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The People We Serve
We serve more than 10,000 people annually through outpatient counseling, in-home counseling and intervention, mentoring programs, a runaway shelter and school and other community-based services. Many services are provided from the Main Campus, located in central Kent County. Others are provided in the home setting or in other community locations.
In a typical year we reach:
- 2500 individuals in need of substance use disorder treatment
- 2000 children and youth seeking counseling
- 475 families at risk for child abuse or neglect
- 700 runaway and homeless youth
- 900 families with infants and toddlers at risk
- 450 families seeking home-based mental health services
- 400 juvenile first-time offenders
- 200 families facing serious illness
Here are some of the statistics that impact our clients:
- 70% of Arbor Circle’s clients earn less than $15,000 per year.
- 98,000 people in Kent County are projected to be in need of substance use disorder treatment.
- Over 70% of children in out-of-home placement in Kent County are affected by parental substance use.
- More than 8,000 suspected cases of child abuse were investigated in Kent County in 2005.
- Infant mortality rates in Kent County are high: 8 out of every 1000 live births; twice that for African Americans.
- 34 out of every 1000 girls aged 15-19 become parents in Michigan.
- Kent County officials estimate that there are more than 9,100 homeless youth in the county.
- 14% of Kent County students have to repeat a second year of kindergarten.
- More than one quarter of children entering kindergarten in Kent County are unable to recognize at least half the letters of the alphabet or identify rhyming words; skills fundamental to early literacy.
- Research indicates that children younger than five years old are being expelled from care settings at a rate three times higher than children in grades K-12.
