Child Center - Marygrove
Giving Children Roots to Heal and Grow
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Marygrove serves nearly 200 children and young adults each day who have been diagnosed with behavioral, emotional, or other mental health disorders. These diagnoses are often the result of abuse, neglect, abandonment, and trauma. Marygrove offers a continuum of services including therapeutic residential treatment and foster care, an on-campus special education school, transitional and independent living. All youth at Marygrove are working to manage their mental health conditions and develop the skills to move to a less restrictive environment. A customized treatment plan for each child includes individual, group, and family therapy. A treatment team of mental health and educational professionals monitors each child's progress to ensure positive outcomes. After Marygrove, the client returns to a responsible relative, a foster or adoptive home, or lives independently.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Therapeutic Residential Treatment Program
Marygrove is one of the largest therapeutic residential treatment programs in the region serving children, adolescents and families from over 120 counties in Missouri and Southern Illinois. Residential 'cottages' provide a safe and stable living environment while youth receive help to manage emotional and behavioral issues that often stem from a history of abuse, neglect or other early traumas and learn skills that will help them be their best possible selves.
Transitional and Independent Living Program (T/ILP)
Marygrove's T/ILP includes community-based transitional homes and scattered-site apartments. This program helps teens, young adults, and families stabilize their lives and become independent. Young people, ages 17-20, learn essential life skills including personal finance/budgeting, job readiness, and parenting (when applicable). Marygrove takes a customized approach by working one-on-one with residents to create a realistic and sustainable plan for their future. Residents are taught ways to achieve their goals, overcome challenges, manage stress and engage in responsible behaviors. Phone support is available 24/7.
Therapeutic Foster Care
Marygrove's therapeutic foster homes provide children with serious emotional issues a family setting and support conducive to healthy growth and development. Trained foster parent(s) provide supervision and guidance, which enables the young people to develop the confidence and skills that will help them transition back to their families, to an adoptive home or independent living. These children continue to receive treatment services through the main campus.
Marygrove's Education Services (MES)
The mission of Marygrove's Education Services is to provide each resident with an educational pathway that will help them achieve academic success and promote positive treatment plan outcomes. MES works in collaboration with over 20 public, special education, vocational and other community schools to identify the optimum, least restrictive learning environment, resources and support for each student to position them for the best possible educational experience.
The Marygrove School is an on-campus private special education school for children who require more therapeutic support during the day. It also offers tutoring, summer school and academic support for all residents.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Catholic Charities USA 1983
Catholic Charities of St. Louis 1983
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
The 2020 volunteer metric is significantly lower due to COVID-19. In response to the health pandemic, Marygrove restricted outside visitors from coming onto the campus as a safety precaution.
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Data after 2018 consists of direct clients only. Staffing challenges impact the number of youth Marygrove can serve. Number of youth in 2021 and later is significantly reduced because of this.
Number of participants reporting change in behavior or cessation of activity
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
*2020 and 2021 metrics impacted by COVID-19 challenges Measured in several ways including: decrease disruptive behavior, decrease parental stress, improve performance on treatment goals.
Number of direct care staff who received training in trauma informed care
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
*2020 metric impacted by COVID-19 challenges. Staff training includes: mandatory training, training provided at team meeting, training through Catholic Charities, etc.
Number of direct care staff who received training in primary prevention strategies and other techniques to avoid the need for restraint and seclusion
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
*2020 metric impacted by COVID-19 challenges. Staff are trained in deescalation techniques in orientation and receive annual refresher. Staff receive individual and group training as needed.
Number of clients in residential care
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Hours of mentoring
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
The 2020 volunteer metric is significantly lower due to COVID-19. In response to the health pandemic, Marygrove restricted outside visitors from coming onto the campus as a safety precaution.
Average length of stay (in days)
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Therapeutic Residential Treatment Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
*2020 metric impacted by COVID-19 challenges. The data for 2019 and 2018 represents the average across all programs. Data for 2015, 2016 and 2017 are Therapeutic Residential Treatment Program.
Average number of clients served per day
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
*2020/2021 metric impacted by COVID-19 challenges. Includes all programs.
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?
Marygrove opened its doors in 1849 as an answer to the need to care for troubled girls. Over the years, Marygrove has expanded the programs offered and now serves a greater number of youth, both boys and girls. Marygrove provides ongoing programs for children who have been abused and/or neglected, and as a result, have emotional, behavioral, psychological and neurological disorders. At Marygrove, the youth receive medical care and therapy that help them manage behavioral issues with the goal of successfully transitioning back into the care of a responsible family member, a permanent home, or to independent living.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Marygrove’s behavioral health services include:
Therapeutic Residential Treatment “cottages” provide a safe and stable living environment while youth receive help to manage emotional and behavioral issues.
On-campus and community based Therapeutic Foster Homes where children learn to trust and engage positively in a family setting.
On-campus psychiatric group Transitional Living homes provide support as young adults pursue academic, occupational and other life skills that advance them toward healthy and productive adult lives.
A community based Independent Living program where young people, including teen parents, learn important skills which move them toward self-sufficiency.
Marygrove School is an on-campus, private special education school for children who require more therapeutic support during the day.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Marygrove is one of the largest residential treatment facilities in Missouri and known for helping youth who have been unsuccessful at other agencies. The average program success rate is 83%. Marygrove is accredited by the Council on Accreditation. The Director of Quality Assurance submits quarterly benchmarking data to Behavioral Pathways Systems to compare with similar national level agencies. Marygrove staff receive a minimum of forty hours of training each year and are experienced in identifying client needs and providing proper care. Therapists are certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, an evidence-based practice intervention for children and adolescents. The program model used is Trauma Informed Care, an evidence-based program for residential treatment. Staff turnover rate is 10% lower than the national average. Marygrove partners with area agencies to ensure client needs outside of our scope of services are met.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Marygrove has successfully absorbed two other children’s treatment agencies in the last ten years. Many residential treatment facilities for children have closed due to the severity of the issues that the children are presenting. Societal problems, such as homelessness, domestic violence, gun violence, and substance abuse have increased during the last few years, thus affecting more children. Marygrove plans to continue to respond to the changing needs of children and the programming required to address these needs.
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?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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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 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
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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, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve
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Child Center - Marygrove
Board of directorsas of 02/02/2024
Ms. Rachel Covington
David B. Helms
Dr. Deborah L. Kerber
Nicole Amling
Rachel A. Covington
Michelle Heavens
John A. Key
Brigid McNamara
Gary Meyer
Erin Rataj
Michelle Schafer
Mike Stengel
Michael Walsh
Ted Wheeler
David Wilson
Robert Porter
Jared Bryson
ex-officio
Paul Hoffman
Msgr. Mark Ullrich
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? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
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