The CRC: 20 Years of Cooperation and Collaboration

Jeff Rolland 2013 CRC  Person of the Year
Mayor Ed DeGaris
Karen  Crook accepting the Key to the City of Poplar Bluff
Key to the City February 2013
Jeanne Huffman 15th Annual CRC Partnership Luncheon
Representative Todd Richardson
14th CRC Partnership Luncheon
2012 Math Counts School Championship Competition
2012 Math Counts Champion Hannah Carcimiglia
2013 Spell Off Champions
Job Fair 2012
Poverty Simulation September 2012
Dr. Suess's Birthday at the PB Children's Library
Alcohol-Tobacco ID Calendars-Drug Free Coalition
BCCRC Community Grant Awards 2011
Breath Alcohol Content Testers Donated to Three Rivers Police Department - We Can Be Drug Free Coalition
CASA booth display
Spelling Bee Championship Grand Winners 2nd and 3rd Grade
Childcare Provider Appreciation Brunch and Service Certificates  - Children Ready to Enter School Committee
Children's Library 9.11 - Read From the Start
Commuter Parking Site on Hwy 60 West and PP - Parents Working Committee
CRC Partnership Luncheon 2011, Loyd Matthews, Keith Schafer, Director of DMH, and Karen Crook
Dale Garrett was presented with the CRC Person of the Year Award at the CRC Partnership Luncheon
Debbie Harper doing a FUNdamental Early Reading presentation at the Early Childhood Winter Seminar 2010
Donations received from Eagles Ladies Aux. for Read from the Start, CASA, Project Christmas Promise and MMP
Hands on Creativity - Early Childhood Winter Seminar
In Her Shoes Session at the Child Abuse Domestic Violence Conference
Spelling Bee Instructions by Kathern Harris
Jim Akers, Butler County Coroner, making a presentation at the Child Abuse Domestic Violence Conference
Deputy Chief Jeff Rolland empties the prescription medicine drop box at Poplar Bluff Police Department
Missouri Mentoring Partnership display board
Read From the Start Training
RSVP booth display
Silly Saturday Early Childhood Fair - Butler County Sheriff's Dept. Reading to Children
Three Rivers Citizen Advisory Board's Donation for Alcohol Simulation Goggles to the PB Police Department to be used in presentations to students

Jeff Rolland 2013 CRC Person of the Year

Mayor Ed DeGaris

Karen Crook accepting the Key to the City of Poplar Bluff

Key to the City February 2013

Jeanne Huffman 15th Annual CRC Partnership Luncheon

Representative Todd Richardson

14th CRC Partnership Luncheon

Attendees at the CRC's 14th Partnership Luncheon/20th anniversary celebration included (from left) CRC President Lonnie Taylor, Executive Director Karen Crook, Dora Cole, Rep. Todd Richardson, U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, and Commissioner Ed Strenfel.

2012 Math Counts School Championship Competition

2012 Math Counts Champion Hannah Carcimiglia

2013 Spell Off Champions

2013 Spell Off Champions

Job Fair 2012

Poverty Simulation September 2012

Dr. Suess's Birthday at the PB Children's Library

Julie Keele, CRC Community Coordinator, gives out books.

Alcohol-Tobacco ID Calendars-Drug Free Coalition

BCCRC Community Grant Awards 2011

Breath Alcohol Content Testers Donated to Three Rivers Police Department - We Can Be Drug Free Coalition

CASA booth display

Spelling Bee Championship Grand Winners 2nd and 3rd Grade

Childcare Provider Appreciation Brunch and Service Certificates - Children Ready to Enter School Committee

Children's Library 9.11 - Read From the Start

Commuter Parking Site on Hwy 60 West and PP - Parents Working Committee

CRC Partnership Luncheon 2011, Loyd Matthews, Keith Schafer, Director of DMH, and Karen Crook

Dale Garrett was presented with the CRC Person of the Year Award at the CRC Partnership Luncheon

Debbie Harper doing a FUNdamental Early Reading presentation at the Early Childhood Winter Seminar 2010

Donations received from Eagles Ladies Aux. for Read from the Start, CASA, Project Christmas Promise and MMP

Hands on Creativity - Early Childhood Winter Seminar

In Her Shoes Session at the Child Abuse Domestic Violence Conference

Spelling Bee Instructions by Kathern Harris

Jim Akers, Butler County Coroner, making a presentation at the Child Abuse Domestic Violence Conference

Deputy Chief Jeff Rolland empties the prescription medicine drop box at Poplar Bluff Police Department

The Butler County Community Resource Council’s We Can Be Drug Free Coalition and the Poplar Bluff Police Department received a Permanent Drop Box unit thanks to the Missouri’s Youth/Adult Alliance. Those looking to get rid of their unused, unwanted, or expired medications can now visit the permanent drop box located at the Poplar Bluff Police Department. This drop box is one of ten permanent drop boxes across the state of Missouri.

Missouri Mentoring Partnership display board

Read From the Start Training

RSVP booth display

Silly Saturday Early Childhood Fair - Butler County Sheriff's Dept. Reading to Children

Three Rivers Citizen Advisory Board's Donation for Alcohol Simulation Goggles to the PB Police Department to be used in presentations to students

The Butler County Community Resource Council celebrated its 20th year in 2012. Established in 1992, the CRC now manages an annual budget of more than $1 million, 11 full-time employees and 4 part-time employees and has engaged more than 300 volunteers in its programs and initiatives.

The CRC was established as a not-for-profit corporation in the state of Missouri and in 1997 became a Missouri Caring Communities Initiative.

Our Purpose

The CRC exists to promote coordination and cooperation between social services providers, churches, the business community and the educational system, in order to empower families and individuals to become more self-reliant, responsible and resourceful. The combined efforts of this council will result in more effective use of diminishing resources.

Our Vision

Butler County will be:

  • A better place to raise a family
  • A community where coordination and cooperation are the rule of thumb and not the exception.
  • A community where services will be integrated so there will be no wrong door and services can be mobilized to the need.
  • A community where available resources will be fully utilized and additional resources can be effectively developed as needed.
  • Butler County will be a place where citizens can look for a way to help one another, not with a hand-out, but with a hand-up.

Partnership Core Results

  • Parents working
  • Children safe on their families, and safe in their communities
  • Young children ready to enter school
  • Children and families that are healthy
  • Children and youth succeeding in school
  • Youth ready to enter the workforce and become productive citizens

Four Policy Directions

  • Increase the accountability of communities and agencies to improve results.
  • Change the way services are delivered by integrating and locating them in the neighborhoods where children go to school and families live.
  • Change the way services are financed by pooling funds more flexibly across state agencies and communities, and by tying program funding to the results they produce.
  • Change the way decisions are made by involving neighborhood residents and community stakeholders in decisions that affect their well being.