The Missouri Department of Mental Health along with our partners, community provider agencies, other state and local funding agencies is committed to enhancing community employment options for persons we serve. The Department believes that all individuals who want to work CAN work and contribute to their community when given opportunity, training, and supports that build on an individual’s strengths. Our expectation is that everyone of working age and those supporting them should consider work as their first option as fully participating members of their community, and should build on career planning and engage in work that makes sense to them.

Our Vision

Employment is a viable option for all people who want to work.

Beliefs:

• People who want to work can work
• People that are of working age are expected to work
• People have the right to achieve their career goals
• People should earn prevailing wage in an integrated setting of their choice
• People should have the opportunity and support to realize economic self-sufficiency

Developmental Disabilities Youth Transition & Employment Services

Division of Behavioral Health Employment Services

The Valley Hope Association is a nationally recognized, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing quality drug and alcohol addiction treatment services at an affordable price. We started in a leased building on the campus of a state hospital in Norton, KS in August, 1967. Valley Hope now operates treatment facilities in seven states– Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.

http://www.valleyhope.org

Narcotics Anonymous is a nonprofit, international, community-based organization for recovering addicts, which is active in over 132 countries. Narcotics Anonymous (NA) members learn from one another how to live drug-free and recover from the effects of addiction in their lives.

http://www.showmeregionna.org

Midwest Special Needs Trust (MSNT) provides trust services for persons with disabilities. The organization was established as a result of advocacy by parents and professionals who realized that many obstacles hinder planning for the financial future of individuals with disabilities. The organization was created by statute (RSMo 402.199 – 402.220) in 1989. MSNT is a 501(c)(3) general non-profit organization established for the purpose of administering special needs trusts.

Special needs trusts are a type of trust specifically designed for individuals with disabilities. If properly structured and administered, special needs trusts do not affect an individual’s eligibility for benefits such as SSI or Medicaid.

In addition, MSNT administers the Charitable Trust. Funds of the Charitable Trust are used to provide assistance to individuals with disabilities who meet eligibility and income criteria.

MSNT is governed by a nine member Board of Trustees and its operations are conducted by a five person Staff. Board members are appointed by the governor of the State with advice and consent of the Senate. Six Board members are individuals who have a family member with a disability. Three Board members are individuals with expertise in business. Board members serve without compensation and are appointed to 3 year terms.

http://www.midwestspecialneedstrust.org

Bridgeway Behavioral Health, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit organization that was founded on February 14th, 1978 as Family Alcohol and Drug Counseling Services, Inc to serve clients in need of outpatient substance abuse treatment services. Soon after incorporation, the agency was contracted by the Missouri Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ADA) to provide services which included substance abuse rehabilitation to women and their children living in the Eastern Missouri Region. In 1982 Bridgeway became a United Way member agency and in 1986 we opened a transitional housing facility in Winfield, MO which became the first Oxford House. At this time the agency also received its first contract from the Department of Public Safety to provide counseling services to battered women. The following year Bridgeway began its Residential Treatment Program for men. By 1997 the agency’s domestic violence programs expanded to Troy, MO and the following year the first battered women shelter opened in St. Charles County offering emergency and extended services to women in crisis.

http://www.bridgewaybh.com/

Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health, Inc., (SEMO-BH) has assembled a group of highly trained and skilled professionals dedicated to individualized treatment of your personal and family needs. For more than 30 years our staff has been committed to providing people suffering from chemical dependencies, emotional problems, psychiatric disorders and other crisis of life the most complete treatment services in the region. In addition, SEMO-BH has become a leader in the regional chemical dependency education and outreach network. So that we can meet the needs of those we serve, we offer a variety of services.

The substance-dependent individual does not come stamped from a mold. People of all types of background, education, race or economic standing are vulnerable. In each case the struggle to get treatment is a difficult one. At SEMO-BH we want to make accessing treatment services as easy as possible.

The only way to change your life is to start doing something different today. Make that difference a phone call or e-mail to SEMO-BH. Our professionals will show you how they can help you find a more rewarding life for yourself and your family.

http://semobh.org/

The Missouri Credentialing Board (MCB) is a not-for-profit organization established in 1977 from the (then) Missouri Association of Alcoholism Counselors for the purpose of providing a recognized credential for qualified professionals working in the field of substance use disorders.
MCB is a proud member of IC&RC, which protects the public by establishing standards and facilitating reciprocity for the credentialing of addiction-related professionals. The largest organization of its kind, IC&RC represents more than 40,000 professionals worldwide. The IC&RC web address is www.internationalcredentialing.org.

http://missouricb.com/

InSight is the leading national telepsychiatry provider organization with a mission to increase access to behavioral health care. The InSight team has been practicing telepsychiatry and advocating for the proper use of telemedicine in behavioral healthcare since 1999. InSight brings evaluation and care to underserved consumers who may otherwise go without.

http://insighttelepsychiatry.com