Missouri

Missouri's staff, including Extension, nonprofit disability organizations, social service agencies, veteran groups, and health care providers jointly participated in the following collaborative AgrAbility activities and trainings:

• CDC Arthritis Advisory members meeting for leaders, partners, and advisory members
• Brain Injury Association of Missouri partnership meetings and trainings workshop
• Missouri Farm Bureau partnership meetings
• VR/AgrAbility simple fee for service follow up agreement meetings
• RSB/AgrAbility simple fee for service follow up agreement meetings
• National AgrAbility Back Impairment Working Group
• Webinar: Consumer Trends in Healthy Aging hosted by Pat Ryan
• Webinar: Preventing Falls in Adults with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions: What Works?
• NAP Evaluation Committee
• Missouri VR Case Manager Training workshop
• Continued to collaborate with the Ohio State University AgrAbility and their nonprofit disability, Goodwill to administer their quality of life survey to 40 Missouri farmers and ranchers with disabilities.

The mission of the MOBHA is to make effective, culturally sensitive behavioral health services accessible to Service Members, Veterans and their Families by establishing strategies to raise awareness, increase availability, improve communication, and promote prevention. Current members include Army OneSource, Missouri Veterans Commission, Missouri AgrAbility Project, Missouri National Guard, Missouri Association of Veterans Organizations, Brain Injury Association of Missouri, Missouri Coalition of Mental Health Centers, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Department of Mental Health, Truman Medical Center Office of Psychological Services, and University of Missouri-Kansas City. Employment and other assistance such as behavioral health counseling can help these veterans.

Submitted by Karen Funkenbusch