Community Resources: 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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THE NAACP Springfield Branch holds their monthly meetings the third Saturday of every month.  The meetings are held at the Midtowne Carnegie Library 397 E. Central Street. Please join us at 1:30 for the general meeting, all are welcome.  If you have questions call 417-873-6386

The NAACP of Springfield, Missouri believes in the dignity of all human beings and works to identify and remove the barriers to equality and justice. We are actively engaged with and sought out by business and community leaders to participate in the economic, social, and cultural growth within our community.

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The St. Louis Reconciliation Network (STLRN) has a mission to heal the broken race relations of the St. Louis region by harnessing the potential collective power of its diverse faith communities. We offer training for churches and host the annual Race for Reconciliation.

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Boys & Girls Town of Missouri’s Empowering Youth program was created to address the needs of homeless youth in Southwest Missouri. Our mission is to provide the support and guidance homeless youth need to transition to safe and stable homes. Empowering Youth focuses on the opportunity to create positive change in the midst of crisis. Our goal is to empower homeless youth through access to community resources, a safe environment and a supportive staff.

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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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Pride St. Louis is an organization that strives to serve the LGBT+ community in the STL metropolitan area. Their mission is to foster unity, visibility and equality for the LGBT+ community through advocacy, education and celebration.

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OLGA’s mission is to document the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) experience in the Ozarks region. The Special Collections and Archives Department encourages prospective donors to assist us in preserving this often overlooked, hidden, and neglected aspect of Ozarkiana by donating their materials to the Ozarks Lesbian and Gay Archives.

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Lambda Organization  is a group of LGBT faculty and staff that meet monthly to socialize, work on issues that affect all LGBT people on campus, and to encourage faculty, staff and student engagement.  We want to create a safe zone for our LGBT student to know about us, and to be visible role models for that population.

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Missouri State University’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Ally Alliance.

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