Community Resources

(Please note: The links & resources provided are for information purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of the accuracy or validity of any of their services or claims.)

Mental Health Resources

Trauma-Informed Yoga

  • Complete Harmony - Yoga classes for kids and teens using creativity, compassion, empathy, energy and a trauma sensitive approach to provide all youth a safe place, empowering them to connect with themselves and the world around them.

Mindfulness

  • HeartWorks - Self-compassion education, training and support

    • HeartWorks Mission: To free people from old patterns of personal suffering through self-knowledge, tools for emotional resilience, connection with Spirit and community.

  • Self-Compassion: A Healthier Way of Relating to Yourself

  • Blissful Kids - Mindfulness Made Playful and Sustainable

  • Mindful Schools

  • Mind Yeti - Mindfulness for Kids and Their Adults

Crisis Lines

Resources for Survivors of Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking

Thank you to the YWCA Metro St. Louis for the valuable work they are doing in our community and for sharing such important resources, the following is from their website.

Shelters

  • Comtrea-Jefferson County: (636) 931-2700 24-hour

  • St. Martha’s Hall: (314) 533-1313 24-hour

  • Weinman Shelter: (314) 423-1117 24-hour

  • Women’s Center: (636) 946-6854 24-hour

  • Women’s Safe House: (314) 772-4535 24-hour

  • Alive: (314) 993-2777 24-hour

Victim Services 

  • Victim Services-Country: (314) 615-4872

  • Victim Services-City: (314) 622-4373

  • St. Charles Victim Assistance Program: (636) 949-7370

Help and Support in Metro St. Louis -

  • The Angel Band Project: The Angel Band Project is a non-profit that provides trauma-informed music therapy and advocacy for those impacted by sexual and intimate partner violence. Over the past decade, The Angel Band Project has worked to create a safe space where survivors can find solace, regain their voices, and reclaim their lives. To date, we have provided music therapy to over 800 survivors and their children, ranging in ages from 2 to 78 years.This work happens in St. Louis, New York, and Seattle, and our board-certified music therapists work through a Trauma Informed Care (TIC) approach. All of our services are offered free of charge so that these services are accessible, regardless of the client’s ability to pay. Please visit our website to learn more and ask any questions.

  • ALIVE (Alternatives to Living In Violent Environments): Provides support services and short-term emergency sanctuary for adults and children victimized by domestic violence.

  • Center for Trauma Recovery: A service of the University of Missouri – St. Louis which provides counseling for women who have suffered personal traumas such as beatings, rape, and assault.

  • St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office: Information, resources, and support including the Sex Offender and Child Abuse Registry List for the City of St. Louis, Victim Rights, and the Neighborhood Justice Project.

  • Victim Services Division of St. Louis County: Provides a variety of services to victims of crime in St. Louis Country, including supportive counseling and crisis intervention, information on criminal and juvenile court procedures, and referral to many community and state resources. VSD staff and volunteer advocates assist with orders of protection, victim impact statements and crime victim compensation forms. Advocates accompany victims to hearings/trials and offer the use of two victim/witness waiting rooms in the Courts Building.

  • Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, Inc.: Provides legal assistance and equal access to justice to low-income people.

  • Life Source Consultants, Inc.: Free support services for women (and their families) who are victims or survivors of physical, emotional, mental, verbal or sexual abuse, rape and incest.

  • ROW – Redevelopment Opportunities for Women: Opportunities for women to pursue economic self-sufficiency, personal and family development, taking control of their lives. Services are focused on women who have experienced partner violence, homelessness and/or poverty.

  • Safe Connections: 24-Hour Crisis Line (314) 531-2003; Counseling and support groups, preventing dating violence, safety planning, and sexual assault resources.

  • Saint Martha’s Hall: Help for battered women and their children to break the cycle of violence in their lives by offering them safe, secure temporary shelter, education and counseling.

  • Bridgeway Counseling: Alternatives to violence and abuse; case management, outreach office, batterer intervention service; Jefferson, Lincoln, St. Charles, St. Louis and Warren Counties, City of St. Louis