At Missouri Foundation for Health, Community Liaisons Listen and Build Connections

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Follow Teletia Atkins into the Bootheel region of Southeast Missouri to see how a community liaison from Missouri Foundation for Health listens to and learns from the people who live there.

Says Atkins: “Communities want [funders] to listen to them, instead of coming in and saying, ‘We know what you need.”

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