Nonmedical Community Services
While delivering much-needed health services to underserved people is the critical part of our mission, Betty Jean Kerr People’s HealthCenters has been a community partner and catalyst for local improvement.
We offer vital nonmedical services that help the communities we serve grow and prosper. We build houses. We help people save for education, homes, or to open a small business. We develop comfortable, accessible housing for the elderly and disabled. We offer healthy-living classes.
The Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Centers (PHC) is an economic development engine for the region. In the past decade alone, we have had an over $200 million impact on the St. Louis community:
- »$60 million employment and benefits
- »$40 million serving the underserved
- »$30 million serving the uninsured
- »$30 million in purchased services
- »$17 million development
- »$15 million in WIC services
- »$15 million other
Community Services
We offer a variety of healthy living classes. Here’s a class schedule.
Smoking Cessation/Weekly
Diabetes Education/4th Thursday
Prenatal Classes (Every Tuesday)
Individual Development Account Program
The Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Centers (PHC) nonprofit community development corporation — People’s Development Corporation (PCDC) — has designed an Individual Development Account (IDA) program to increase the economic self-sufficiency of families by stabilizing and improving the community in which they live.
Our IDA Saving Demonstration Program provides matching funds (up to $500) to low-income families to help them accumulate assets by saving part of their income to purchase a home, invest in higher education, or open a business. Participants save monthly, over a one-to-five-year period.
Projects/HUD Housing
The Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Centers (PHC) recognizes the important role we can play in improving the overall well-being of the people in our communities by looking beyond health care.
In the past several years, we have partnered with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in developing housing for the elderly and persons with disabilities. We operate this development arm through our nonprofit People’s Community Development Corporation (PCDC).
PCDC has been involved with several residential development projects in our community:
People’s Place Development
People’s Place is constructed as an affordable housing development for residents that graduate from PCDC’s existing IDA Program. Currently, of the programs 150 participants, 85% are saving toward a first time affordable home.
People’s Place is located in the 5500 block of Cates Avenue in the West End District of the 26th Ward in the City of St. Louis. Twenty-five new single-family homes will be developed on the site at a cost estimated at $3.1 million. Based upon Federal income guidelines, IDA program participants’ annual income must be at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty level, creating a gap in the amount of mortgage that a participant can afford relative to the actual cost to build a new home.
For the Elderly & Disabled
The William L. Clay Sr. Leisure Living Community is comprised of 78 units of quality affordable apartments for St. Louis community residents. The buildings provide an opportunity for dignity and independent living for seniors 62 years and older and persons with disabilities. Residents will enjoy a sense of security and privacy, without being isolated from the community-at-large. The facility has been designed to facilitate convenience pedestrian and vehicular access. The buildings are oriented in such a way to minimize walking distance from off-street parking and other public areas.
Located immediately north of Delmar-Debalivere in the West End District, just east of University City, the William L. Clay Sr. Leisure Living Community offers easy access to medical services, public transportation and other support services for your convenience.