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Our Mission: We're here to help you build safe, stable 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 Campaign leading KC in growing emotionally available, engaged, and attuned adults to promote safe, stable, and nurturing adult-child relationships that prevent toxic stress.
Watch this space for exciting news about our upcoming bi-state, public health campaign kicking off June 3rd:
RaisingKC Month
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 safe, stable, nurturing 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: College and Career Readiness, Entrepreneurship, Health and Wellness, Social Justice and the Law
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: Connection through home visits, Developmental screenings, Free Parent Support through local school districts, Group connections, Open to all families with children prenatal to age 3, Research-based information
Services: Behavioral Intervention Support Team (BIST), Build Trybe Workforce Development, Continuing Education and Training, Day Treatment Schools, Family Preservation, Foster Care Case Management, Foster Parent Licensing, Functional Family Therapy, Intensive Family Reunification Services, Intensive In-home Services, Outpatient Counseling, Pathways Transitional Living, Youth Educational Success
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: 6 by 6 Books to Go kits, Conference and study rooms, Homework Help, Intergenerational Civic Engagement & Election Programs, Literacy Guidance, Storytime, Summer Reading Events, Table Top Games, Teen Literary Arts Magazine--elementia, Walk and Reads, Workshops for Mothers of Preschoolers
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: AARP Tax Help, Adult Book Recommendations, Ask a Librarian, Book Club Resources, Book Lists, Cafe, Computers & Printing, Curbside Pickup, Interlibrary Loan, Library to You Deliveries, Makerspace, Meeting Rooms & Event Rentals, Mobile Hotspots, Mobility Scooters, Notary Service, Personalized Reading Lists for Adults, Recording Studio, Remote Holds Pickup Lockers, Storytime and Circle Time, Teen Gaming Room, Themed Kits for Kids
Services: Before and After School Programs, Early childhood learning, Health Services, Immunizations, Meals, Parent Education Programs, Personalized Learning, Therapy
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: collaborations, community/workplace campaigns, Parent/Caregiver Resources, Self-care and resilience resources, webinars, workshops
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: Kindness Baskets for those in need of a good deed, Mentoring philanthropy and skill development through our Kindness Youth Leadership Team, Offering our Kindness Action Scholarship competition for KC area high school seniors as well as awards and recognition of our SevenDays Art Competition, Providing guest speakers on the topic of SevenDays kindness themes, Resources for schools to start a Kindness Club and/or host a Kindness Walk
Services: Early learning book kits, Learning activities, Music videos, Songs
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: Assessment & Screenings, Counseling Center, Day Treatment, Family Support, Training
Services: We provide mental health services to help children and adults develop resilience, We provide resources, referrals, and education that empower children and families to address their immediate needs, We provide training and coaching to support educators and expand the capacity of the early education workforce
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: City Stage Live Theatre, Disney100: The Exhibition, Planetarium, Regnier Movie Theatre, Science City, Shopping & Restaurants
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
