Community Report
New Madrid County
Caring Communities Partnership
New Madrid County is primarily a farming rural community located in the Missouri Bootheel with a population of approximately 21,000 with a labor force of 9,237and is located on the New Madrid Earthquake Fault along side the Mississippi River. According to the Missouri State 1990 Census Data, the median average family income is $21,665.00. There are four county school districts: New Madrid R-1, Portageville Public Schools, Gideon No.37, and Risco R-II.
In March 1998, New Madrid County Human Resources Council Community Partnership (NMCHRCCP) was formed by a group of community leaders for the purpose of improving communications, reducing duplication of services, collaborating in county planning, and acting for the betterment of families in New Madrid County. The charge is to gather human service professions, church leadership, businesses, educators, parents, and concerned citizens for the common cause of empowering families and individuals to become more self-reliant, responsible, and resourceful. The focus is on six core results: (1) Parents Working (2) Healthy Children and Families (3) Children safe in their families – families safe in their communities (4) Children prepared to enter school (5) Children and youth succeeding in school (6) Youth ready to enter productive adulthood.
NMCHRCCP is a non-profit corporation with a fifteen-member executive Board of Directors and a thirty member Human Resources Council. The Board of Directors has formal decision process under the guidance of the Human Resources Council. The Council consists of community members, public and private partners, partnership staff, and the executive committee in which provides the leadership and serves on the executive Board of Directors. The Partnership has an Executive Director that provides direction for daily operations and supervision of three program coordinators and five staff personnel.
New Madrid County Human Resources Council Community Partnership has successfully leveraged 6 times the budgeted amount of $173,920.00 with in-kind, state and federal, and local investments. NMCHRCCP directly oversees 8 funding streams and 5 programs to provide programs correlated with the six core results.
Although five communities, New Madrid, Portageville, Howardville, Risco, and Gideon, were chosen through an application and evaluation process, the six core results are all being targeted with various programs and sites that serve all of New Madrid County. Portageville, Risco, and Gideon School Districts are the main focus in these communities. In New Madrid, the New Madrid County Family Resource Center has been operating as a Missouri Career Center with a “one stop shop” philosophy since November 1999. Howardville, our newest (July 2001), is a community based program that focuses on needs and gaps of service for the entire community.
MISSION STATEMENT
The New Madrid County Human Resources Council Community Partnership has accepted the mission of becoming the lead sponsoring partnership agency with the State of Missouri. To accomplish this mission, the Council will unity human service providers, churches, businesses, educational systems, community members and local/county government representatives to better service the needs of the citizens of New Madrid County.
The efforts of the Council will result in more effective use of resources. The task will be to identify gaps in services, eliminate duplication, and enhance existing programs through cooperative and collaborative efforts and promote economic development. The Partnership will also seek progressive and creative ways to develop new resources and funding. It is the desire of the New Madrid County Human Resources Council Community Partnership to have a safe, diverse community wherein all persons, families, and friends are respected and have a full opportunity to be involved and to achieve productive, happy and healthy lives.
