East Missouri Action Agency

Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center is nonprofit health and welfare agency that is funded by Cape Girardeau County. Based in Cape Girardeau, Mo., the organization provides an array of public health services and programs, including special supplemental food program for women, infants and children, immunizations, office visits and home visiting programs. Additionally, it endows with various other facilities, such as rural health clinic, pregnancy testing, communicable disease clinic and HIV/AIDS case management. Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center also offers community health survey, along with disaster and emergency management.

VIP Industries, located in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is a nonprofit corporation established for the employment of handicapped individuals who suffer from mental and developmental disabilities. The individuals are offered employment in areas, such as assembly and production, packaging, custom packaging, poly bagging, shrink-wrapping, mailing, fulfillment, distribution and warehousing, sub-contract labor and cross-docking services. VIP Industries is one of the largest sheltered workshops in the state of Missouri and serves the two counties of Cape Girardeau and Bollinger and parts of Stoddard and Scott counties in Missouri. The organization has a workforce of more than 300 individuals at three plants. The employees work a six-hour day, and some of them participate in an adult educational program or a recreational program after work hours.