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Our Mission
About Us
Our Mission
The St. Clair Butterfly Foundation (SCBF) transforms schools, courts, and communities through trauma-informed education rooted in expressive arts and neuroscience. Aligned with the CASEL framework, our programs go beyond behavior management, rewiring the trauma-affected brain to foster healing, regulation, and hope. SCBF equips professionals, students, and families with practical tools for emotional well-being and generational change.
Our Vision
A world free of childhood trauma.
Trauma changes brain chemistry. It alters DNA. We fix it.
Chip and Lisa
The Love Story
that Sparked a Movement
Lisa and Chip St. Clair’s story is one of radical resilience, courageous vulnerability, and the healing power of love.
Chronicled in their bestselling memoir The Butterfly Garden, soon to be a major motion picture, their journey is a testament to what’s possible when pain is transformed into purpose.
After surviving one of the most harrowing childhoods imaginable, Chip found strength through storytelling and the expressive arts. Lisa, while navigating profound personal loss of her own, became his anchor, proving that compassion, creativity, and connection can rewrite even the darkest chapters.
Together, they turned personal healing into a mission-driven legacy: founding the St. Clair Butterfly Foundation (SCBF). Grounded in lived experience, neuroscience, and a deep belief in the power of education, SCBF empowers trauma-impacted youth, educators, and child development professionals to heal, grow, and thrive.
SCBF is more than a foundation, it’s a movement. A movement rooted in science, driven by story, and led with heart.
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