Missouri Empowerment Project

12/10/2025

🚨 One Door is moving! 🚨We’ll be transitioning services to New Day at 809 N. Campbell Ave this month. Please note: One Door will be closed Dec. 1–14, with limited services available at O’Reilly Center for Hope through Dec. 10. Our new location officially opens Dec. 15! If you have questions, call 417-225-7499.

12/08/2025

As the holiday season gets busy, it’s the little moments of care — a calm response, a gentle word, a helping hand — that make the biggest difference. Kindness costs nothing, but it can change the whole feel of a home, a relationship, or a child’s day. Let’s be the light for one another. 💛

12/04/2025

🎄 Navigating the Holidays With Big Emotions 🎄

The holidays are magical—but they can also be overwhelming for kids. New routines, loud gatherings, sugar, excitement, and sensory overload can lead to big feelings fast. Here are a few simple ways to support your child this season:

💛 Keep routines where you can
✨ Prepare kids for what to expect
🧸 Build in quiet breaks
🍪 Balance treats with real meals
🗣️ Help them name their feelings
🫶 Offer choices and extra patience

Holidays don’t have to be perfect to be meaningful. A little structure and a lot of compassion go a long way.

🧡 MEP is cheering you on this season. 🧡

12/02/2025

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Missouri Empowerment Project

12/02/2025

💙 It’s Giving Tuesday — and Your Support Changes Futures 💙

Today is about more than giving.
It’s about believing—in families who are fighting for stability, in parents working to break cycles, and in children who deserve safety, connection, and hope.

When you give to the Missouri Empowerment Project, you’re helping us provide:
✨ In-home support for families in crisis
✨ Mental health counseling for children and parents
✨ Substance use treatment and recovery support
✨ Safe, supervised visitation
✨ Parenting classes and life-skills programs
✨ Basic needs assistance that keeps families together

Your generosity fills the gaps that systems can’t.
It keeps lights on during a dark week.
It funds a therapist when insurance won’t.
It helps a parent show up to visitation.
It gives a child a chance to heal.

Every dollar is a step toward preventing child abuse and neglect, strengthening families, and creating brighter futures across southwest Missouri.

If you’re able, please consider supporting MEP this Giving Tuesday.
Because when families rise, communities rise with them.

💙 Donate. Share. Support. Believe. 💙

12/01/2025

A sincere apology can melt even the coldest moment.

11/28/2025

We’re excited to announce our lineup of classes this month:
👨‍👩‍👧 Parent Education
💞 Healthy Relationships
🔥 Anger Management
📘 Navigating Your Child Welfare Case (formerly “DFS: A Parent’s Guide”)

Each class is designed to support, educate, and empower families in our community.

11/27/2025

🧡 A Thanksgiving Tribute 🧡

This season, our gratitude feels a little like a tapestry, woven from many hands, many stories, many hearts.

To our donors, who give quietly and generously,
you are the steady thread that keeps hope stitched in place.
Your gifts become warm meals, safe visits, open doors, and second chances that might never have been possible without you.

To our partners, who show up beside us in the hard work,you are the hands that lift with us, the voices that say yes when families need the village at their back.
Together, we build bridges where there used to be barriers.

And to our clients, whose courage fills the room even on the toughest days- you are the heart of this tapestry.
You show us what resilience looks like,
what transformation sounds like,
what it means to keep trying, even when the world feels heavy.
Your steps forward-big or small-are victories we celebrate with you.

This Thanksgiving, we honor every thread of this community,
every person who chooses compassion,
every story that reminds us why this work matters.

Thank you for walking alongside us.
Thank you for believing in families.
Thank you for being part of our mission.

🧡 With gratitude, Missouri Empowerment Project 🧡

11/24/2025

As families gather, remember: empathy feeds connection better than judgment ever will.

11/24/2025

🎉 Happy Birthday, Julie! 🎉

Today we’re celebrating Julie Wilson, one of our incredible therapists whose passion for learning and growth shines through in everything she does. 🌟

Julie is constantly expanding her knowledge to better serve her clients — especially in the areas of relationships and intimacy, where her insight and compassion help individuals and couples strengthen connection and communication. 💛

Her dedication to continued education and her heart for helping others make her an invaluable part of the MEP team.

Wishing you a wonderful birthday, Julie — may your day be filled with joy, laughter, and all the things that make you feel loved! 🎂✨

11/23/2025