2021 COMBAT Funding: $30,000.00

In Morning Star's Own Words

This is a uniquely designed community outreach program geared towards helping individuals with real life and sometimes emergency issues/problems they are dealing with while serving their Kansas city Municipal Court community service probation time.  

We provide assistance as a Navigator Resource guide to city, county, state, private and public institutional resources in an effort to solve these individuals’ particular problems, issues or concerns. This effort assists individuals in self-solving issues and to keep them from turning towards other criminal ways to deal with a particular issue or problem.

We facilitate and advocate meetings with agencies or entities.  We coordinate and help interface with companies, utilities, agencies, governmental groups or utilities in problem solving and referring to agencies to get assistance.  And finally we navigate individuals toward resources for…

• Housing and shelter
• intake to organization
• drug and alcohol rehab units
• counseling
• domestic violence services
• job assistance
• utility assistance
• mental health referrals
• youth crisis intervention
• family interventions

Gap In Services

With a severe gap in social service or community outreach assistance and advocacy programs—due to a lack of funding—in our "Hot spot" urban core community, many of these individuals would revert to criminal activity to get the necessary resources they need to solve their problems, if not for our outreach services to help resolve, facilitate or navigate their issues. The lack of social services and funding agencies, mental health state or local funds, intense crime bell zones, homelessness, higher utility rates and bills, and low job availability affect this hot spot zone significantly.

Individuals have nowhere to turn for assistance or do not know where to turn. We provide them this crucial assistance. Without our help, many of the individuals we serve would find an illegal way to try and make their problems/issues go away.