Event Date: Mar 21st, 2025
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Zoom: https://kcdigitaldrive.zoom.us/j/87272862030?pwd=FKtWDSqaxIbam0FqOQftwgzDkre0JD.1
Admission: Free
The Kansas City Coalition for Digital Inclusion (KCCDI) is an open, collaborative group of organizations who foster digital equity and access to technology for Kansas City metro communities. KCCDI meets monthly on the first Friday of every month to hear about the work of local digital inclusion practitioners, and share information about upcoming opportunities in the digital inclusion space.
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
MEMBER UPDATE
Phoenix Family – Jessica Welch
FEATURED CONTENT
Veterans Community Project Kansas City – Chris Admire, Executive Director
VCP Village, located at 89th and Troost in Kansas City, Mo., is an innovative community of 49 tiny houses for veterans experiencing homelessness. The tiny house provides everything they need to live with dignity and safety free of charge and provides sanctuary and the emotional space needed for the veteran and VCP’s Veteran Support Services team to thoroughly address the underlying causes of their homelessness.
Together, the veteran and VCP’s specially-trained case managers work to achieve incremental, lasting results in the areas of health and wellness, education, employment, financial literacy, and the development of a personal support network. Chris Admire will provide an overview of these services as well as how they’re serving their veterans’ digital resources needs.
STATE AND NATIONAL UPDATES
Kansas Office of Broadband Development – Kimberlyn Jones
Missouri Office of Broadband Development – D’Mitri Farthing, Jr.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEXT MEETING
The April KCCDI meeting will be held virtually on Friday, April 4th 2025.
Please email lscott@kcdigitaldrive.org if you have announcements to share at an upcoming Coalition meeting.