing development, HUD housing counseling, rent assistance, emergency assistance (utility, cloth, food, etc.), self-sufficiency education assistance, job development, homeless transportation, homeless case management, limited transportation.
Funded Programs: Homeless Case Management; Total Family Program
El Centro, Inc.
650 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: (913) 677-0100
Supports people in need as they develop their ability to build meaningful and fulfilling lives. Services include: bilingual child care; after-school tutoring; parent involvement activities; educational programs for children migrant parents; job placement and employment skills training; case management; affordable rental housing, home ownership opportunities; economic development and entrepreneural initiatives, senior citizen activities; telephone reassurance, translation; and emergency assistance.
Funded Programs: Academy for Children; English as a Second Language; Family Intervention; Job Development
The Family Conservancy
(formerly Heart of America Family Services)
626 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: (913) 342-1110
Fax: (913) 342-3632
The Family Conservancy is a professionally staffed not-for-profit resource for help with life’s challenges. Our mission is to provide leadership in the development and delivery of services to help children and families thrive. We touch the lives of more than 100,000 people each year in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area by: delivering quality parenting and child care solutions; helping people out of poverty; responding to families in crisis; and promoting positive family relationships. The Family Conservancy, a United Way agency, has been serving Kansas and Missouri families since 1880.
Funded Programs: Counseling-Domestic Violence & Abuse; Counseling-Family Preservation & Strengthening; Counseling-Substance Abuse; Dame la Mano
Franklin Children's Center, Inc.
14th and Metropolitan
Kansas City, KS 66103
Phone: (913) 321-2102
Fax: (913) 342-2861
Preschool childcare for children aged 6 weeks - 6 years, providing opportunities for physical, educational, social and emotional development. Scholarship tuition assistance available.
Funded Programs: Child Care
Girl Scouts of Mid-Continent Council
8383 Blue Parkway
Kansas City, MO 64133
Phone: (816) 358-8750
Fax: (816) 358-5714
E-mail: mccgs@plugged-
Provides girls ages 5-17 of all social, economic, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including girls with disabilities, with opportunities to develop skills in problem-solving, decision-making, community awareness, career choices and safety practices. Programs include a variety of group activities supervised by trained adult leaders; camping.
Funded Programs: Comprehensive Youth Development
Kansas Children's Services League/Black Adoption Program
444 Minnesota Ave., Suite 220
P.O. Box 17-1273
Kansas City, KS 66117
Phone: (913) 621-2016
Fax: (913) 371-0509
Adoption services for families and children; family foster care; parent-child and pregnancy counseling; teen pregnancy prevention program, parent support groups.
Kansas Legal Services
707 Minnesota, Suite 600
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: (913) 621-0200
Fax: (913) 621-3817
Legal assistance in civil matters to individuals and families who cannot afford a private lawyer. Priority services: domestic violence, child abuse, public assistance denial, housing evictions, social security, services to seniors through senior citizens law project.
Funded Programs: Domestic Violence
Kaw Valley Center
759 Vermont
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: (913) 621-4641
Fax: (913) 621-5730
Inpatient psychiatric care to severely emotionally disturbed individuals and families; residential treatment, partial hospitalization; adoption, foster care and outpatient services to abused, neglected and abandoned children and their families; residential, family mediation and transitional living programs for runaway and homeless youth; community education; residential independent living training; adventure programming. Southeast Kansas Division includes campuses in Ft. Scott and Pittsburg, KS.
Funded Programs: Neutral Ground Shelter
KCK Huggers/Special Olympics
5033 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66102
Phone: (913) 573-8331
Fax: (913) 573-8328
Hotline/Voice Mail: (913) 406-6003
E-mail: aphillips@
Sponsoring organization of the special Olympics adult team in Kansas City, Kansas. Provides athletic and educational opportunities for developmentally disabled individuals.
Funded Programs: Sports; Special Events and Activities
Mental Health Association of the Heartland
739 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: 281-2221
Mental Helpline: (913) 281-1234
Providing education, advocacy, and a variety of prevention programs to promote mental health in the community, insure the availability of quality mental health care, prevent mental illness, and eliminate the stigma often associated with mental illness. Programs include teen suicide prevention, information and referral through help-lines for adults and teens, support groups, support to emotionally disturbed children and their families and to the mentally ill and older adults, and community education. Serves entire metropolitan area.
Funded Programs: Advocacy; Community Education; Information and Referral; Peer Support; Teen Suicide Prevention
Mt. Carmel Community Outreach Ministries
1311 Minnesota
Kansas City, KS 66102
Phone: (913) 621-4111 ext. 224
Fax: (913) 488-4485
Services provided to individuals of all ages: emergency food assistance; utility assistance; case management; Street to Work Job Training; Transitional Housing ; budget counseling; nutrition counseling; crisis intervention; information and referral; senior citizen club and support program for individuals recovering from substances abuse.
Funded Programs: Case Management; Wilhemina Gil Center
The Salvation Army (Wyandotte County)
701 Washington Blvd.
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: (913) 321-6958
Fax: (913) 321-2641
Emergency Assistance Family Services; Day Care Center; school age Latch Key Program and Summer Day Camp; 24-hour Homeless Family Shelter (1 to 90 days); Youth Program including Lifehouse, JELLO, Sunbeams, Girl Guards and Adventure corps; Disaster Services; Summer camping for all ages; Substance Abuse programs including : Detox, Intermediate Care, Reintegration, 3/4 House, Continuing Care and Outpatient Day Treatment, Counseling and diagnostic Referral; Senior Citizen's Club Activities; Youth Adult Crafts; Shut-in services; Family Worship Center; supportive housing village for senior citizens and handicapped persons.
Funded Programs: Child Care; Emergency Assistance; Family Shelter; Youth Development
Sunflower House, A Child Abuse Prevention Center
15440 W. 65th Street
Shawnee, KS 66217-9306
Phone: (913) 831-2272
Fax: (913) 831-0273
Email: suninfo@
Sunflower House provides comprehensive Education and Intervention programs to prevent child abuse and neglect in our community. Education programs include P.S. It's My Body (a personal safety program for children & youth), mandated reporter training, victim recognition and sensitivity, positive parenting. Intervention Program coordinates multidisciplinary interviews and investigations of child sexual and physical abuse allegations. Children ages 3-18 from Wyandotte and Johnson counties are interviewed in a neutral, child-friendly setting.
Funded Programs: Education Program; Intervention Program
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|Bonner Springs, KS 66012 |o|
|Phone: (913) 441-0461 |f|
|Fax: (913) 441-0463 |F|
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|Emergency assistance center for low-income residents of Bonner springs and Edwardsville. Provides food, clothing, utility |m|
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|Funded Programs: Utility Assistance |t|
|Visiting Nurse Association |t|
|1500 Meadowlake Parkway |o|
|Kansas City, MO 64114 |m|
|Phone: (816) 531-1200 |o|
|Fax: (816) 561-8439 |f|
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|The not-for-profit Visiting Nurse Association Corporation provides home health care services in the comfort and convenience of|o|
|a patient's own home during a time of medical need. VNA's comprehensive range of services include nursing care; physical, |r|
|occupational and speech therapy; social service and dietary counseling. Specialty nursing services include cardio pulmonary |m|
|care, infusion therapy, mental health, and enterostomal therapy. | |
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|Funded Programs: Home Health | |
|Wyandot Center for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. | |
|3615 Eaton Avenue | |
|Kansas City, KS 66103 | |
|Phone: (913) 831-0024 | |
|Fax: (913) 831-6070 | |
|kumc.edu/wmhc | |
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|Comprehensive mental health services, outpatient and in-home training and consultation; PEER Counseling Program in local high | |
|schools. | |
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|Funded Programs: PEER/BASE Program | |
|YMCA of Greater Kansas City | |
|3100 Broadway, Suite 1020 | |
|Kansas City, MO 64111 | |
|Phone: (816) 561-9622 | |
|Fax: (816) 753-2903 | |
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|State Avenue YMCA, 7340 State Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66106, (913) 299-1242 | |
|Eighth Street YMCA, 900 N. 8th Street, Kansas City, KS, (913) 321-9622. | |
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|An association of persons of all ages, ethnic groups and religious affiliations united in a common effort to enrich the | |
|quality of all lives - spiritually, physically, mentally and socially. Programs include child care for preschool and | |
|school-age children; swim lessons, sports, health and wellness programs, mentoring youth leadership training, teen activities,| |
|active older adult programs and a variety of classes and family activities. | |
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|Funded Programs: Community Development; Health & Fitness; Youth Sports/Camp | |
|YWCA of Kansas City, Kansas | |
|1017 North Sixth Street | |
|Kansas City, KS 66101 | |
|Phone: (913) 371-1105 | |
|Fax: (913) 371-3251 | |
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|A membership organization for women and girls of diverse faiths and backgrounds. Programs include child care for infants; | |
|early childhood care for ages 2-5; before and after school care; summer Y-land day camp; child care provider training; | |
|adolescent parenting support and training; career education for teens; teen mentoring; Youth Yellow Pages, health and physical| |
|education; advocacy for issues affecting women and children. | |
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|Funded Programs: Bridging the Gap: GTO; CCYD (Community Change through Youth Development) | |
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|United Way of Wyandotte County, Inc. | |
|434 Minnesota Avenue • P.O. Box 17-1042 | |
|Kansas City, KS • 66117 | |
|913 371-3674 • FAX 913 371-2718 | |
|Updated May 20, 2005 | |
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