Community Resources: families

Planned Parenthood – Springfield

We are a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.
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Planned Parenthood – Joplin

We are a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.

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Family Nutrition Education Program

Through the Family Nutrition Education Program (FNEP), MU Extension is dedicated to providing research-based nutrition education to Missouri’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients and those who are eligible. MU Nutrition for Families is a great source for recipes, fitness tips and ideas, and more.

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TransYouth Family Allies

TYFA empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.

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Transfamilies

Trans Families is a nonprofit organization that has been supporting transgender people and their families since 2008. Today, we run parent support groups, a trans youth leadership program, special topics groups, and youth support groups, with more programs in development. Before COVID-19, our groups were all in person. Now they are all online, here, available for families everywhere.

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Family Equality Council

Family Equality Council connects, supports, and represents the three million parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender in this country and their six million children.

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Planned Parenthood of St. Louis

We have been the leading provider, educator and protector for reproductive health care in the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri for 80 years.

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Show Me No Hate

Grassroots coalition of committed Missouri organizations and individuals working to restore full Marriage Equality in Missouri.

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PFLAG – Greater St. Louis

PFLAG is a national support group for parents, families and friends of lesbians and gays. Free of charge, open to the public.

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AIDS Project of the Ozarks

AIDS Project of the Ozarks (APO) is a non-profit community-based organization serving a 29 county region in southwest Missouri. APO currently serves over 600 clients with HIV/AIDS and their families.

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