Program areas at Pemiscot County Initiative Network
Southern Missouri works project - this program's goal is to provide recipients with support, educational outreach, work experience, job placement, and other such resources to reduce the dependency on government benefits through placement in high paying jobs. Targeted to supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) recipients that are under 185% of the federal poverty level.
Caring communities - focuses on six core results: parents working, healthy children and families, families safe in their neighborhoods and communities, children prepared to enter school, children and youth succeeding in school, and youth ready to enter productive adulthood.
Missouri mentoring partnership - for youth age 16-21 with positive employment experiences, mentoring within the workplace, and continuing emphasis on education with the goal of producing self-sufficient, law- abiding adults. Includes a parenting program for pregnant and parenting young adults of both sexes 22 years of age and younger with a strong focus on community mentoring and reducing the teen repeat pregnancy rate in Pemiscot County.
Other programs include: bootheel safe kids, children's trust fund, division of youth services, future career, lfpa food, green garden, resorative justice program, backpacks for friday, adult education learning, youth future career program and healthy community.