Provident released a statement following the recent gun violence in Texas and Ohio. Our primary point: Mental health care is a vital part of solving our nation’s gun violence problem, but mental illness is not the leading cause.

Click here to read our full statement.

Provident’s Director of Clinical Services Lindsay Jeffries was invited to speak on the topic with KTRS’s Jennifer Blome and Heidi Glaus. Click here to listen to the 10 minute conversation that covered gun violence as well as the suicide epidemic in Missouri.