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The Children’s Place is proud to announce the newest member of our team: Duo Dog Coleman, a professionally trained English Labrador Retriever, who will serve as our full-time facility dog.

Day Treatment Heads to Wonderscope! We loaded up the buses for a fun field trip to the Regnier Family Wonderscope Children’s Museum of Kansas City earlier this month! Thanks to the generous Wonderscope team for donating tickets to make this

Patty and Don Kincaid had no idea that when they accepted a simple invitation to tour The Children’s Place that it would be the beginning of a 15-year relationship. Curious to see where their daughter Kelly had begun working as

One of our largest supporters, The Children’s Services Fund of Jackson County (CSF) has committed more than $3.2 million to The Children’s Place since 2018, an extraordinary investment in the healing and well-being of our community’s most vulnerable children. The

It’s always a crowd favorite when the team at Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) visits our Day Treatment program to host an ice cream party for the children! DFA has supported The Children’s Place for more than eight years, including

Six years on the Board of Directors was not enough for Paul Schieber, who now spends his “retirement” from T-Mobile working part-time as our Chief Financial Officer, while donating generous portions of his salary back to support The Children’s Place.

Stepping up as Tastemakers two years in a row, fundraising for The Children’s Place at our Taste at The Place event, Cole Buckman and Jordan Diggs have been an unstoppable duo of impact for The Children’s Place. Cole joined the

Once a month, Pastor Ellen Jones of Emmanuel Light Ministries, drives across the state of Missouri to deliver a carload of food to The Children’s Place to support our food pantry program. She learned about The Children’s Place about a year

Kevin and Gabby Martinez stepped forward last year to serve as Tastemakers for our annual Taste at The Place event, with an initial fundraising goal of $2,500. The father-daughter duo shattered that goal and ended up raising more than $11,000

Join a Leadership Board at The Children’s Place The Children’s Place depends on generous volunteers serving on our leadership boards to provide guidance and support for our mission. Whether you’re a seasoned professional, a young adult, or a passionate teen,