Established as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in 1997, ARCHS is the official Community Partnership for the St. Louis region on behalf of the State of Missouri.
From FY09 to FY12, ARCHS' Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) provided school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curriculum.
From 1997 to 2012, ARCHS supported more than 80 child care centers that included a focus on providing safe environments, developing physical motor skills and healthy eating habits.
[5] In addition, ARCHS provided courses taught by nationally trained, local law enforcement officers, which focused on improving youth life skills and decision making to reduce the impact of bullying and drugs through their Gang/Drug Prevention Partnerships.
[7] The Missouri Department of Social Services Children's Division assigned ARCHS the task of helping to increase the quality of child care and education programs by providing support to child care programs that went through the accreditation or reaccreditation process in the St. Louis region, which also included National Association for the Education of Young Children accreditation.
The Missouri Department of Social Services requested ARCHS to assume responsibility of the Home Visitation program, which provides parenting skills education to help reduce child abuse and neglect.
ARCHS provides support to a regional Missouri HealthNet (MHN) education and outreach committee of community volunteers.
This model, called the Missouri Reentry Process, includes job skills training and placement, mental-health referrals, and housing programs.
The program provides life-skills and job-preparation training, financial literacy and health issues education, as well as emphasizing repairing and strengthening personal relationships.
The intent of the conference is to provide education and networking opportunities for corrections professionals and community-based partners involved in the state's reentry process.
The goal of the program is to establish relationships between young men and police officers while providing healthy exercise and teaching life skills.