Healthcare

Wellness Center Planned for Former Wendell Phillips School Near 18th & Vine

(Editor’s note: This article originally was published March 13, 2023) By Kevin Collison The former Wendell Phillips school near the 18th & Vine District is slated to become a community wellness center serving the neighborhood and a new affordable housing project planned across the street. Urban Catalyst Inc. has acquired the school at 24th and…

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Ten people wearing Come on Now! t-shirts.

Come on Now! New App Fills Gaps in Health Care Access

Many folks are still struggling to access health care. Dr. Shelley Cooper has developed an app to overcome those obstacles. It’s called Come on Now!

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Nicole Noblet (at center in purple) with Missouri's People First Chapter at Disability Rights Legislative Day at the Capitol. (Contributed)

Young Adults with Disabilities Want Independence. Guardianship Is a Hurdle.

Students with disabilities are too often faced with hurdles when entering young adulthood. One lesser-known issue: the school-to-guardianship pipeline.

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A man in a gray shirt and black pants bends over a row of short bean plants situated at the base of a trellis. With his hand he demonstrates the size of the beans yielded by the plants to address food security.

A Lawrence Farmer’s Innovative Approach to Food Security 

LAWRENCE, Kansas — Pantaleon Florez III looks at food security as an issue to be solved.   He asks those working in local food systems (and himself) what they would do if their community didn’t have a hunger issue.   “That’s my new narrative: ‘What would you do if you didn’t have to do this work?’”…

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Plan B emergency contraception packages.

New Push in Missouri to Provide Free Emergency Contraception

Missouri Family Health Council will mail more than 5,500 free kits containing emergency contraception pills in a pilot program launching Thursday.

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