Annualreport2009
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program overview dear morrison friends, Morrison’s mission is to partner with families and communities to provide Morrison’s continuum of care is broad, and while the As another year comes to a close, I would like to refl ect on Our mission is simple: We partner with families and range in intensity varies from prevention to residential where we are as an organization and where we are going. communities to provide effective and responsive services for effective and responsive services for services, the results are similarly focused on working with Whether you have known Morrison for years or are meeting children and youth coping with adversity and trauma. children and youth coping with adversity families and communities to make a positive difference us for the fi rst time, we have made some changes we are in each child’s life. Services include: Restoring childhood. Rebuilding families. Renewing hope. and trauma. excited to share with you. This is what we are all about. Morrison Child and Family Services delivers specialized prevention & education Over the past few years, Morrison has grown in many ways— › services to children, ages birth through 18, and families Early Childhood Consultation & Incredible Years* we have incorporated new approaches to working with › Listos Para Aprender* We do this work in concert with our core values: family, coping with adversity and trauma. At the core of our › Oregon Parents As Teachers Training clients and the community, we have expanded our program creativity, effectiveness, quality, integrity and social impact. work is a deep respect for the complexity of human nature › Parents Anonymous® of Oregon, offerings and we have transitioned to new leadership in We put the child and family fi rst; we employ proven- and human needs–we guide children and their families including Parent Mentor Program several areas. All of these changes have positively impacted practices and evaluate our own assumptions and results; through diffi cult issues by creating tailored treatment the community. and we strive to make positive change in the communities plans to address the individual’s needs and help them live outpatient › Child & Family Outpatient Services at fi ve clinics we serve. productive lives. And what about that community? How has it changed › Counterpoint Outpatient this year? More than ever before, our community partners We believe our new visual identity communicates the We are one of the only nonprofi ts to self-fund a program › Early Childhood Intensive Outpatient Services are dealing with the stress of a recession. This global › Family Sexual Abuse Treatment growth, hope and optimism we support in our clients every evaluation department because we want to ensure the fi nancial crisis will continue to reverberate in the non-profi t day. We believe that with the continued contributions of children and families we serve get the most effective, high community & school based community for several more years. We believe it is our our community and donors we will continue to evolve and quality support available. Using data, we review actual › Home- and School-based Services fi duciary and social responsibility to prepare for these improve as an organization. We believe our work is vital to outcomes and modify programs accordingly. We work in › Family Intensive Support Services (ICTS) diffi cult times by reducing our overhead and creatively the children and families we serve, and vital to the future of partnership with schools, neighborhoods, public agencies › Crisis Prevention Outreach re-thinking what we do and how we do it. This year, we › our world. and families to create a comprehensive range of programs Connections Therapeutic Visitation introduced a new strategic facilities plan, consolidating I want to personally thank you for your ongoing concern for to meet the needs of young people in our communities several of our programs and dramatically reducing facilities day treatment Oregon’s children and families. The vital work we do cannot ranging from education and prevention services to › Hand in Hand Day Treatment costs. We also successfully diversifi ed our program offerings continue without you. outpatient counseling and residential treatment. › Breakthrough Day Treatment with the award of a fi ve-year federal grant to serve a new › Counterpoint Day Treatment population of children. We continued to grow and develop Sincerely yours, Founded in 1947 by Dr. Carl Morrison, Oregon’s fi rst board- our early childhood programs, and advanced our strategic certifi ed child psychiatrist, Morrison has actively worked to foster care initiative to better serve people of color and communities improve the lives of children, their families and the local › Hand in Hand Therapeutic Foster Care › with barriers to access. And fi nally, this year, we developed a community. Our programs recognize and respect cultural Breakthrough Proctor Care Tia Gray Stecher › Counterpoint Proctor Care new logo and re-worked our mission statement and tagline differences and support the growth of children so that their Chief Executive Offi cer to refl ect the Morrison of today. ability to succeed in school and in life is enhanced. This residential results in healthier, safer communities. › Rosemont Treatment Center and School for Girls › Residential Alcohol & Drug Treatment (RAD) * Funded by the Portland Children’s Levy 2 morrison annual report morrison annual report 3 restoring childhood Morrison’s Hand in Hand program strives to restore skills to cope with his emotions and to develop esteem for Christine Stolebarger started drinking and smoking Christine fi nds great inspiration in her work and will invitations to unhealthy activities. He started talking about childhood for children ages 3–12 who have experienced himself and respect for the world around him. He began to marijuana as a young teenager. She continued using graduate from Portland State University in June 2010 with his feelings and responded well to concrete tasks and signifi cant trauma or abuse. Children attend class and greet staff by name each morning and beamed when they drugs and alcohol throughout her early adult years, but a Degree in Social Work. She serves on statewide advisory cognitive behavioral interventions that helped him to therapy daily and live with specially-trained foster parents responded to him in a warm and positive manner. didn’t discover meth until she was a single mother of three, boards, representing the parent voice and demonstrating manage anger, frustration and anxieties. Jose obtained a while in treatment. Success comes when a child’s behavior struggling to manage work and parenthood on her own. that recovery is possible and it works. She courageously sponsor at the Morrison community Narcotics Anonymous After several months, Jacob became engaged and is stabilized and a permanent home has been secured. It wasn’t long before she had spiraled downward, and shares her story of triumph with the community, with the meeting and began seeing him on a weekly basis. He responsible for his school work and for the way he sadly lost custody of her children. She eventually regained goal of helping other parents return to parenting in safe and sought and found a wealth of support in his family, responded to situations. He stopped destroying property. custody, but without residential drug treatment, it wasn’t healthy environments. especially his older brother, a reformed gang member. The anger and hopelessness Jacob brought with him to the long before she was using meth again, which ultimately program were replaced by the skills needed to connect with Jose progressed through Morrison’s level system and grew landed her in prison. people and to succeed in school. As his graduation out of to be one of the most valued leaders in the program. He renewing hope Hand in Hand and back into his area school neared, Jacob became a young man who could master his emotional approached every adult he knew at Morrison and invited Breakthrough provides a combination of alcohol/drug reactions. Other clients openly admired Jose and his them to celebrate his achievement with him. A child with no abuse treatment, mental health treatment, education, progress. confi dence in the world has been transformed into a child competency-based skill development and mentoring in an Upon successfully completing his treatment Jose returned confi dent that others will celebrate his achievements. We at environment which promotes a transition to a successful, to his parents’ home, where he started attending his senior Morrison are proud of Jacob and his accomplishments and clean and sober lifestyle. Thanks to this program, a year wieden+kennedy year of school. Time previously spent roaming the streets the miracle he represents. later, 81% of youth are back living in their communities, with his gang and using meth, was now spent at a part-time It was a serendipitous meeting. Morrison had just rather than being incarcerated, on the run, or in residential job, playing video games and minding his 5-year-old sister fi nished the daunting task of redefi ning its brand and treatment, compared to 32% before getting help. after school. During his last family session, Jose’s little rebuilding families Wieden+Kennedy’s design team was looking for a way Jose* entered Morrison’s Breakthrough Day Treatment sister informed staff, “Jose is nicer now!” In the spring he Jacob* is one of these children. He arrived at Morrison’s to give back to the community. This is how Rehanah The Parents Anonymous® Parent Mentor program was Christine Stolebarger shared the limelight with Governor Program following his arrest for drug use. He answered earned a full-time position working the swing shift at a local Hand in Hand Day Treatment Center as a nine year old Spence and Sarah Starr, along with their team, came created in 2004 with the goal of reducing the length of time Kulongoski at the Children’s First benefi t.