Improving Lives. Strengthening Communities.
Serving poverty-level, at-risk children
An extended family for kids who need one
Kids of the Community is an outreach program for at-risk children living at or below the poverty level in Warren County, Tennessee. Founded in 1998, the program offers an extended family, new friends, organized activities, meals, homework help, and the guidance needed to help deserving children create better lives for themselves.
Started as a program to address children involved with the juvenile justice system, Kids of the Community now focuses on prevention by providing a place where children feel like they belong. Over the past 25+ years, there have been many success stories of children who broke out of the cycle of generational poverty to become successful members of society.
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Free for every child and family
All services are offered free of charge. Our staff are volunteers, and the program is funded by donations from people in our community.
After-school program
Community service projects, homework help and recreation — with rides from school, rides home, and a hot dinner.
Summer camp
Camp for ages 5–12 with breakfast and lunch five days a week and a full day of activities.
Meals & essentials
Dinners during the week, weekend meals, plus clothing, shoes and food for families through The Store.
Events & adventures
Fishing, kayaking, field trips, holiday parties and Super Saturdays that widen a child's horizons.
Small acts, added up
In the past five years alone: 864 children served · 188,294 kid hours · 612 organized events · 42,536 meals.
Every child has the right to be important
Kids of the Community is a community-based volunteer non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the ideal that all children in our community have the right to be important, the right to be recognized, and the right to learn fundamental core values from responsible adults.
It is the philosophy of the organization that one-on-one contact on a regular basis in structured activities with such caring responsible adults can instill direction and impact a positive attitude to those children at risk.
“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, what kind of car I drove, the clothes I wore, or what house I lived in, but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”— Forest E. Witcraft
