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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|246 Shadyside |o|

|P.O. Box 75 |p|

|Bonner Springs, KS 66012 |o|

|Phone: (913) 441-0461 |f|

|Fax: (913) 441-0463 |F|

|Email: vaughnt@ |o|

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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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