Lewis County

FAMILY SERVICES AND RESOURCES

Local

Lewis County Mobile Food Pantry
Rodeo Grounds
North Fifth Street
LaBelle, MO 63447

First Baptist Church Food Bank
407 N. Sixth Street
Canton, MO 63435
(573) 288-5583

State

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
Find a CASA Program
Missouri CASA Program Directory
CASA is a volunteer organization whose volunteers advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children during legal proceedings.
www.casaforchildren.org

Food Stamp Program | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 renamed the federal program the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) effective October 1, 2008. SNAP is designed to promote the general welfare and safeguard the health and well-being of the nation’s population by raising the levels of nutrition among low-income households. The program is called the Food Stamp Program in Missouri.
Food Stamp Case Information
(800) 392-1261

Missouri Community Action Agencies
Community Action Agencies are part of a national network founded in 1964 that is dedicated to eradicating the causes and conditions of poverty. Agencies provide critical services to including childcare so parents can obtain education to improve job opportunities, solutions to transportation obstacles so people can get to work, help reduce energy costs by weatherizing homes, and helping families save to buy homes of their own.

Missouri Department of Social Services
Contact Your Local DSS Office
The Department of Social Services is responsible for coordinating programs to provide public assistance to children and their parents, access to health care, child support enforcement assistance and to provide specialized assistance to troubled youth. While many programs give needed financial assistance and services, other units work toward reducing financial dependency of the citizens on government.

Children’s Division of the Department of Social Services
Contact Your Local DSS Office
Adoption, Foster Care, Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline, Family Centered Services, Intensive In-Home Services
Child Abuse/Neglect Hotline (MO only)
(800) 392-3738
Foster Adoptline
(800) 554-2222

Child Support Enforcement in the Department of Social Services
Child Support Offices
The child support enforcement offices provide services from helping to establish paternity and child support to the enforcement and modification of child support orders.
Child Support Customer Service Call Center (enforcement calls only)
(866) 313-9960
Child Support Employer Information
(800) 585-9234
Child Support General Information
(800) 859-7999
Child Support Payment Information (IVR)
(800) 225-0530

Family Support Division of the Department of Social Services
Contact Your Local DSS Office
The Family Support Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services helps families with child support issues, food stamps, health care, blind services, income issues (TANF), shelter services and other needs based services.
Information Center toll free M-F 7am – 6pm: (855) 373-4636 / (855) FSD-INFO
Automated Line available 24 hours, 7 days a week: (800) 392-1261

SOCIAL SECURITY AND DISABILITY

Social Security Administration
Office Locator
Benefits for People with Disabilities
(800) 722-1213
Social Security delivers a broad range of services online and through a nationwide network of more than 1,400 offices that include regional offices, field offices, card centers, teleservice centers, processing centers, hearing offices, the Appeals Council and state and territorial partners.

CONSUMER PROTECTION AND CREDIT RESOURCES

Local

Chambers of Commerce
A chamber of commerce is a local organization that represents the interests of businesses in the community. Chamber of Commerce organizations provide information on businesses and local attractions in the community.

State

Missouri Attorney General’s Office Consumer Complaints Division
The Attorney General works to protect Missouri consumers and ensure a fair marketplace by enforcing Missouri’s Merchandising Practices Act, as well as other laws. By filing complaints, consumers let the Attorney General’s Office know about unscrupulous businesses and individuals. In addition to filing criminal charges and civil lawsuits, the Attorney General’s Office also mediates complaints between businesses and consumers..

Missouri Department of Revenue
The mission of the Department of Revenue is to facilitate the proper functioning of state and local government by accurately and efficiently collecting and distributing state and local revenues, to support public safety by effectively administering the laws related to motor vehicle sale and registration, and driver licensing.

Small Business Regulatory Fairness Board in the Department of Economic Development 
SBRFB ensures that Missouri state agency rules and regulations do not create an unfair burden for small businesses. SBRFB, working with small business owners throughout Missouri, ensures that the voice of small business is considered when state rules and regulations are created. 

Federal

Annual Credit Request Service
(877) 322-8228
Annual Credit Report Request Service
P.O. Box 105281
Atlanta, GA 30348-5281
The only free credit report available annually per federal law from all three major credit reporting bureaus (Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion).

Department of Treasury
The Department of Treasury is an online resource center for questions on taxes and consumer policy. A list of grants, loans, and financial assistance are available.

Small Business Administration
The Small Business Administration provides information on starting and funding small businesses.

Health Insurance Marketplace for Small Businesses
Businesses with 50 employees or fewer can offer Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) plans to their employees, starting any month of the year.

EMPLOYMENT AND WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

Local

Missouri Career Center
2105 E. Normal St.
Kirksville, MO
(660) 785-2400

State

Division of Workforce Development in the Department of Economic Development
Find a Career Center
The Division provides services for businesses and job seekers through the Missouri Career Centers and jobs.mo.gov.

Department of Labor
The Department of Labor works to promote industry and labor and protect the rights and safety of Missouri’s workforce. It is comprised of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission and the following five divisions:

Division of Employment Security
Collects tax contributions from employers and pays unemployment benefits to individuals who are determined eligible under the law.

Division of Workers’ Compensation
Ensures that workers injured on the job receive the benefits they deserve and investigates allegations of workers’ compensation fraud and noncompliance.

Division of Labor Standards
Regulates wages and wage rates and promotes safe working environments.

State Board of Mediation
Determines the appropriate bargaining unit for public employees and regulates utility labor relations.

Missouri Commission on Human Rights
Enforces and adjudicates Missouri’s anti-discriminatory, fair housing, employment and public accommodation statutes.

GOVERNMENT: Judicial

Local

Municipal Courts
The municipal division of the circuit court has original jurisdiction to hear and determine municipal ordinance violations. For court-specific information, click the name of the municipality from the full list below. Information about the municipal divisions also can be found at Missouri Municipal and Associate Circuit Judges Association.

Circuit Courts
Missouri circuit courts are courts of original civil and criminal jurisdiction. That is, cases usually begin in the circuit court, which is where trials may occur. Within the circuit court, there are various divisions, such as associate circuit, small claims, municipal, family, probate, criminal, and juvenile. Missouri’s counties and the city of St. Louis are organized into 45 judicial circuits.

Lewis County Court
200 Lafayette St.
Monticello, MO 63457
(573) 767-5205

State

Court of Appeals
The Missouri Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court and is divided into three districts. It handles appeals from the circuit courts. That is, if a party loses at the circuit court and believes a mistake was made, that party may file an appeal. The Court of Appeals handles all appeals except those in the Supreme Court’s exclusive jurisdiction.

Supreme Court of Missouri
207 W High St Jefferson City, Missouri 65101
(573) 751-4144
The Supreme Court of Missouri has been the state’s highest court since 1820, when the first Missouri constitution was adopted. The Supreme Court’s role is to ensure a stable and predictable system of justice by serving as the final arbiter of disputes involving the state’s constitution and laws. As such, it hears and decides many of the most important – and often the most controversial – legal issues affecting Missouri citizens, businesses, organizations and even factions of government. 

Your Missouri Courts
The Missouri Judiciary consists of three levels of courts: The trial courts (also known as the circuit courts), an intermediate appellate court (the Missouri Court of Appeals) that is divided into three regional districts, and the Supreme Court of Missouri. Find information on all the different courts and judges in Missouri.

Missouri Case.net
Case.net is your access to the Missouri state courts automated case management system. From here you are able to inquire about case records including docket entries, parties, judgments and charges in public court. Only courts that have implemented the case management software as part of the Missouri Court Automation Program and only cases that have been deemed public under the Missouri Revised Statutes can be accessed through Case.net.

Federal

U.S. Courts
Court Website Links
The work of the federal courts impacts the lives of the American public in many ways. This website provides information about federal courts, judges, services, forms, court records, reports and rules.

United States 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
Missouri Courts
Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse
111 S 10th St Room 24.329
St. Louis, Missouri 63102
(314) 244-2400

GOVERNMENT: Legislative

Local

City and County Elected Officials and Local Governments provided by www.MO.gov
Cities and Municipalities
Counties
Search by city or county from alphabetical lists of each.

State

Missouri State Senators
State Legislators Lookup Directory

Missouri State Representatives
State Legislators Lookup Directory

Federal

United States Senators
Contact Your U.S. Senators

United States Representatives
Find your representative

GOVERNMENT: Executive

Local

County Public Administrator
P.O. Box 270
Canton, MO 63435
(573)288-1111
The Public Administrator is a public official who acts as guardian, conservator, or personal representative for incapacitated or deceased individuals when no one else is able or willing to act in this capacity. 

State

Go Vote Missouri: Register to Vote | Polling Places provided by the Secretary of State’s Office
Welcome to Missouri’s voting center where you can find answers to your voting questions. Learn how to vote absentee, how you can vote if you’re in the military or where your polling place is for voting on Election Day.

Missouri Governor
(573) 751-3222
The Missouri Governor appoints all members of all boards and commissions, and all department heads, in state government.  The Governor also fills vacancies in public offices unless otherwise provided by law. 

Missouri Lieutenant Governor
The Lieutenant Governor is elected separately from the governor and assumes the powers and duties of the governor when the governor is absent from the state or unable to serve. The Lieutenant Governor is president of the Missouri Senate and sits on several boards and commissions that make important policy decisions.

Missouri Attorney General
The Missouri Attorney General is the attorney for the State of Missouri, representing the legal interests of Missouri and it state agencies.  The attorney general must prosecute or defend all appeals to which the State of Missouri is a party, including every felony criminal case appealed to the Supreme Court of Missouri and the Missouri Court of Appeals.  The attorney general may appear, interplead, answer or defend any proceeding that involve the state’s interests, or appear on behalf of the state in declaratory judgment proceedings when the constitutionality of a statute is challenged.

Missouri Secretary of State
The Missouri Secretary of State is charged with administering elections, appointing boards and commissions, regulating businesses in the state, leading selected social programs, enforcing the financial disclosures of political committees, and taking the state census.

Missouri State Treasurer
The Missouri State Treasurer is an elected official responsible for serving as Missouri’s chief financial officer, and responsible for authorizing disbursement of state funds, balancing the state accounts, contracting with private banks to process state receipts and disbursements, managing money and security transfers, and reporting the state’s financial activities.

Missouri State Auditor
The State Auditor’s Office works to ensure the proper use of public funds and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Missouri government by performing audits of state agencies, boards and commissions, the circuit court system, the counties in Missouri that do not have a county auditor, and other political subdivisions upon petition by the voters. These audits examine financial accountability, waste, opportunities for fraud, and whether government organizations and programs are achieving their purposes and operating economically and efficiently.

Federal

The Executive Branch: President of the United States
The power of the Executive Branch is vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress and, to that end, appoints the heads of the federal agencies, including the Cabinet. The Vice President is also part of the Executive Branch, ready to assume the Presidency should the need arise.