Community Collaboratives
Council of Collaboratives
Doug Neidigh, Chair
The Council of Collaboratives is comprised of leadership of each Collaborative and works to provide paths for cross-collaboration over a broad range of community issues. The Collaboratives had 241 separate organizations engaged and volunteers gave 3,008 hours of their time this year.
Child Abuse and Neglect Collaborative
Katiina Dull, Chair; Amanda Ingle, Vice-Chair
The Child Abuse & Neglect (CAN) Collaborative is working to prevent, intervene, and heal families impacted by child abuse and neglect. Currently, there are approximately 650 children in foster care in Greene County.
The CAN Collaborative meets monthly at Community Partnership of the Ozarks on the third Thursday at 9:00 a.m.
Environmental Collaborative
Environmental Collaborative – Angie Snyder, Chair; Tracey Coronado, Co-Chair
OCAA Committee – Barbara Lucks, Chair
The Environmental Collaborative and its subcommittee, the Ozarks Clean Air Alliance, raise community awareness and encourage practices and values that support a healthy natural environment. OCAA meets monthly and has held an electric vehicle rally promoting the benefits of driving electric cars and is working on a Clean Cities initiative among other projects. The Environmental Collaborative hosts monthly meetings bringing in speakers to talk about environmental topics.
Have Faith Initiative
Deanna Carpenter, Chair
Housing Collaborative
Brandon Jenson, Chair; Nancy Williams, Vice-Chair
The Housing Collaborative advances knowledge on issues related to safe, decent and affordable housing, from homelessness to home ownership. They coordinated free landlord trainings and partnered with the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association to offer training on evictions related to COVID-19 for landlords, as well as a session on tenant rights related to COVID-19 for service providers. They are currently developing a tenant education program.
Health Equity Collaborative
Courtney Pinkham, Chair
The Health Equity Collaborative aims to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes for historically marginalized populations in Greene County.
Let’s Go Smart: Transportation Collaborative
Grady Porter, Chair; David Knaut, Vice-Chair
Let’s Go Smart: Transportation Collaborative is a community partnership designed to encourage the people of Springfield, Missouri to make wiser transportation choices. Whether it’s walking, biking, riding the bus, driving, using Uber/Lyft, or any other way of getting around, “going smart” means thinking ahead and deciding which option will make the most of our resources, health, environment, and quality of life.
The Let’s Go Smart: Transportation Collaborative meets monthly at Community Partnership of the Ozarks on the first Wednesday at 11:00 a.m.
The Food Collaborative
Anneliese Kerr, Chair
The Food Collaborative seeks to take the community to where we have a healthy, local food system and has continued to support food security and other food system-related projects.
Early Care and Education
Carol Bell, Chair
The Early Care & Education Collaborative has continued to cross-promote large community events like Community Wide Play Day and Big Rig Night. They continued work on the Passport to Readiness app and a focus on Conscious Discipline across our community.
Have questions or interested in joining?
For more information, email info@cpozarks.org or call 417-888-2020.