{"id":10687,"date":"2022-10-27T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2022-10-27T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:53:09","slug":"student-social-workers-help-sponsor-walk-for-the-homeless-nov-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/27\/student-social-workers-help-sponsor-walk-for-the-homeless-nov-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Student social workers help sponsor Walk for the Homeless Nov. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:30px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:1200px;max-height:675px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBn96RV37gA?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Video of 2021 Walk for the Homeless courtesy of Northwest Health Services<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oct. 27, 2022&#8211;St. Joseph\u2019s annual Walk for the Homeless will be held on Friday, Nov, 4 in downtown St. Joseph. Registration begins at 4 p.m. and the Walk at 4:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The walk starts at the corner of 6th and Messanie. Participants walk the migratory route of the homeless, stopping at various social service agencies that serve the homeless. Participants also pick up trash along the route in order to help our City and as a gesture of goodwill to the downtown businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The annual Walk for the Homeless raises money to help the homeless community in St. Joseph. All proceeds are used by the Downtown Health Center at Northwest Health Services to help homeless people obtain I.D. cards, birth certificates, and transportation in St. Joseph.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone can participate free of charge. However, for a $20 donation, walkers will receive a Walk for the Homeless t-shirt. Food is provided following the walk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To register in advance, click the \u201cregister\u201d tab at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjwalkforthehomeless.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stjwalkforthehomeless.org\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The walk is sponsored in part by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/social-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University social work program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missouriwestern.presence.io\/organization\/organization-of-student-social-worker-ossw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organization of Student Social Workers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in partnership with many local organizations and businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10692,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions\/10692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}