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Summer Projects Registration 2020.

YVC’s Summer is an opportunity for youth ages 11-18 to grow personally, emotionally, and professionally over the summer months. We use the principles of service learning, to take a volunteer experience and turn it into real-world learning that youth will reflect on as they look to the future. Due to COVID-19 and CDC guidelines, our summer will be a combination of virtual and in-person/outdoor projects. . Our summer runs June 01-July 31, Monday through Thursday for 8 weeks. Serve one week, two weeks or ALL eight weeks! #YVCKC
(Please note that projects are subject to cancel at anytime and additional projects could be added throughout the month May and June).
WEEK 1: JUNE 1-4
​Virtual Projects Only
  • #ApartNotAlone: Mental Health (AM Session) CANCELED
  • KC Farm School: CANCELED
  • #ApartNotAlone: Mental Health (PM Session)
  • Poverty Simulation: CANCELED
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Project: #ApartNotAlone: Mental Health (AM Session) CANCELED
Dates: June 1-4
Start Time: 9:00 am
End Time: 11:00 am
​Cost: $30.00
​Project Description: Through Zoom youth will be introduced to local agencies that provide mental health services and learn more about mental health stigma, warning signs and symptoms, and how they can respond. Youth will develop an awareness campaign using digital design, social media, video platforms, and more to share what they have learned. 
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Project: KC Farm School at Gibbs Road (Virtual) CANCELED
Date: June 1-4
Start Time: TBD
End Time: TBD
​​Cost: $30.00
Project Description: 
​Plan to virtually "work-the-farm" with other youth volunteers to get an experience on what it’s like to be an urban grower at your own home! Through Zoom, youth volunteers will learn the benefits of yoga, skills on growing organic fruits and vegetables that feed the community. KC Farm School at Gibbs Road empowers individuals through farming, hands-on experiences and vocational education to connect them to the land, food, themselves and their communities.
  Click here to learn more about the organization. 
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Project: #ApartNotAlone: Mental Health (PM Session)
Dates: June 1-4
Start Time: 1:00 pm
End Time: 3:00 pm
​Cost: $30.00
​Project Description: Through Zoom youth will be introduced to local agencies that provide mental health services and learn more about mental health stigma, warning signs and symptoms, and how they can respond. Youth will develop an awareness campaign using digital design, social media, video platforms, and more to share what they have learned. ​
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Project: Poverty Simulation: CANCELED
​Dates: June 1-4
Start Time: 1:00 pm
End Time: 3:00 pm
​​Cost: $30.00
Project Description: 

REGISTRATION FOR WEEK 1 IS CLOSED
WEEK 2: JUNE 8-11
Virtual Projects Only
  • Youth Voice: AM Session CANCELED
  • Special Olympics: AM Session
  • Youth Voice: PM Session CANCELED
  • Special Olympics: PM Session
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Project: Youth Voice (AM Session) CANCELED
Date: June 8-11
Start Time: 9:00 am
End Time: 11:00 am
​Cost: $30.00
​Project Description: The needs of every community, including your own, are vastly different from what they were a few weeks ago. Additionally, agencies we typically partner with may not be available to host traditional service projects. This begs the question, “What are the current unmet needs of my community?” and “How can YVC volunteers help in a meaningful way?” This project offers many opportunities for youth to answer these questions and others. ​

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Project: Special Olympics (Virtual)
Date: June 8-11
Start Time: 9:00 am
End Time: 12:00 pm
​​Cost: $30.00
Project Description: 
​Youth will volunteer as junior leaders and buddy up with kids who have special needs. They will help with activities and all sorts of fun stuff during the week!
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Project: Youth Voice (PM Session) CANCELED
Date: June 8-11
Start Time: 1:00 pm
End Time: 3:00 pm
​Cost: $30.00
​Project Description: ​The needs of every community, including your own, are vastly different from what they were a few weeks ago. Additionally, agencies we typically partner with may not be available to host traditional service projects. This begs the question, “What are the current unmet needs of my community?” and “How can YVC volunteers help in a meaningful way?” This project offers many opportunities for youth to answer these questions and others. ​​
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Project: Special Olympics (Virtual)
Date: June 8-11
Start Time: 1:00 pm
End Time: 4:00 pm
​​Cost: $30.00
Project Description: 
​Youth will volunteer as junior leaders and buddy up with kids who have special needs. They will help with activities and all sorts of fun stuff during the week!

REGISTRATION FOR WEEK 2 IS CLOSED
WEEK 3: JUNE 15-18
2 Virtual Projects and 2 In-person, Outdoor Projects

  • Virtual Building: AM Session
  • Virtual Building: PM Session
  • Turner Community Gardens: CANCELED
  •  YouthBuild KCK Construction Project
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Project: Virtual Building Project (AM Session)
Date: June 15-18 
Start Time: 9:00 am

End Time: 11:00 am
Cost: $30.00
​Project Description: Youth will use their hands and get a chance to create something useful for a local agency. Providing project materials helps ensure every youth who wants to can participate. Depending on the project selected, youth can develop skills preparing, assembling, and painting wood construction projects. Projects provide the opportunity to explore issue areas such as environment, healthy living, education, community involvement, and more. ​
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Project: Virtual Building Project (PM Session)
Date: June 15-18 
Start Time: 1:00 pm

End Time: 3:00 pm
Cost: $30.00
​Project Description: Youth will use their hands and get a chance to create something useful for a local agency. Providing project materials helps ensure every youth who wants to can participate. Depending on the project selected, youth can develop skills preparing, assembling, and painting wood construction projects. Projects provide the opportunity to explore issue areas such as environment, healthy living, education, community involvement, and more. ​
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Project: Turner Community Gardens: CANCELED
​Dates: June 15-18
Drop-off Time: 9:00am
Pick-up Time: 3:00pm
​Pick-up/Drop-off Location: 
668 S 55th St
Kansas City, KS, 66106

​​Cost: $59.00
Project Description: 
Do you like to spend time with nature outdoors? Are you interested in gaining some farming and gardening experience? Spend a week at Turner Community Garden to help assist with their volunteer needs. Tasks may include pollinating the garden, filling beds with soil, getting plants planted in the beds and more. Click here to learn more about the this organization. 
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Project: YouthBuild K.C.K.
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Dates: June 15-18
Drop-off Time: 9:00am
Pick-up Time: 3:00pm
​Pick-up/Drop-off Location: 
1821 N 3rd St.
Kansas City, KS 66101

​​Cost: $59.00
Project Description: 
Do you like to spending time outdoors creating hands-on projects? Are you interested in gaining knowledge on how to build and create using tools? YouthBuild program provides those pathways by unleashing the positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their communities and their lives, breaking the cycle of poverty with a commitment to work, education, community, and family. Click here to learn more about the organization.   
REGISTRATION FOR WEEK 3 IS CLOSED
WEEK 4: JUNE 22-25 
​2 Virtual Projects and 2 In-person, Outdoor Projects
  • Compassion in Action: AM Session
  • Compassion in Action: PM Session
  • National Agriculture Hall of Fame
  • Flourish Furnishing
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Project: Compassion in Action (AM Session)
Date: June 22-25 
Start Time: 9:00 am

End Time: ​11:00 am
Cost: $30.00
​Project Description: Developing compassion for others is a natural byproduct of service and YVC works to foster that potential at every turn. Youth will learn and conduct projects that helps meet the basic needs and/or promotes the overall quality of life for both human and non-human animals in the community is included in this focus. Projects that fall under this category include serving at a homeless shelter, visiting with seniors at a skilled nursing facility, and walking dogs at the local animal shelter.
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​Project: Compassion in Action (PM Session)
Date: June 22-25 
Start Time: 1:00 pm

End Time: ​3:00 pm
Cost: $30.00
​Project Description: Developing compassion for others is a natural byproduct of service and YVC works to foster that potential at every turn. Youth will learn and conduct projects that helps meet the basic needs and/or promotes the overall quality of life for both human and non-human animals in the community is included in this focus. Projects that fall under this category include serving at a homeless shelter, visiting with seniors at a skilled nursing facility, and walking dogs at the local animal shelter.

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Project: National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame
Dates: June 22-25
​Drop-off Time: 9:00am
Pick-up Time: 3:00pm
Pick-up/Drop-off Location: 
630 N 126th St, Bonner Springs, KS 66012
​​Cost: $59.00
Project Description: ​​At The National Agricultural  Center and Hall of Fame, youth will learn and explore the history and future of agriculture in America. Click here for more information about the agency. 
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Project: Flourish Furnishing
Dates: June 22-25
​Drop-off Time: 9:00 am
Pick-up Time: 3:00 pm
Pick-up/Drop-off Location: 
11971 Grandview Rd
Grandview, MO 64030

​​Cost: $59.00
Project Description: Flourish Furnishings collects, prepares and distributes donated furnishings and home essentials to offer a “hand up” by meeting the household furnishings needs in Kansas City’s urban and suburban communities. Youth will help prepare and organize donated furniture to help with families in need. Click here to learn more about the agency. 
REGISTRATION FOR WEEK 4 IS CLOSED
Click Here to Register for July Projects

Address

YVCKC • 1025 Jefferson Street, Kansas City, MO 64105

Telephone

816.384.3822  ​

Email

kansascity@yvc.org



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