2017 Annual Report

Helping keep kids safe in Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook, and surrounding counties.

child abuse evaluations and consults took place at KIDS Center

children, youth, and families were served through KIDS Center programs

families received critical Family Support Services

adults participated in our Prevention, Education, and outreach efforts

adults and children who received ongoing therapy through KIDS Center

Children receive multiple services from KIDS Center. Number above will not add up to total number of individuals served.

From KIDS Center’s Executive Director While nationwide trends in child abuse rates are debated, here in Central Oregon, we not only continue to see growing demand for child abuse evaluations, but also for our mental health, advocacy, and family support services. In addition to the growing need for child abuse support services, KIDS Center has experienced increased enrollment in our prevention education and training courses. Over the past year, KIDS Center served a total of 3,830 children, youth, and adults with critical services and trainings.

Currently, KIDS Center provides training and technical assistance to seven counties and Warm Springs as part of our statewide regional Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Intervention (CAMI) Fund grant. A key training hosted by KIDS Center and covered by these funds, Drug Exposed Children, provided an overview of issues related to substance exposure to children, and covered the challenges related to the legalization of marijuana. This vital assistance ensures that staff from child abuse intervention centers (CAICs), law enforcement, medical providers, and child welfare agencies receive the tools they need to provide the best intervention, assessment, and investigation of child abuse cases.

To ensure that our services are there for every child when they need us, KIDS Center engaged in a thorough strategic planning process with a focus on enhancing organizational performance to better serve our most important clientele: children and families. Key outcomes include:

1 to quality services;

Improving client access

2 available to provide these services; and Ensuring sufficient resources are

3 and technology resources.

Optimization of key staff, process,

Over the next biennium, KIDS Center will be implementing these initiatives. Our overarching goal? To maximize the impact of every dollar KIDS Center receives for the benefit of those we serve.

I continue to be heartened by the strength and courage of the children and parents who pass through our doors; the many individuals who protect children by taking our prevention trainings; the work of KIDS Center staff and community partners; and the dedication of you, our donors. Appropriately addressing child abuse is crucial in building a healthy and strong Central Oregon, and it is in partnership with you, that we continue to strive toward this end.

KIDS Center clients whose abuse took place in the home

Children visiting KIDS Center in 2017, experienced the following types of abuse domestic violence

106

drug endangered

86

psychological

113

neglect

68

Physical

114

Sexual

161

While each child seen at KIDS Center is referred for a specific concern of abuse, children often experience multiple types of abuse.

children served by KIDS Center were 10 and younger

188 97%

204 169

KIDS Center clients knew their alleged offender

Children disclosed their abuse at KIDS Center

A Family's road to healing When a child is abused, the entire family is often affected. With the growth of our Therapy Program and our collaboration with Deschutes County Behavioral Health (DCBH), KIDS Center provides both short and long-term, evidence-based therapeutic support for the entire family. At KIDS Center, this mental health support begins during a Child Abuse Evaluation, and can lead to on-going therapy with minimal to no wait time.

The following story briefly illustrates the support one family received through our Therapy Program. This family came through KIDS Center for a Child Abuse Evaluation after one of three daughters was sexually abused by her father.

DCBH Two DCBH therapists are located on-site two days a week to provide therapy to KIDS Center families. This relationship increases our therapy availability to families, decreasing wait times and allowing an entire family to be seen in one location.

While at KIDS Center, mom met with the Therapist of the Day, who provided psycho-education on the potential short and long-term effects of sexual abuse and assessed for on-going therapy needs. Through the collaboration with DCBH therapists, all three children engaged in therapy. Initially, while here for her daughter’s Evidence-Based Child Abuse Evaluation, mom was hesitant to engage in therapy herself, EMDR, TF-CBT, PCIT Therapist of but decided to meet with a KIDS Center therapist for a few sessions.

This increased education and support influenced her decision to the Day engage in on-going therapy for herself at KIDS Center, where she Provides on-site mental health support for all Child learned how to better support her children and understand how her Abuse Evaluations as well daughter’s abuse affected her entire family. Engaging in therapy at the Minimal to as to community calls same location allowed the therapists to work together on no wait time and walk-in needs. supporting the family’s healing. The family eventually Therapy appointments are moved out of state; however, they continue scheduled with KC or DCBH Few sessions to receive emotional support and advocacy from their therapists at the time of the For caregivers who are Child Abuse Evaluation with KIDS Center therapist by phone and in person during not ready for or do not a maximum wait time local court dates. This family’s experience illustrates need long-term therapy. of two weeks. the impact that therapy can have on the healing Therapists provide process from child abuse. psycho-education around emotional support.

Supporting Schools, Saving Kids!

Erin’s Law (SB 856) requires Oregon public schools to provide child sexual abuse prevention instruction for all grades.

In July of 2015, the Oregon Legislature passed SB 856 (Sexual Abuse Prevention Instruction), known as Erin’s Law, which requires public schools to provide child sexual abuse prevention instruction for all grades kindergarten through twelfth. The law requires a professional training component that specifically addresses administrators, teachers, and other school personnel. The training teaches educators how to effectively communicate child sexual abuse prevention techniques to students, the effects of child sexual abuse on children, and how to handle child disclosures and the accompanying mandatory reporting components. Additionally, the law requires parents and caregivers to receive information about child sexual abuse prevention techniques.

Over the last 18 months, KIDS Center’s Prevention Department has been hard at work reviewing new curriculums to meet Erin’s Law, talking with partners statewide about how to best implement Erin’s Law, and working with our local schools to ensure they are meeting this new mandate. We are currently working with the Bend-La Pine Schools (BLPS) to assist in all aspects of their implementation. We have started Phase 1, which consists of training all school personnel by March 31, 2018. Alongside our work with BLPS, we are also supporting schools throughout the tri-county area who are ready to begin implementation.

To help fund this new prevention work, we have received a generous grant from our friends at The Ford Family Foundation. We truly believe this is an important effort for KIDS Center to be a part of, and we are excited to see the impact it will have on keeping children safe. Initially, we expect to see an increase in disclosures by kids, with the ultimate goal of seeing a decline in the severity of abuse as kids are learning to speak up earlier in their experience and/or at younger ages.

The Meaning Behind A Child's Words Did you know that KIDS Center Medical Examiners and Forensic Interviewers are frequently called upon to testify in court about their expertise in child abuse? In 2017 alone, KIDS Center Examiners and Interviewers received 200 subpoenas and spent over 100 hours preparing and testifying in Grand Jury and trials throughout Oregon.

One of the primary reasons that KIDS Center exists, is to limit the number of times a child has to tell their story. And, while KIDS Center staff cannot testify in place of a child, providing expert witness testimony educates juries about the nuances of child abuse. Not only does the expert witness testimony aid in prosecution, it also relieves children of the sole burden of conveying the details and subsequent impact of their abuse. This is a vital role to help juries understand the difficulty and complexity that comes with child abuse disclosures, especially since children as young as three are required to participate in the legal process if a case proceeds to court.

Stacy Neil, Deschutes County Deputy District Attorney, explains, “KIDS Center staff that serve as expert witnesses are absolutely vital in the presentation of our cases.

Because sexual abuse is a crime conducted in secret, we often depend on a child’s word as the strongest form of evidence. KIDS Center experts help us to provide the necessary knowledge for juries so that they are better equipped to evaluate the evidence and testimony.”

“KIDS Center staff that serve as expert witnesses are absolutely vital in the presentation of our cases.”

-Stacy Neil, Deschutes County Deputy District Attorney

Imagine for a moment that a police officer knocks at your door and tells you that your three-year-old child has made a disclosure of sexual abuse to his/her daycare provider. Your head is spinning; you are given instructions about KIDS Center from the Police Officer, and told that a medical evaluation is being recommended. You take your child to KIDS Center for the medical examination; your child shares with KIDS Center’s evaluation team what happened to them, as best they can, and you are reassured that your child’s body is without injury.

Knowing your child is safe and healthy, your mind now turns to the legal case, and what, if anything, can be done to help your child’s case to ensure their perpetrator is held accountable and stopped from harming additional victims. You are worried that your child is too young to be able to provide information in a court setting. KIDS Center’s team explains that their responsibilities do not end when your child leaves the building or when the reports are completed and sent off to the investigating agencies. When needed, KIDS Center is available to provide expert witness testimony when called upon by the District Attorney’s Office.

Hearing, helping, healing children and families impacted by child abuse.

Costs of direct services for 1 child All direct services are provided at no cost to the family.

Medical Exam

$2,797

Forensic Interview

$1,290

Comprehensive Therapy Services

$2,800

Family Support and Advocacy

$613

2017

2017 Operating Expense $2,453,340 Events $460,555

Fundraising and Administration costs remain constant while KIDS Center’s operating budget expands to meet the growing need for services.

Prevention & Education $279,758

19%

In 2017, additional services were developed to help schools implement Erin’s Law.

11%

Fundraising $150,419

6%

Administrative & General $107,635

Each medical evaluation costs approx. $4,000.

Insurance reimbursements equate to less than 40% of the actual cost.

4%

Group Therapy $66,942

3%

KIDS Center hired two new therapists to meet the expanding need for individual and family therapeutic services.

Board of Directors

Therapy Services $153,948

6%

Evaluation Program $1,026,200

42%

Family Support Program $207,883

Executive Director Shelly Smith

9%

2017 Operating Revenue $2,453,340 Newly negotiated rates with Public Funds include revenue from county agencies’ support law enforcement, lottery funds, and some county offices.

all insurance carriers result in higher reimbursements for child abuse exams.

Surplus $112,895

This surplus will be allocated to program growth and long-term sustainability.

1%

Revenue from events like Cork & Barrel and our Healing Hearts Luncheon help provide KIDS Center’s vital services at no cost to the families.

Public Funds $187,329

7%

KIDS Center is a private non-profit and receives no tax payer dollars.

Events $717,376

29%

Federal & State Grants $556,564

Events Corp Sponsors $171,000

22%

7%

Individual $323,902 Private Foundations $203,345

8%

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United Way $21,338

<1%

Finance Director Holly West

13%

Deschutes County Tammy Baney Shannon Bauhofer Lilian Chu Patti Craveiro Dick Donaca Joanne Donaca Jim Dover Chris Gardner Ted Hetzel Janet Hiatt

Teresa Hogue Linda Huston Andy Jordan Jeff Klein Mike McNeil Sue Shepardson Bob Smit Marda Stoliar Diana Tomseth Jan Wick

crook County

Corporate Partners $20,172

In-Kind Donations $110,912

KIDS Center received $60,000 to fund our new work helping schools implement Erin’s Law - SB 856.

Director of Development & Prevention Robin Antonson

Advisory Councils

Program Revenue $230,700 Contracts $23,597 9%

4%

Justin Phillips, Chair Dr. Jeff Absalon, Vice Chair Ginny Haarberg, Treasurer Dave DeRose, Secretary Molly Carroll Ali Dietz David Gilmore Margi Heater Joel Hoff Dr. Megan Karnopp Eric King Jay Mathisen Sue McWilliams Stacy Neil Annie Nelson Jason Nuñez-Mooney Jeff Patterson Eric Roach Dr. Blair Struble Dr. Shilo Tippett Daina Vitolins

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As KIDS Center’s budget increases to meet the growing need for services, Individual and Corporate Donors keep pace...Thank you!

Terri Andreasen Mona Boyd Eric Bush Kim Bush Muriel DeLaVergne-Brown Joel Hoff Wendy Perrin

jefferson County Ken Clark Heather Crow-Martinez Cindy Hess-Mondoy Barbara Ibrahim Nancy Seylor Dr. Shilo Tippett