Independence Avenue CID Team Resource Manager Laura Birdsong gives Creative Innovative a tour of Independence Avenue Alleyways on Tuesday, Aug. 19. | Photo by Julia Williams
Julia Williams
Members from Creative Innovative — a Kansas City, social services organization — and The National Coalition for the Homeless — a nonprofit unhoused prevention organization in Washington D.C. — joined Independence Avenue Community Improvement District (CID) Team Resource Manager Laura Birdsong on Tuesday, Aug. 19 for a Gator utility vehicle tour of alleyways along Independence Avenue, bringing attention toward area unhoused encampments.
National Coalition for the Homeless Deputy Director Megan Hustings flew to Kansas City from Washington D.C. to visit several locations and organizations around Kansas City with unhoused encampment experience including — but not limited to — Hope Faith Ministries, Morningstar Community Youth Center and the Independence Avenue CID…