Community Outreach
St. Louis Metropolitan Area Gun Violence
De-Escalation Centers Pilot Project
EMPOWERING THE ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY
To change the trajectory of the entire family, we must consistently deliver vital resources.
Community Outreach Team
Our mission is to develop a neighborhood serving programmatic infrastructure that is sustainable.
The infrastructure engages, accesses, and directs services.
Community Outreach Programs
Beyond The Walls
Prominent black St. Louis politicians, entrepreneurs and entertainers are the subjects of portraits decorating boarded-up doors and windows of blighted buildings in St. Louis.
Colorful paintings of local figures such as activist Jamala Rogersand former state Sen. J.B. "Jet" Banks adorn doorways and windows of vacant homes along Page Boulevard between Kingshighway and Union Boulevards. St. Louis nonprofit Better Family Life commissioned local artist Christopher Green to paint the portraits for the organization's Beyond the Walls project, which began in 2011.
Cuts & Conversations
The first Monday of each month Better Family Life's Community Outreach Department brings Cutz and Conversations to St. Louis' most challenged neighborhoods.
Cutz and Conversations provides free professional hair cuts, snacks, and real world conversations.
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To donate this cause or for more informations call 314-381-8200.
Gun Violence De-Escalation
Once they hear of an ongoing conflict, the team works quickly to gather information about each side of the issue, scouring social media feeds, making phone calls and reaching out to community members who might know more about how it started.
Juvenile Justice Program
Neighborhood Alliance
Neighborhood Power Of Employment Series
Pulpit To Porches
Senior Registry
Trauma Centers
Community Outreach Annual Events
Amnesty Program
Clean Sweep
Launched in 2017, Clean Sweep is an intense large scale, highly charged neighborhood clean-up initiative spearheaded by Better Family Life’s Community Outreach, by which neighborhood residents, volunteers from throughout the region, City of St. Louis Departments and area construction companies to address one of the City’s most pressing issues, the physical condition and environment of more challenged neighborhoods.
The vision of (BFL) Clean Sweep is to provide the St. Louis Metropolitan area with an annual event that ignites and maintains momentum for neighborhood revitalization by providing inner-city residents a real sense of hope for a clean, vibrant and fully-functioning community; to recruit and engage a broad base of volunteers who promote real regional unity; and to demonstrate what is possible when we all work together.
