Places for People

Workers at Places for People accuse management of union busting and refusing to support a fair union election.

For more than 40 years, Joe Yancey has worked to help those with mental illness receive the treatment and support they need to lead successful, fulfilling lives. The former CEO of Places for People retired last month.

Mary Hayes cradled Tucker, a 15-year-old Boston terrier, tightly in her arms as movers from the nonprofit Home Sweet Home furniture bank maneuvered a…

Walter Wolfner was not prepared for the impact that last year's heavy rains would have on his business, the Riverside Golf Club in Fenton. "The velocity…

About a dozen of Missouri’s mental health clinics will receive an infusion of federal money in 2017, after the state was one of eight selected to be part…

In the months after floods swept through his hometown of Fenton just after Christmas, Scott Bayliff and 16 crisis counselors from the mental health center…

About 80 people, clustered around tables, bent their heads and waited for the voices to start.“Don’t answer,” a woman’s voice warned as a phone rang.…

For people struggling with homelessness, addiction or severe mental illness, visiting a primary care doctor may be the last thing on their mind. But…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 9, 2011 - If only Trip Powers had hit bottom a few months earlier, he might not have ended up…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 10, 2010 - There was no need to break ground, but breaking down walls was certainly on the…