Community Profile

Jackson County Community Partnership

February 2002

The Local Investment Commission (LINC) is pleased to share these performance reports on what LINC and its community partners are doing to improve the lives of children and families in the Kansas City, Mo. area.

LINC is a process to bring together, link, or leverage resources from the public/private sector, to ensure community governance, to identify and collaborate with those who do the best job addressing families in need and at-risk, and to hold all of us accountable for the results.

LINC, during its ten-year history, has consistently been willing to tackle community issues and needs as part of its citizen-directed system reform effort. The issues include: education reform, child welfare, welfare reform, early childhood education, children’s health insurance, senior needs, after-school child care and neighborhood development.

These performance reports show some of what is truly being accomplished in our community.
We appreciate the state’s interest and support and the opportunity to be its community partner.

Sincerely,

Gayle A. Hobbs
LINC Executive Director