Show a kid why she matters.

Why Your Help is Needed

All kids deserve a safe place to go after school and in the summers where they can belong. The PAL has become that place for more than a thousand kids in the urban core.

The KCK PAL serves children ages 8-18 from low-income households in the Kansas City, Kansas community. Children in poverty are more likely to have physical, mental and behavioral health problems, disrupted brain development, shorter educational trajectories, contact with the child welfare and justice systems, employment challenges in adulthood and more.

We’re committed to providing our programs and mentoring services at no cost to the children and families we serve. We need your help to do that. We need our community to support us, or these kids will not be able to help themselves or sustain our community in the future. Thank you for considering sharing your time, talent or treasure to help the kids at the PAL.