Calvary Community Outreach Network

HYPE: Helping Youth Plan for Excellence is a media leadership group that creates a positive setting for urban youth ages 10-21. The project utilizes student involvement in media as the vehicle to establish ongoing youth development activities. The HYPE Media Lab provides state-of-the-art technology and caring adult leadership. Students create content regarding the things that are happening in their world. Since 1999, HYPE members have produced quality programming giving accurate, culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention information to their peers in an up-beat entertaining way. Students work to create stage performances that speak to their peers in positive ways.

Our Healthy Jackson County Project - CCON is effective at mobilizing African American churches in the urban core to implement interventions to address the community's wellness and prioritize health disparities in Kansas City, MO. Covid 19 Testing and vaccinations are its focus. The Our Healthy Jackson County Project is a community-wide initiative that promotes and delivers widespread COVID-19 vaccinations and other health services to residents on the east side of Kansas City. More than sixty community organizations and health agencies are partnering with OHKCE to support healthy lifestyles through vaccine events and health screenings like blood pressure checks, diabetes screenings and dental education. African American churches will have the opportunity to promote healthy behaviors and prevention through implementation of a culturally and religiously tailored, multilevel intervention. Which will include a) church services (e.g., sermons, responsive readings, church bulletins) and b) group (weekly) weight loss, exercise, and cooking sessions.

Food Insecurity - CCON provides weekly relief for our neighbors struggling to make ends meet. We provide fruits and vegetables, nonperishables and staples as well as protein for our families.