Students cannot focus on learning when they are worried about survival.
Supporting Students & Families Beyond Crisis
Serve the World (STW Charities) partners with school districts, families, and community organizations to support students and families experiencing homelessness, housing instability, and other barriers to long-term success.
Through the Impact Program and Students With Purpose, we provide mentorship, family support services, life skills development, resource navigation, and pathways toward long-term stability.
Currently serving families within the Center School District and Raytown School District.
Our Programs
Through our programs, we provide mentorship, family support services, life skills development, resource navigation, and pathways toward long-term stability.
Impact Program
Approximately 1,000 students in our area are homeless or at risk. The Impact Program works alongside families referred through our partner school districts to provide housing support, transportation assistance, food access, case navigation, and long-term stabilization services.
We believe no student should have to worry about where they will lay their head at night.
Students With Purpose
Students With Purpose partners with local school districts to support high school students experiencing homelessness, housing instability, or other barriers that impact long-term success. Through mentorship, life skills development, mental health support, and college and career exposure, we help students build confidence, stability, and a vision for their future.
Food & Resource Access
Our Impact
Families Supported
58
Students Supported
158
Volunteers & Community Partners
366
Why This Work Matters
For many students, school is the most stable part of their day.
When families face housing instability, transportation barriers, food insecurity, or financial hardship, students carry that stress into the classroom every day.
We believe every student deserves stability, dignity, support, and the opportunity to thrive.
Where we are going
Our Vision
Building Families.
Stronger Communities.
A Better Kansas City.
What Drives Us
Our Mission
Empowering families to break the cycle of poverty through self-dignity, renewed mindset, and newly created opportunities.
GET INVOLVED
Join The Mission
Whether through partnerships, volunteering, mentorship, or advocacy, you can help students and families build pathways toward long-term stability and success.
