BTM98 - Kelcey Liverpool - Supporting Military Affiliated Children with Kids Rank
Show Summary
On this episode of Behind the Mission, we feature a conversation with Kelcey Liverpool, a Navy Spouse of 17 years and the Founder and Executive Director of Kids Rank, an organization founded in 2012 designed specifically to support the social and emotional well-being of military-connected children.
About Today’s Guest
Kelcey Liverpool, Founder & Executive Director of Kids Rank, likes to take ideas and bring solutions that help build communities. She has a passion for designing programs and initiatives that create change. Her background includes work within the arts, banking and nonprofit sectors with the common thread of relationship building and design.
Most notably, Kelcey Liverpool is the Founder and Executive Director of Kids Rank, founded in 2012 as a nonprofit organization designed specifically to support the social and emotional well-being of military-connected children. As a Navy spouse for 17 years, moving with her family a total of 9 times and volunteering in several roles at various military installation agencies, she understands first-hand the challenges that are faced by children and families of service members. Inspired by her own children’s resilience through many moves, separations and constant transitions Ms. Liverpool felt it was important to focus on the whole child recognizing both their strengths and challenges.
Celebrating 10 years, Kids Rank is growing as a trusted organization in the military and veteran community with plans for national expansion as part of a 3-year strategic plan. Over the last decade, Kelcey has successfully built strong relationships and partnered with several organizations, such as the USO of Illinois, the Red Cross, the Military Child Education Coalition and others in an effort to further the Kids Rank mission and awareness of supporting the needs of military connected children.
Kelcey was recently chosen to participate in a 2-year program as a Summit Fellow a program that seeks to connect impact-driven leaders within the Summit community to affect positive change in the world and broaden their reach. Kelcey was also named as a 2019 Aspen Fellow.
PsychArmor Resource of the Week
The PsychArmor Resource of the Week is the PsychArmor course, Veteran 201: Military Families. The life of a military family can be chaotic and stressful. This course provides some insight into the unique challenges faced by military families. You can find a link to the resource here: https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/veteran-201-military-families.
Theme Music
Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.
This Episode Sponsored By:
This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor, the premier education and learning ecosystem specializing in military culture content. PsychArmor offers an online e-learning laboratory with custom training options for organizations.
Producer and Host Duane France is a retired Army Noncommissioned Officer, combat veteran, and clinical mental health counselor for service members, veterans, and their families. You can find more about the work that he is doing at www.veteranmentalhealth.com
