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 The BIST (Behavior Intervention Support Team) is a unique outreach program of Ozanam. Ozanam represents more than 60 years of providing the best quality services to thousands of children and families who need it most. On its main campus in South Kansas City, Ozanam has grown from a single-service boys’ home into a multi-service treatment center offering both residential and educational day treatment programs for boys and girls ages 12 to 18. In addition to its campus based programs, Ozanam reaches out to the community even more by providing additional independent living services and consultation services for schools.
Ozanam is a founding member of Cornerstones of Care, an organization that began in 1998 to provide a variety of treatment options and support services to the community. It consists of five agencies Ozanam, Gillis, Marillac, Spofford, and Healthy Families Counseling and Support, that have served Kansas City for nearly a collective 400 years. The formation of Cornerstones of Care has enabled these five agencies to combine resources to respond more effectively and efficiently to the ever-changing needs of children and families.
Cornerstones of Care is an organization of Kansas City agencies providing therapeutic treatment to children and families. Each day, the agencies of Cornerstones of Care provide direct services to more than 2,000 children and families.
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Services available from Cornerstones of Care
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Our agencies help at-risk children and their families throughout Missouri and Kansas by offering a comprehensive range of direct, specialized services.
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Helping organizations develop and retain talented leaders and staff through Executive Coaching, Leadership Workshops, and Staff-Level Training to advance performance for all levels of staff.
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At any one time, there are hundreds of children in Kansas City needing placement in temporary or permanent homes. You don’t need a big house or a lot of money to make room in your heart for a child.
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Designed to provide assistance to local non-profits, our professional staff offers expertise in the areas of back-office support, organizational redesign, compliance guidance, grant writing and foundation research.
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Our Agencies:
A system of comprehensive services
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Gillis: Serving children and families and providing in-home mental health intervention, a full array of residential treatment and special education services for children with emotional and behavioral disturbance, with a particular specialty in MR/DD dually diagnosed clients. Serving ages 5-17.
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Ozanam: Serving adolescent children and their families as well as young adults struggling with severe emotional, behavioral or learning problems. Particular specialty in intensive residential treatment, on-and-off-campus day treatment services and transitional living programs.
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Healthy Families Counseling and Support: Providing parenting programs, outpatient treatment and school resource counseling for Kansas City's Northland. Special emphasis on in-home support for parents of infants and for fathers.
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Spofford: Providing intensive residential treatment, community-based services and therapeutic summer programming for children with severe emotional and behavioral disturbance or mental illness ages 4-12 years old.
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Marillac: Offering a wide range of acute and sub-acute hospital, residential and outpatient services for children with mental illness as well as emotional and behavioral disturbance. Serving children ages 4-17.
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