TIPS is an HIV/STD testing, prevention, and linkage to care intervention in African American churches. The multilevel TIPS intervention is delivered by trained church leaders to the community members they serve with the support from a religiously-tailored toolkit and our health agency partners.
Grandparents Support Network KC
The Grandparents Support Network KC (GPS) is designed to empower underserved grandparents raising grandchildren so that they may access the support and resources they need to be successful caregivers of their grandchildren.
The Junior League of Kansas City Advanced Leadership Certificate Series
The Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at UMKC partners with the Junior League of Kansas City to present the jointly-developed Advanced Leadership Certificate Series (ALCS).
Abandoned 2 Vibrant
Abandoned 2 Vibrant (A2V) is a partnership with the Kansas City, MO Land Bank to help potential buyers of abandoned homes select houses that best fit their needs. The project uses advanced data processing to provide these insights
Supporting the Community While Developing a Pipeline
The UMKC School of Dentistry works with a K-12 Charter School to provide oral health services, in place, in the urban core of Kansas City.
University of Missouri – Kansas City
The story of the University of Missouri-Kansas City is one of the obstacles becoming opportunities. It’s a tale of triumph over turmoil. It’s a testament to the power of partnerships – where the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.
We intend our engagement to advance the human condition: expanding knowledge, improving health, promoting greater justice, alleviating poverty, opening avenues for economic development to underserved communities, expanding knowledge, driving artistic creativity and expression and improving lifelong learning. This is how we define “impactful engagement,” and how we intend to practice it.
Working hand in hand with community partners, we strive to prepare educated, engaged citizens who will serve as our community’s future workforce, artists, contributors and leaders; to strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and to contribute to the public good.
Our faculty, staff and students engage with our community, just as our community engages with UMKC. We continue to leverage the power and influence of our 60+ stakeholder organizations and the collective efforts and talents of our 50,000+ alumni living in this region to drive engagement and its impact to ever-greater levels. For our university community, the benefits of engagement include enriched scholarship, research, creative activity, curriculum, teaching and learning.