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Officials estimate that nearly 40 new jobs will be created in the county as a result of this funding.
Last November, Franklin County voters approved Proposition 1, which established the "Putting Kids First" sales tax. The new tax went into effect April 1.
Annie Schulte, executive director of FCCRB, said proponents of the tax hoped to raise approximately $2.7 million for the first year.
"We based that number looking at sales tax figures over the last three years and took the average," Schulte said. "However, because the economy had a major downturn and the county took a 5 percent hit in sales tax revenue, we had to adjust it."
Schulte noted that even after reducing the expected revenue from the new "Putting Kids First" tax, "it still seemed like too much, so we ended up taking off 10 percent of the average."
The director noted that taking a "conservative" approach to the expected revenue raised from the tax would help ensure that local agencies received an appropriate share.
The following agencies and their allocations for 2009-2010 are listed as follows:
* ALIVE, in partnership with the juvenile office, will provide counseling for children identified as being victims of domestic violence, $46,183.
* Catholic Family Services (CFS) will provide counselors one day a week at parochial elementary schools in the county and two days a week at St. Francis Borgia Regional High School, $115,065.
* CFS will provide general counseling and therapy services, $91,490.
* CFS will offer psychiatric services, $51,894.
* CFS, in partnership with the Franklin County Juvenile Justice System, will give an option to judges in which juvenile status offenders could remain at home rather than be put into incarceration with juveniles who have committed felonies, $110,817.
* CFS will offer counseling sessions to children of parents addicted to drugs, as identified by Foundations for Franklin County or the drug court, $19,501.
* Lutheran Family and Children's Services (LFCS) will provide counseling, therapy and case management services to children, $15,360.
* LFCS will provide respite up to 30 days for families with small children who need a break in order to avoid removing a child from a household through a provider certified by LFCS, $19,500.
* LFCS will provide case management, group sessions and direct assistance to pregnant and teenage parents, $19,700.
* Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) will help provide funding for a family advocate who works with nonoffending parents and their child throughout the process of working in the legal system and coordinates care for the child and family in the aftermath of sexual abuse and child abuse, $19,283.
* CAC will begin a sexual abuse prevention program in Franklin County, $72,150.
* Family Advocacy and Community Training will provide Parent PARTNERs for some of the families served under the Partnership with Families through Crider Health Center, $68,585.
* CASA will implement a Life Skills Partnership Project aimed at youth 14 years of age and older who are in the foster care system and help them with education, jobs and other life skills, $47,229.
* Preferred Family Healthcare will provide Achieving Recovery Through Creativity to high-risk youth in Franklin County, $89,517.
* Preferred Family Healthcare, in conjunction with the juvenile office, DYS, Foundations for Franklin County and Franklin County Drug Court, will assess youth who enter these systems for substance abuse, $116,068.
* Preferred Family Healthcare will develop and implement Teams of Concern in 11 schools in the county, $456,690.
* Crider Health Center will serve additional families in their Partnership with Families program, $110,777.
* Crider Health Center will add six school-based mental health specialists for each school district in the county, with New Haven and Franklin County R-2 sharing one specialist, $354,207.
* Crider Health Center will provide its Pinocchio early intervention program in the Union, Meramec Valley, St. Clair, Sullivan, New Haven, Franklin County and Washington school districts, $333,106.
* Crider Health Center will provide three school-based therapists to take caseloads in the Meramec Valley, St. Clair, Sullivan, Washington and Union school districts, $325,819.
* Crider Health Center will provide anti-violence/anti-bullying prevention services to the Meramec Valley, New Haven, Franklin County, St. Clair, Sullivan, Washington and Union school districts, $55,961.
* Portals will serve Lutheran or other parochial schools with prevention programming that includes bullying and teasing prevention and Internet safety, $33,300.
* NCADA will provide an array of programs preventing youth from becoming involved with alcohol and other drugs in partnership with the schools, $97,740.
For more information on the FCCRB, visit www.franklincountykids.org.
