Latest Updates
| Passages Saturday Dance Night 09/11/2010 - 8:00pm - 11:59pm | Wednesday Workshop Night 09/15/2010 - 5:30pm - 9:00pm |
| Passages Saturday Dance Night 09/18/2010 - 8:00pm - 11:59pm | Wednesday Workshop Night 09/22/2010 - 5:30pm - 9:00pm |
| Passages Saturday Dance Night 09/25/2010 - 8:00pm - 11:59pm | Wednesday Workshop Night 09/29/2010 - 5:30pm - 9:00pm |
Passages Youth Center is a drug-free, alcohol-free, and hate-free center for 14- through 20-year-old lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Our goal is to help them grow as they explore the nature of their sexual and gender identities while having fun and meeting new friends at the same time. We provide educational information and experiences to encourage personal growth and social interaction to ease their transition into self-acceptance and to become empowered LGBTQ youth. These programs form a foundation of vital resources that provide youth with alternatives to risk-taking behavior.
Our purpose is to help support LGBT youth. LGBT youth are a demographic that have minimal support or assistance from society and social or community programs in general. Our main focus is to provide an environment where LGBT youth can just be themselves and be happy as they are. We feel it is extremely important to allow them to know that there is nothing wrong with them, no matter if they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, or straight.
Our Purpose
Passages Youth Center is a drug-free, alcohol-free, and hate-free center for 14- through 20-year-old lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Our goal is to help them grow as they explore the nature of their sexual and gender identities while having fun and meeting new friends at the same time. We provide educational information and experiences to encourage personal growth and social interaction to ease their transition into self-acceptance and to become empowered LGBTQ youth. These programs form a foundation of vital resources that provide youth with alternatives to risk-taking behavior.
Why Does Passages Exist?
Our purpose is to help support LGBT youth. LGBT youth are a demographic that have minimal support or assistance from society and social or community programs in general. Our main focus is to provide an environment where LGBT youth can just be themselves and be happy as they are. We feel it is extremely important to allow them to know that there is nothing wrong with them, no matter if they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, or straight.
Passages Support of the Kansas City Community
- Kansas City Pride Festival
- Providing people power to make the Festival a success
- Providing creative energy and resources during a stage presentation
- Teens-In-Action
- Through a partnership with Campfire USA (only the second time they have reached out to a LGBT organization) we developed a Teens-in-Action group
- Missouri Gay Rodeo Association (MGRA)
- Provided people power to make the MGRA Rodeo a success
- Out Blast - sponsored by the Kansas City Pride Festival
- Provided people power to make Out blast a success
- Out in Westport - sponsored by The Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Kansas City
- Provided people power to make the event a success
- Providing creative energy and resources during a stage presentation
- The Creating Change Conference 2006 - Sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Provide people power to help make the conference a success
- Presented 2 workshops at the conference to promote grassroots organizing of volunteer based LGBT youth centers in smaller demographic market segments of America
- Kansas Equality Coalition (KEC) partner
- We were the third non-profit organization to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with KEC
- "The Tenth Voice" radio show
- Provided youth for several "Youth Radio Editions" of their show
- State of Missouri Lobby Day
- Sponsored by PROMO, we visited legislators to lobby for anti-bullying legislation
- Passages' Proms
- Since 1999, we have held LGBT-friendly proms for the youth. Trinity United Methodist Church has cooperated with us to provide proms for our youth for the last 5 years
- Providing people power to make the Festival a success
- Providing creative energy and resources during a stage presentation
- Through a partnership with Campfire USA (only the second time they have reached out to a LGBT organization) we developed a Teens-in-Action group
- Provided people power to make the MGRA Rodeo a success
- Provided people power to make Out blast a success
- Provided people power to make the event a success
- Providing creative energy and resources during a stage presentation
- Provide people power to help make the conference a success
- Presented 2 workshops at the conference to promote grassroots organizing of volunteer based LGBT youth centers in smaller demographic market segments of America
- We were the third non-profit organization to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with KEC
- Provided youth for several "Youth Radio Editions" of their show
- Sponsored by PROMO, we visited legislators to lobby for anti-bullying legislation
- Since 1999, we have held LGBT-friendly proms for the youth. Trinity United Methodist Church has cooperated with us to provide proms for our youth for the last 5 years