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| Compassionate Mental Health Care for Children |
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Since 1897, Marillac has healed the broken hearts and spirits of children in Kansas City and its surrounding communities. Our seventeen-acre facility is a safe haven for children with special emotional and behavioral needs. |
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Marillac provides psychiatric hospitalization, residential treatment, and therapeutic education for children up to age seventeen. Our compassionate, trauma-informed treatment approach helps children recover and reclaim their lives. Marillac's services include the following: |
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Marillac Board Appoints Jerry Jensen New President and CEO |
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On Monday, March 25, the Marillac Board of Directors announced that Gerald (Jerry) Jensen would be joining the organization as the agency’s new President and CEO. Jensen brings over three decades of executive level experience to Marillac, having served in leadership roles with a range of complex nonprofit organizations and multi-campus higher education systems.
A Kansas native, Jensen recently led Siskin Children’s Institute, a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based nonprofit focusing on meeting the behavioral and physical health needs of children with disabilities. As President and CEO of Siskin, Jensen oversaw a period of dramatic expansion for the organization, leading the creation of a both a regional Center for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and the Siskin Center for Child and Family Research.
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Marillac Expanding Outpatient Services |
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Families struggling with a child's mental illness are already under tremendous stress. The last thing they need is for Mom or Dad to risk losing their job because they have to keep taking time off to take their child to therapy. That's why Marillac is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of $96,360 from the REACH Healthcare Foundation to expand its Overland Park Outpatient Clinic.
The funding will allow Marillac to increase community access to individual, group and family therapies, as well as expanded medication management services, at the times most needed by Kansas City-area families: after school, evenings and weekends.
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