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Gather
Families, car owners, guest speakers, volunteers, clubs, businesses, and community partners meet in a welcoming public event setting.
How it works
Cars start the conversation. People create the impact.
Kids Cars and Coffee brings young people and adults together at supervised, family-centered automotive events. Children and teens can ask questions openly about careers, hobbies, interests, personal experiences, and possibilities—with no pressure to choose a path.
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Share real stories
Car owners, guest speakers, and community professionals talk honestly about careers, education, choices, setbacks, opportunity, resilience, and how they kept moving forward.
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Expand possibility
Young people gain confidence, practical perspective, career exposure, and a stronger sense that where they start does not have to determine where they finish.
What a typical event looks like
Simple, supervised, family-centered.
Before the event
We publish the confirmed location, start time, parking or check-in instructions, and event-specific details once they are finalized. Families can join the event or relaunch list so they receive updates.
Who attends
Young people under 18 are welcome when accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or family-authorized adult who remains part of the experience. KCC events are not drop-off programs.
At the event
Families check in, explore vehicles, meet car owners and career professionals, hear short stories or conversations, and connect in visible public areas. The exact schedule and event length may vary by venue and will be shared with each event announcement.
Safety onsite
An Event Safety Lead will be identified at check-in for supervision, conduct, or safety concerns. Youth conversations stay visible and parent-involved, and no participating adult is permitted to privately message or transport a young person through KCC activities.
Car owners
Displaying a vehicle is participation in a supervised group event. Car owners can share a vehicle, a career story, or a lesson learned in visible, supervised event areas.
Volunteers & speakers
Volunteers and speakers share their experience in supervised group settings. Youth-facing roles require the applicable screening, orientation, training, and approval before participation. Read the program rules and youth-safety standards.
Family event participation
KCC brings youth, families, positive adult role models, career professionals, and automotive enthusiasts together through supervised group events, workshops, demonstrations, and panel conversations. Parents and legal guardians can register family interest through our general interest form. Registration does not guarantee admission or placement.
Families stay involved
Parents and guardians remain part of the experience, and youth conversations take place in visible, supervised settings with clear conduct and safety boundaries.
All makes. All backgrounds.
Classics, muscle cars, European cars, JDM, trucks, modified vehicles, daily drivers with a story, exotics, and enthusiast vehicles can all be part of the experience.
Mentoring conversations
What we mean by mentoring
Mentoring at Kids Cars and Coffee starts with a simple conversation. At our events, young people can ask car owners and community professionals about their careers, how they found their path, the setbacks they worked through, and the advice they would pass along. These conversations happen in visible, supervised group settings with families present.
Events are not drop-off programs. No participating adult may privately message or transport a young person through KCC activities. Event conversations provide encouragement and career exposure; they are not job placement, assigned career paths, or an ongoing one-on-one mentoring relationship.
A separate ongoing mentoring pathway is not being offered through event registration. Only a separately approved and screened ongoing role may use the title “mentor.” Please review our youth-safety rules and family information.