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We're here to help you build safe, supportive and nurturing relationships between you and a child with joyful, everyday advice and new community programs. Let's start now!
What is RaisingKC?
We are a Public Health Initiative leading KC in growing emotionally available, engaged, and attuned adults to promote safe, stable, and nurturing adult-child relationships that prevent toxic stress.
Our founding organizations:
Why RaisingKC?
“The #1 way to reduce the risk of lifelong mental, physical and behavioral health problems– bullying, depression, anxiety, abuse, drug addiction, obesity, heart disease, suicide, cancer, and more– is a safe, stable, nurturing relationship between an adult and a child.”
— The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Connect with a child
What do child healthcare leaders in our community do every day to connect with kids? We asked them and they shared the ideas here that will make you smile. Click on each Connection below to read them and hear their podcast interviews. Learn how to make healthy connections with children, the kind that can prevent medical, behavior and learning problems for a lifetime.
Use Behavior Checker®
This evidence-based, online tool helps you respond in healthy ways to more than 150 children’s common, every-day behavior challenges of toddlers to teens.
Search all behaviors to get simple, trusted teaching strategies that lower everyone's stress. Growing up has its ups and downs—every child and parent will experience frustration, fear, disappointment, anger and worry.
Who's helping all of us raise KC?
Below you’ll find organizations with services to lower your stress and build positive relationships between adults and children. Click on those that meet your needs to learn more. Or click on the blue bar to do a search of services, location and contact information.
Services: Behavior Checker®, Behavioral and Mental Health, Childbirth and Parent Education Programs, Fitness and Wellness Classes, Lactation Consulting and Warm Line, Maternity Navigators, Parent Coaching, Pediatric Primary Care, Perinatal Bereavement Support, Postpartum Emotional Support, Resources and Referrals, Special Needs Education and Therapies through Britain Development, Support Groups, Women's Health
Services: Behavior, Communication, Home Improvement, Home visits, Maternal Mental Health Support, Parent and Family Education, Parent Empowerment Programs, Therapy Referrals, Youth development programs
Services: Behavioral Health Crisis, Counseling families with young children, Crisis Line, Domestic Violence Assistance, Educational resources, Family Communication, Mental Health, Parent Education Programs, Parent Empowerment Programs, Parenting, Resilience Training, School Based Services, Substance Use Disorder, Suicide Prevention, Support Groups, Teen Support Programs, Therapy
Services: Youth Mentoring Organization
Services: Behavior Checker®, Diabetic Management Programs, Faith in Wellness Programs, Family Health Programs, Infant Mortality Prevention, Parent Empowerment Programs, Wellness Classes
Services: Behavior, Behavior Checker®, Family Communication, Home visits, Parenting, Screening
Services: Behavior, Domestic Violence Assistance, Educational resources, Elderly Care Management, Family Communication, Food Pantry, Home visits, Housing, Mental Health, Parent Education Programs, Parenting, Substance Use Disorder, Suicide Prevention, Therapy
Services: Behavior, Behavior Checker®, Early childhood learning, Education and Support Groups, Educational resources, Family Activities, Family Communication, Head Start, Home visits, Kindergarten preparation program, Mental Health, Mental Health Counceling, Nutriton Programs, Parent Education Programs, Parenting
Services: Behavior, Behavior Checker®, Behavioral Health Crisis, Counseling families with young children, Counseling Teens, Domestic Violence Assistance, Elderly Care Management, Family Communication, Food Pantry, Housing, Mental Health, Parent Education Programs, Parent Empowerment Programs, Parenting, Suicide Prevention, Support Groups, Therapy
Services: Behavior, Counseling families with young children, Domestic Violence Assistance, Family Communication, Family Health Programs, Hotline, Mental Health, Parent Education Programs, Parent Empowerment Programs, Parenting, Suicide Prevention, Support Groups, Therapy
Services: Books to Go, Dial-A-Story Phone Line, Educational resources, Family Activities, Homework Resources, Interactive Storybooks, Recommended Reading, Services for Educators
Services: Bilingual Services, Early Literacy Programs and Resources, Educational resources, Family Education Programs, Family Events, Homeschool and Homework Resources, Interactive Storybooks, Lifelong Literacy Programs and Resources, Print and Digital Collections for All Ages, Recommended Reading, Services for Educators
Services: Behavior, Domestic Violence Therapy and Service Coordination, Education and Support Groups, LGBTQ+ youth gorup, Mental Health Counceling, School Based Services, Soccer for Success, Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, Support Groups, Therapy for all ages, Young Adult Supportive Living (Visionaries), Youth after-school Art Programs, Youth development programs
Services: Book Groups, Children's Computers, Education Resources for Caregivers, Free Family Activities, Homework Help Resources, Online Tutoring, Readers Advisory and Custom Reading Recommendations, Reading Programs for All Ages, Reservable Meeting Rooms, Resources for Homeschoolers and Educators, Storytimes and Early Literacy Programs, Student Library Cards, Test Prep Resources, Wellness Rooms, Wi-Fi and Chromebooks To Go
Services: Behavior, Home visits, Parenting, Screening
Services: Educational resources, Parent Education Programs, Parent Empowerment Programs, Parenting, Resilience Training
Services: Behavioral Health Crisis, Crisis Line, Emergency Shelter, Home visits, Mental Health, Parent Education Programs, Screening, Substance Use Disorder, Suicide Prevention, Support Groups, Teen Support Programs, Therapy
Services: Early childhood learning, Home visits, Parent Education Programs, Screening
Services: Behavior, Behavior Checker®, Educational resources, Family Communication, Mental Health, Parent Education Programs, Parenting, Public Health, Suicide Prevention
Services: Behavior, Behavioral Health Crisis, Counseling Teens, Screening, Teen Support Programs
Services: Parent Guides, Parent Night KIt, Plugged-in Planner book series, Screen Sanity Group Study, Smartphone Toolkit, Social Media Playbook, Videogame Decision Tree
Services: Behavior Checker®, Counseling families with young children, Domestic Violence Assistance, Hotline, Housing, Mental Health, Parent Education Programs, Pediatric Primary Care, Resilience Training, Safe Place, Street Outreach, Suicide Prevention, Support Groups, Teens and Tots Clinic, Temporary Housing
Services: Behavior Checker®, Educational resources, Kindergarten preparation program, Parent Education Programs, Pop-up activities, Weekday programs
Services: Digital Journalism, Internship Programs, Media, Professinal Communication, Strategic Communication
Services: Behavior, Mental Health, Parent Education Programs, Parenting, Screening, Substance Use Disorder, Therapy
Services: Behavior, Behavior Checker®, Lactation Consulting, Nutriton Programs, Parent Education Programs, Parenting, Pediatric Primary Care, Reach out and Read, Screening
