About Us
Our Mission
The St. Clair Butterfly Foundation (SCBF) empowers educators, child development professionals, students, and families by integrating trauma-informed training with expressive arts programming. Through our neuroscience-backed, evidence-based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) approach, we help schools, courts, and communities cultivate resilience, emotional well-being, and generational transformation.
Aligned with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework, our programs go beyond behavior management—rewiring the trauma-affected brain to foster authentic regulation, healing, and hope. SCBF is committed to building safe, inclusive, and healing-centered environments where all students, families, and communities can thrive for generations to come.
Our Vision
A world free of childhood trauma.
Trauma changes brain chemistry. It alters DNA. We fix it.
Learning To Fly
Chip and Lisa St. Clair’s story is one of resilience, healing, and the transformative power of love and the arts. Chip overcame a traumatic childhood, marked by discovering his father’s hidden identity as a convicted killer, through creative expression and Lisa’s unwavering support. Together, they founded the St. Clair Butterfly Foundation to help others heal from trauma using expressive arts and compassionate care—the very tools that saved them.
Their journey, captured in their bestselling memoir The Butterfly Garden (soon to be a feature film), inspires hope and empowerment. Through SCBF, Chip and Lisa continue to foster healing and resilience for children and families nationwide.
