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The service center supports Sedalia residents on multiple fronts.
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Room at the Inn executive director John Trapp updated KBIA on how the former winter shelter has been faring since its transition to year-round homeless shelter in October.
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Boone County is asking residents to fill out a survey about their housing needs as part of a large-scale study of the county’s housing market. The county is partnering with the City of Columbia to fund the study in the hopes of finding ways to expand housing opportunities.
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Rather than relying on the uncertainty of donations, a local team providing resources and services to unhoused people will receive city funding for the next three years.
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The judges' ruling means vaccine mandates for public workers now are allowed in Missouri.
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For 14 years, the Saturday Morning Breakfast Café has been providing breakfast and a warm place to congregate for Columbia’s unhoused residents. KBIA’s Anna Colletto has been speaking with volunteers and attendees for the past few weeks and sat down with KBIA’s Harshawn Ratanpal to share some behind-the-scenes insights.
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Kari Utterback is a senior planner at Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services – focusing on coordinated entry and homelessness. She spoke about some of the resources unsheltered and unhoused Columbians have this winter, as well as about some of the roots causes of homelessness in our community.
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Many people who rely on the soup kitchen were not aware the service would be moving.
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The operations director for CoMo Mobile Aid Collective said she is seeing bigger numbers than ever in Columbia for those in need of shoes.
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Seven emergency shelters are available for overnight stays. Each shelter is specialized to different populations in the community.