Evangelical Children'S Home

“A Draft of the form 990 is sent to the finance committee by mail or e-mail for review prior to filing. The CEO and CFO also review the form 990 prior to filing.”

“All Board Members and certain Key Employees sign a Conflict of Interest statement annually, and potential conflict of interest relationships are disclosed on that form at that time.”

“The Board has a Compensation Committee that evaluates the performance of the Executive Director annually and determines compensation at that time. To ensure the compensation is in line with other similar nonprofit organizations, the agency secures compensation survey data from two independent sources and uses that data to compare the Executive Director's proposed compensation with other executive directors at comparable nonprofit organizations. Industry data is also used when determining the pay scale of new and current employees.”

“Evangelical Children's Home makes its Form 1023 available to the public upon written request. The form 990 is made available on www.GUIDESTAR.org.”

“Evangelical Children's Home makes it governing documents, Conflict of Interest Policy and Financial Statements available to the public upon written request.”

“Early Education Services was a head start program providing day care and developmentally enriching services to low-income families, up to the age 6, residing with their family in the local community. The program engaged each child's enthusiasm for growth in social, emotional, cognitive and physical areas of development. Support was provided to help parents raise their children in the home with sensitivity to their child's cognitive, emotional and physical needs. To assist the families, the program offered parent education, in-home parents as teachers consultations, emergency food and clothing assistance and community linkages to a range of supports. In fiscal year 2024, Early Education served 63 children and their families. The Early Education Services program was discontinued on October 31, 2023.”

“Residential Treatment Services: ECH offers sepcialized care as well as both safe-intensive and aftercare residential treatment servcies for troubled children and youth. This allows ECH to accept youth with a wide spectrum of mental health and behavioral concerns. Residential treatment attempts to stabilize presenting problems, improve overall functioning, and transition youth at discharge to a permanent family setting. Comprehensive services available in each level of treatment include psychiatric and psychological care; physical health care; individual, family and group therapy provided by licensed professionals; case management; crisis intervention; medication management; special education services; and recreation and expressive therapies. Safe and intensive units (SI) serve children ages 6 through 17. Children placed in safe intensive units have often suffered physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse and neglect and have highly acute needs. They frequently display aggressive, self-harm or runaway behaviors. Aftercare services are for children ready to return home after completing ECH's safe and intensive residential program. For six months, ECH helps to ensure the transition will be successful and permanent by providing safety planning, medication management assistance, parent education & coaching, behavioral management, case management, and respite care. In fiscal year 2024, Residential Treatment served 42 children.”

“Steppingstone Transitional Living Services: Steppingstone provides shelter and support for at-risk, runaway and homeless youth ages 16-21 in an array of safe and supervised living environments. Steppingstone services are offered in both ECH's St. Louis and Kansas City regions. Based on capabilities identified at initial assessment, the youth is placed in an apprpriate level of care and supervision that can include group living, structured apartment, or scattered site/community apartment. Steppingstone provides services to help youth develop self-sufficiency, including educational and employment assistance, life skills training, individual case managment, and physical and mental health treatment. Steppingstone services are based on the positive youth development philosophy with an overall goal of assisting youth to plan for a stable, safe living environment and self-sufficiency after exiting the program. In fiscal year 2024, Steppingstone served a total of 152 youth in its St. Louis and Kansas City programs.”

“Community-Based Services: Community-Based Services includes three programs - Outpatient Psychiatry, Family Solutions for Kids and Foster Care Case Management - that provide a wide range of office and community-based services to children, youth and their families. Outpatient Psychiatry Services are available to children and youth under the age of 20 residing in the St. Louis and Franklin counties of Missouri. Services include psychiatric evaluation, therapeutic stabilization, medication managment and individual and family therapy. In fiscal year 2024, Outpatient Psychiatry served 1,011 youth. Family Solutions for Kids services is a collaborative program with an allied agency that provides intensive in-home therapy and case management services to children and youth between the ages of 4 to 20 residing in the St. Louis and Franklin counties of Missouri. Services are provided by a licensed or provisionally licensed therapist at an average of 5 hours per week for up to 16 weeks. Primary focus is placed on stabilizing presenting problems and strengthening coping strategies and supports to sustain therapeutic gains upon discharge. In fiscal year 2024, Family Solutions for Kids served 382 families. Foster Care Case Management services works with biological families according to the Adoption and Safe Families Act to assist with reunification and permanency for children in residential care or out-of-home placement. The program utilizes a "wrap-around" philosophy and builds upon current strengths by linking the family with natural supports, such as extended family, neighbors, and community resources. Foster Care Case Management services are provided in the Missouri counties of St. Louis, Jefferson, Franklin, Cole, Butler, Ripley, Stoddard, and Dunklin. In fiscal year 2024 Foster Care Case Management served a toal of 629 youth and their families.”

“Change in value of split interest agreements 994,716.”

“ECH has a Finance Committee that assumes responsbility for selecting the auditors and overseeing the performance of the audit.”