​Missouri Empowerment Project, formerly known as CPR of the Ozarks, is honored to have been awarded a 5 year, $3 million grant to aid families struggling with substance abuse in the Ozarks. This grant will allow CPR to provide intensive services to families in Polk, Dallas, Webster, Laclede, Hickory, and Taney county. 

​​Program Description
    Creating A Village (CAV) delivers a comprehensive, trauma-informed, and evidence-based approach to supporting families impacted by substance use disorders and involved with the Children’s Division. Through an integrated, multi-service model, CAV helps families access treatment services, mental health care, educational classes that strengthen the home environment, and essential community resources. A key focus is on building strong, sustainable support systems. By delivering these intensive, wraparound services directly in the family's home and community, CAV aims to shorten the time children spend in out-of-home care—or prevent removal altogether—by promoting safety, stability, and lasting family well-being.
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Target Population
    Families living in the target service areas who are pregnant or have children (infant-18 years old) who are at risk of being placed in out-of-home care or have been placed in out-of-home care due to a caregiver struggling with substance use or dual diagnosis concerns.

Major Program Goals

• Enhance awareness of and access to substance use disorder/co-occurring disorder treatment and recovery.
• Strengthen the nurturing qualities in the home environment to enhance family and child safety.
• Improve family and child permanency by providing support/guidance in the family’s home and community.
• Build enduring support systems to enhance family and child well-being.​​

Key Program Services 

• Family Support Specialists; Home visitor
• Strengths, Needs, Abilities, and Preferences Profile
• Pre and Postnatal support/education
• Nurturing Parents; Parent Education Class
• Substance Use Disorder Treatment (SUD)
• Mental Health Evaluations & Treatment
• Early Childhood Developmental Assessments
• One-on-One Matrix Model SUD Treatment
• Employment Assistance
• Co-Parenting Class
• Therapeutic Supervised Visitation
• Anger Management Program
• Family Mediation
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
• Reunification Therapy
• Addiction Severity Index (ASI)

​Partners

• Missouri Children’s Division 
• Judicial Courts of the 30th and 46th Districts
• Dr. Stephanie Campbell, PhD
• Sling N’ Stones
• Community Partnership of the Ozarks
• Heartland Behavioral Health
• House of Hope
• Parents As Teachers
• Doula Foundation
• Simmering Center
• The Launchpad Schoolhouse
• AIDS Project of the Ozarks
• OACAC Family Planning

Annual reports

Cross Site Evaluation: Annual Report 2022-2023

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