Agency Profile
Name Great Circle


Website www.great-circle.org
Phone Number 314-968-2060
Executive Director Vince Hillyer
Funded Projects
Project Name Respite Services for Clients with Autism
   
Contact 314-256-4920


Project Description

The agency provides facility-based respite services for children with emotional and behavioral disorders.  Respite care is also conceptualized as a strategy to support families who are experiencing distress, thereby preventing the placement of children in out-of-home care, and avoiding family breakdown.

Eligibility Criteria The target population for this project includes any St. Louis County residents, ages 5 to 17 that are diagnosed with autism and/or a developmental disability.


Service Area Respite Care
Project Name Fostering Futures


Contact 314-956-0362
   
Project Description Fostering Futures is designed to help children remain in one foster home for a year.  Working with a Behavioral Specialist allows children with emotional and behavioral problems, and their foster families, to work through behavioral disruptions that would lead to the children being removed from the foster home.


Eligibility Criteria Children 3 – 19 years-old living in an out-of-home placement and attending school;  whose behaviors put them at imminent risk of moving from their current placement to another placement; or that have at least 3 discipline referrals to school personnel, and are at imminent risk of disruption in education due to expulsion, suspension, or detention. Additionally, foster parents and caregivers who are interested in improving the living and learning environments of youth with behavior and emotional problems are eligible for this program.  


Service Area Home and Community-Based Intervention

St. Louis County Youth Connection Helpline: 1 (877) 928-2929
St. Louis County Children's Service Fund, 222 South Meramec Avenue, Suite 202, Clayton, Missouri, 63105.
Phone: (314) 615-5850, Fax: (314) 615-5858

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