Community Partner
Community Partner Grants
Grants to Kansas City organizations doing frontline youth mental health work across the region.
Over $11.5M raised with our partners since 2006
Partner
Multiple Kansas City organizations
Status
Funded
Why This Matters
Not every solution runs through a hospital. Some of the best work happens in classrooms, on horseback, and in a room full of teenagers who trust each other.
Alongside our work with Children's Mercy, Fore the Kids funds community organizations across Kansas City that reach kids in ways a hospital cannot. Each one works a different corner of the same problem.
- Fight Club runs confidential peer support groups where teenagers can say what they are actually carrying, led by trained facilitators.
- Screen Sanity gives parents research-backed tools to help kids grow up healthy in a digital world.
- KidsTLC provides residential, outpatient, and family programs for mental and behavioral health, trauma, and autism, serving Kansas City since 1972.
- Heartland Therapeutic Riding uses equine-assisted therapy to build confidence and emotional growth for kids with disabilities.
- Just Like You Films makes documentary films that teach kids empathy for peers living with anxiety, depression, and other conditions.
Related Work
Other projects we fund
Depression and Anxiety in Youth (DAY) Clinic
Diagnostic evaluation, medication management, and group and individual therapy for teens with anxiety and depression.
Funded
Nick Timmons Endowed Chair
A permanent research position at Children's Mercy focused on adolescent suicide prevention and mood disorders.
Funded
Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration
Behavioral health clinicians working inside community primary care offices, so families get help at the first visit.
Active
How To Support
Three ways to move the work forward
Sponsor an event, lend a hand, or give monthly. However you show up, every path puts real support behind youth mental health care for kids and families across the Kansas City region.
Sponsor an event
Put your brand behind real, measurable impact
Volunteer
Show up and give back to your local community
Give Monthly
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