KidsTLC 2020 Annual Report TABLE OF CONTENTS
2020 YEAR IN REVIEW — 1 A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO — 4 JEN & RUSSELL’S STORY — 5
JULY
Year in Review
Recognized in Reader’s Digest
ADVISORY BOARD — 8
OUR MISSION:
KidsTLC Open golf tournament sells out again!
KidsTLC exists to transform the lives of children and families experiencing mental and behavioral health challenges, developmental trauma and autism.
Dr. Steve Massey joins KidsTLC as Chief Administrative Officer
Outdoor movie nights on campus entertain residential clients and staff
JUNE
2020
Inclusion & Change workshops hosted by staff, for staff
Innovative Pop-up online auction raises crucial funds for all programs
KidsTLC appears on Fox 4 morning show and in IN Kansas City magazine
JCYM weighted blanket project underway
CHARITIES FOUNDATION BOARD — 8 REVENUE & EXPENSES — 8
FEBRUARY
APRIL
VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTIONS — 8
Residential clients give back to community through volunteer outreach efforts
Received unprecedented support for PPE from community to keep services running safely
THANK YOU, DONORS! — 9
Lotus Clinics & Trellis Center transition from on-campus to telehealth and at-home services
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teenager with Autism and Tourette Syndrome, I thought I was equipped to manage my son’s mental and behavioral health challenges. We were already participating in many
and our routine was upended. Both of us were struggling and things reached a breaking point.
Dear Friends,
Finding the right care and getting him in therapy was a
For more than 49 years, KidsTLC has remained a pillar in the
strength for our current and future financial stability, we were
metropolitan area, dedicated to transforming lives. Thanks to
able to take a significant step toward expanding our campus.
NOVEMBER Partner with Town Center Plaza/Town Center Crossing for largest holiday-season gift drive
struggle I didn’t expect. Unfortunately, there is more need
Getting help for Russell at KidsTLC also came with
for treatment than there are available places. We faced an
services for me as a parent. I have accessed respite
8-month wait before Russell could get into a psychiatric
services, which give parents a break to avoid caregiver
residential treatment facility (PRTF). But fortunately, we
burnout. I have joined parent support groups, which can
landed at KidsTLC.
help parents know they’re not alone. I have participated in
partners, that commitment to transformation only grew in 2020
There are far too many children waiting to receive quality mental
and further served to accelerate change in meeting the
and behavioral healthcare, and our agency knew we had to leap
enormous need for mental and behavioral health services in our
on an opportunity to expand, regardless of the pandemic. In
The thing that has made all the difficult emotions and
community, state and metropolitan area. As unpredictable and
July of 2020, KidsTLC purchased the neighboring skilled-nursing
experiences worth it, is knowing how much getting help at
turbulent as 2020 was, the theme of resilience was never more
facility and completed the final renovations needed to open in
KidsTLC has improved Russell’s life and our relationship.
I don’t want this to read like the process was easy for us,
apparent as we embraced the unpredictable, recommitted to
November. KidsTLC added its seventh building to our campus
Russell has built friendships that make him feel
because it wasn’t. Every step was hard, and there were
not only our clients and their families but to our incredible staff
and welcomed hope-filled kids to their new, temporary home
understood. He has developed coping skills and
many sacrifices. There were days of fear, agony, heartache
just days before the holidays in December of 2020.
confidence that he wouldn’t have without the program. He
and all the emotions you feel when you see a loved one
also learned to take responsibility for his actions and
unhappy. There is still a lot of work we will continue to do,
reactions. He is very proud of all he has accomplished and
but I am so happy to have my 15-year-old baby boy back
isn’t ashamed for others to know how hard he had to work
home with me and hear his laugh every day.
and community walking beside us every step of the way.
MARCH
As a behavioral health professional and a mom of a
online, in-person support services were no longer available
A N OTE FROM OUR CEO: RESILIENCY ABOUNDS
the strength and passion of our staff, volunteers and community
OCTOBER
MAY JANUARY
‘FORTUNATELY, WE LANDED AT KIDSTLC’
services, but then the pandemic happened. School moved
SEPTEMBER
KIDSTLC PROGRAMMING — 6 BOARD OF DIRECTORS — 8
AUGUST
The year began with KidsTLC embarking on a new 5-year
Through these young lives, filled with resilience, determination
strategic plan, focused on helping even more children and their
and hope, we knew we made the right decision. KidsTLC not
families who are facing mental and behavioral health challenges.
only survived 2020, but thrived in our mission to transform lives.
The Core Values set forth in the plan - commitment, communication, compassion, competence and connection, help
family therapy, which strengthens communication and gives parents tools to effectively relate to their children.
to get where he is now. I feel grateful every day for the progress he has made.
— Jen Robertson, MS, CSP
Sincerely,
set the standards that will guide our growth through the next
DECEMBER
five years. And, even though the global pandemic required
Renovations complete on building 7 and new residential clients move in!
embrace health and safety with a new focus, and seek new
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KidsTLC to pivot the manner in which we provide some services,
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Dr. Erin Dugan, President & CEO
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