Good Shepherd 2014 Annual Report

TOGETHER 2014 ANNUAL REPORT

A Catholic Charities Agency

www.goodshepherdstl.org

WE WORK

TOGETHER The concept of togetherness is everywhere in our culture.

We live in the United States of America and say one nation under God. In Christian liturgy we say in unity with the Holy Spirit. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

The desire, if not unfortunately the reality, to live and do things together seems to be hardwired in us – natural, inalienable. It’s why we live in families and communities and why we include the freedom of assembly in our Bill of Rights. The work of Good Shepherd is an act of togetherness. We connect children with families and keep families connected because life is better for children and parents and all of us when we live together with people who care about us.

Togetherness is the theme of our 2014 Annual Report. It highlights what clients, staff, Board members, volunteers, partners and friends in our community did together to help place at-risk children in loving homes and troubled families to heal. We invite you to review our efforts and celebrate our accomplishments together.

Michael P. Meehan, Ph.D. Michael P. Meehan, Ph.D. Executive Director

OUR MISSION TOGETHER In response to the call of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, to help those in need, we connect children with families and keep families connected.

OUR SERVICE TOGETHER In a year when many in our community were still feeling the effects of joblessness and the break-up of families due to a sluggish economy, the people of Good Shepherd worked together to help 903 foster youth, women in crisis, and families hoping to adopt and assisted another 1,899 family members and individuals related to our cases – 4% more direct and indirect clients over the previous year.

Foster Care

Adoption Services

Over 40% of children in St. Louis City live in poverty and Missouri consistently

About 1,200 kids in Missouri are waiting to be adopted, most over the age

falls in the bottom half of the 50 states in terms of children in poverty. There

of 10. Nationally, there are more men and women hoping to adopt than

are more than 6,300 instances of substantiated child abuse in Missouri and

there are infants and toddlers hoping to be adopted. Many of the infants we

about 1,500 children in foster care in St. Louis City and County alone.

place come out of high risk situations. Their birth parents are making the courageous decision to place them in order to ensure them a better life.

It takes concerned family members, committed foster parents, community leaders, case managers and the youth themselves working together to find

While our Adoption program is small, Good Shepherd helped 145 direct

permanent loving homes. Good Shepherd provided Foster Care services to

clients, mostly assisting hopeful parents with home studies and through the

535 direct clients and 952 indirect clients; 100% according to court records

process of adoption, and 468 indirect clients. We also placed 6 babies in

and hotline reports are free from substantiated cases of child abuse and/or

permanent homes with their new parents.

neglect.

Maternity Residential Service

Expectant Parent Service

There were more than 10,000 foster youth in Missouri in 2012 and over 1,500

Missouri ranked 20th in the United States in low birthweight infants and 27th

of them were placed in some sort of residential or group living environment.

in infant mortality in 2013 – the most recent statistical year. The figures in St.

In the same year Missouri ranked 30th with regard to births to teen moms.

Louis City and County for both exceeded the state average.

These are significant indicators for low educational and employment attainment, child abuse and neglect, premature birth and low birth weight.

Our Expectant Parent program has assisted women in the St. Louis region facing a crisis pregnancy, virtually all from poverty, for more than 30 years.

In 2014 Good Shepherd temporarily housed and cared for 80 of these

In 2014 we helped 143 direct clients and 427 of their family members and

youth, including 22 pregnant and/or parenting teens in our Maternity shelter,

others interested in their welfare - and 84% of their babies were born with a

and assisted 52 indirect clients related to their cases. Over 90% of all our

healthy birthweight.

residents maintained or improved their academic performance and 100% of our Maternity clients gained positive parenting and/or co-parenting skills.

OUR YEAR TOGETHER ••

Our Administrative team started planning for Treatment Foster Care homes. TFC is intended as an alternative to institutional (residential) care for youth in foster care who struggle with significant emotional and behavioral problems that have prevented them from living successfully in a more normative setting. TFC is aimed at matching troubled youth with specially trained foster parents who receive intensive support from a team of professionals here at Good Shepherd. The youth in this program will be precisely the sort of kids we worked with in our residential program, but TFC will provide for their care in a family setting with professional foster

Our work at Good Shepherd in 2014 was all about bringing people TOGETHER - to care for the at-risk youth and troubled families of our Greater St. Louis community.

••

For years, the number of beds in

young clients. The new fun-raiser joins

residential care facilities has been far

our new Baby Shower and our annual

exceeding the number of foster youth

Christmas Collect to Connect as ways

who need them. Good Shepherd,

to get involved, get to know us, and get

working together with our fellow

to have fun with friends.

children and family service agencies, has continuously improved in finding

••

Our Maternity staff threw a Graduation

permanent placements for our young

Party for three of our young women in

clients and the best residential care

residence who completed their high

for those who needed it than our small

school degrees.

parents. Three of our staffers became certified trainers in the evidenced based curriculum we have adopted for TFC. Although TFC is not new to St. Louis, we are not aware of any program that is modeled like ours or any that have adopted an evidence-based curriculum like the one we’ve chosen.

•• We featured a unique fund-a-need challenge at our traditional Golf event (what many of our friends call the best charity golf tournament in the St. Louis area). The Credits 4 Kids Challenge was created to inform our supporters about the benefit and impact of Missouri charitable tax credits.

facility could continue to provide. In 2014 we said goodbye (a fond and nostalgic one) to our traditional residential youth who found new transitional or permanent homes making way for the space to shelter more Maternity clients who need our help.

••

We introduced a new event for making new friends that was both high energy and high impact – Dodge Ball Cause for Kids! Two event sponsors, 20 teams and 180 players joined us at St. Mary’s High School Gym for a lot of dodging, ducking, dipping, diving and donating and raised almost $10,000 for our

•• Good Shepherd received a donation from an anonymous supporter that completely funded the renovation of our residential facility to prepare for an expanded maternity shelter and a visitation room for client families.

••

We expanded our Expectant Parent program to serve young women facing a crisis pregnancy in Jefferson County.

THE NUMBERS TOGETHER STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2014 CHANGES IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS

MISSION SUPPORT

Revenues and gains:

5%

3%

Contributions, pledges, bequests and grants Government Fees and Grants

13%

26%

Total Support $3,714,907

16%

613,580 1,925,292

Investment Income

110,457

Fees and Services

239,178

Net gain (loss) sale, disposal or impairment of property

-

Other Revenue Total unrestricted revenues and gains

7,053 2,895,559

Net assets released from restrictions: Restrictions satisfied by time

744,509

Restrictions satisfied by purpose Total net assets released from restrictions

33% Contributions Government Grants

Total unrestricted revenues, gains and other support $515,517 $1,925,292

Private Grants

$178,957

Fees and Services

$239,178

Other

$111,454

United Way

$744,509

74,838 819,347 3,714,907

Expenses: Program

3,397,108

Management and general

319,129

Fund-raising

182,699

Total expenses

3,898,935

Change in unrestricted net assets from operating activities

(184,028)

Nonoperating:

MISSION INVESTMENT

20% 3% 6% 5%

Change in unrestricted net assets

14%

CHANGES IN TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS: Contributions and other Net investment gain

Total Investment $3,898,935 52%

Residential Care

$1,136,194

Foster Care

$1,276,741

Maternity Care

$639,129

Administration

$501,827

Expectant Parent

$209,613

Adoption Services

$135,431

(184,028)

Net assets released from restrictions Change in temporarily restricted net assets

912,662 0 (819,347) 93,315

CHANGES IN PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS CHANGE IN NET ASSETS

(90,714)

NET ASSETS - Beginning of year

6,613,610

NET ASSETS - End of year

6,522,897

OUR STEWARDSHIP TOGETHER

Board of Directors and Officers: Fiscal Year 2014 The most significant decision our Board made in 2014 for our Good Shepherd mission was to discontinue our traditional Residential Care program. Their deliberation and vote was a bold investment of both mind and heart for our clients. The financial side of the decision paves the way for investment of resources in the growing need of care for teen moms and their babies making the best use of our expertise in transitional living residency and pregnancy services. The heart investment was ending a storied and respected legacy of care for at-risk foster youth stretching back to the traditional orphanages of St. Joseph’s Home and Father Dunne’s Home for Boys. It took courage to entrust their care to excellent partners and strength to say good-bye to young men and women they loved.

OFFICERS

MEMBERS

Mr. Danny Stevens, President

Mr. Richard Benkelman, Jr

Vice President, Huntleigh McGehee

Vice President, Crown Packaging Corp.

Mr. Norm Conley, Vice-President

Mr. Michael Burns

President and CEO, J.A. Glynn & Co.

Executive Vice President, KBM Group

Mr. Michael Devereux, Treasurer

Ms. Kristin Croce

CFO, Emerging Businesses Resources

Associate, Polsinelli Shughart PC

Corp.

Mr. Michael Devereux, II Ms. Jeannette Bax-Kurtz, Secretary

Tax Consultant, Mueller Prost PC

CPA and Owner, Mueller Prost PC Mr. Jamie Dunphy Owner Agent, American Family Life Insurance Mr. Michael Evans Partner, Anders CPAs + Advisors Ms. Rosie Ford Account Development Manager, Switch Ms. Mary Paspalas Lazare Executive Director, Friendship Village South

Ms. Kym Martin-Stewart Manager of Business Intelligence, Boeing Company Mr. Mark Mueller Attorney, The Law Office of Mark Mueller, LLC Ms. Cheryl Muniz Senior Vice President, Cassidy Turley Commercial Real Estate Mr. Dale Oberkfell Banker and CPA, Midwest BankCentre Mr. Michael Rupinski COO, L. Keeley Construction Company Ms. Theresa Ruzicka President, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of St. Louis

OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER

OUR PARTNERSHIP TOGETHER

Community Events

United Way: Donors to the United Way of Greater St. Louis provided nearly 20% of the funds we need to help our kids and families.

St. Louis County Children’s Services Fund: CSF provided more than 10% of the financial resources we need to deliver or Nurturing Kids and Nurturing Teens services.

Catholic Charities: One of the many

Old Newsboys Day (November): Once again our staff volunteered to hawk the Old Newsboys newspapers for “tips” benefiting children’s agencies and Good Shepherd was featured in the Special Edition.

Orlando’s Family Foundation Gala (January): Representatives from Good Shepherd sponsored by a great friend and supporter attended this notable south St. Louis social event that benefits many charities.

Give STL Day (May): Good Shepherd participated in this first ever “online event” sponsored by United Way and the Greater St. Louis Community Foundation to see how much money could be raised in a day for hundreds of St. Louis area nonprofits – over $1 million!

Deloitte Impact Day (June): In an expression of sweat equity Deloitte employees work on thousands of projects in one day for charities worldwide.

About 15 of them went to work staining a fence and landscaping the grounds of Good Shepherd.

Go to Bat for Kids Day (June): At this annual event sponsored by Catholic Charities where thousands of kids get to go to a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game, our Good Shepherd foster parents who had just adopted brother and sister siblings they had cared for were the feature guest and the

FEDERATION MEMBER

ways in which Catholic Charities helps Good Shepherd and many of the other seven agencies of the federation is to promote the availability of our Missouri charitable tax credits helping us attract more than $400,000 in donations.

Archdiocese of St. Louis Annual Catholic Appeal: Good Shepherd is only one of hundreds of grateful schools, healthcare and human service agencies that benefit from the charity of Catholics, non-Catholics and people with no religion in the St. Louis area.

Children’s Trust Fund: Our partners in preventing child abuse and neglect not only provide financial support for our efforts, but also help raise the awareness of Good Shepherd in our association with the familiar kids’ handprints on Missouri license plates.

young man threw out the first pitch!

Council on Accreditation: We

Volunteers

are one of more than 2,200 child welfare, behavioral health and community-based agencies and programs accredited by this international organization.

The mission of Good Shepherd was enriched and inspired by the work we did together in 2014 with 153 volunteers providing 1,295 hours of time and talent for our kids and families.

Missouri Coalition of Children’s Agencies: Our Executive Director is a

Collect to Connect Projects: Collecting needed items is a personal

Board of Directors member of this children’s advocacy partnership.

way of connecting to our clients, like collecting diapers for our Maternity moms and their babies. Twenty-four schools, churches and community organizations hosted collection projects coordinated by over 70 volunteers (not including the hundreds of their members who voluntarily donated items).

This included our annual Christmas Collect to Connect that brought in over 500 presents for our kids and their families.

Special Eventers: Forty of our volunteers provided more than 300 hours in service to help make our Dodge Ball, Golf and Baby Shower successful special events.

Children’s Services Coalition: Our Executive Director is the Co-Chair of the Membership Committee and Vice President of CSC. Better Business Bureau: Good Shepherd is an A+ BBB Accredited Charity and Seal Holder that meets all 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

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