There are 4,000-5,000 homeless youth, ages 0-24, on any given night in Kansas City, with only 120 beds available at shelters. HALO can be a solution to providing a safe place.
HALO's New Reach in Kansas City!
For over 15 years, HALO has built housing programs all over the world, providing the foundation of a family for children without one. In 2017, we opened the HALO Home in Jefferson City, housing up to 48 children. And in 2025, we grew our reach in the greater Kansas City area!
Kansas City Youth Need The Foundation Of A Family
- 4,000-5,000 Homeless Youth in Greater KC Area
- 3,175 Homeless Students in Greater KC Area School Districts, 1,241 in the KCPS
- These youth are identified under the McKinney-Vento Act
- 120 Beds Available
- 1,200+ youth applied for transitional housing in 2023
- # of homeless youth nearly doubled in Kansas City from 2009 to 2016, recent 2018 reports indicating over 6,000 youth in our community.
- 33 beds available at KC shelters every night for youth who are homeless and alone.
- $300,000 is the average cost of a youth aging out of the system in incarceration and welfare.
WHERE IT STARTED
In 2020, HALO began a capital campaign in Kansas City to meet the basic needs of thousands of children by building on 37 acres of land, located at I-435 South and Blue Parkway in southeast Kansas City.
HOW IT WENT
With the community's support, HALO transformed this beautiful land into the future home and safe haven for children, teens, and young adults who need the foundation of a family.
HERE WE ARE
Five years later, HALO opened the doors in 2025 to the Kansas City Girls and Boys Homes, Learning Center, and HALO Headquarters! With this new facility, HALO can provide love to children who need it the most in the greater Kansas City area with housing, healing, and education services.
HALO Homes
Headquarters & Learning Center
Nonprofit HALO plans multiphase village for homeless youth in southeast KC
Read the full article by the Kansas City Business Journal here.
Let's Break The Cycle
As we’ve learned with our HALO Jefferson City Home, this rural model allows our children to heal and break the cycle of youth homelessness. By taking our children away from negative influences, they are able to focus on their goals. Since the HALO Jefferson City Home launched, over 84% of our graduates now have steady lives where they have broken the cycle and are contributing members of the community. HALO has built housing programs all over the world. Now, it's Kansas City's turn.
Love Heals
Everyone can think of that one moment in their life that changed everything. It’s the moment that made you who you are today. For thousands of kids around the world, HALO is that moment. HALO gives them a home in which hope can emerge from hardship. And where drawings about their past unlock dreams about their future. We work wherever kids who have been abused, abandoned, and orphaned, need to feel loved. We work to help one more child spend one less day alone.
SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS
General Contractor: Harmon Construction
Architect: Clockwork
Civil Engineer: BHC
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