Health

Powerhouse Community Development Corporation opened the Family Regeneration Center in Columbia last October. It's focusing on the specific needs of women who have experienced trauma of any kind – things like substance use and recovery, domestic violence, childhood abuse, etc.

Debi Hake is a licensed professional counselor with the Marriage and Family Counseling Center, and one of our specialty areas is spiritual abuse and religious trauma.She spoke about how religious trauma can make navigating substance use disorder recovery spaces difficult.

The Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) has launched a new initiative focusing on access to culturally relevant foods.

Firearm safety strategies at St. Louis Children’s Hospital has helped distribute thousands of gun locks to patients and residents since 2020.

This week we hear from Pamela Hardin, a water aerobics instructor at Columbia’s Activity and Recreation Center. She's a water aerobics instructor at Columbia's activity and Recreation Center and leads a class called “Moving My Joints,” which is designed for those who have arthritis or just need slower paced exercise.She spoke with her student Jennifer Reed about how beneficial water workouts can be – no matter how old you are.

Madison County has been dealing with lead-concentrated soil for decades and children living around mine waste areas have had elevated quantities of lead in their bloodstreams.Kurt Limesand is the EPA Region 7’s remedial project manager for the Madison County Mines Superfund Site, and Cory Kokko is with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease RegistryThey spoke about the history of blood-lead contamination and how it still impacts children today.

Dr. Catherine Peterson is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at the University of Missouri. She spoke about diet culture, and how people can work to find balance in a time where fad diets are all popular.

Dr. Darrel Ray is the founder of Recovering from Religion, a non-profit working with people experiencing religious trauma, and the Secular Therapy Project, which helps clients find therapists offering secular, science-based therapy.He spoke about how traumatic religious experiences can impact the limbic system, which is involved in behavioral and emotional responses like the “fight or flight” response, and about the importance of recognizing its possible impact on the brain.

Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center provides a space for physical and emotional health

Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services will be holding several community-based monkeypox vaccination clinics in the coming weeks.This is due to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanding the eligibility criteria for those who can get the vaccine to focus more on pre-exposure.