Care Beyond the Boulevard and ML King

Two topic for this episode: First Ira Harritt and Rev. Dr. Vernon Howard discuss local ML King Day events. Then Nurse practitioner Jaynell "KK" Assmann describes Care Beyond the Boulevard (CBB). Martin Luther King Day Ira Harritt, Secretary of the Interfaith Council of Greater Kansas City , Summarizes an ML King events January 11 (Sunday). A video of that service is available online . Then Rev. Dr. Vernon Howard discusses the origins of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which had ML King as its first president. Dr. Howard also describes events for ML King day next Monday. Dr. Howard is president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City and pastor of St. Mark's church at 3800 Troost. They have a press conference scheduled there next Monday, January 19, ML King Day, at 5:30 PM, with a mass immediately after at 6 PM. Care Beyond the Boulevard Jaynell founded Care Beyond the Boulevard in 2017 as a volunteer-based mobile medical clinic operating from the back of a pickup truck delivering high-quality healthcare to the homeless and other patients who lacked access to these services. They have grown substantially since. Care Beyond the Boulevard holds roughly 40 regularly scheduled medical clinics at selected locations each month. They also operate "Carehouse" at 3150 Fiberglass Road, Kansas City, KS 66115, which helps unhoused patients with a high risk of relapse recover after discharge from an area hospital. And they have "street outreach days", where they take healthcare directly to humans under bridges, in parks, encampments, and places where those experiencing poverty and homelessness are accessing other services. They have a fundraiser scheduled for Sunday, February 22 , in the Rumely Tractor Historic Event Space, 1222 W. 12th St, Kansas City, MO 64101 in the West Bottoms . They will be sharing "Stories From the Street". They are also looking for opportunities to set up an information booth, join health fairs, and speak at conferences: Email info@carebeyondtheboulevard.org or call 913.291.2273. Copyright 2026 Jaynell Assmann, Ira Harritt, and Spencer Graves, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 international license.

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This episode is 26:48 long.

This episode was published on Jan 8, 2026.

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