Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri

Continuum of care program the continuum of care program (coc) is a federally funded program designed to operate and support a geographic area determined by hud. The organization serves the Missouri balance of state continuum of care which is largely rural and suburban communities in Missouri. The organization's team is responsible for ensuring the coc organizational body operates smoothly and successfully coordinates services between partner agencies. The organization maintains a membership body that connects agencies and organizations that are committed to solving homelessness; the organization operates a coordinated entry system that ensures effective allocation of federal housing resources; and, the organization applies for federal funds on behalf of the coc to continue support and expand support of housing projects around the organization's geography. This program serves a large Community (101 counties in all) and has enabled the organization to provide structure and guidance to agencies across rural Missouri. The sharing of best practices and experience between agencies has allowed the organization to teach other programs around how the organization has seen success, and learn new ways to meet the organization's goals at home.

Health disparity initiative in effort to improve cross-sector coordination, build Community capacity with nontraditional partners, and mobilize the collaboration specifically between cpsemo and cape family medical, a designated rural health clinic, cpsemo sought funds that were used to ensure that cape family medical had the sufficient workforce, infrastructure, and capacity to provide equitable access to disproportionately affected and underserved populations in Southeast Missouri. Hdi funds were used to build, leverage, and expand cape family medical's infrastructure capacity to ensure and expand equitable access to covid-19 resources and services in this region.

Empowering dads to gain employment Community Partnership of Southeast Missouri, a Missouri Community Partnership, in collaberation with the Missouri family support division, will implement the empowering dads to gain employment project in a six county area. The project will serve primarily fathers that may have child support cases, may not be making child support payments, may have criminal records, and potentially face a host of barriers when trying to obtain employment.

The council manages a Community impact plan by providing staff support to several priority issue councils, among them being primary health care, oral health care, mental health, teen pregnancy prevention, parenting and child care, safe and affordable housing, and child abuse prevention. The council has a dental specialist on staff to provide flouride varnish treatments in pre-school and elementary school setting. Also administers an asset development program in the county that is focused on making a better environment for youth.