St. Charles County ranks in the Top 5
for child well-being by Missouri Kids Count!
Well-being is the experience of health, happiness, and prosperity. It includes having good mental health, high life satisfaction, a sense of meaning or purpose, and ability to manage stress. Annually, the Missouri Kids Count looks at a variety of factors in each Missouri county, then ranks the County according to their score. St. Charles County consistently ranks in the top 5 out of 114 Missouri counties.
Determining Community Impact
Strategic History and Logic Model
The CCRB founding Board members designed their funding system for children’s mental health services in 2005, with a desire to improve accessibility of services geographically, to expand the funding for services within each of the ten (10) service areas allowable by state statute (early identification, prevention and intensive treatment), and to make a difference in the greater St. Charles County community. They determined that every funded program needed to monitor and report on at least three (3) clinical outcomes for the children and youth served.
The CCRB believes that if we invest in best practice programs to an expanded number of children, and that if agencies in partnership with the families they treated were successful with these services, that the end result would be movement in terms of child well-being in the greater community – or seeing “the needle move” from high risk factors to more protective and positive factors.