Overview 

The Human Services Team vision is to create a thriving community where every family and person, is safe, healthy, and connected.  We do this by building partnerships and maximizing resources that focus on prevention and intervention for vulnerable citizens to be safe, healthy and connected. 

There are two work groups within the Human Services Team: child abuse and neglect, and domestic violence. See below for each work group's goals.

"Human services are the people and organizations who provide goods, services and relationships to persons in need, addressing strategies that support prevention and personal wholeness."

-The Human Services Team

Goals

CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT

Decrease child abuse and neglect by 25% as measured by the number of children
in state custody in Jasper County  by 2023.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Decrease occurrences of intimate partner violence by 5%
​as measured by the Joplin Police Department incidences by 2023. 
Decrease the percent of repeat domestic violence police responses involving the same perpetrator.
​Decrease the percent of repeat admissions in a five-year period to the Lafayette House from 11% to 4% by 2023. 
Decrease the percent of nolle prosequi (abandonment by a plaintiff) domestic violence charge dismissals in municipal courts by 5%.