The Children's Place

The Children's Place The Children’s Place: Where children and families heal from life's deepest hurts.

Kansas City's specialized trauma treatment center serving the mental health needs of young children since 1978.

There are just a few hours left to make a difference in 2025! Could you make a gift to ensure that young children have a...
12/31/2025

There are just a few hours left to make a difference in 2025! Could you make a gift to ensure that young children have access to the mental health therapy they need to heal?

The Children's Place is here for children who have experienced more than many do in a lifetime. Thanks to the support of generous friends like you, these children receive the therapy they need to heal and thrive.

Donate today to make a final gift of 2025: https://childrensplacekc.org/donate

12/30/2025

From a visit from Heidi Gardner to adding a new furry member of our team, 2025 was a memorable year for The Children's Place.

More importantly, thanks to the support of people like you, hundreds of children were able to receive the services they needed to heal from their pasts and thrive. Thank you!

There's still time to partner with us in this life-changing work to usher in 2026. Donate today to make a final gift of 2025: https://childrensplacekc.org/donate/

At The Children's Place, no family is ever turned away due to inability to pay. This care is only possible because of th...
12/29/2025

At The Children's Place, no family is ever turned away due to inability to pay. This care is only possible because of the generosity of people like you, who give to ensure that children have access to the mental health therapy they need to heal and thrive. Childhood is restored.

Would you consider making a final gift of 2025 to make healing like this possible? Donate today: https://childrensplacekc.org/donate

The last year has brought increased uncertainty to our funding sources, and we are increasingly dependent on donors like...
12/28/2025

The last year has brought increased uncertainty to our funding sources, and we are increasingly dependent on donors like you to ensure that young children in our community have access to the mental health care they need after experiencing traumatic events.

We have seen the need for this mental health care continue to rise, and your support is needed more than ever. Could you make a gift before 2025 comes to a close to ensure that children have access to the healing mental health care they need?

Donate today: https://childrensplacekc.org/donate

What does a facility dog do at The Children's Place? One of Duo Dog Coleman's specialties is helping children practice s...
12/26/2025

What does a facility dog do at The Children's Place? One of Duo Dog Coleman's specialties is helping children practice skills they are working on in therapy sessions.

One of the children in our Day Treatment program has been working on being safe and calm around his pet dogs at home, so our team started using Coleman to model and teach these skills in a safe place. The child's therapist asked how Coleman might feel when the child throws toys toward him, and the child selected a feelings bottle labeled with "scared." The child and the therapist compared the "scared" and "calm" faces on different feelings bottles, and the child then gave Coleman a big hug while holding the "calm" bottle.

Coleman's gentle and patient demeanor makes him the perfect friend to practice these skills with!

Who wore it better... 🎅 or Duo Dog Coleman?Happy holidays!
12/24/2025

Who wore it better... 🎅 or Duo Dog Coleman?

Happy holidays!

The Children's Place will be closed December 24 - January 2. Happy holidays!
12/23/2025

The Children's Place will be closed December 24 - January 2. Happy holidays!

The jingle of bells and the clip-clop of reindeer hooves meant just one thing: Santa arrived at The Children’s Place!Tha...
12/22/2025

The jingle of bells and the clip-clop of reindeer hooves meant just one thing: Santa arrived at The Children’s Place!

Thank you to our longtime friends at Bernstein-Rein for connecting us with their friend at the North Pole, a tradition that began when The Children's Place opened its doors in 1978 and continues 47 years later. We are grateful for MO-KAN for generously donating the toys for Santa to distribute and make this magical day possible.

At just two years old, Mateo was holding a lot of fear and anxiety because of what he had experienced in his first two y...
12/19/2025

At just two years old, Mateo was holding a lot of fear and anxiety because of what he had experienced in his first two years of life. He would often tell his family, “I’m scared.” In just six months of therapy sessions at The Children’s Place, Mateo’s life trajectory changed.

Through weekly family therapy sessions, Mateo’s parents learned what safety means for a child and how to help him heal from his past. With a therapist’s help, they began to see Mateo’s big behaviors as a sign that he was feeling a lack of connection, then found ways to enter Mateo’s world instead of asking him to enter their adult world. Because of these actions, Mateo’s world has changed, and so has his parents’.

Would you join this important work and donate to ensure more children like Mateo have access to therapy? Donate today: https://childrensplacekc.org/donate

*Names have been changed to protect privacy

12/18/2025

Gina has worked with hundreds of children in her 26 years of working at The Children's Place and can attest to the impact that early intervention has for children in our community.

Beyond giving of her time, Gina and her husband Jamey also support The Children's Place as donors, having seen firsthand how far their giving can go to change the life trajectories for children who have experienced traumatic events.

In these final days of the year, would you consider joining Gina and Jamey in supporting The Children's Place? Gifts of any size make a difference for children.

Donate today: https://childrensplacekc.org/donate-2025/

Thank you to The Research Foundation for giving $50,000 to support transportation for our Day Treatment program. Every d...
12/17/2025

Thank you to The Research Foundation for giving $50,000 to support transportation for our Day Treatment program. Every day The Children's Place buses traverse throughout Jackson County to transport children to our Day Treatment program in an effort to make it as seamless as possible for children to receive mental health services.

This is our single largest budget expense after staff salaries, and an expense that we prioritize as a primary way that we work to eliminate barriers for families. We are grateful to The Research Foundation for partnering with us in this important work!

The kiddos had a blast picking out presents for their families at a Small Mall last week hosted by our friends at Dairy ...
12/17/2025

The kiddos had a blast picking out presents for their families at a Small Mall last week hosted by our friends at Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. The children got to choose the perfect gift for their loved ones then head next door to wrap it up and take home, helping share the joy of giving.

Thank you, DFA, for such a magical experience!

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6401 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO
64131

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 4pm

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+18163631898

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