San Diego Center for Children - Impact Report - 2021-2022

MISSION

IMPACT REPORT 2 0 2 1 – 2 0 2 2 We empower children and families through transformative mental health care and educational services.

VISION

Inspire a world where children and families live joyful, healthy lives.

MISSION & VISION

The generosity from our partners in the community allows us to continue to work with youth and families to help them overcome their struggles with mental, emotional, or behavioral health challenges by providing accessible and effective mental health care.

San Diego Center for Children is the leading non-profit children’s mental healthcare provider in our region.

Our skilled and compassionate team is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families through nationally accredited mental health and educational programs. We provide a hopeful path for a better future to thousands of families every year; and we’ve been doing it since 1887.

Last year, we were able to empower the lives of

11,037 youth

and family members through our services. Thank you for helping us continue our legacy as San Diego’s oldest children’s nonprofit.

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Welcome to San Diego Center for Children’s 2021-2022 Impact Report.

We are delighted to present this comprehensive overview of our organization’s work.

The need for the services the Center provides has never been greater as we see not only more youth impacted, but also an increase in the severity of the conditions we treat. We are grateful for the support we receive as we redouble our efforts to provide quality, responsive and accessible care to the many youth and families in need.

This report not only highlights our achievements but also sheds light on the critical issues affecting children and families struggling with mental health challenges.

As we reflect on the year, we know that with the support of our community we will continue to provide compassionate and transformative mental health care and educational services to those in need. Thank you for your continued partnership and support. Together we will create the necessary change that will have a lasting impact on the community we serve.

Welcome

Dear Friends and Supporters,

With Gratitude,

Moisés Barón, Ph.D.

Lisa Goodman

president & ceo

chairperson of the board of trustees

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Youth Served by Race/Ethnicity Ages 0-21

Our

Impact

40% CAUCASIAN 24% LATINX 20% OTHER/MULTIRACIAL 12% AFRICAN-AMERICAN 1% UNKNOWN 2% ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER 1% AMERICAN-INDIAN

93%

of youth were discharged to a lower or same level of care after treatment

100%

family involvement during youth treatment

Youth Served by Gender Ages 0-21 42% Female 52% Male 6% Other

Over 24 Master’s and Doctoral graduate students from 12 programs participated in our professional training programs in the areas of psychology, counseling, special education and social work.

Our Program Sites

95% of youth

avoided psychiatric hospitalization

Carlsbad San Marcos

22% of the

11,037 youth we serve are foster youth

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Every zip code in San Diego County • Receive referrals from throughout California • Contract with every School District in the County

San Pasqual Escondido Poway Mission Valley

Linda Vista

Main Campus

El Cajon La Mesa Spring Valley

Crisis in Pediatric Mental Health

Youth mental health indicators are moving in the wrong direction: • 20 to 25% will experience

a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder by age 18.

• Suicide is now the second

leading cause of death for children and teens.

• Hospital Emergency

Departments are reporting an alarming increase in psychiatric cases (Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego reported a 1,746% increase from 2011 to 2019).

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n December 7 of 2021, the Surgeon General of the United States issued an unprecedented advisory calling attention to a pediatric mental health crisis that has been magnified by the pandemic.

Current data indicates that more than 25% of all youth may experience a mental, emotional and/or behavioral disorder. In addition to the increasing number of youth impacted by mental health difficulties, access to care is now a significant challenge. This lack of access to appropriate levels of care represents a serious gap for our region’s most vulnerable who may already may be experiencing adverse childhood experiences, adverse community environments, and socio-cultural challenges.

The Center recognizes that to effectively meet the increasing mental health needs of our youth, a more integrated approach to the delivery of services to children with mental health challenges and their families is needed. This approach needs to be rooted in early identification and intervention to prevent mental health challenges from becoming acute or chronic problems, and in removing existing barriers to access care. To that end the Center has built an integrated continuum of services to help families gain timely access to appropriate mental health services.

Provide Access to Mental Health Care for Youth and Families in Need We are creating a unique program where families will have access to screenings and services regardless of their ability to pay.

Expand and Develop Intensive Outpatient Services We are increasing our capacity due to the demand for more intensive clinical services for youth in our region by expanding capacity of our current Intensive Outpatient treatment Program (IOP) and working to develop a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) for youth that need to step down from prior hospitalization, or residential care.

Meet and Address the Increasing Mental Health Needs in our Community Through our local and state partnerships we are improving access to a full continuum of mental health services to youth and families in need, especially for those covered by MediCal. Thanks to strong partnerships and community support, we are working together to build a better understanding to respond to the significant challenges our youth are experiencing and ensure, so that no youth or family in need is left untreated.

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Updated Mission and Values

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his past year, due to generous support from a donor, the Center was able to embark on a journey to refresh and rebrand. We’re thrilled to share with you the updated brand identity, created in partnership with Verasoni Worldwide that will help advance our mission to provide transformative mental health care and educational services to children and families in need.

Why a rebrand?

For over 136 years, the Center has been providing hope and healing to those in need.

These past few years have made it clear that our work is more important than ever, and this rebrand set out to achieve these critical goals:

Mission We empower children and families through transformative mental health care and educational services.

Vision Inspire a world where children and families live joyful, healthy lives.

1. Refresh the brand logo that will project

San Diego Center for Children’s clinical expertise but is also warm and approachable.

2. Create a new mission statement that clearly reflects and communicates the work that is being done at the Center every day.

3. Build out of all visuals across all platforms that will give the Center a distinctive and

contemporary look and feel through all communications.

4. Website redesign so that it will clearly

communicate our programs and services and is simple to navigate so that families can easily find the help they need.

What’s next?

The Center has begun to roll out our new look across our social media platforms, external communications and program collateral material.

Special thank you to Center staff and community members who spent time engaging in this process. With a history of evolving to meet the needs of our community and the incredible clinical expertise, we are setting the stage for growth and transformation of children’s mental health care in San Diego.

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A Partnership Between Organizations in Two States

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an Diego Center for Children and America Can! Cars for Kids Launch a New Partnership to Help Kids in Need.

The Center has recently partnered with America Can! Cars for Kids to receive additional resources to help respond to the mental health crisis children and families are experiencing.

Cars For Kids, a nonprofit organization based out of Dallas, Texas has been in operation since 1992. Their mission of soliciting vehicle donations and then auctioning them off provides financial support to help kids get back in school to earn their high school diploma.

The organization receives vehicle donations from across the country with a majority of the donations coming from California.

“Our mission at Cars for Kids continues to impact the lives of kids in California through the incredible work being done at the San Diego Center for Children. We are proud to be a part of an organization with focus on mental health and resources that serve children in need and their families.” Cars for Kids CEO, Colin Weatherwax The Center is honored to be the first nonprofit in California to establish a partnership with Cars for Kids. Together, we will continue with our efforts to benefit youth and families struggling with significant mental health challenges.

Joint Commission Reaccreditation

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an Diego Center for Children was reaccredited for The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Behavioral Health Care Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards.

The Gold Seal of Approval® is a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to providing safe and effective care.

The Center underwent a rigorous survey of reviews for compliance with behavioral health care standards related to several areas, including: care, treatment, and services; environment of care; leadership; and screening procedures. The Center has continually maintained this highest level of care since 2013.

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In Memoriam:

A Tribute to Joesph Binning AKA, Wacky Willy

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oseph (Joe) Binning was an inspiration and staunch supporter of the San Diego Center for Children.

He was generous with his time, his treasure and his wisdom and brought so much joy to the children, families and staff at the Center. Through his roles as Wacky Willy and a member of the Board of Trustees, Joe’s dedication to the mission of the Center was always his top priority. The Center is so very grateful for the meaningful ways in which he touched so many hearts.

Mentored Internship Program (MIP)

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he Center was awarded a $1.3 million dollar grant (over 2 years) through the California’s Department of Health Care Services Behavioral Health Workforce Development program. The goal of the funding is to support and expand the statewide behavioral health workforce in California.

With the recent grant funding, the Center successfully provided clinical training opportunities to master’s level clinicians

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in six programs. We had 11 interns in the first year and expanded to 19 in the second year.

In addition to routine clinical supervision, current clinical staff provide mentorship to the interns. Grant funds are used for intern stipends and to offset the cost of the staff providing supervision and mentorship. Interns also receive additional training through monthly and quarterly webinars.

135th Anniversary Celebration Cherishing the Joys of Childhood

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he Center’s 135th Anniversary Celebration was back in person!

After two years of virtual events, it was wonderful to gather together to celebrate in person! With the help of our wonderful Honorary Chairs, Phyllis and David Snyder, the Center was able to successfully continue the tradition of highlighting our youth, families, and staff, as well as appreciate our generous supporters. This year’s PATH Award was given to The JEM Project for their transformational grants awarded to the Center that have helped to empower families and youth struggling with mental

health challenges. Over $450,000 was raised to help support our programs and services countywide!

Toy Drive

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ur holiday toy drive was a great success as supporters drovein and dropped-off gifts for youth served by the Center.

Along with our wonderful Donation Station partners in the community, the Center collected lots of toys, games and gift cards. We truly appreciate our incredible supporters for helping to make the season bright for youth and families.

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YOUR IMPACT

Our Amazing Volunteers

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ur community continues to provide incredible support to the Center throughout the year!

Through volunteer days on our main campus to community drives to collect supplies for our youth and staff, and food for families in need, we are so grateful…

BOMA Volunteer Group Project A big THANK YOU to the dozens of wonderful volunteers from BOMA San Diego! This amazing group spent their Saturday morning beautifying the Center’s main campus in Linda Vista with a fresh coat of paint and new mulch in needed areas. We are so grateful to our partners in the community for supporting our children and families in many ways.

Back to School Drive Thank you to everyone who donated to our back-to-school drive. We could not have had such a fantastic turn out without the help of our community. These donations will equip our youth with the supplies they need to start the school year off in a safe and supported way.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND TO BECOME MORE INVOLVED, PLEASE VISIT CENTERFORCHILDREN.ORG.

FUNDRAISING EVENTS

Kids Classic Golf Tournament

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ur 3rd Annual Kids Classic Golf Tournament was a big hit at Rancho Bernardo Inn. The event sold out for another year, and raised over $260,000. With support from over 20 sponsors, guests enjoyed a sunny day of golf, fun and networking – including on-course games and interactive stations, silent auction and raffle prizes. A great time was had by all.

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Financial Stability Statement of Financial Position

Expenses

$

22,037,864

$

18,954,388

Total Liabilities

$

5,422,527

$

5,619,883

Total Net Assets

$

16,615,337

$

13,334,505

Total Liabilities & Net Assets

$

22,037,864

$

18,954,388

Statement of Activities for June 30, 2022

1% Fundraising

Total Assets

9% Overhead

6/30/2021

89% Services

6/30/2022

REVENUE AND SUPPORT Fees for services - county & school districts

$

17,002,778

Fees for services - non-government

$

4,207,938

Fundraising

$

3,260,881

Other income

$

4,105,241

Total revenue and support

$ 28,576,838

Revenue & Support

59%

EXPENSES Services

$

22,574,227

Overhead

$

2,346,099

Fundraising

$

375,680

Total expenses

$ 25,296,006

Change in net assets

$

3,280,832

Net assets beginning of year

$

13,334,505

Net assets end of year

$

16,615,337

Fee for services county and school districts

11%

Fundraising

14%

Other income

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15%

Fee for services non-government

Leadership Team Board of Trustees Moisés Barón, Ph.D., President & CEO San Diego Center for Children

Lisa Goodman, Chair of the Board Vice President Mercer Advisors

Joseph Binning, Vice Chair of the Board Vice President Mercer Advisors

Dori Wittman

Lidia S. Martinez

Vice President HUB International

Partner ¡Adelante! Strategies

Anne Garland, Ph.D.

John Mattison, MD

Professor at USD Founding Chair of the Department of Counseling & Marital and Family Therapy Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD

Operating Partner/Chief Medical Information Officer Arsenal Capital Partners Assistant Medical Director, Chief Health Information Officer, Emeritus Kaiser Permanente, Southern California

Ben Gordon Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer at SDG&E

Eliot Peters, Treasurer of the Board Principal RA Capital Advisors

Stephanie Cone, MD, Secretary of the Board Pediatrician Consultant, The JEM Project Foundation

Advisory Council Jodie Brokowski, Esq. General Counsel Children’s Specialists of San Diego

Phyllis Snyder Active Community Leader Rest Haven Children’s Health Fund Rady Children’s Hospital

Senior Leadership Moisés Barón, Ph.D. President & CEO

Tim Carter

Bobbi Norris Chief Financial Officer

Attorney at Law Marriage and Family Therapist

Director, Alternative Funding Solutions Employee Benefits Division Barney & Barney, Marsh & McLennan Agency

Veronica Rubio

Jacqueline L. Greulich

Patricia Riley

Umpqua Wealth Management Senior Vice President, Senior Private Wealth Advisor

Assoc. Dir., Real Estate Student and Career Services University of San Diego

Meg Schneider

Peter Kane

St. Martin of Tours Academy Director of Advancement and Development

Mindy Mattison Speech and Language Pathologist, Retired

Dustin Sutton

Former San Diego Center for Children Board of Trustee Member Principal and Owner Kane HR Consulting

Linda L. Katz Community Leader, Civic Activist

Richard Kintz, Esq.

Owner and Principal Broker Sutton Real Estate Advisors

Partner, Corporate Practice Group Sheppard Mullin (of counsel)

Barbara Ybarra

Angie Lasagna

Public Affairs Consultant

Keith Wilson Active Community Leader

Community Volunteer

Cheryl Rode, Ph.D. Vice President of Clinical Operations

Janelle Battaglia, LCSW Director of Business Development

Carole Fisher, M.S. Special Education Principal of San Diego Center for Children Academy

Pam Hansen, LCSW Senior Director of Specialty Clinical Programs

Misty Howard Director of Quality Assurance

Ervey Salinas Senior Director of Residential Programs

Kristi S. Worley Director of Philanthropy

Jim Lauer, Esq. Referee Juvenile Court, Retired

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Thank You

3002 Armstrong Street, San Diego, CA 92111

Phone: (858) 277-9550

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Funding for a portion of our programs provided by the County of San Diego.

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