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OVCS provides life skills training, independent living skills, and personal care aides to individuals with developmental disabilities. They assist their clients in living an independent as possible lifestyle and help them become integrated into the community.

Offers a warming shelter for individuals during declared bad weather emergencies.

Offers broad range of information: topics include nutrition, business, personal budgeting, gardening, babysitting, 4-H youth, etc. Speakers available. If they don't have a specialist in their area, they work with other extension offices to find the program.

Provides well trained, court-appointed volunteer advocates to serve as independent monitors and advocates for abused and neglected children in foster care.

Providing congregate meals.

Provides computer classes for adults

Provides programs that evaluate an individual's capacity for self-care and his or her ability to function independently in the context of everyday living and which, where necessary, may recommend rehabilitative services (e.g., independent living skills instruction), supportive services (e.g., attendant care, personal care or home health care), or an alternative residential setting (e.g., an assisted living center or nursing facility).

Give Respect, Get Respect: This youth program is a collaboration between Diversity Awareness Partnership and local corporations who bring together students and teachers from the St. Louis metro area and company associates to explore race, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Center uses confidential, lab-quality pregnancy tests (self-administered and nurse administered), that are 99% accurate and can detect pregnancy in its earliest stage.

Overnight shelter located at 403 Fairgrounds in Mexico, MO.

Provides information about available community resources, programs and organizations relevant to animal care and welfare.

Warming Center for Grundy County Residents.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Provides benefits to families with needy children (due to death, desertion, mental, physical problems or unemployment).

Provides educational, social, religious and social justice programming for Jewish undergraduates and graduates students attending St. Louis colleges and universities; weekly Friday night services and dinner.

The purpose of the MO HealthNet program is to provide medical services to persons who meet certain eligibility requirements as determined by FSD. The goals of the MO HealthNet program are to promote good health, to prevent illness and premature death, to correct or limit disability, to treat illness, and to provide rehabilitation to persons with disabilities. Eligible persons receive a "MO HealthNet Identification Card" or a letter from the local FSD office. The Family Support Division (FSD) determines client eligibility for the MO HealthNet program: the MO HealthNet Division administers the MO HealthNet program including establishment of benefit coverage, rates, claims processing, and all other aspects of daily operations.

Services are offered for children and parents involved in the adoption process. These include the evaluation of the child's needs prior to placement, and arrangements for care of the child prior to the child's adoptive placement and to the approval of the adoptive family. Also, special activities are provided to help adoptive parents and children adjust to the new family situation.

The Children's Division actively seeks individuals and couples who are willing to become foster parents for the children in the State's custody. Prospective foster parents take a total of 27 hours of training on five competencies necessary to work with the children in CD custody and their families.

Provides a cooling site for individuals during periods of extreme hot weather.

Career Counseling: Provides job and career counseling to help individuals expand their job opportunities.

The Missouri Work Assistance Program (Welfare to Work): Participants are provided with vocational counseling, job readiness training, job placement assistance and supportive services.

Accepts a wide variety of non-monetary donations; call for details about baby items that are accepted; diapers are not accepted.

Primary care for every family member, services include obesity and weight management.

Lactation Counseling: Lactation support offered to nursing mothers and their families.

Volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocates: Community advocates work with children in foster care and gathering information to assist the judge in making decisions for children in finding safe, permanent home in a timely manner.

YMCA with various athletic programs including Y Pals an adult/child mentoring program. Call for details.