Atlas Youth Outreach

What it reported doing in 2025

The Navigate program provides free psychoeducational mental health support groups to teens in Jefferson County Missouri both in local schools and at our home office that encourage social and emotional growth. Navigate provides teens education and resources so they may create their own path to a successful future. Atlas had a successful year with being able to conduct 71 different groups for free and serve 308 teens through the Navigate Program. Many of those teens returned for more than one group. Of the 71 mental health support groups two groups were ongoing monthly groups, Adolescent Stress for teens to find monthly support from peers for stressors in their lives, and LGBTQIA+ Community Building for teens who identify in this community to find mental health support for their unique struggles. The remaining groups were 6 or 8 weeks in length and included 4 mental health summer programs with an emphasis on creating a happy mindset, 7 anxiety management groups, 2 healthy relationships groups, 6 peer relationships, 5 depression and self esteem, 4 conflict resolution, 4 Healthy Minds, 1 understanding anger, 4 healing and loss for grief, 2 chill skills (coping strategies), 1 group on neurodivergency, 2 groups on the effects of social media, 7 stress less groups, 3 confidence building, 3 social skills, 2 Mental Health 101, 1 group to support youth in foster care, and 1 social anxiety group. Atlas also provided two ongoing groups with the DeSoto school district at the Innovative Learning Center and the DeSoto Annex, both are alternative school programs within the district. Of our 308 teens 58% identified as female, 39% identified as male and 3% identified as nonbinary. 83% identify as white, 9% identify as multiracial, 3% identify as Hispanic, 1% identified as asian, 1% identified as as American Indian/Pacific Islander, 1% identified as other, and 1% preferred not to say. 39% of our teens live in homes that make under $50,000 a year and 14% live in homes with someone other than their biological parents. These environmental factors can lead to an increase in mental health concerns and can also be a barrier to accessing mental health services. Atlas provided 33 groups in the Atlas office and 33 groups in local school districts including the Fox C6 District, Northwest R1, DeSoto 73, Dunklin R-5, Hillsboro R-3, and New Day Treatment Program. We partnered with Jefferson County Community Partners to provide 5 groups to youth in foster care. We have had pleasing results from our surveys and we saw positive results for all of our groups.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 66%; rating input score 66
• Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 27.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 47.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings