2017-2018 Programs
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2017-2018 Programs Child Welfare/Permanency Services Adoption Report Expeditor Birth Parent Counseling Child Summary Writer Program CHSofNJ Foster Care Domestic Adoption Post-Adoption Background & Search MAIN OFFICE 635 South Clinton Avenue Clinical/Mental Health/Behavioral Services Trenton, New Jersey 08611 Helping Others Grow P: (609) 695-6274 or call Toll Free 1-800-CHSofNJ Intensive Services Program (ISP) Ocean County Reunification Program FAMILY SUCCESS CENTERS Ocean Therapeutic Visitation Program Heritage North Ward ♥ 1554 Princeton Avenue Pre/Post Adoptive Counseling Services Trenton, NJ 08638 Childhood Separation and Loss Counseling P: (609) 393-2980 Families and Children Enhancing Emotional Success (FACES) Heritage South Ward ♥ 635 South Clinton Avenue Foster Care Support Services Trenton, NJ 08611 Victims of Crime Compensation Counseling P: (609) 695-6274 Trauma Support Services Ocean County ♥ 1433 Hooper Avenue, Suite 121 Early Childhood/Parenting Services Toms River, NJ 08753 Child and Adult Care Food Program P: (732) 557-5037 Child Care Resource and Referral-Ocean County OCEAN/MONMOUTH COUNTY OFFICE First Steps Infant/Toddler Initiative 1433 Hooper Avenue, Suite 340 Strengthening Families Initiative Toms River, NJ 08753 Grow NJ Kids P: (732) 557-9633 Maternal & Child Health/Family & Community Support Services KINSHIP OFFICE Body & Soul Prenatal Health Education and Support Program 416 Bellevue Avenue, Suite 201 CHSofNJ Mercer County WIC Program CUNA Prenatal Health Education and Support Program Trenton, NJ 08618 Heritage North Family Success Center P: (609) 571-1582 or (800) 396-4518 Heritage South Family Success Center Ocean County Family Success Center HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START/HOME BASED Healthy Women Healthy Families 416 Bellevue Avenue Trenton, NJ 08618 Fun with Books and Music P:(609) 498-7755 Kinship Services MERCER COUNTY WIC Kinship Navigator Program 416 Bellevue Avenue, 1st Floor Kinship Legal Guardianship Trenton, NJ 08618 P:(609) 498-7755 School Based Programs Kids Intervention with Kids in School (KIKS) Trenton Education Dance Institute (TEDI) www.chsofnj.org | www.facebook.com/CHSofNJ 21st Century Programs Head Start/Early Head Start Center Based Early Head Start Home Based A Message from Our CEO and Chairman of the Board CHANGE-TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” ~ Sir Winston Churchill During these fast changing times, CHSofNJ must continuously challenge ourselves. Our clients’ lives demand that they change every day just to be able to get enough food, to secure safe and affordable housing, to find work they can succeed in, to find affordable healthcare, or to resist opioids/vaping. We ask: • WHAT CAN CHSofNJ DO TO HELP THOSE WE SERVE TO HELP THEMSELVES? • HOW CAN CHSofNJ HELP FAMILIES COPE WITH CHANGE AND ANTICIPATE WHAT THEY NEED NEXT? • WHAT CAN CHSofNJ DO TO HELP OUR STAFF PREPARE FOR SO MANY CHANGES DEMANDED BY FUNDERS? • WHAT CAN CHSofNJ DO TO HELP OUR LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL COMMUNITIES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES? We have seven parent/community advisory boards that advise us and we listen to them. We note trends we are seeing. We apply what we hear to bring new funding and resources to our community. Change is what we had to do to be successful last year. That success is reflected in this 2017-2018 Report. When adoption practices changed, CHSofNJ developed service options so that many more couples and single parents could choose to build their families. When funding for school-based youth development services surprisingly and suddenly changed, our Board of Trustees determined we would not be deterred. They knew our services helped students excel while avoiding the perils of adolescence. We found new solutions. Our accomplishments this past year include: • Our remarkable STEAM outcomes in Trenton Middle Schools. • A standing ovation for our 200 middle school dancers in the TEDI Event of the Year at the renowned Trenton War Memorial. • Being awarded new state funding to expand our Maternal Child Health services into Monmouth County. • Our evaluated Kinship Service model was nationally recognized and published in the Journal of the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), and posted by Children’s Bureau for others in the nation to emulate. • Our immediate response to the temporarily displaced and devastated Puerto Rican families that recently arrived in Mercer County, supporting them to independently meet their family needs. • Ensuring the success of more Trenton at-risk pregnancies – mothers in our program significantly deliver more full term, full birth weight, healthy babies, avoiding infant fatalities and unnecessary lifetime special needs. • Serving 84,000 infants, toddlers, youth, parents, and grandparents during the year, an increase of 5,000 over 2006-2017. All this has been possible thanks to the support of our 300 amazing professional employees, 900 caring volunteers, our 19 dedicated Board of Directors, and our wonderful community supporters. Now our challenge is: How are we going to keep meeting these needs? So many successes this past year! But, what about next year, the 125th Anniversary for our agency? What did Winston Churchill mean by saying “Success is not final?” Does it mean we just need to continue doing what we did last year? Not at all! Each year brings many changes, and if we do not adapt, we will not be able to meet the challenges next year brings. Why are we pressed to change? Because technology is changing every day. Because our funders keep changing what they ask from us. We earn a significant portion of our funding through state contracts. However, for the past nine years, state contract amounts have remained the same even as we must provide our dedicated staff with cost of living adjustments and pay for ever increasing operating costs. Our facilities are being quickly outgrown. We need a new bus for our Head Start children and a van to transport basic goods supporters have donated for our families. To reduce taxi costs, a van would also allow us to pick up families with no means of transportation. Therefore, next year we will grow our resources and work even smarter. “Failure is not fatal.” Fear of failure cannot stop us from testing innovative ideas we develop alongside families to better meet their needs and move toward their dreams. For every five new creative ideas, four may not work. Some failures will happen, but still, we believe that just one successful approach will save lives. What is one life worth? One baby who thrives in the nurturing, loving arms of their parents? One baby who is born healthy without a preventable, lifetime special need? One teen productively on track to adulthood, ready to build their own healthy family? Churchill concluded his quote with “It is the courage to continue that counts” meaning we must try new ways of serving and cannot be afraid that we might fail. Choosing to try nothing new means we will likely never experience some of the very solutions and progress needed. So it is courage that we must hold on to. Courage AND hope. If we all at CHSofNJ, and you, our supporters, keep believing in our work together, we will change and save more lives, one child at a time. We can do this TOGETHER as we did last year…TOGETHER WE DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Thank you, CHSofNJ supporters. 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018 15 DONATIONS FROM THE HEART We wish to thank the following donors for gifts received between June 1, 2017 and May 31, 2018. Statement of Operating Revenues and Expenditures Sister in Law of Gerald Urmila Sinha Kathryn Temple Susan White June 1, 2017 To May 31, 2018 Reisner Mr. & Mrs. Vivek Sinha Nancy Temple Margaret Spillane Bob Teweles & Karen The operating budget of CHSofNJ relies on funding from federal, state, and county government grants and private Dandurand David Scott Smith Marian C. Temple Helen R. Whitehead Robert & Frances Ciaccia James Temple Samuel C. Whitehead contributions, with a major portion of the budget coming from a collaborative partnership with several New Jersey state Eveland Ringel agencies. Although the funds we receive from these government grants are critical, unrestricted private dollars acquired Pamela Cipriano Malcolm Smith Julius F. Tibolla Robert Wieder through additional fundraising efforts are necessary to supplement most grants in order to provide the level of quality and the Virginia Smith C. Idelia Tibolla Shirley Wieder intensity of social services that are imperative to achieve outcomes that save children’s lives and build healthy families. Mr. & Mrs. D. Rocco Michael & Rose Piccora William Charles Smith Tom Earl L. Wilbur, Jr. Ernest & Katherine Smith Margaret Schmidt Shirley Wilbur Ernest Roth Income Amount Percentage Expenses Amount Percentage Grace Roth Beebe Marian Snavely Joyce Thomas Sallie B. Wilson Nancy Longenecker Nancy Longenecker Madeleine W. Jones Government Contract $16,109,856 80.78% Early Childhood / Head $9,501,228 48.03% Salvatore F. Russello Start Jane Johnston Joanne E. Staas Josephine Tomczak Dorothy Rose Seligman Investment Income $1,370,528 6.87% Fred & Josephine Borgini Carol Bauba Jane Johnston Contributions $1,300,856 6.52% Community & Family $3,252,941 16.44% Anthony Russo, III Kathryn Bicica Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Grimm Angela Steuhler Elsie Buban Robert Bruce Wixson, Jr. (Donations / Child Welfare / $3,157,597 15.96% John & Robin Pulsinelle Catherine Calamanco Jane Johnston Fundraising) Permanency Charles L. Rue, Jr. Joan Carroll Stevens William & Patrice Caracciolo Vera Yunus Other - Rental Income $351,338 1.76% Kinship $1,018,030 5.15% Mary Alice Rue Michael & Susanne Ciano James & Cathryn Appel Monica Yunus Foundations $280,243 1.41% G & A and Fundraising $1,163,825 5.88% Alice Ruch Martha Heywood Data Management Unit Robert & Janet Giambrone Faye Hollender Carlos & Janice Dias Joyce Zwetsloot Client Service Fees $529,952 2.66% Behavioral Health $899,970 4.55% Seth & Marlene Barton William & Maryann Juska, Jr.