Who We Fund

Provides behavioral health services to youth in the Juvenile Justice Detention Center that would not otherwise receive these services. This program helps prepare detained youth for their release with not only care inside the facility but referrals as they move on.

Provides referrals to organizations that offer services for youth ages 5-17 who are referred to the Family Court-Juvenile Division and who often experience emotional, behavioral, and social needs in addition to trauma exposure. The services these youth receive can include individual or family counseling, music therapy, psychological evaluations, play therapy, mentoring, tutoring, and life skills training to improve family relationships and reduce the likelihood that youth will be involved in further risky behavior.

Provides medical respite through recuperative care for individuals experiencing homelessness who have medical, behavioral health, and substance use treatment needs. The program is a partnership of the Behavioral Health Network and Haven Recovery that works with hospitals and community partners to offer a safe recovery-focused setting, access to treatment and recovery supports, and pathways to stable housing.

Provides a community-based program that builds behavioral health-friendly faith communities by training Wellness Champions and program staff to promote behavioral health awareness, share resources, and support congregants through depression screenings, referrals, and care coordination.

Provides an evidence-based curriculum for children ages 0-18, parents, and teachers that helps caregivers and children foster healthy social and emotional development to build secure attachments and reduce misbehavior.

Provides immediate crisis intervention while connecting people with stabilizing, sustainable mental health and substance use services. These connections, in turn, decrease over-usage of emergency rooms, reduce symptom severity, and result in system-wide cost savings.

Provides timely trauma therapy that can improve children’s lives, foster resilience, and support healthier communities, creating safer neighborhoods and stronger schools.

Provides comprehensive support for individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders through free civil legal representation and social work advocacy. Issues which can be addressed include housing, family law, public benefits, guardianship termination, name changes and more.

Attempts to prevent or reduce the cycle of homelessness by providing legal representation and social work case management to unaccompanied youth ages 18 and younger and families with children who are at-risk of or experiencing homelessness in St. Louis City. Cases handled by the program may include eviction defense, Section 8 voucher retention, public benefits access, name changes, and more.

Provides comprehensive support for individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders through free civil legal representation and social work advocacy. Issues which can be addressed include housing, family law, public benefits, guardianship termination, name changes and more.

Provides trauma-focused, linguistically and culturally-responsive care including therapy and integrated case management for youth navigating the aftermath of displacement, violence, and the chronic stressors that persist long after migration.

Delivers trauma-informed, culturally and linguistically appropriate case management, community and home-based mental health therapy, and psychiatric services to foreign born adults.

Provides early intervention services including play therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and expert mental health interventions for children aged 1.5-5 and families impacted by abuse, neglect, and mental or behavioral health needs.

Provides early intervention services through psychological evaluations, mental health assessments, psychotherapy, and treatment planning that leads to improvement in the mental health and well-being of children, many of whom have faced limited access to mental healthcare.

Provides secure transitional housing with private rooms, 24/7 security, daily meals, on-site medical care, case management, behavioral health support, and employment assistance for adults development disabilities and co-occurring behavioral conditions and their families. Through partnerships with community agencies, residents receive comprehensive services that promote stability, independence, and improved well-being. The program also supports individuals who are not enrolled by providing assessments and referrals.

Assists unhoused men at the Jugan Shelter in St. Louis by connecting residents to behavioral health services.

Provides prevention education groups to youth ages 12-18 in middle and high schools to help them build healthy relationships and reduce the likelihood that they will experience relationship violence. The program also provides trauma-informed counseling sessions to youth who have experienced dating violence or sexual assault.

Provides therapeutic counseling to individuals who have experienced domestic abuse, sexual assault, and past childhood sexual abuse, regardless of gender identity, to reduce the harm they have suffered and increase their well-being.

Provides enriching after-school and summer activities on weekdays for children of immigrant families in grades kindergarten through 12. The program’s goal is for youth to develop healthy social and emotional skills.

Provides culturally-competent individual and group therapy and case management to Spanish-speaking adults.

Provides culturally-competent individual and group therapy to children living with Spanish-speaking caregivers.