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Annual Report 2017 BLIC PU Si E nc R e 1 S 9 Y 0 7 O B N O R T O H B I A N L G T W I T H O U Annual Report 2017 Kitchen Replacement Project: Students Break New Ground Boys Republic Annual Report For Fiscal Year 2017 President’s Message Timothy J. Kay Board President What a year 2016-2017 proved to discuss their respective successes enthusiastic volunteer supporters. be for Boys Republic! As I touched and failures in ways that have the Over a decade ago, a volunteer on in my message last year, the more senior students helping newer committee organized and delivered a Boys Republic Board of Directors arrivals to take responsibility for their wonderful Friends of Steve McQueen and staff knew that the passage of mistakes and encouraging them to Car Show. Steve McQueen was a Assembly Bill 403, principally focused take responsibility for their lives. The student at Boys Republic and BR on the care of foster youth, would clinicians who have joined the Boys held a special spot in his heart. With change the way Boys Republic Republic teams bring additional the active participation of Steve’s would help the students in its care. skill sets to the task of teaching the son, Chad McQueen, a group of car AB 403 required Boys Republic to students how to lead responsible and buffs led by Ron Harris staged a qualify as a short term residential productive lives. car show on the BR campus on the therapeutic program certified by the first Saturday of June, 2008. This counties and State of California. While many other organizations past June, the Car Show had its Led by Chris Burns and his senior that work with delinquent youth 10th anniversary. A sold out dinner staff, Boys Republic participated in emphasize a purely mental health and a silent auction kick off the Car the statewide preparation to roll out approach to treatment, Boys Show on Friday night, raising money the new programs required by AB Republic continues to emphasize the for BR. The next day, thousands 403, ensuring that the needs of our importance of individual responsibility of visitors walk the fields of the BR students are well understood and within the peer group. This is the main campus, chock full of specialty addressed. key to Boys Republic’s success – cars and motorcycles. BR students each person holds himself or herself direct traffic and serve the visitors A big change required by AB accountable for his or her actions, during the day. The Friends of Steve 403 is to add a county-contracted and the peer group holds each other McQueen Car Show raises money mental health component to the care accountable as well. for Boys Republic, but even more of our students. This meant hiring importantly, builds a larger community the right clinicians to become part of The wonderful staff at Boys of BR supporters. Thanks to Chad the Boys Republic teams that work Republic is well prepared to meet the McQueen, Ron Harris, Peter Dunkel with groups of students every day. challenges of AB 403. The Board and their strong Car Show committee! Boys Republic has long used a peer of Directors has encouraged and group approach to instilling strong supported Chris Burns and senior On behalf of the Board of values in the students – emphasizing staff as BR succeeds in the new Directors, I would like to thank each the importance of work, honesty, legislative environment. of you who support Boys Republic accountability and dedication to the and believe in our mission and our tasks at hand. In these daily group I am also happy to report that ability to change our students lives for sessions, BR students and staff Boys Republic has a number of the better. Boys Republic • 2017 Annual Report • Page 1 Executive Director’s Message Chris Burns Executive Director The new year has been dominated by several of the have been blessed with tremendous generosity from same areas of focus as was the last. The continuum our longstanding friends, foundations, new supporters, of care reform effort brought about by AB 403 and AB Pasadena Auxiliary and our own Board of Directors. One 1997 has remained a primary focus for Boys and Girls of our newest groups of friends, the Steve McQueen Car Republic this fiscal year and has proven to be a far more Show supporters, has been dedicated from the beginning complicated endeavor for our State and County partners of the campaign to the present. than they had initially anticipated. Boys Republic and all similar youth serving agencies were instructed to The Friends of Steve McQueen Car Show celebrated be ready for implementation as of January 1st of 2017, its 10th anniversary in June and has grown in every however the review and approval process for the changes capacity including its ability to generate the much-needed being required from all of these organizations has been funds to support projects like the kitchen replacement. incredibly time consuming and thus far only a handful The committee has generously pledged to place all have completed the entire process. Boys Republic is very proceeds for the last three years (minus three student close to completing this process having already obtained scholarships) to this campaign and their investment of nationwide accreditation and County mental health nearly one million dollars is staggering. certification and is using the delay to enhance the training of newly acquired direct care staff and clinicians so that the Boys Republic is fortunate to have friends and full implementation will occur as seamlessly as possible. supporters who invest years, often decades, getting to The Board of Directors has been incredibly supportive know us and appreciating a philosophy of accountability in allowing the endowment to support the enhanced and personal responsibility that has been improving the operational costs in the form of staff salaries during this lives of at-risk youth for over 110 years. The cornerstone delay, so that an experienced and well-trained professional of the agency’s strength is its diverse and dedicated staff will be in place and already staff whose commitment allows the students to tackle delivering services when the the difficult work ahead of them in a consistent, safe State grants approval. and supportive environment. Caseworkers, teachers, vocational instructors and clinicians who remain involved Similarly, this year has with students from day one in the program, throughout seen continued focus on the the day-to-day challenges and during their transition fund-raising and preparation home, are the ambassadors of the core philosophy and for the kitchen replacement treatment model. It should be no surprise that one of and Culinary Arts Center to those longstanding friends gave to the agency in a manner be dedicated in honor of our reflective of his understanding of how those life changing previous Executive Director, developments are facilitated in the first place. Lyle A. Max Scott Max Scott. We are in the Parks’ gift of one million dollars with the specific intent latter part of the campaign and Page 2 • Boys Republic • 2017 Annual Report Friends of Steve McQueen Car Show Ron Harris Chad McQueen Peter Dunkel IF THE DRIVING FORCE behind the Friends of Steve Chad McQueen, and Peter Dunkel) are the McQueen Car Show is its all-volunteer organizing creative and hard-working engine that makes it committee, the three gentlemen above (Ron Harris, purr along efficiently year after year. of honoring and rewarding Boys Republic has much to be grateful for: a Board staff commitment and tenure of Directors devoted to improving the lives of the youth was the first of its kind in the in our care, a dedicated and tenured workforce who are agency’s history. However, it on the front lines with those youth and families on a daily demonstrated a keen insight on basis, and an incredible donor community that invests in his part that one of the best ways the students, staff and programs that provide those life- to ensure that Boys Republic changing opportunities. For all these things, I express my continues to deliver life-changing sincere gratitude. opportunities to the students we serve is to invest in retaining the dedicated employees who are Lyle A. Parks, Jr. the facilitators of that process. Max Scott Center for the Culinary Arts FOOD SERVICES TRAINING: The Kitchen Replacement The food services training site will prepare disadvantaged Project creates a dedicated culinary arts classroom, expands the students to leave Boys Republic with the specific knowledge they successful student bakery and builds a new production kitchen, will need to be successful in a competitive job market. bringing the facility up to modern health and safety standards. Boys Republic • 2017 Annual Report • Page 3 Who We Are . And What We Do . Boys Republic is a non-profit, privately-endowed agency providing nationally accredited residential and non-residential youth services to disadvantaged, at-risk young people from throughout California. It operates a total of eight programs — currently, all in Southern California: a 200-acre residential campus, school, and farm in Chino Hills; two residential group homes for boys in Los Angeles and Pomona; a Girls Republic group home in Monrovia and non-residential day treatment centers and schools in the cities of Monrovia and El Monte. Our Aftercare and Independent Living Programs serve all of the agency’s facilities. The total capacity for all Boys Republic facilities is 203 including 168 residential beds and the capacity to serve as many as 35 young people (and their families) in day treatment centers. Boys Republic provides diverse programs of educational, psychological, vocational and family reunification services.
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