Every Step Forward begins here.
Capital campaign 2025
Capital Campaign 2025:
Help Us raise $650,000 to Build
A New Place for Healing
We’re creating something that the region has never seen: a sanctuary for mental health care that feels more human, more helpful, and more whole for families.
With your support, we intend to move to this new property in Summer of 2026. Significant work on the property is underway, but we need your support to finish the vision. Are you ready to be a part of it?
HELP US TRANSFORM MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN OUR NEW HOME
Karla Smith Behavioral Health is raising $650,000 now to bring this vision to life, and we can’t do it alone.
Every contribution, whether a donation or hands-on help like landscaping, painting, or woodworking, directly builds a place where people feel safe and supported. Even if you can’t give financially, your time, talents, or simply spreading the word makes a meaningful difference.
Bring These Spaces to Life
Each area of the campus is designed with healing, community, and transformation in mind. Below, you’ll find specific spaces where your contribution, whether financial or hands-on, can make a direct impact.
Therapy Suite
GOAL: $50,000
Support the heart of our healing work. This suite will be home to individual, group, and family sessions. Your donation will fund construction, furnishings, and technology that make this a space of calm, clarity, and connection.
Seeking: contractor services, new or gently used furniture, therapeutic tools.
Multi-Purpose Barn
GOAL: $175,000
The hub of our campus. With your help, we’ll transform this space into a flexible venue for therapy sessions, workshops, retreats, and events. Contributions support flooring, HVAC, kitchen & bathroom installs, sound, and furnishings.
Seeking: contractor services, AV equipment, cabinetry.
Education Lab
GOAL: $15,000
Create a warm, welcoming space where clients and families can gather, wait, or rest. Your contribution will provide cozy furnishings, technology, and comfort touches that make people feel at home.
Seeking: desks, whiteboards, educational technology.
Gymnasium
GOAL: $125,000
Help us build a space where movement becomes medicine. This gym will host wellness activities like yoga, basketball, fitness sessions, and more—supporting physical and emotional strength.
Seeking: flooring, fitness equipment, lighting.
Media Silo
GOAL: $100,000
Support our most creative space. The Media Silo will offer opportunities for expression through video, audio, storytelling, and content creation. Contributions fund technology, soundproofing, and broadcasting equipment.
Seeking: tech install, camera equipment, AV gear.
Farm Landscaping
GOAL: $125,000
Help us shape the natural beauty of the campus! Your gift will bring walkways, pavers, firepits, parking, fencing, trees, and gardens to life, creating outdoor spaces where people can breathe, reflect, and reconnect with the world around them.
Seeking: hardscaping, native plants, fencing materials, volunteer crews.
Dining Room
GOAL: $3,000
Help us furnish a communal dining area where conversation and connection can flourish. Meals shared here will build trust, community, and belonging.
Seeking: new or gently used dining furniture, fixtures.
Kitchen
GOAL: $20,000
Support our teaching kitchen, where life skills, nutrition, and hands-on learning come together. Your donation will stock appliances, equipment, serveware, and more—helping clients grow confidence and independence.
Seeking: new or gently used appliances, utensils, cabinetry.
Living Room
GOAL: $5,000
Create a warm, welcoming space where clients and families can gather, wait, or rest. Your contribution will provide cozy furnishings, technology, and comfort touches that make people feel at home.
Seeking: new or gently used furniture, décor, media equipment.
Gardens
GOAL: $75,000
Sponsor vibrant garden spaces designed for both therapy and sustainability. From lavender fields to vegetable beds, these gardens offer purpose, peace, and healing. Contributions support fencing, compost, soil, tools, seeds, and design.
Seeking: plants, tools, expertise.
Lakefront
GOAL: $125,000
Help us transform the lakeside area into a space for recreation and reflection. With paddleboats, life jackets, fishing gear, dock work, and walkways, this space becomes a restorative destination for clients and families alike.
Seeking: landscaping, dock materials, boats.
Giving that Builds
Leave Your Lasting Mark
When you support this project, you’re not just giving, you’re actively helping us build, brick by brick, bench by bench, room by room.
You can choose a specific space or join one of our partnership tiers for larger contributions. Every gift is deeply valued, and every gift brings us closer to our goal.
Anchor PARTNERShips
- Social media and KSBH website acknowledgement and direct links to your brand’s website.
- VIP access to all community presentations and educational events.
- Attendance and prominent recognition at Grand Opening.
- Your name and/or logo on the KSBH Donor Wall, visible to all clients and guests
- A commemorative brick installed with your name on the primary walkpath
Groundbreaker PARTNERShips
- Membership in the exclusive KSBH Ambassador Club, providing you with quarterly opportunities to gather with other Ambassador Club members and KSBH leadership to experience first-hand how your contributions are serving our mental health community.
- An evening hosted by KSBH with your own special guests at The Farm to share your impact with family, friends, and colleagues. KSBH provides all food, beverages, and services for these special events.
- Your name and/or logo on the KSBH Donor Wall, visible to all clients and guests.
- A commemorative brick installed on the primary walkpath with your name.
- A tree planted in your honor on the property with a commemorative plaque including a message of your choice.
- Social media and KSBH website acknowledgement, direct links to your brand’s web page, and one annual partner highlight in the KSBH quarterly newsletter.
- VIP access to all community presentations and educational events.
- Attendance and prominent recognition at Grand Opening.
Trailblazer partnerships
- Recognition on all KSBH marketing collateral.
- VIP access to all fundraising, community, educational, and social events.
- A commemorative bench placed in recognition of your support in a prominent area of the property.
- Press release and partner spotlights.
- Attendance and prominent recognition at Grand Opening.
- Membership in the exclusive KSBH Ambassador Club, providing you with quarterly opportunities to gather with other Ambassador Club members and KSBH leadership to experience first-hand how your contributions are serving our mental health community, and provide direct input on our next steps forward.
- Unlimited opportunities for you to invite your own special guests to The Farm to share your impact with family, friends, and colleagues. KSBH provides all food, beverages, and services for these special events.
TITLE PARTNERships
Paid over time- Karla Smith Behavioral Health would be honored to feature your name as a Title Sponsor on one of 6 key landmarks at Karla Smith Behavoral Health’s new facility.
- In addition to strategic name placement on one of our anchor buildings or spaces, you will also receive all benefits of the Trailblazer Partnership.
- Please contact Emily Smith at 618-624-5771 to schedule a special meeting to discuss.
Join us in creating a space
where healing happens differently.
The truth is, most mental health systems weren’t designed for real life. That’s why we’re building something better, more creative, more holistic, and more human.
This campus is for the teen who needs therapy that doesn’t feel like a punishment, for the parent who’s doing everything they can but still feels alone, and for the person who’s ready to try again because they finally believe it’s possible.
We appreciate your tax-deductible gift via credit card below, or you may mail or
deliver a check to:
Karla Smith Behavioral Health
200 North Lincoln Avenue, O’Fallon IL 62269
About Karla Smith Behavioral Health
Our Next Step Forward
Karla Smith Behavioral Health is more than a clinic. We’re a team that shows up and stays, offering personalized, compassionate care for individuals and families navigating mental health challenges.
We believe that healing is a deeply human experience… and it doesn’t happen on a set schedule. That’s why our work centers on one simple truth: that every step forward matters.
Now, we’re taking our own next step forward: building a therapeutic wellness campus unlike anything else in our region. Set on several peaceful acres in Belleville, Illinois, our new property will reflect everything we believe about healing — that it’s human, that it takes time, and that it looks different for everyone.
This won’t look or feel like a traditional mental health center. And that’s the whole point.