{"id":820777,"date":"2026-08-21T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820777\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:52:08","slug":"mobile-mental-health-unit-brings-free-counseling-to-st-louis-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820777\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile mental health unit brings free counseling to St. Louis neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Show Me Peace&#8217;s Maranda Moody said the goal is to help reduce gun violence and address the trauma that can follow.<\/p>\n<p>ST. LOUIS \u2014 A local effort funded by the St. Louis Office of Violence Prevention is bringing mental health resources directly to neighborhoods affected by gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Show Me Peace hosted a community event in the Peabody-Darst-Webbe neighborhood, where residents gathered for food and games while learning about local support services.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured the organization&#8217;s &#8220;Peace on Wheels&#8221; mobile unit, an RV that provides a safe space for free, confidential counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Show Me Peace&#8217;s Maranda Moody said the goal is to help reduce gun violence and address the trauma that can follow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The goal is to help reduce gun violence and prevent trauma that comes along with gun violence,&#8221; Moody said. &#8220;It&#8217;s basically to bring healing to our St. Louis communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the mobile unit is designed to make mental health care more accessible by bringing services directly into the communities they serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Show Me Peace&#8217;s Maranda Moody said the goal is to help reduce gun violence and address the trauma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-820777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}