Youth Services
Impact Report
Alphapointe served 433 youth through diverse growth-focused programs. During the 2025-2026 program year, Alphapointe Youth Services helped blind and visually impaired youth build independence, skills, social connections, and confidence.
Youth programs focus on skills from the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC), which addresses the unique needs of individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
Programs focused on assistive technology, career education, independent living, mobility, recreation, and social skills through real-world learning experiences.
Youth built confidence and independence by applying ECC skills in educational, workplace, and community settings.
Adventure Camp
Six-day overnight camp featuring climbing, zip lines, horseback riding, and other confidence-building activities.
42 Youth Participants (including youth from Louisiana, Georgia, Nebraska, and Illinois)
ECC Focus: Recreation & Leisure
Technology Camp
15 Youth Participants (including campers from Texas and Louisiana)
Youth learn coding, web design, and hands-on technology projects that build digital literacy.
ECC Focus: Assistive Technology
S.T.E.P. & P.E.T.S. Programs
Summer Transitional Employment Program – 5 Youth (Summer 2026) / Pre Employment Transition Services – 1 youth
STEP is an eight-week long paid internship program that includes job coaching, classroom training, workplace readiness, the development of soft skills, and career exploration guided by Alphapointe staff.
PETS is a paid work-experience program that provides job coaching, career readiness, financial literacy training, and vocational soft skills for youth to work up to 120 hours anytime during the year.
ECC Focus: Career Education
Low Vision Clinic Services
29 Youth (October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026)
Low vision evaluations, eye care, and assistive devices that help youth make the most of their functional vision.
ECC Focus: Health and Education
Kids in the Kitchen
Presented by Grand Street Cafe – Plaza
96 Youth
Hands-on cooking classes where youth learn kitchen safety, meal preparation, nutrition, and other everyday skills that support greater independence.
ECC Focus: Independent Living
Beep Kickball
153 Youth (25 youth participants over 5 weeks)
Accessible beep kickball promotes teamwork, fitness, social engagement and helps youth build confidence.
ECC Focus: Orientation and Mobility
Starlight’s Production of Newsies
24 Youth
Giving youth the opportunity to experience the arts, build social connections, and engage with their community in a positive and
exciting way.
ECC Focus: Sensory Efficiancy
MR-340 Kayak Race
2 Youth
The longest nonstop kayak race in the world, traveling 340 miles from Kansas City, Missouri, to St. Louis, Missouri. Our team – the first and only blind/sighted team – competed for the fourth time, completing the adventure in four days. The MR340 race promotes teamwork, perseverance, and confidence through an outdoor experience.
ECC Focus: Self – Determination and Reliance
Challenge Air
17 Youth
Providing youth with a unique opportunity as they get to fly an airplane with volunteer pilots and navigate the skies over Kansas City on a high-flying adventure. During the event they get to learn about aviation, and build confidence.
ECC Focus: Compensatory Skills
Night At the K – Royals Event
25 Youth
Royals game and stadium tour, a private tactile tour of the Royals Hall of Fame, and a full evening of baseball action, all promoting community engagement, social interaction, and accessible recreation.
ECC Focus: Social Interaction
School Based Services
20 Youth
Consultation services, individual education plans, orientation and mobility training, Braille, academics, accessible technology, and direct support that help schools create learning environments and support student success for young people with vision loss.
ECC Focus: Self – Determination
The C&C Group Alphapointe Golf Tournament
Presented by Bank Midwest
Funds raised through Alphapointe’s annual Golf Tournament help make our youth programs possible. The generosity of sponsors, golfers, donors, and volunteers provides children who are blind or visually impaired with opportunities to build independence, confidence, and lifelong skills through meningful, accessible experiences.