This month we discussed what it looks and feels like to be in a leadership role. Some of the kiddos talked about how happy it made them to lead their younger siblings, and how much they loved the leaders in their lives such as their parents or teachers. The masks are depictions of what leadership feels like to them. One …
Integrity In Practice
Integrity, noun: 1: Firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values; incorruptibility 2: HALO’s September Life Skill 3: What our kiddos show in spadesThis week, our kiddos created comic strips depicting themselves or others showing integrity. We discussed how having integrity means keeping promises, being honest, and doing the right thing. Some of our characters are standing …
Painting, Virtual Reality, Professional Development at the HALO Learning Center
October has been an eventful month in the Kansas City Learning Center. We welcomed back 13 Fairfax kids to start a new year of programming. Fairfax is an alternative high school and has partnered with HALO for two years. As a background for our readers, all of Fairfax classes are online, and in the past, most of the students struggled …
A New Look for the KC Learning Center
For the last 14 years, the global marketing agency, VML, hosts a Worldwide Foundation Day. All 33 offices close to send more than 3,000 employees out into their communities to volunteer. A group of talented employees came to HALO Headquarters on Thursday to give our Learning Center a much needed facelift. They painted the gallery, hung pictures, and created inspiring …
January Update from the Makerere Home
Whether they returned to their communities to spend quality time with family over winter break or stayed at the Learning Center to improve their literary skills, our boys at the Makerere Home in Uganda kicked off the new year on the right foot. The boys spent the remainder of January getting settled in and preparing for school to begin. Their …
Gillian Flynn Challenges Community, Deadline April 5
GILLIAN FLYNN Challenges Community Support the HALO $200 Fund-A-Need and Sponsor Domestic Youth For $200 a homeless child can attend the HALO Center for a year. The Center is a safe haven that is designed to give them an escape and programming to help them become contributing members of their communities. For Every HALO Youth Sponsored, Donor Gets Name in …
HALO Jefferson City – Home Update
Monthly Home Update – Jan. 2016 We are excited to start a new year of programs! This month we start our spring program sessions. We will be offering Art Therapy and Professional Development Programs at the Jefferson City Academic Center, Jeff City High School, and the Rape and Abuse Crisis Shelter. We are also excited to announce that we added …
Rickman Center facility allows significant expansion of HALO Foundation Transitional Living Program for homeless teens
JEFFERSON CITY – The Jefferson City HALO Learning Center will expand its Transitional Living Program (TLP) into newly-acquired Rickman Center. Upon completion of facility renovations, the property will provide residential quarters for up to 30 homeless teens and two TLP staff members. TLP services will include comprehensive healthcare, behavioral health services and training that will help teens become engaged and …