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 …
HALO Children Focus on Emotional and Spiritual Self-Care
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 …
Professional Artist and Kansas City Native Inspires HALO Children at Explore Workshop
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 Welcomes New Summer Interns
HALO welcomes its new summer intern team! Marketing interns are Ina Maliqis, Erin Melton, Delaney Rayburn, and Maya McDowell; PR Interns are Kitty Tankard and Taylor Lay; Office and Business Development Intern Drew Lamberth; Event Planning Intern Taylor Burke; Office and Gratitude Intern Caitlin Cummings; Graphic Design Intern Sarah Forgey; Youth Development Intern Sydney Merrell; Workshop Coordinating Intern Katie LaCombe; and …
HALO Success Story: Noah
HALO experienced a beautiful moment this week, fueling our motivation in all that we do in our day-to-day work: Noah came to HALO two years ago with reStart’s Youth Emergency Shelter. He was a quiet and nervous youth. Everyone loved Noah from the start because he’s so easy to love – smart, funny, sweet, polite. He left reStart to go to JobCorps, but …
Art Therapy – How does it help?
Art therapy is an inherent part of HALO’s programming. Here is how it works: Art therapy enables a child to explore personal problems through physical activity and sensory integration. Different parts of the brain are engaged during creative expression. Sweeping a brush across a canvas requires motor skills. Drawing a picture of a memory requires analytic and sequential operations, logic, and …
HALO youth in Uganda sings “Human”
A group made up of HALO youth in Uganda and some of their friends and community members is meeting on a weekly basis at our Learning Center in Uganda. They are calling themselves “Afri-teens” and are mainly focused on dancing, singing, and performing arts. The group is led by Moses Busulwa, a boy from our Bukesa Home in Uganda, and John Aoumu, a …
2014 Fashion Show Highlight: Paul Mitchell Cosmetology Workshop
Paul Mitchell instructors begin the Cosmetology Workshop by showing pictures of different makeup designs. This week’s workshop is about makeup application and techniques, but the HALO Center youth have also learned about updos, hair art, using hair tools and much more. The workshop is part of a series of programming preparing youth for the upcoming Independent Swag Fashion Show. …
Opening Doors and Opportunities
Recently opened, Kansas City Bier Company, a brewery in Waldo, not only opened its doors to the public but opened an opportunity for Kansas City youth. A group of boys from BoysGrow, an organization that works to help open inner-city boys’ eyes to the possibilities and realities of entrepreneurship, handcrafted 6 tables and matching benches for the brewery. BoysGrow worked with our …
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