CWS Sites

KC Urban Youth Center

Mission: To offer Christian hope, community, and wholeness to urban youth. We empower youth with resources to develop faith, character, knowledge and skills.

Activities: RU CWS students work with students tutoring in the afterschool program. For more information, read the online article written by current RU CWS students.

Location: 2732 Troost Avenue, KCMO 64108

Hours of Operation: Monday-Thursday 3:30-6 p.m., Friday 3:30-8 p.m.

Operation Breakthrough

Mission: To help children who are living in poverty develop to their fullest potential by providing them a safe, loving and educational environment. Operation Breakthrough also strives to support and empower the children’s families through advocacy, referral services and emergency aid.

Activities: RU CWS students have the option of working in the after school program tutoring youth and or working in the early childhood program reading to children.

Location: 3039 Troost Avenue, KCMO 64108

Hours of Operation: Operation Breakthrough is open 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. After school tutoring takes place from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Before school service is also an option.

Jumpstart KC

Jumpstart is working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. This campus-based AmeriCorps program recruits, trains and pairs work-study supported college students with preschool children in Head Start and other low-income early learning programs. CWS students who can commit to working for JumpStart 10/hours a week for 300 hours over the course of the academic year are eligible for a $1,000 AmeriCorps scholarship to apply towards next year's tuition.

Activities: Reading with preschool students and talking with children's families about their reading and ways to promote literacy

Location: to be determined -- Head Start program in KCMO

Hours of operation: M & W 2:30 - 6; T & Th 2:30 -6; or W & F 2:30 - 6 plus 4 hours planning. Please note: this site requires a commitment to 10 hours each week.

YMCA Before & After School Program (2 sites)

Mission: The YMCA of Greater Kansas City, founded on Christian principles, is a charitable organization with an inclusive environment committed to enriching the quality of family, spiritual, social, mental and physical well-being.

Academie Lafayette

Academie Lafayette is a total French language immersion school that cultivates student achievement, positive attitutdes, and self-control. The mission is to bring together a diverse community of students and an international teaching staff to develop critical thinkers, global citizens and engaged learners through immersion in the French language and Francophone cultures.

Location: 6903 Oak Street, KCMO 64113

Westwood View Elementary School

Location: 2511 W. 50th St., Westwood, KS, 66205

Activities: RU CWS students would have the opportunity to assist students, ages 5-12, in an afterschool setting like no other! The types of activities would include helping with homework, leading science experiments, art activities, and community service projects while teaching the children what it means to be caring, honest, respectful, and responsible.

Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday; 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.

St. James United Methodist Church

Mission: The mission of St. James United Methodist Church is to serve as a center of light for the lost; a safe harbor for the hopeless, a place of peace for the painful; a happening for the humdrum; and a place for praise, prayer, and power.

Activities: RU CWS students will work with children grades K - 7 through the Star reading program and homework help.

Location: 5540 Wayne, KCMO 64110

Hours of operation: Monday - Friday; 3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.