4-H Youth Development - K-State Research & Extension, Shawnee County
Engages youth ages 5-18 through clubs, school enrichment, food and nutrition education, project learning, and leadership development.
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Expanded from the 2025 Shawnee County Resource Directory. Listings are being confirmed with providers.
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Al-Anon/Alateen Family Groups
Provides 12-step peer support for relatives and friends of people with alcoholism. Alateen is specifically available for young family members.
Boy Scouts of America - Jayhawk Area Council
Provides age-appropriate character, citizenship, outdoor education, leadership, career exploration, and life-skills programs for youth from kindergarten through age 20.
Boys & Girls Club of Topeka
Offers before-school, after-school, school-day-out, summer, academic, character, healthy-lifestyle, and transportation programs for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Capper Foundation
Provides pediatric therapies, behavior and feeding support, adaptive recreation, equipment loans, family training, and other services for children and teenagers with developmental or intellectual disabilities.
CASA of Shawnee County
Trains and supports court-appointed volunteers who advocate for the best interests and timely permanency of children and youth involved in the court system.
Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas
Provides residential foster care for children and adolescents with intellectual or developmental disabilities, plus adoption, parenting, counseling, and family-support services.
Child Care Aware of Eastern Kansas (ERC Resource & Referral)
Helps families find quality child care and connects new parents with community resources. It also supports child-care providers through training, coaching, and technical assistance.
Children's Advocacy Resource Center - Kansas Legal Services
Provides legal support, education, advice, representation, and referrals for children in foster care, their families, guardians ad litem, and others involved in Child-in-Need-of-Care cases.
Circles of Greater Topeka
Helps families move out of poverty through leadership training, social support, and community allies. Curriculum-based child care is provided for participants' children during weekly meetings.
Community Action Early Head Start & Head Start
Provides comprehensive early-childhood education, infant-toddler and preschool classes, family support, parent education, referrals, and transportation for eligible children and families.
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program - K-State Research & Extension
Provides nutrition education to limited-resource families, including lessons on feeding young children, stretching food dollars, and preparing balanced meals.
Families Together, Inc.
Educates, supports, and empowers families that include a child or youth with disabilities or special health-care needs through training, advocacy, referrals, workshops, and parent-to-parent support.
Family Health Services - Shawnee County Health Department
Provides home visits, health assessments, education, guidance, and resource connections for expectant families, newborns, and young children through maternal-child health programs.
Family Peace Initiative
Provides assessments and intervention groups for at-risk youth and justice-involved youth, as well as services addressing family and partner violence.
Family Service & Guidance Center
Provides behavioral health care for Shawnee County children and youth age 18 and younger, including crisis care, psychiatry, therapy, school and after-school groups, therapeutic preschool, and transition services.
Florence Crittenton Services of Topeka, Inc.
Provides outpatient behavioral health services, psychiatric residential treatment, and emergency shelter for adolescent females ages 13-18.
Girl Scouts of NE Kansas & NW Missouri
Offers leadership development for girls in kindergarten through 12th grade through STEAM, entrepreneurship, outdoor experiences, civic engagement, and supportive adult mentorship.
Heavenly Visions Foundation
Provides free photography instruction for school-age youth ages 8-18, helping students build creative skills while documenting people, places, history, and events in the community.
I Care, Inc.
Provides emergency food and a Baby Care program to people in need within its Shawnee County service area.
IBSA, Inc.
Provides employment counseling, leadership activities, job-search assistance, small-business support, and other constructive community-based services for youth and young adults.
Junior Achievement of Northeast Kansas, Inc.
Brings volunteers into classrooms to teach kindergarten through eighth-grade students financial literacy, work readiness, entrepreneurship, and decision-making skills.
Junior League of Topeka, Inc.
Operates community projects and volunteer collaborations designed to strengthen children's self-esteem and personal and social responsibility, along with special programs and emergency aid.
Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters - Shawnee County
Matches youth ages 5-25 facing adversity with screened adult or student mentors through school-based and community-based mentoring programs.
Kansas Children's Service League
Provides parenting support, a 24/7 parent helpline, adoption and foster-care services, runaway and homeless youth services, juvenile intake, child-abuse prevention, training, and family resources.
Kansas Department for Children and Families - Topeka Service Center
Protects children and promotes healthy families while administering child-care assistance, economic supports, employment services, food and energy assistance, and vocational rehabilitation.
Kansas State Fire Marshal - Y-FIRE Program
Provides referrals and resources for child fire-setters and families, juvenile fire-setting education, professional training, and fire-safety curricula from preschool through high school.
Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office
Works with schools, Safe Kids coalitions, SADD groups, law enforcement, and other partners on novice-driver safety, seat-belt use, underage drinking prevention, and traffic-safety education.
Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy (KYEA)
Educates, mentors, and supports youth ages 5-25 with disabilities through leadership training, paid internships, job shadowing, goal planning, advocacy, and community education.
Keys for Networking, Inc.
Supports families raising children with emotional or behavioral challenges through information, training, advocacy, peer connections, and assistance navigating school and community systems.
KVC Kansas
Provides foster-family care, adoption, child welfare, behavioral health, outpatient care, school-based family services, training, and education for children and families.
LifeHouse Child Advocacy Center
Provides trauma-informed forensic interviews, advocacy, court preparation, caregiver referrals, medical-exam support, and abuse-prevention education for children who have experienced abuse or witnessed crime.
Lifeline Children's Services, Inc.
Supports vulnerable children and families through pregnancy assistance, diapers and formula, parenting and life-skills classes, adoption, family restoration, coaching, hosting, and education.
New Beginnings Health Care, P.A.
Provides diagnostic and psychiatric consultation, medication management, psychotherapy, psychological testing, and substance-use counseling for adults and adolescents.
New Dawn Wellness & Recovery Center
Provides assessments, outpatient addiction treatment, counseling, and individualized services for clients age 13 and older, including specialized adolescent treatment.
Parents as Teachers - Topeka Public Schools
Provides free parent education, personal visits, play groups, developmental screenings, early-learning activities, and resource navigation for eligible families with children from prenatal stages through age 5.
Pathway Family Services LLC
Provides 24-hour trauma-informed residential mental-health and substance-use treatment, therapy, safety training, anxiety management, and education for youth ages 6-18.
Prevention & Recovery Services (PARS)
Provides youth substance-use prevention, presentations, Skills for Success classroom groups, evaluations, referrals, case management, and community crime-prevention education.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Kansas
Provides temporary lodging and family amenities for parents and loved ones of children receiving hospital care, including premature infants, pediatric intensive-care patients, and adolescent mental-health patients.
Shawnee County Community Developmental Disabilities Organization (CDDO)
Provides eligibility screening, application, referral, case navigation, quality oversight, and access to intellectual and developmental disability services for children and adults.
Shawnee County Parks + Recreation
Provides recreation, sports, aquatic, educational, and inclusion programs for residents of all ages, with family scholarships intended to expand access to youth programs.
Sheldon Child Development Center - Head Start
Provides full-day early-childhood education, health, nutrition, transportation, bilingual support, special-needs collaboration, and parent education for eligible preschool children and families.
Sims-Kemper Clinical Counseling
Provides evaluation, education, outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment, relapse prevention, and individual or group services for adolescents and families affected by substance use or gambling.
St. Matthew Early Learning Center
Provides full-day and half-day early-childhood education for children ages 3-5 and a summer camp program supporting academic, physical, social-emotional, and spiritual growth.
Stormont-Vail Behavioral Health Services
Provides short-term inpatient crisis stabilization, therapeutic groups, activities, and discharge planning for children and adolescents up to age 17.
Successful Connections
Connects pregnant women and families with young children to child-development information, child care, individualized support, and community resources.
TARC, Inc. Children's Services
Provides early-childhood special education, family service coordination, physical, occupational and speech therapy, social work, transportation, and adaptive equipment support.
TDC Learning Centers, Inc.
Provides full-day child care and early education for children from two weeks to age 6, plus services for parenting teens, drop-in care, enrichment, and family engagement.
The Salvation Army - Topeka
Offers school-year youth groups for ages 4-17, teen fellowship, beginning music, child care by application, summer feeding, and emergency assistance for families.
The Villages, Inc.
Provides emotionally supportive homes for children in need, homes for juvenile offenders, and outdoor and adventure programming for youth ages 6-18.
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
Provides educational, arts, literacy, technology, and entertainment programs and resources for children and young adults, along with bookmobile and community-center services.
Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy, Inc.
Offers youth theatre, performances for young audiences, and comprehensive theatre education with age-specific classes beginning at age 4.
Topeka North Outreach, Inc.
Provides youth scholarships for classes, activities, and camps, plus weekend food through Operation Backpack and emergency assistance for families in North Topeka and Oakland.
Topeka Public Schools Community Cupboard
Provides free clothing, food, and hygiene resources to children and families with students attending Topeka Public Schools.
Topeka Youth Project, Inc.
Provides job-readiness and life-skills training for youth and young adults, substance-use prevention, and a Youth Court diversion program for eligible first-time traffic cases.
TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers
Helps low-income and first-generation adults and youth pursue postsecondary education through FAFSA and application help, career counseling, and academic guidance.
Washburn Institute of Technology
Provides GED preparation, technical training, career-readiness certification, English-language instruction, and case-management support; students ages 16-17 may enroll with required school documentation.
West Side Baptist Church Baby Closet
Provides clothing, diapers, formula, miscellaneous baby items, and a parenting and nutrition support group for families with children from birth through age 5.
Women, Infants and Children (WIC) - Shawnee County Health Agency
Provides nutritious-food benefits, nutrition education, health referrals, breastfeeding support, and community resources for eligible pregnant or postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5.
YMCA of Topeka
Offers youth sports, swimming lessons, summer day camp, teen and youth spaces, recreation, child wellness, and other programs across its Topeka branches.
YWCA of Northeast Kansas
Provides early learning for ages 12 months-5 years, before- and after-school care, summer programs, Girls on the Run, youth healthy-relationship education, and confidential safety services for child victim-survivors.
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