Impact of Children’s Services Fund on Jackson County Kids

Making a Lasting Difference in Jackson County Kids

The Children’s Services Fund (CSF) is dedicated to improving the lives of kids in Jackson County by funding programs that support mental health and social-emotional well-being. Through strategic investments, we provide essential resources to local organizations focused on the needs of children and families. Our funding has a direct, meaningful impact, helping tens of thousands of kids thrive every year.

At-A-Glance

$32.8
Million
invested in partners
102
Organizations
supported
126
Core Programs
funded
57
Capacity Building
projects
3
Collaboration
projects
3
Community
projects

2025 data

Our Funded Partners

lifeworkskc.org

2023:

  • Brainworks Virtual Residential Treatment Program: $160,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2022:

  • Brainworks Virtual Residential Treatment Program: $150,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2021:

  • Brainworks Virtual Residential Treatment Program: $135,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
firstcallkc.org

2026:

  • Safe and Healthy Schools: $200,000.00 (Prevention)
  • First Call Family Services: $221,980.00 (Prevention)

2025:

  • First Call Family Services: $221,965.00 (Prevention)

2024:

  • First Call Family Services: $151,638.00 (Prevention)

2023:

  • First Call Family Services: $126,365.00 (Prevention)

2022:

  • First Call Family Services: $127,403.00 (Prevention)

2021:

  • First Call Family Services: $104,535.00 (Prevention)

2020:

  • First Call Family Services: $99,558.00 (Prevention)

2019:

  • First Call Family Services: $102,378.00 (Prevention)

2018:

  • Caring for Kids: $35,000.00 (Prevention)
fosteradopt.org

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)
  • Family Stability Initiative: $441,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Community Based Family Prevention Services: $285,000.00 (Prevention)

2025:

  • Family Stability Initiative: $441,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Community Based Family Prevention Services: $285,000.00 (Prevention)

2024:

  • Clinical Therapy Services: $124,035.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Jackson County Fostering Prevention Program: $157,461.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2023:

  • Jackson County Fostering Prevention Program: $131,218.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Jackson County Behavioral Interventionist Program: $170,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2022:

  • Jackson County Fostering Prevention Program: $127,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Jackson County Behavioral Interventionist Program: $160,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2021:

  • Jackson County Fostering Prevention Program: $143,462.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Jackson County Behavioral Interventionist Program: $120,750.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2020:

  • Jackson County Behavioral Interventionist Program: $115,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2019:

  • Jackson County Behavioral Interventionist Program: $115,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2018:

  • Jackson County Behavioral Interventionist Program: $148,500.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Family Connections Shelter/Preschool Program: $53,010.00 (Family Support Interventions)
frontporchalliance.org

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $32,030.00 (Technology)

2025:

  • Neighborhood Families: $315,000.00

2024:

  • Neighborhood Families: $210,000.00 (Prevention)

2023:

  • Neighborhood Families: $175,000.00 (Prevention)

2022:

  • Neighborhood Families: $175,000.00 (Prevention)

2021:

  • Neighborhood Families: $175,000.00 (Prevention)

2020:

  • Neighborhood Families: $180,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2019:

  • Neighborhood Families: $136,217.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2018:

  • Neighborhood Families: Family support, education, and children's wellbeing services in urban Jackson County: $70,868.00 (Family Support Interventions)
www.frontierschools.org/

2026:

  • Empowering Students to Build Social-Emotional Skills to Succeed: $302,500.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)

2025:

  • Crisis Intervention Program for Urban Core PreK-12: $275,000.00

2024:

  • Crisis Intervention Program for Urban Core PreK-12: $275,000.00
futuresfirstkc.org/

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)

2025:

  • Childhood Mental Health: $500,000.00 (Prevention)

2024:

  • Childhood Mental Health: $330,000.00 (Prevention)

2023:

  • Childhood Mental Health: $300,000.00 (Prevention)

2022:

  • Childhood Mental Health: $300,000.00 (Prevention)

2021:

  • Childhood Mental Health: $275,000.00 (Prevention)

2020:

  • Childhood Mental Health: $239,575.00 (Prevention)

2019:

  • Childhood Mental Health: $234,670.00 (Prevention)

2018:

  • Childhood Mental Health: $129,238.00 (Prevention)
gordonparks.org

2026:

  • Social and Emotional Resiliency Program: $176,000.00 (Prevention)
  • Capacity through Technology: $34,212.48 (Technology)

2025:

  • Improve Mental Health and Well-Being Supports in School: $160,000.00

2024:

  • Improve Mental Health and Well-Being Supports in School: $160,000.00 (Prevention)

2023:

  • Improve Mental Health and Well-Being Supports in School: $128,030.00 (Prevention)

2022:

  • Improve Mental Health and Well-Being Supports in School: $124,660.00 (Prevention)

2021:

  • Improved Access to Mental Health Assessment: $97,176.00 (Prevention)

2020:

  • Improved Access to Mental Health Assessment: $97,176.44 (Prevention)
gapcares.org

2025:

  • Putting Students First: $75,000.00

2024:

  • Putting Students First: $68,718.00 (Prevention)

2023:

  • Putting Students First: $57,265.00 (Prevention)

2022:

  • Putting Students First: $55,901.00 (Prevention)

2021:

  • Putting Students First: $77,540.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2020:

  • Putting Students First: $73,847.97 (Family Support Interventions)
greatcircle.org

2021:

  • Learn, Grow, Thrive: $142,500.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Empowering Children for Healthy Outcomes: $215,000.00 (Prevention)

2020:

  • Learn, Grow, Thrive: $180,706.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Empowering Children for Healthy Outcomes: $234,694.00 (Prevention)

2019:

  • Learn, Grow, Thrive: $182,033.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Empowering Children for Healthy Outcomes: $235,875.00

2018:

  • Pervasive Emotion Dysregulation Intensive Outpatient Program: $125,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
greatjobskc.org/

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)
  • Supporting the Mental Health Needs of KC Scholars: $0.00 (Cultivation)

2025:

  • Supporting the Mental Health Needs of KC Scholars: $0.00 (Cultivation)
www.gck12.org/

2026:

  • MTSS/CSMH Alignment: $225,000.00 (Prevention)

2025:

  • Healthy Minds, Thriving Students: $225,000.00

2024:

  • Healthy Minds, Thriving Students: $225,000.00
www.hickmanmills.org/

2026:

  • Restorative Practices Paradigm Shift: $532,192.00 (Prevention)

2025:

  • Restorative Practices Paradigm Shift: $385,000.00

2024:

  • Restorative Practices Paradigm Shift: $385,000.00
hillcrestkc.org

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)
  • Shelter and Prevention for Homeless Youth in Jackson County: $248,308.00 (Transitional Living)

2025:

  • Shelter and Prevention for Homeless Youth in Jackson County: $240,350.00 (Transitional Living)

2024:

  • New Youth Transitional Living Program in Jackson County: $160,929.00 (Transitional Living)

2023:

  • New Youth Transitional Living Program in Jackson County: $134,108.00 (Transitional Living)

2022:

  • New Youth Transitional Living Program in Jackson County: $116,116.00 (Transitional Living)
hopehouse.net

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)
  • Hope House's Guardian Program Expansion Project: $317,973.00 (Prevention)
  • Hope House's Children's Services Program: $195,000.00 (Prevention)

2025:

  • Hope House's Children's Services Program: $188,250.00 (Prevention)
  • Hope House's Guardian Program Expansion Project: $317,622.00 (Prevention)

2024:

  • Hope House's Children's Services Program: $125,491.00 (Prevention)
  • Hope House's Guardian Program Expansion Project: $222,675.00 (Prevention)

2023:

  • Children's Services Program: $104,576.00 (Prevention)
  • The Guardian Program: $185,563.00 (Prevention)

2022:

  • Children's Services Program: $99,391.00 (Prevention)
  • The Guardian Program: $180,332.00 (Prevention)

2021:

  • Child and Family Advocacy Program: $97,840.00 (Prevention)
  • The Guardian Program: $181,584.00 (Prevention)

2020:

  • Child and Family Advocacy Program: $97,840.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • The Guardian Program: $181,584.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2019:

  • Child and Family Advocacy Program: $93,085.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • The Guardian Program: $182,074.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2018:

  • Hope House's Guardian Program Expansion Project: $100,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
isdschools.org

2026:

  • ISD Family Services CARE: $665,700.00 (Prevention)

2025:

  • ISD Family Services CARE: $660,000.00 (Prevention)

2024:

  • ISD Family Services CARE: $660,000.00
  • Hispanic Outreach, Partnership and Engagement Services: $200,300.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Family Services Initiative: $258,500.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2023:

  • Hispanic Outreach, Partnership and Engagement Services: $200,300.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Family Services Initiative: $258,500.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2022:

  • Hispanic Outreach, Partnership and Engagement Services: $192,600.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Family Services Initiative: $250,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2021:

  • Family Services Initiative: $227,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2020:

  • Family Services Initiative: $221,017.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2019:

  • Family Services Initiative: $215,993.50
  • Bridger PRIDE (Attendance and Student Success) Program: $27,500.00

2018:

  • Bridger PRIDE (Attendance and Student Success) Program: $55,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
jacksoncountycasa-mo.org

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)
  • Advocacy and Intervention for Children Experiencing Abuse or Neglect: $450,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Volunteer Attorney Guardian Ad Litem Intervention & Advocacy: $350,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2025:

  • Intervention and Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children in Jackson County: $350,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Volunteer Attorney Guardian Ad Litem Intervention & Advocacy: $250,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2024:

  • Intervention and Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children in Jackson County: $260,820.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Volunteer Attorney Guardian Ad Litem Intervention & Advocacy: $205,200.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2023:

  • Volunteer Attorney Guardian Ad Litem Intervention & Advocacy: $171,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Intervention and Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children in Jackson County: $217,350.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2022:

  • Volunteer Attorney Guardian Ad Litem Intervention & Advocacy: $144,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Intervention and Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children in Jackson County: $207,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2021:

  • Volunteer Attorney Guardian Ad Litem Intervention & Advocacy: $149,999.00 (Family Support Interventions)
  • Intervention and Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children in Jackson County: $219,905.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2020:

  • Intervention and Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children in Jackson County: $209,433.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2019:

  • Intervention and Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children in Jackson County: $209,433.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2018:

  • Intervention and Advocacy for Abused and Neglected Children in Jackson County: $75,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
jvskc.org

2026:

  • Social Work - Youth: $525,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2025:

  • Social Work - Youth: $525,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2024:

  • Social Work - Youth: $330,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2023:

  • Social Work - Youth: $275,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2022:

  • Social Work - Youth: $250,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2021:

  • Project SOAR (Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Refugees): $221,300.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2020:

  • Project SOAR (Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Refugees): $210,761.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2019:

  • Project SOAR (Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Refugees): $200,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2018:

  • Project SOAR (Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Refugees): $187,500.00 (Family Support Interventions)
kcatc.org

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $34,890.00 (Technology)
  • Treatment Services for Jackson County Kids on the Autism Spectrum: $426,500.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2025:

  • Treatment Services for Jackson County Kids on the Autism Spectrum: $377,760.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2024:

  • Treatment Services for Jackson County Kids on the Autism Spectrum: $257,702.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2023:

  • Treatment Services for Jackson County Kids on the Autism Spectrum: $214,752.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2022:

  • Treatment Services for Jackson County Kids on the Autism Spectrum: $207,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2021:

  • Treatment Services for Jackson County Kids on the Autism Spectrum: $194,939.00 (Family Support Interventions)
kcgpa.org

2026:

  • Empowering Youth Through Proactive SEL Supports: $242,000.00 (Prevention)
  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)

2025:

  • Social Emotional Learning Team Supports Resiliency & Mental Health Outcomes: $220,000.00 (Prevention)

2024:

  • Social Emotional Learning Team Supports Resiliency & Mental Health Outcomes: $220,000.00 (Prevention)
  • SEL Team Supports Positive Mental Health Outcomes: $86,522.00 (Prevention)

2023:

  • SEL Team Supports Positive Mental Health Outcomes: $144,203.00 (Prevention)

2022:

  • SEL Team Supports Positive Mental Health Outcomes: $140,000.00 (Prevention)

2021:

  • Licensed Clincal Social Worker Supports Counseling Services: $91,408.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
kchospice.org

2026:

  • School Based Grief Group & Individual Counseling Services: $200,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2025:

  • School Based Grief Group & Individual Counseling Services: $200,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2024:

  • Grief Support for Youth Impacted by Trauma and Loss: $162,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
  • School Based Grief Group & Individual Counseling Services: $71,424.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2023:

  • Grief Support for Youth Impacted by Trauma and Loss: $135,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2022:

  • Grief Support for Youth Impacted by Trauma and Loss: $112,500.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2021:

  • Grief Support for Youth Impacted by Trauma and Loss: $99,000.00 (Prevention)
kchealthykids.org

2025:

  • Healthy Kids Bright Futures: $138,000.00

2024:

  • Healthy Kids Bright Futures: $108,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2023:

  • Healthy Kids Bright Futures: $90,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2022:

  • Healthy Kids Bright Futures: $90,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2021:

  • Healthy Kids Bright Futures: $75,625.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2020:

  • Healthy Kids Bright Futures: $72,023.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2019:

  • Healthy Kids Bright Futures: $43,923.00 (Family Support Interventions)
hospitals.kvc.org/locations/niles

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $35,000.00 (Technology)
  • Strong and Connected Families: $157,500.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2025:

  • Strong and Connected Families: $157,500.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2024:

  • Strong and Connected Families: $189,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
  • Day Prep Treatment Program: $240,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2023:

  • Strong and Connected Families: $157,500.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
  • Day Prep Treatment Program: $240,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2022:

  • Strong and Connected Families: $157,500.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
  • Day Prep Treatment Program: $240,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2021:

  • Day Prep Treatment Program: $210,000.00 (Prevention)

2020:

  • Day Prep Treatment Program: $200,000.00 (Prevention)

2019:

  • Day Prep Treatment Program: $200,000.00
  • Niles Day Prep Treatment Program-Building Capacity: $50,000.00

2018:

  • Niles Day Prep Treatment Program-Building Capacity: $100,000.00 (Prevention)
www.leadtoreadkc.org/

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $30,700.00 (Technology)
  • Strengthening the Author Partnership Program: Embedding SEL into Strategy and Impact: $40,000.00 (Capacity Building)

2020:

  • Books/Mentors to Promote Positive Mental Health: $21,900.00 (Prevention)
lscares.org

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $20,000.00 (Technology)

2024:

  • Community Approach to Youth Mental Health: $120,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2023:

  • Community Approach to Youth Mental Health: $100,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2022:

  • Community Approach to Youth Mental Health: $100,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2019:

  • Community-based Resilience Building for Youth & Families: $25,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)

2018:

  • Community-based Resilience Building for Youth & Families: $50,000.00 (Family Support Interventions)
mothersrefuge.org

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $34,944.00 (Technology)
  • Therapy and Shelter for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies: $107,326.00 (Supports for Teen Parents)
  • Transitional Living Program for Young Mothers and Babies: $378,000.00 (Transitional Living)

2025:

  • Transitional Living Program for Young Mothers and Babies: $378,000.00 (Transitional Living)
  • Therapy and Shelter for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies: $107,340.00 (Supports for Teen Parents)

2024:

  • Therapy and Shelter for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies: $149,222.00 (Supports for Teen Parents)
  • Transitional Living Program for Young Mothers and Babies: $252,000.00 (Transitional Living)

2023:

  • Transitional Living Program for Young Mothers and Babies: $210,000.00 (Transitional Living)
  • Therapy and Shelter for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies: $124,352.00 (Supports for Teen Parents)

2022:

  • Transitional Living Program for Young Mothers and Babies: $175,000.00 (Transitional Living)
  • Therapy and Shelter for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies: $115,000.00 (Supports for Teen Parents)

2021:

  • Therapeutic Crisis Counseling for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies: $71,635.00 (Supports for Teen Parents)

2020:

  • Therapeutic Crisis Counseling for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies: $68,227.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2019:

  • Therapeutic Crisis Counseling for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies: $68,227.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
www.necc-kc.org/

2025:

  • Crescendo: $45,000.00

2024:

  • Harmony Project KC: $50,000.00

2020:

  • Harmony Project KC: $74,940.00 (Prevention)

2019:

  • Harmony Project KC: $69,995.00
  • Harmony Project KC: $16,700.00

2018:

  • Harmony Project KC - building healthy communities through music: $33,400.00 (Prevention)
www.oakgrove.k12.mo.us/

2026:

  • Develop a Multi-Tiered Support of Social and Emotional Interventions and Services: $450,000.00 (Prevention)

2025:

  • Develop a Multi-Tiered Support of Social and Emotional Interventions and Services: $399,351.00

2024:

  • Develop a Multi-Tiered Support of Social and Emotional Interventions and Services: $399,351.00
operationbreakthrough.org

2026:

  • Child and Youth Mental Health Services: $311,200.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
  • Prevention and Promotional Services for Social Emotional Well-Being: $165,000.00 (Prevention)
  • Capacity through Technology: $34,790.00 (Technology)

2025:

  • Child and Youth Mental Health Services: $350,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
  • Prevention and Promotional Services for Social Emotional Well-Being: $150,000.00 (Prevention)

2024:

  • Child and Youth Mental Health Services: $350,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
  • Prevention and Promotional Services for Social Emotional Well-Being: $150,000.00 (Prevention)
  • Children & Youth Collaborative Mental Health Services: $165,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2023:

  • Collaborative Family Services to Support Child Mental Health: $275,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2022:

  • Collaborative Family Services to Support Child Mental Health: $275,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2021:

  • Collaborative Family Services to Support Child Mental Health: $260,460.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2020:

  • Collaborative Family Services to Support Child Mental Health: $248,058.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2019:

  • Collaborative Family Services to Support Child Mental Health: $248,949.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
ourspotkc.org/

2026:

  • Capacity through Technology: $33,325.56 (Technology)
  • Lion House Kansas City, MO: $311,393.00 (Transitional Living)

2025:

  • Lion House Kansas City, MO: $296,565.00 (Transitional Living)

2024:

  • Lion House Kansas City, MO: $275,000.00 (Transitional Living)
pawsandpals.org/

2026:

  • Therapy & social emotional wellness for at-risk and undeserved youth.: $247,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2025:

  • K.I.N.D.(Kids in Need of Dogs) Therapy: $247,500.00 (Counseling and Assessment)

2024:

  • K.I.N.D.(Kids in Need of Dogs) Therapy: $165,000.00 (Counseling and Assessment)
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