Grace Hill Settlement House
was founded in 1903 by the Episcopal Diocese to
help immigrant families "settle into their new neighborhood” on the
near north side of St. Louis. Now it serves neighborhoods throughout the
City of St. Louis and St. Charles County with its
MORE system. The
Grace Hill Health Center began in
1906 with a small community health and pharmaceutical service. Now it operates
five Health Centers and a community health program in the city. Based initially
on a bartering concept, MORE was created and further developed through
elderly services credit
program to an exchange system funded by a three year Robert Woods Johnson
grant in 1984 and later supported by the VISTA program “employing” residents
to expand it to all age groups.
Today, Grace Hill serves neighborhoods throughout the St. Louis region with
a combined population in excess of 100,000.
Grace Hill brings together a full range of resources including five
primary care Health Centers, two licensed and fully accredited
Day Care Centers, a
neighborhood organization system supporting
employment, family
and children, homeless
and emergency services.
All services are implemented not only to be neighborhood based thus
accessible, but also to reach, serve and involve residents of the service
areas as providers and leaders.
