Youth and Family Center

The clinic at Youth and Family Center opened in the fall of 2022. IFM operates a clinic every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon at this site seeing children and families as well as seniors, ensuring they have the acute and preventive care they need. Additionally, an asthma/allergy specialty clinic is offered two Wednesday afternoons per month. Located in North City, Youth and Family Center acts as an anchor to help stabilize their immediate community and connect their neighbors to the services they need.

Our collaboration with Youth and Family Center recently won a “Spirit of Delmar Divine Award”! Here is an excerpt from an article the Delmar Divine wrote about the 2024 Award program:

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Our Spirit Shines Strongly

In May 2024, the featured the inaugural Spirit of Delmar DivINe Collaboration Awards, where two $20,000 prizes were presented for internal (two or more Delmar DivINe tenants) and external (one or more Delmar DivINe tenants and at least one non-tenant agency) partnerships.

During a ceremony in the Berges Family Foundation Conference Center, the winners were announced: United 4 Children and Turn the Page STL (internal) and iFM Community Medicine (iFM) and Youth & Family Center (YFC).

The external award recognized the work between ifM and YFC to address health inequities and disparities for uninsured and underinsured people with chronic health conditions. They began their partnership with a primary care clinic in early 2023 and added a bimonthly asthma and allergy clinic. To date, they have served 152 patients and provided 532 appointments; they anticipate an additional 250 individual patients and 800 visits.

Maxine Clark, founder of Delmar DivINe, closed the ceremony by congratulating the winners and remarking, "That's what we can do here. We bring people together to work together. There's great joy in seeing people joining forces to solve problems. And we can do more of this."