dear greater st. louis,

Dear Greater St. Louis,

In the late 1980s, a St. Louis program at a local elementary school became a catalyst for enhanced state-level collaboration with local communities. The goal of this new initiative was to improve the lives of Missouri’s most vulnerable families.

Twenty years later, Area Resources for Community and Human Services (ARCHS) continues to refine this concept through our very unique role as the official Community Partnership for the Greater St. Louis region on behalf of the state of Missouri.

During FY 2018, we continue our unique role as a local emissary for the state, providing funding, resources, and expertise to enhance and augment the work of vital education and human service initiatives serving more than 180,000 St. Louisans.

Our funded and strategically supported initiatives focus on decreasing cycles of multi-generational poverty and lessening the disadvantages and disparities that so many of our children face.

In this year’s annual report, you will see how the funds we provide are further enhanced by hundreds of in-kind partnerships that bring the best of St. Louis together. Area business, civic, cultural, educational, faith-based, and human service organizations contribute additional time, talent, and treasure to make an even greater impact valued at more than $20.2 million.

ARCHS and our fellow 19 Missouri community partnerships are outstanding examples of how federal, state, and local partnerships lead to multifold returns on investment.

As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, I want to especially salute the caring and talented board members, staff, and community partners who share a common passion and commitment to serving their fellow St. Louisans.

I offer a very sincere thank you to the entire St. Louis community for twenty years of collaboration and partnerships.

Best regards,

Wendell E. Kimbrough

Chief Executive Officer

In FY 2018, ARCHS provided funding, resources, and expertise to the following St. Louis area initiatives:

ARCHS’ Early Childhood & Parenting Initiatives

Activities Grantee Partners Awards ARCHS’ Funding SourcesSupport positive par-enting skills & family reunification

Annie Malone Chil-dren & Family Service Center

FY 2017 funding

Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Deliver training & technical assistance for early childhood care providers in health/safety best practices & develop quality im-provement plans

Educare (state-regis-tered child care pro-viders)

$542,042

(in-kind services & trainings)


Prevent adoption disruption & support family well-being; secure adoptive homes for children waiting in state custody

Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition $774,090 Missouri Dept. of Social

Services

Enhance skills for par-enting at-risk young children via home visiting

Great Circle $81,000Children’s Trust Fund of Missouri; Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Enhance skills & pro-vide resources for par-enting young, special needs children

St. Louis Arc $111,111 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Grants

ARCHS’ School Age InitiativesActivities Grantee Partners Awards ARCHS’ Funding Sources

Increase collaboration, decrease complexity, & improve student outcomes via ABCToday

Big Brothers Big Sisters of East-ern Missouri $500,000 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Enhance youths’ after school experiences

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis $65,000 Missouri Dept. of Social Services; Norman

J. Stupp Foundation

Provide community mentoring services for youth transitioning from state custody

Fathers’ Support Center$157,317

Missouri Division of Youth Services


Gene Slay’s Girls & Boys Club of St. Louis $61,050 Missouri Dept. of Social Services; Norman

J. Stupp Foundation

Provide holistic behavioral services to support students, families, & educators

Hopewell Center $155,100 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Deliver school-based compre-hensive vision care services Kids Vision for Life – St. Louis $398,775 Crown Vision Center (Medicaid) & corpo-

rate/ foundation/individual funding

Provide youth development & parent empowerment services

Mark Twain Community Resource Center $125,000 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Provide access for student IT certifications & teacher IT pro-fessional development

Microsoft Imagine Academy (par-ticipating school districts)

$100,000 (in-kind

services/ licenses)


Enhance youths’ after school experiences Neighborhood Houses/Unleash-

ing Potential

$920,107 Missouri Dept. of Social Services; St. Louis Mental Health Board; Norman J. Stupp Foundation


Northside Youth and Senior Ser-vice Center, Inc. $71,667 St. Louis Mental Health Board; Norman J.

Stupp Foundation

Enhance youths’ after school experiences Provident, Inc. $642,501

Missouri Dept. of Social Services; St. Louis Mental Health Board; Norman J. Stupp Foundation

Provide youth development via positive wellness skills

Riverview West Florissant Devel-opment Corporation $22,895 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Enhance youths’ after school experiences Stray Dog Theatre/Arts-in-Mind $401,667

Missouri Dept. of Social Services; St. Louis Mental Health Board; Norman J. Stupp Foundation

Provide technical assistance/professional development for after school staff

United 4 Children $72,100 Missouri Dept. of Social Services; St. Louis Mental Health Board

ARCHS’ Family Support Initiatives

Activities Grantee Partners Awards ARCHS’ Funding Sources

Provide support services for SNAP recipients to obtain & retain family supporting em-ployment

Better Family Life, Inc. $2,666,666 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Provide support services & men-toring for aging-out foster youth during/after job skills training

Epworth Children & Family Services FY 2017 funding Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Provide co-parent coaching, financial literacy, job placement, mediation, family bonding, & other support services for TANF clients

Fathers’ Support Center $186,322 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Provide plain language reviews, revisions, & workshops for state’s Family Support Division

Health Literacy Media $176,034 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Manage annual state-wide pro-fessional development training for professionals serving justice involved individuals

Missouri Reentry Conference$28,000 (in-

kind services/ conf. costs)

Missouri Dept. of Corrections


Provide capacity building re-sources for not-for-profit orgs.

Network for Strong Communi-ties $150,000 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Provide summer access to healthy foods for low-income children via EBT cards

Saint Louis Public School District $18,700 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Address job barriers for non-custodial, court-referred parents of TANF children

St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment FY 2017 funding Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Form collaborative partnerships to enhance ex-offender self-suf-ficiency, reduce recidivism, & improve public safety/commu-nity health

St. Louis Alliance for Reentry (in-kind ser-vices) Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Provide summer access to healthy foods for low- income children via EBT cards

Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. $63,392 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

Address job barriers for non-custodial parents of TANF children

Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. $115, 861 Missouri Dept. of Social Services

ARCHS is much more than a funder, it provides strategic technical assistance, resources, and expertise to its supported initiatives. In FY 2018, ARCHS staff provided 30,160 technical support hours and traveled 24,142 miles conducting site visits at 325 locations.

A survey of CEOs from ARCHS’ funded initiatives showed:

• 100% said ARCHS support was beneficial

• 95% said they achieved most/all outcomes outlined by ARCHS

• 95% said ARCHS support improved quality of program

• 80% utilized ARCHS site visits and interactions

• 70% reported they received technical assistance from ARCHS

• 80% said had they had at least minimum monthly contact with ARCHS

o 30% reported weekly contact

Resources & Expertise

One of the hallmarks of ARCHS is the professional development trainings it provides its funded initiatives. During FY2018, more than 5,000 training participants attended ARCHS’ supported trainings. 96% of those surveyed said ARCHS’ trainings were a good use of their time, they learned something new, and will apply what they learned. Examples include professional development activities for:

• After School for All Partnership (ASAP)

• Educare

• Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition

• Amanda Luckett Murphy Hopewell Center

• Mark Twain Community Resource Center

Special Events

• Kids Vision for Life-St. Louis Fundraiser - September 2017

o ARCHS joined fellow KVFL partners and supporters at a special fundraiser for Kids Vision for Life at the Strayham Farms

• Child Advocacy Day - April 2018

o ARCHS joined thousands of child care advocates and Missouri KIDS COUNT® representatives at the 35th annual Child Advo-cacy Day held in Jefferson City, MO.

• St. Louis Cardinals Redbird Rookies Health Fair - June 2018

o ARCHS provided health and youth development information to more than 2,000 children and their family members served by the St. Louis Cardinals/Redbird Rookies during a health fair at Fontbonne University.

• ARCHS’ 20th Anniversary Celebration – June 2018

o ARCHS’ board of directors sponsored an anniversary celebration dinner for ARCHS’ staff to acknowledge the positive impact the organization has made to enhance the lives of the St. Louis region’s most vulnerable children and families.

Trainings

• Missouri Department of Corrections

• Missouri Division of Youth Services

• MO HealthNet

• Network for Strong Communities

• St. Louis Alliance for Reentry (STAR)

• Advanced Sight Center

• Anthem

• Bausch & Lomb

• Capri Optics

• Centene

• CZV

• Davis Vision

• Dawdy & Associates

• EMS

• First Bank

• Gott Eyez

• Healthy Vision Association

• Insight Eye Equipment

• IVC

• JE Foster

• Kendra Scott


• Missouri Department of Social Ser-vices

• Missouri Family & Community Trust

• Mondottica

• Morgan Stanley

• Musick Construction

• Norman J. Stupp Foundation

• Northwest Mutual

• Opti-Care Utah

• Opti-Port

• PRN Nurses

• St. Louis Mental Health Board

• Standard Optical

• Stinson Leonard Street

• Tony Prince Company

• Tura

• United Healthcare/Spectera

• Visual Eyes

• Wallman Optical

• WI Vision

• WVA

• Zyloware

FundersARCHS provided stewardship to $8.7 million in funding granted to ARCHS by leading area business, civic, governmental, philanthropic organizations, and individual donors.

• Yolanda Allen• Kyle Allison• Melissa Allison• Robert Armstrong• Deborah Artman• Shannon Berra• Jean Brandt• Joel Brightfield• Jennifer Brink• Kim Brown• Veronica Buddeke• Jane Burke• Linda Burns• Terry Burns• Chery Burton• Charles Cafazza• Mary Caufield• Retina Center• Daniel Childs• Alysha Colon• Molly Corrigan• Austin Corwin• Christopher Dando• John Drew• Elizabeth Eames• James Edwards• Jim Edwards• Kelly Edwards• John Falkner• Chris Fava• Gussie Fava• Mary Fava

• Kathryn Feldt• Jonathan Graham• Jason Harrold• Michael Hennenhoefer• Kristie Herzberg• James Hollmann• Alli Holt• Whitey Holt• Wistar Holt• Jennifer Jackson• Ronnie Jackson• Abby Kilgore• Donna A. King• Wendell Kimbrough• J. Kluge• Nancy LaBrier• Sean Larson• Terry Larson• Whitney Logan• Dr. Long• Ian Maher• Mary Maher• Calvin Matthews• Calvin Matthews• Charles Matthews• Edward Matthews• Katie Matthews• Melissa Matthews• Sarah Matthews• Bryan Maurer• Jennifer Miller• Jenna Mitchell

• Michael Mitchell• Courtney Morrison• Brent Motchan• Jane Narup• George Nikolajevich• Sally Nikolajevich• Stephanie Ogden• Olga Oldani• Jennifer Oliver• Joe Olk• Tammy Oslica• Takeshia Parker• James Ploszay• Adonica Radford• Lauren Radford• Phyllis Roberts• Kara Ross• Vincent Ross• Sarah Saw• Theodore Scarbrough• TJ Scarbrough• April Schnuck• Brian Schnuck• Mark Schraier• Jenn Schwartz• Rebecca Sepac-Jones• Alice Sherwood• Stephen Shultz• Jon Smith• Gail Sneed• Joseph Sneed• Susan Sneed

• Susie Sneed• Kellie Spector• Janis Stewart• Mariann Stone• Mark Stoneman• Christine Storm• Kevin Storm• Susan Strasser• Jeff Strickland• Joe & Marilyn Strothmann • Allie Sutton• Holly Tanaka• Ernie & Susan Taeger • Katherine Therien• Patricia Thomas• Eboni Thompson• Michael Tomasello• Taya Tomasello• Ally Trakas• Lisa Tucker• Kristopher Turley• Michael Vasta• Heather Walther• Lindsey Weldon• Kerri Williamson• Steven Williamson• Breanna Woodhouse• Chung Yong• Jose Zevallos

Individual Donors

Community Partners• 4M Solutions

• Accredited CPR Services

• Advanced Sight Center

• Affinia HealthCare

• Affton School District

• Alkermes®

• America’s Center

• America’s Promise

• American Red Cross

• Anew Nature

• Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Answer United Call Center

• Anthem

• Bayless School District

• Biergarten at Anheuser-Busch

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri

• Bissinger’s

• Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

• Boston Market

• Boys and Girls Club of Greater St. Louis

• Cape Girardeau Public School District

• Capri Optics

• Centenary Methodist Church

• Centennial Christian Church

• Center for Hearing & Speech

• Center for Women In Transition

• Central Reform Congregation

• Central Trust Bank of St. Louis

• Central Workforce Development Board

• Certiport

• Children’s Advocacy Center

• Chipotle

• Christ Light of the Nations

• City Academy

• City of Maplewood

• City of St. Louis

• COCA

• Commerce Bank

• Concordance Academy of Leadership

• Confluence Academy South

• Confluence Aspire Academy

• Confluence Preparatory Academy

• Corizon Health®

• Crown Vision Center

• DataCaliper, LLC

• DaView Construction

• Delta Gamma (SLU, WU)

• Eagle College Prep – Fox Park

• Eagle College Prep – Tower Grove South

• Eagle College Prep – Tower Grove East

• EAGLE Prep Gravois Park

• Education & Employment Corporation

• Employment Connection

• Enterprise

• En Pointe Technologies

• Esse Health

• Essilor Vision Foundation

• Family and Community Trust

• Family Resources and Community Connections, Inc.

• Fresh Thyme

• Fathers’ Support Center St. Louis

• FedEx

• Ferguson – Florissant School District

• Fontbonne University

• Fox & Associates

• Fox School District

• Freedom House Reentry

• Gateway Foundation

• Gateway Science Academy - South

• Gene Slay’s Girls and Boys Club

• Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri

• GiveSTL Day

• Giving Resources Among Children Everywhere

• Global Girls Inc.

• Hancock School District

• Harris-Stowe State University

• Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls

• Hilton Hotels & Resorts

• Holy Child

• Holy Trinity

• Home State Health

• Independent Electrical Contractors, Inc.

• Inside Dharma

• Insight Eye Equipment

• J.E. Foster Building Company

• Jennings School District

• Jewish Family & Children’s Service

• Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission

• Kansas City No Violence Alliance

• Kids Win Missouri

• Kansas City Police Department

• Kendra Scott

• Kitchen Conservatory

• Kipp Academies

• Kraftig

• Learnovation, LLC

• Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

• Let’s Start, Inc.

• Life Skills Education, Inc.

• Lift for Life Academy

• The Lodge of Four Seasons

• The Magic House

• Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District

• Maryville University

• Mehlville School District

• Mission: St. Louis

• Missouri AfterSchool Network

• Missouri Association for Workforce Development


• Missouri Department of Social Services

• Missouri Division of Workforce Development

• Missouri Economic Research and Information Center

• Missouri KIDS COUNT®

• Missouri State University

• Missouri Substance Abuse Professional Credentialing Board

• Missouri Vocational Enterprises

• MOD Pizza

• MOKAN Construction

• Mondottica

• Monsanto

• Morgan Stanley

• MOSAC2

• The MUNY

• National H.I.R.E. Network

• No Kid Hungry-Missouri

• Noodles & Co.

• Normandy School Collaborative

• Northside Youth and Senior Service Center, Inc.

• Operation Food Search

• Opti-Port

• Our Lady Festus

• Our Lady Queen of Peace School

• Parkway School District

• Pattonville School District

• Pettis County Sheriff’s Office

• Preclarus Mastery School

• Premier Charter School

• Provident, Inc.

• Purina®

• Randolph County Caring Community Partnership

• Recovery Lighthouse

• Red Letter

• The Retina Center of St. Louis

• Revive Janitorial and Access Staffing

• Ritenour School District

• Riverview Gardens School District

• Rockwood School District

• Sacred Heart Catholic School

• Saint Ann Catholic School

• Saint Charles School District

• Saint Ferdinand School

• Saint Louis Catholic Academy

• Saint Louis College Prep

• Saint Louis Public Schools

• Saint Louis University

• Saint Louis College Prep

• Saint Margaret of Scotland School

• Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic School

• Schnuck’s

• School District of University City

• STL Artworks

• St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment

• St. Louis Area Boy Scouts

• St. Louis Cardinals

• St. Louis Community Action Agency

• St. Louis Community College

• St. Louis County Library

• St. Louis Family Courts

• St. Louis Integrated Health Network

• St. Louis American

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• St. Louis Regional Health Commission

• St. Louis Science Center

• Standard Optical

• State Technical College of Missouri

• Stinson Leonard Street

• Strathalbyn Farms Club

• Stray Dog Theatre/Arts in Mind

• Taylor Programs

• Tech Hire

• The Freedom School

• Tower Grove Christian Academy

• Tower Grove East Neighborhood Association

• Tura, Inc.

• U.S. Probation Eastern Missouri

• Unleashing Potential

• United Healthcare Community & State Plan

• United Way of Greater St. Louis

• University City

• University of Central Missouri

• University of Missouri

• Ursuline Academy

• Valley Park School District

• Visual Eyes Eyewear, Inc.

• Vision for Children at Risk

• Waffle House

• Washington University in St. Louis

• WellCare/Missouri Care Health Plan

• William J. Harrison Education Center

• Word of Life Luther School

• Youth Build

In FY 2018, ARCHS partnered with leading area business, civic, cultural, education, faith-based, health, and human service organizations to leverage $11.7 million of in-kind support (additional funds, goods, and services provided beyond ARCHS’ funding).

• Sherrie Wehner, Executive Strategist, Wehner Marketing Group (Board Chair)

• Karen Aroesty, Regional Director, Anti-Defamation League

• Everet Ballard, Executive Director, St. Louis County Fire Standards Commission (retired)

• Maggie Cole, Continuous Improvement Consultant

• Clifford Franklin, President, FUSE3 Advertising

• Lt. Col. Gregory Hawkins, Commander, St. Louis Metro. Police Dept. (retired)

• William H. Hobson, Partner, Summers Compton Wells LLC

• Rev. Michael Jones, Senior Pastor, Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church

• Stephanie Lewis, Vice President, FPM Communications

• Charles “Matt” Matthews, Corporate Development, Acuity Eyecare Group

• Dr. Melba Moore, Director of Health, City of St. Louis

• Jennifer Moorehouse, Health System Consultant

• John Parker, Director of Corporate Communications, St. Louis Development Corporation

• Dr. Joylynn Pruitt, Superintendent, Oak Park and River Forest High School

• Lt. Col. Ronnie Robinson, St. Louis Metro. Police Dept.

• William Siedhoff, Director, Dept. of Human Services, City of St. Louis (retired)

• Jacqueline Wellington, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Community and Economic Development Solutions

Board of Directors

Senior Managment Team

Initiative Enhancement Team

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