Lacasa

“The 990 will be reviewed first by the executive board and upoon approval will be forwarded to the full board for approval.”

“Annually, the board of directors and management employees complete a conflict of interest form and the executive director reviews all the submissions.”

“The organization used compensation information from other similar agencies, compensation surveys, compensation studies, salary scale and then approval by the executive committee.”

“The organization used compensation information from other similar agencies, compensation surveys, compensation studies, salary scale and then approval by the executive committee.”

“Governing documents are available upon request.”

“(656 females, 212 males and 2 transgender) assistance with the criminal justice system. Lacasa's legal advocates assisted 52 individuals (48 females, and 4 males) with developing a personal protection order (ppo). Lacasa's 24-hour on-call service provided support to 263 survivors (202 females and 61 males) when an assault was reported to police or medical personnel. 24-hour toll-free crisis line support is available 365 days a year and 2,567 clients received assistance through the help-line. Individual and group counseling is available to survivors to explore feelings, clarify issues, review options and create safety plans. 220 adult survivors (213 females and 7 males) took advantage of these clinical services in 2018. 89 children received clinical services concerning domestic violence. All clients develop a safety plan while in services, including 103 individuals that developed safety plans through lacasa per the request of the livingston county prosecutor's office. In addition, lacasa works with businesses and agencies to improve the systemic response to domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.”

“(16 females, 11 males and 1 transgender). The court appointed special advocate (casa) program takes trained community volunteers and appoints them to a case in the children abuse and neglect court system. The volunteer stays with the case until permanency is attained for the children. There are currently 46 volunteers assigned to cases, servicing a total of 97 children in foster care. Lacasa's child abuse prevention (cap) council provides far-reaching prevention programs aimed at protecting children from abuse and neglect. Prevention programs include classes and workshops for child welfare professionals, teachers, parents and child caregivers. The cap council provided or participated in a wide range of awareness and education classes, campaigns and events, including 41 educational workshops; and 14 public awareness community events. These activites reached 1,344 participants in the classes and 8,762 participants at the awareness events.”

“Family and community prevention and education services the lacasa family education services activity includes multiple programs. The healthy families program provides a home visiting program for families at risk for abuse & neglect of children 0-3. Long-term intensive home visits were provided for 92 clients (61 females, 31 males). In conjunction with the county department of human services, lacasa's parent coach program provides supervised parenting time. 164 clients (40 mothers, 38 fathers and 86 children) received supervised parent coach services in 2018. The fathers' only parenting program offered two eight week parenting classes that served 13 men. The nurturing parenting program conducted 4 ten week parenting classes that served 72 clients. The project success program worked with schools using coordinated community efforts to strengthen students through an in-school substance abuse program, including support groups, school campaigns, awareness activities and referrals that served 145 children. The legacy alternative high school program provided a 16 week life skills course that served 15 students. Lacasa conducts community prevention, education and public awareness activities about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, and child abuse. Lacasa conducted 85 community presentations that reached 2,643 individuals from businesses, the faith community, criminal justice workers, human service agencies, medical personnel, child care providers, emergency response teams, and substance abuse providers. 234 youth presentations were provided in the middle and high schools throughout all livingston county school districts reaching 6,801 youth. In addition, lacasa provided 5 community public service substance abuse campaigns that reached 1,500 individuals and 19 community awareness events regarding; dating violence, sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse reached 3,812 individuals. Transitional housing services lacasa provides transitional housing and support services to domestic violence victims and their dependent children. 10,056 nights of safe, affordable housing were provided along with supportive services (counseling and case management) for 42 clients (14 adult females and 28 children) in 2018. Assailant counseling services lacasa provides counseling to adult and youth who perpetrated violence in their families or community. In 2018, the domestic abuse intervention program provided psycho-education services for 114 individuals who use violence, threats and/or force in their relationships (106 males and 8 females). Volunteers 507 volutneers provided 24,221 hours of sevice for lacasa”

“Direct event expenses 33,273 direct event expenses -33,273”