The Hope Hangout
A New Home For The Holidays & Beyond

Since COMBAT launched the Hope Hangout in 2015—right across the street from Ruskin High School in south Kansas City—the program’s director has mentored more than 300 children. Now Marva Moses expects to mentor more students than ever before as the Hope Hangout is “taken to another level” with its move to a new location: inside the Hickman Mills alternative school, Burke Academy.

The Hangout’s children affectionally call Moses “Mama Marva” as she teaches them life lessons about respect, responsibility, resolving disputes, setting goals, making plans and pursuing dreams.

“For some of the students at the Hope Hangout, Marva is a second mom,” said the Hickman Mills Deputy Superintendent of Student Services, Carl Skinner, Ph.D. “For a few of them, she is their first mom.”

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