St. Aloysius
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our children suffer from severe trauma which is at the heart of their mental health diagnosis. Trauma may be caused by profound poverty, unstable homes or lack of permanent, safe living arrangements, living in neighborhoods with significant violence, frequent moves from one home to another, exposure to lead in the home, parents who are incarcerated, having been born withdrawing from substances or the result of fetal alcohol syndrome, many forms of abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, domestic partner) either personally or witnessed within the home, living in foster care and being raised in a home by adults who themselves are the victims of trauma. The mental health diagnosis of our clients can be found across all populations and in all neighborhoods. Our children's needs are compounded by all of the societal drivers of trauma listed above. We treat over 2,000 individual children each year, many receiving multiple services to treat their conditions.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Day Treament
Children participate in group activities that are cognitively stimulating and help to address the deep emotional difficulties that often lead to behavior problems. Trained therapists utilize the principles of the Teaching-Family Model to develop and maintain healthy social and coping skills.
Specialized Education
Our nonpublic charter school meets all of the State’s standards and is equipped to provide individualized educational services with highly qualified staff, maintaining a ratio of 1 staff to 4 children. The Cambridge School serves Butler County students and St. Al’s Education Center in Bond Hill serves Hamilton County students.
Outpatient Services
Children can receive individual, group and family counseling, Community Psychiatric Supportive Treatment (CPST), psychological testing and pharmacology through St. Al’s.
Medication Management
Psychiatric assessment and medication management for children and adolescents in need of continued support.
Kids Cope: Early Childhood Services
The St. Al’s Kids Cope program helps children ages 3 to 5 and their families, promoting healthy social and emotional development and assessing problems early.
School-Based Services
St. Al’s has a long history of collaborating with school-based partners. On-site treatment teams are fully immersed in your school’s culture and surrounding community, backed by a team of independently-licensed mental health professionals, and a full continuum of care. Serving Hamilton County and Butler County schools.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsTotal number of client emergency room visits
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Context Notes
St. Aloysius partnered with the Health Collaborative in August, 2020, to receive alerts when a client visits an emergency room. 2020 data reflects last 5 month of year, while 2021 is full year.
Number of new clients within the past 12 months
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Data is for all behavioral health programs.
Number of therapy hours provided to clients
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Service hours for all therapeutic programs.
Average number of service recipients per month
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Average for all therapeutic programs.
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
St. Aloysius provides a continuum of care through evidence-based programs and services to support children and families throughout southwest Ohio. Many of the children and families served suffer from a cycle of family trauma and traumatic stress. Children are referred for services through local school districts, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, primary care clinics, and other mental health agencies for our transformative, evidence-based and result-driven programs. Staff works closely with children and families to set a path to regain mental and physical health in order to strengthen the individual, family and community. Virtually all of the children served by St. Aloysius come from families who live below the federal poverty level.
Our goal is for children who attend our schools and day treatment programs to return to their neighborhood schools and successfully navigate the academic and behavioral expectations to graduate from high school. When students return to their home school, staff report a decline in aggressive behaviors and parents or guardians report improvement in positive behaviors at home. Over the past year, 85% of our clients served showed a decrease in the severity of symptoms within the first 120 days of continued treatment. For our children in outpatient therapy we have similar goals – symptom severity reduction, a happier, calmer family and home, and children who are able to manage their emotions and learn in their neighborhood school.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
For children with mental health disorders, the importance of accurate diagnoses is critical to inform treatment. There is a significant need for psychological evaluations for children and teens with severe mental health disorders in our community. St. Aloysius receives referrals for psychological evaluations from schools, children's services, psychiatrists, doctors, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, and parents/guardians. Waiting lists for evaluations at other sites can exceed one year. In the meantime, a student waiting for a diagnosis can experience a condition that continues to worsen and struggle emotionally, behaviorally and physically. These comprehensive evaluations include structured interviews with parents/guardians, as well as assessment of intellectual, behavioral, and emotional functioning.
The most common diagnoses for children served by St. Aloysius are major depression, post-traumatic stress and ADHD. Increasing access to psychological assessments fill a community need to increase our ability to properly place children in the programs that best fit their needs.
Art and music therapy provide children the opportunity to tap into the limitless possibilities of healing and self-expression to explore emotions, events and beliefs connected with trauma and mental health issues. Art as a therapeutic intervention provides a means for children to connect with and safely express feelings, events and experiences.
During the past year we continued to develop a long-range business plan and service lines around early childhood intervention. We added another trained professional who is located in two area schools, developed a marketing strategy, and dedicated significant time to building partnerships with other providers helping children born to addicted parents.
Early childhood mental health promotion, prevention and intervention is designed to assist in building resilience and protective factors that assist children in developing and maintaining healthy, nurturing and positive connections with others. Through formulation of these relationships young children will be able to experience, regulate and express emotion in a pro-social manner. This can lead to a reduction in internal and externalizing behaviors that often lead to at home challenges and discipline in the early academic years. Essentially, we want to serve children earlier so that they can avoid the invariable stress and potential trauma that results from navigating a life with an undiagnosed and untreated condition.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Over the past year, St. Aloysius has served over 2,500 clients through its research-based programs and services. (Nearly 2,000 are unique clients as some clients engage in more than one program or service.) St. Aloysius is pleased to report success stories each day about children who benefit from our services – children who return to their neighborhood schools and make new friends, children whose teachers report a decline in aggressive behaviors, and children whose parents or guardians report improvement in positive behaviors. Over the past year, 85% of our clients served showed a decrease in the severity of symptoms within the first 120 days of continued treatment.
St. Aloysius is a certified mental health provider for over 20 years through the Ohio Department of Mental Health, a licensed Ohio Department of Jobs & Family Services Provider, and accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation (CARF). We recently received notification of our full three-year Accreditation from CARF. In 2016 the Teaching Family Association recommended full Re-Accreditation without conditions. St. Aloysius is one of two agencies in our area accredited by The Teaching Family Association. The Teaching Family Association serves to ensure the quality of care provided by professionals who treat and support children and families using the common framework of the Teaching Family Model. Also this fall, St. Aloysius as a charter school sponsor was found Effective for the FY16 school year. In fact, St. Aloysius is rated as Exceeds Standards in the Quality Component, making St. Al's the highest-rated charter school sponsor in the State. Additionally, St. Aloysius became fully certified by the Sanctuary Institute as a trauma-responsive organization in 2017.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In Specialized Education in 2017/18 we have achieved the following:
1. Integrate technology into all areas of curriculum and instruction to extend student learning.
2: Use assessment data to guide student learning activities and lesson plan development for all classrooms.
3: Provide professional development to increase familiarity of the new technology and to build internal leadership and competency.
4: Teach students about being digital citizens with family support.
5: Adopt the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students and Teachers
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
We don't actively use collected feedback
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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St. Aloysius
Board of directorsas of 02/08/2022
Mark Schaefer
The David J. Joseph Company
Term: 2016 - 2019
Carlos Teran
US Bank, Retired
Tamara Ward
TriHealth
Erica Cargill-Smith
The Kroger Company
Pat Cleveland
Cincinnati Public Schools
John Bultema
Western and Southern Financial Group
Joyce Powdrill
J. Powdrill & Associates
Michael Silbernagel
Wallick Communities
Joel Stone
Fifth Third Private Bank
Mike Wentz
WentzDesign
Andrea Wilkerson
Procter & Gamble
Betty Tonne
TriHealth, Retired
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.