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Pregnancy & family help in Missouri

37 organizations in Missouri offering help with pregnancy, housing, food, childcare, adoption and more. We checked each one before listing it, but hours and services change, so please call ahead.

Adoption

  • Nightlight Christian Adoptions — Missouri

    Christian adoption agency: domestic infant, international and foster care adoption, and home studies.

  • Raise the Future (formerly The Adoption Exchange)

    Adoption information classes, including classes on adopting in Missouri, a photolisting of children waiting in foster care, and support for adoptive families.

Free / Subsidized Childcare

  • Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) — Head Start

    Head Start with home-based and center-based services for newborns, toddlers and preschoolers, plus Family Success Coaches and parenting curriculum, across central Missouri counties.

  • Youth In Need — Head Start & Early Head Start

    Head Start and Early Head Start in free, full-day early childhood classrooms (some sites have paid extended hours), weekly home visits, and prenatal visits for expectant families.

Churches / Baby Closets

  • Shiloh Center (formerly Life Choice Center for Women)

    Free, confidential help in Harrisonville for pregnant women and young families: baby and maternity items, education and parenting classes, and ultrasounds through its Clara Women's Medical Center.

  • ThriVe St. Louis

    No-cost pregnancy tests, verification and ultrasound, plus Parent University parenting and life-skills classes that earn coupons for maternity and baby items, and case management for housing, utilities, food and more. Centers on Lindell Blvd and on St. Charles Rock Rd.

Clothing / Supplies

  • Shiloh Center (formerly Life Choice Center for Women)

    Free, confidential help in Harrisonville for pregnant women and young families: baby and maternity items, education and parenting classes, and ultrasounds through its Clara Women's Medical Center.

  • ThriVe St. Louis

    No-cost pregnancy tests, verification and ultrasound, plus Parent University parenting and life-skills classes that earn coupons for maternity and baby items, and case management for housing, utilities, food and more. Centers on Lindell Blvd and on St. Charles Rock Rd.

Domestic Violence

  • Missouri Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (MOCADSV)

    Statewide

    Find domestic and sexual violence services in your area of Missouri on its map. MOCADSV does not run a crisis line; for 24-hour help call the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 1-800-799-7233.

Employment

  • Dress for Success Kansas City

    Interview clothing and career and financial-planning support for women working toward their professional goals.

  • Dress for Success Midwest

    Interview clothing (with a referral) and career programs that help women search for jobs and build confidence.

Potential Financial Assistance

  • Society of St. Vincent de Paul — St. Louis

    Vincentian volunteers in local parish conferences help families facing financial hardship, food insecurity or a crisis across the St. Louis area. Find your local conference on the map.

  • The Salvation Army — Midland Division (Missouri)

    Emergency help with rent, mortgage and utility bills from the Salvation Army's Midland Division (headquarters in greater St. Louis), whose local teams assess each family's needs.

Food Programs

  • Harvesters — The Community Food Network

    Food through partner pantries and programs in the Kansas City region. Call toll-free for help finding food.

  • Ozarks Food Harvest

    Food through partner pantries and a Mobile Food Pantry that delivers groceries to towns where food help is scarce, in southwest Missouri.

  • Second Harvest Community Food Bank

    Find food in northwest Missouri through its Find Food page.

  • Southeast Missouri Food Bank

    Food help for families in southeast Missouri; see Get Help on its site. Toll-free: (855) 703-3663.

  • St. Louis Area Foodbank

    Find food through nearly 600 partner programs, including food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters, across 26 counties in Missouri and Illinois.

Health Assistance

  • Affinia Healthcare

    Community health centers in St. Louis with medical and dental care, prenatal and pediatric care support, WIC, and mobile medical and dental services.

  • Nurse-Family Partnership — Missouri

    A registered nurse visits expectant parents at home during pregnancy and the child's first years, about two and a half years in all. Missouri programs (Building Blocks of Missouri) serve the St. Louis, Kansas City and Southeast regions. Nurse-Family Partnership is now run by Changent.

  • Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center

    Pediatrics, women's health, dental and behavioral health care in Kansas City.

  • MO HealthNet (Missouri Medicaid)

    Statewide

    Health coverage through Missouri Medicaid, including MO HealthNet for Pregnant Women, which covers care during pregnancy and up to 12 months after delivery. Apply online or call the Family Support Division.

Housing Assistance & Shelters

Infant & Baby Equipment

  • Butterfly Haven

    Help for children in foster care and families in crisis in the St. Louis area (St. Charles, Lincoln, Franklin and Jefferson counties too). Its Referral Program provides beds, car seats, high chairs, pack 'n plays, strollers and more. Messages only; replies within 24-48 hours.

Mental Health & Postpartum Assistance

  • Nurse-Family Partnership — Missouri

    A registered nurse visits expectant parents at home during pregnancy and the child's first years, about two and a half years in all. Missouri programs (Building Blocks of Missouri) serve the St. Louis, Kansas City and Southeast regions. Nurse-Family Partnership is now run by Changent.

  • Promise 1000

    Connects Kansas City-area families with home visiting programs, where a home visitor supports parents during pregnancy and with a young baby or child. Request home visiting online or by phone.

Parenting Classes

Pregnancy Centers

  • MyLife Medical & Resource Center

    Confidential pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, STI testing and treatment, and parenting support in High Ridge, at no cost.

  • Pregnancy Care Center (417Choices)

    Free, confidential pregnancy tests and ultrasounds in Springfield. Call or text.

  • ThriVe St. Louis

    No-cost pregnancy tests, verification and ultrasound, plus Parent University parenting and life-skills classes that earn coupons for maternity and baby items, and case management for housing, utilities, food and more. Centers on Lindell Blvd and on St. Charles Rock Rd.

Special Needs Assistance

  • Easterseals Midwest

    Autism services (including ABA clinics across Missouri), employment, health and other programs for people with disabilities in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas.

  • Missouri Family to Family

    Statewide

    Free one-on-one support and navigation from people with lived experience, for families of people with disabilities or special health care needs. Run by the UMKC Institute for Human Development.

Support for Fathers

  • Fathers & Families Support Center

    Family Formation program for fathers, employment development and mentoring, and Fathers' Rap, a peer support group for alumni and dads who can't join the full program, in St. Louis.

Transportation

  • MO HealthNet rides to medical appointments

    Statewide

    MO HealthNet covers non-emergency rides to approved medical appointments for members who have no free transportation available. Schedule the trip a few days ahead.

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