Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “HALO Learning Center Workshops”
We often get questions regarding the logistics of the work that we do in our Kansas City Learning Center . Who does HALO serve? Where do we find them? How do they get to our workshops? Many of these questions can be answered by one word, partnerships! Here in Kansas City, we partner with local shelters and programs to stretch …
HALO youth explored careers and opportunities ranging from web page development to applying for college at this quarter’s Career Fair. HALO partnered with Knights of Columbus and the Education Opportunity Center to showcase a wide variety of paths that youth could take such as sound production, mechanics, nursing, college opportunities, electrical and web page development. Youth were able to try …
Children at the Kansas City Learning Center individually presented the poems they wrote at HALO’s recent Spoken Word workshop. Volunteers from the Kansas City Art Institute presented on spoken word poetry and how to go about creating it. The poems our children created touched on issues like abuse, mental illness, police brutality and the future. Children can use this empowering medium …
This week we concluded our three-part series at the Kansas City HALO Learning Center focusing on self-care. The final workshop explored relational self-care and empowered our children to discern a healthy relationship from an unhealthy one. Relational self-care entails acknowledging and appreciating relationships in your life that are good for you, stepping away from toxic relationships, and maintaining a healthy …
Tiana first came to the HALO Learning Center three years ago, where her hard work was rewarded with a scholarship provided by one of HALO’s partners. After beginning college in the fall, she returned to HALO- but this time as volunteer and workshop facilitator, teaching HALO youth professional development. Tiana, along with her classmates from The University of Central Missouri, …
At HALO, we provide love to children who need it the most by teaching them the importance of self-care. Last week, we concluded the second workshop of our three-part series at the Kansas City Learning Center, focusing on emotional and spiritual self-care. The HALO children learned what emotional and spiritual self-care entails, participated in self-talk activities and even decorated journals …
During the last week of March, HALO welcomed professional artist and Kansas City native Jaime Sanchez for an Explore Workshop, giving HALO children a unique opportunity to explore possible passions and careers in art. Like many of our HALO children, Mr. Sanchez grew up in a rough neighborhood and faced his fair share of difficult circumstances. After 30 years of …
HALO Lead Program Facilitator Aubony Chalfant shares her enthusiasm about The Empower Youth Program after incorporating it into the HALO curriculum and seeing the amazing impact it has on HALO Learning Center youth. She served as a guest blogger writing her post Empowering Homeless Youth. “The Empower Youth Program seemed to be a way that we could teach empathy, positive and negative influences, making good choices, …
