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To
provide a safe and nurturing, cost-free after-school experience for at-risk
youth.
It is the goal of Kids’ Place to provide a place
where every child is loved, respected and nurtured. A place, where each
child is encouraged and challenged to become his or her best self. Dianna
DiMartino, retired educator of Delmar-Harvard reflects on these efforts,
“I feel your organization has helped the students not only academically
but emotionally as well. The smiles on their faces when they know they
are attending Kids’ Place lets me know they have found a place where
they can feel loved.”
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Since 1998,
Kids’ Place, an outreach mission and program of the University United
Methodist Church, has provided a safe and nurturing after-school experience
that includes nutrition and mentoring at no cost to families of at-risk
children in the Delmar-Harvard neighborhood in University City. From a humble
beginning of one afternoon a week with 22 children, 12 volunteers and $1,200
in donations, the program has grown to four afternoons and two evenings
a week with 40 children and their families, four paid staff and sixty volunteers
from nearby churches, synagogues and universities. |
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Kids’
Place offers quality free after school programming four days a week for
students K-8th grade. The program operates on Mondays and Wednesdays from
3:30-5:30 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-7:30 p.m. A snack
is served each day and dinner is served on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Kids’
Place offers a one to two-week full day free summer camp during August.
The camp is intentionally offered after summer school is completed so as
not to interfere with the children’s continued academic achievement
during the summer. |
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Currently, as a program
of the church, Kids' Place's tax exempt status falls under UUMC's 501(c)(3).
However, Kids' Place is governed by its own Board of Directors. |
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Kids’
Place thanks all of the generosity provided by the numerous organizations,
foundations and individuals that supports its after-school programming.
If
you are interested in learning more about our valuable programming or
becoming a Kids’ Place volunteer, please contact Kids’ Place
at (314)863-8055.
If you are interested
in helping Kids’ Place guarantee a brighter future for at-risk children
for years to come, please forward your gift to:
UUMC
Kids’ Place
6901 Washington Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63130 |
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©2006
All images and content property of Kids' Place St. Louis. Website designed
by Propulsion Graphics,
St. Louis, Mo. |
