2020 ANNUAL REPORT Transforming Lives & Communities 2020 ANNUAL REPORT Overcoming Challenges is at the Heart of Our Mission What a year it’s been. Adjusting our care. Investing in technology. Retraining our clinicians to care for customers remotely. Protecting our people and customers. And more. Throughout all the challenges, our teams at The LCADA Way remained committed to assisting individuals on their road to wellness and recovery. For some, we are where their personal journey begins. And for others, we are the support they need as their journey to sobriety continues. And for those who are successful, we remain a supporting advocate. As our case load continues to rise due to the strains of the pandemic and the never-ending waves of stress, alcohol and other drugs, we remain focused on providing a full array of behavioral health care and addiction services tailored to be gender and culturally appropriate based on each individual’s needs Changing Lives Through The LCADA Way It takes passion, commitment and flexibility to do what we do. And like our customers who come to us for help, courage to see this will improve and get better in the future. As we wrap up a very challenging year, we look forward to better things for our staff and our customers. We embrace and trust that tomorrow holds the promise of a way. It’s what we do – “It’s The LCADA Way” 2 Overcoming Challenges is at the Heart of Our Mission 3 2020 ANNUAL REPORT By the Numbers provides medical and $ ambulatory detox 750 treatment to an individual provides suffering telehealth from opiate treatment addiction for one month 2,500 $ COST OF $250 $25 provides a session provides PREVENTION of day treatment one day of $ & TREATMENT and in-home childcare for 500 family counseling a child whose provides 7 weeks of for an adolescent mother is in addiction prevention & their family treatment curriculum to a 9th Grade Class provides residential $ treatment for one 1,000 woman at The Key provides one month of medication for an individual receiving medication assisted 0,000 treatment 1 $ provides transportation for $ 4 round-trips for an 9,000 adolescent receiving provides day and outpatient treatment in-home adolescent 100 treatment for $ alcohol and drug dependency with transportation 4 Letter to Our Community Friends of The LCADA Way, I think we can all agree that 2020 was a very challenging and unprecedented year. In the first quarter of the year, many were hit hard with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the Governor and CDC mandates, many lost jobs, businesses closed and schools had to shut down. As such, we had to quickly adjust and shift a number of our services to a virtual platform. This took a lot of coordinated effort from our IT Department to ensure our staff had the proper equipment and internet capacity to work from home and still provide the quality of care that our customers have come to know. We worked to provide as much TeleHealth as possible to protect everyone during this pandemic, which also included Prevention and Medical services. We’re truly grateful for our dedicated and knowledgeable staff, who diligently continues to stretch and find innovative delivery methods in order to ensure that the Dan Haight individuals and families we serve receive the highest care possible. PRESIDENT & CEO Under the leadership of Thomas Stuber (former CEO), the first half of 2020, to the shift in new leadership the last half of 2020, this Team has achieved success. We have grown as an agency and have successfully navigated the most perplexing time in our history. As we prepare to address the surge for addiction and mental health services, caused in part by the pandemic, we will continue to forge ahead with courage and strength. Thanks to a number of grants and community donations, our agency was able to weather the storm and keep afloat. We are very thankful to have partners who supplement our work with the necessary services that The LCADA Way does not provide. Thank you to Road to Hope, The Jack Mulhall Center, Erie County Health Department, Safe Harbor, Let’s Get Real and the support of MHARS Board of Brady Aldinger BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lorain County. To The LCADA Way Board of Directors, who provide outstanding leadership, guidance CHAIRMAN and support, to our community partners whose combined efforts have helped The LCADA Way save lives and reunite families who are devastated by addiction, we also say thank you. To address the need for a detox facility in Lorain County, we have partnered with The Nord Center, to build a Crisis Stabilization/Detox facility. The detox portion of this project opened in late October and has served 42 customers through December 2020. Our goals for the first quarter are to create a capital campaign and gain public support through education and advocacy. There is clearly a need based on the data. Our focus is to find improved processes of service delivery, and our willingness to share these with other communities. Despite COVID-19, we are back on track with service delivery. For the first part of this year, our goals are to create same day access for assessments and seven day a week admissions to The Key residential facility for women. To you, our friends, who continue to support us and play a key role in the lives of individuals and families struggling with addiction, we say thank you! Together we save lives! Sincerely, Dan Haight President & CEO Brady Aldinger Chairman, Board of Directors 5 2020 ANNUAL REPORT The LCADA Way Highlights Key Awards Brunch Tom Stuber and State Representative Gayle Manning present the Branches of Hope Award to Maggie Matuscak, recognized for helping The Key Center and its residents on their road to recovery. Tom Stuber thanking the Adopt- 16th Annual Howard Quarantine Haircut A-Bed donors and customers Marusa Recovery Golf Challenge enjoying the brunch. The Benefit Key Awards brunch was Stuck at home, the Quarantine held at Tom’s County Place This years sold out event was Haircut Challenge encouraged benefiting women and once again hosted at Hilliard participants to be photographed children at The Key. Lakes Golf Course highlighted and video-taped having their by beautiful sunshine, fun hair cut by someone they were prizes and laughs galore. quarantined with. Proceeds Special thanks to Rule 62. benefitted The LCADA Way Funds raised benefit The Key tele-Health initative to pay for Women’s Center. conferencing software and new computer equipment. 6 The LCADA Way Highlights Pregnant And Still Using? Get Help Now: 440-989-4900 PPW Awareness Grant (top, middle photos) New President/CEO Through the support of COVID Telehealth and CLO (top photo) a grant from SAMSHA The Training Dan Haight takes over as LCADA Way was able to President & CEO of The Due to the state & CDC launch a social media and LCADA Way as Tom Stuber quarantine requirements, outdoor billboard support begins a new chapter in the clinical teams at The awareness campaign for his dedicated career as LCADA Way quickly pivoted pregnant & post-partum Holiday Ugly Sweater Chief Legislative Officer. to provide specialized care to women. Contest – Selfie Style Congratulations to both our customers. We provided The LCADA Way staff New Transport Van our great leaders! computer equipment to those participated in an Ugly in need and kept in touch Donation (bottom photo) Target Wellness 2020 Sweater Contest as part with our recovery community Four supporting Erie County (middle, bottom photos) of our year-end holiday throughout the year. Foundations team up to celebration. During November, The provide a brand new 10 LCADA Way employees passenger van and fund a enjoyed three weeks of driver to help transport Erie remote self-care information County residents in need of and fun, including fresh addiction treatment. food recipes, Zoom yoga sessions, virtual team lunches and check-ins, a Flu Shot Challenge, a Blood Drive and Lunch-N-Learn Financial Wellness tips. 7 2020 ANNUAL REPORT Safety & Fun Highlight – Diamond Day Field Party at Crushers Stadium Hundreds of our supporters, friends and family members attended our first ever Diamond Day Field Party event at the Lake Erie Crushers Stadium in Avon, OH. With the support of dozens of in-kind sponsors, event sponsors and ticket buyers, we were able to host a one-of-a-kind safe and fun outdoor event. Attendees enjoyed live Motown music, great food, silent auctions, raffles, and on field baseball activities, including a dignitary/community and sports star “famous” vs. The LCADA Way “not-so-famous” celebrity softball game. Due to COVID restrictions, the annual Pearls of Wisdom Benefit & Recognition Dinner was moved to 2021. 8 Safety & Fun Highlight – Diamond Day Field Party at Crushers Stadium 9 2020 ANNUAL REPORT Meet Our Board of Directors The LCADA Way is deeply committed to and care, bringing new ideas, energy, transforming individual lives, families and and knowledge to strengthen all of our communities suffering from alcohol and programs. They join us in our mission of substance abuse, gambling addictions and professional excellence and best practices, behavioral health issues. Our nonprofit helping to continually make a difference for is governed by a volunteer board of the individuals we serve. We thank them directors – leaders and neighbors from for their service to The LCADA Way. the community who share our compassion CHAIR CHAIR-ELECT TREASURER Brady Aldinger Scott Crawford Nicholas Ksenich, M.D. Erika Cann Timothy Carson Tanya de Almeida David Graves Carmen K. Hansford, M.D. Lea Heidman 10 Todd Jaros Jeffrey C. Miller Judy Molnar Daniel J. Munro John R.