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Powerhouse Community Development Corporation is an organization throughout Mid-Missouri that works to provide wraparound services for the communities they serve: Marshall, Sedalia, Versailles, Columbia, and as of last month – Moberly.But you may not know is the extent of Powerhouse’s programming. Through partnerships with the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Social Services, the court system, and other community organizations – Powerhouse offers a wide range of services.

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.

A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Missouri’s unemployment rate continues to stay lower than that of the country’s average.

Reparation efforts in urban area are gaining national attention. But rural areas are taking their own steps toward righting historic wrongs.

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.

Students returned to class at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis City yesterday for the first time since a deadly shooting closed the school last October.Evan Holden is a student at the University of Missouri who graduated from the St. Louis Public School District, and his mom, Colette Morton is still a literature teacher there. They sat down recently and spoke about how the reality of school-based gun violence has impacted their relationship.

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.