Missouri State ID Access Coalition

Coalition Efforts

Several efforts are underway and new efforts develop organically responding to community needs. These include:

1. Certification of Homeless Status and Residency

   • After months (years?) of sustained advocacy, we were successful in encouraging the MO Department of Revenue to create and offer a "Certification of Homeless Status and Residency" form, which facilitates access to a state photo ID for people experiencing homelessness (who otherwise were unable to prove Missouri residency).

   • Meets the "proof of residency" burden for non-real, non-driver, Missouri IDs

   • “Homeless Services Agencies” can use this form to verify an individual's status as unhoused (as defined by 42U.S.C. Section 11302 ) or an unaccompanied youth (as defined by 42 U.S.C Section 11434a(6)

   • Agencies must permit the individual to receive their State ID to the agency's address

2. Advocating for access to state identification for people leaving incarceration

   • Engaging the Department of Corrections to ensure people leaving incarceration have valid IDs upon departure

   • Exploring legislative solutions to ensure ID access as a key tool of successful re-entry 

   • Join this subcommittee: We meet the 4th Wednesdays of the month from 1-2pm over Zoom (contact Christine below).

3. Providing training and support for organizations wanting to start ID and Birth Certificate clinics 

   • Creation and maintenance of this website and its content (and training)

   • Join the Regional Program Support Subcommittee! We meet on the 2nd Thursdays of each month from 10-11am on Zoom. Sign up here.

Get Involved

You are welcome to join the monthly ID Access Coalition meetings! The coalition meets on the second Wednesdays of each month from 10-11am over Zoom. Please register to receive the zoom link for future meetings or email Christine Dragonette, Outreach Program Coordinator at St. Francis Xavier College Church in St. Louis: christine@sfxstl.org.