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.”

“Adult domestic violence services: lacasa provides counseling, shelter, legal advocacy, education, and support to victims of domestic violence and their families and friends. Our work with survivors and their family and friends is client-centered, confidential, nonjudgmental, and focused on an empowerment model. There is no charge for the services to survivors and their family and friends. In 2021, 4,275 nights of shelter were provided for 106 survivors (68 females, 3 male, and 35 children). Lacasa's shelter provides a secure, confidential and non-violent environment safe from abuse. Lacasa's on-site animal kennel provided 359 nights of animal shelter for 9 family pets. The legal advocacy program provided 761 survivors (553 females and 207 males) assistance with the criminal justice system. Lacasa's legal advocates assisted 80 individuals with developing a personal protection order (ppo). Lacasa's 24-hour on-call service provided support to 311 survivors (231 females and 80 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 1,726 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. 312 adult survivors (283 females and 29 males) took advantage of these clinical services in 2021. 105 children received clinical services concerning domestic violence. All clients develop a safety plan while in services, including 94 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. Lacasa has developed and implemented a livingston county community response team which is comprised of three taskforces: domestic abuse response team (dart), sexual assault response team (sart) and community awareness team. The community response team develops and implement community wide domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse protocols. The domestic abuse response team (dart) and sexual assault response team (sart) are subgroups of lacasa's overarching community response team. The primary function of dart and sart are to provide a community collaborated response to domestic and sexual violence before, during, and after it's occurrence. Both groups involve a variety of professionals who work with survivors, lacasa staff, and board members. The groups meet once per month addressing needs for community collaborated systemic change within livingston county.”

“Adult sexual assault program lacasa's sexual assault services address the issues of sexual assault, incest, stalking, and sexual harassment. Sexual assault services are designed to respond to the needs of sexual assault victims and their families and friends. Sexual assault counseling was provided for 223 survivors (184 females and 39 males) in 2021. The sexual assault nurse examiner (sane) program provided forensic evidence collection and medical treatment for 33 victims (33 females) of sexual assault in accordance with standards of practice established by the international association of forensic nurses (iafn). In 2019, lacasa expanded the sane program to include pediatrics. The sane program provides a forensic examination to minors within 120 hours of an assault but also to minors who report the abuse outside of the 120 hour window.”

“Children's program services lacasa provides advocacy, shelter (with a parent), support, and counseling services for child victims who experience child abuse (including sexual abuse), dating violence and domestic violence. 213 children (129 females and 84 males) received individual and/or group clinical services. Lacasa completed 210 forensic interviews (129 females and 70 males) through the child abuse response effort (care) program, which provides a safe and non- threatening environment for the children and adults. 189 children had the care project. In addition, 11 adults received a forensic interview. 2 children were referred for a trauma assessment at lacasa (1 female and 1 male). 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 54 volunteers assigned to cases, servicing a total of 121 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 sexual abuse risk education programs at 15 schools; 0 educational workshops; and 2 public awareness community events. These activites reached 2,004 people in the risk education program, including 997 first grade students and 132 adults; 107 participants in the professional development trainings and programs, 44 participants at the awareness events, and 724 virtual attendants of the lvingston county baby fair via facebook live. There were no public awareness community events due to the covid-19 pandemic. The 2021 cap month pinwheels for prevention campaign reached 58 virtual attendants, 579 direct viewers of the archived event, 4,923 people searched cap month-related posts, 300 pinwheel bouquets and 200 pinwheels were distributed to the community. In june 2021, lacasa was accredited as a child advocacy center through the national children's alliance. With this, lacasa demonstrated that through written documentation and observed practices that the agency is in compliance with the national accreditation standards. The standards and the accompanying criteria ensures that children and families in livingston county receive effective, efficient, relevant, and compassionate services.”

“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 139 clients (74 females and 65 children). In conjunction with the county department of human services, lacasa's parent coach program provides supervised parenting time. 55 clients (7 mothers, 5 fathers and 23 children) received supervised parent coach services in 2021. The fathers' only parenting program offered one eight week parenting classes that served 10 men. The nurturing parenting program conducted 4 ten week parenting classes that served 49 clients. Lacasa conducts community prevention, education and public awareness activities about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, and child abuse. Lacasa conducted 29 community presentations that reached 459 individuals from businesses, the faith community, criminal justice workers, human service agencies, medical personnel, child care providers, emergency response teams, and substance abuse providers. 140 youth presentations were provided in the middle and high schools throughout all livingston county school districts reaching 3,653 youth. In addition, lacasa provided 13 community awareness events regarding; dating violence, sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse reached 6,172 individuals. Transitional housing services lacasa provides transitional housing and support services to domestic violence victims and their dependent children. 11,396 nights of safe, affordable housing were provided along with supportive services (counseling and case management) for 42 clients (17 adult females and 25 children) in 2021. Assailant counseling services lacasa provides counseling to adult and youth who perpetrated violence in their families or community. In 2021, the domestic abuse intervention program provided psycho-education services for 105 individuals who use violence, threats and/or force in their relationships (91 males and 14 females). Volunteers 390 volutneers provided 21,638 hours of sevice for lacasa.”

“Prior period adjustment 14,657”