The Family Conservancy

“An independent accounting firm prepares and reviews the 990. The 990 is then reviewed by the organization's officers and accounting personnel. Any questions and concerns the organization's officers and accounting personnel have are addressed and any corrections or clarifications that need to be made are made. The 990 is then provided to the finance committee of the board for their review prior to filing the 990. Any questions and concerns the finance committee have are addressed and any concerns or clarifications that need to be made are made. The final form 990 with all required schedules is then provided to all voting members of the board prior to filing the 990.”

“The organization's policy is that members of the board of directors, advisory board, key employees, officers, and/or any committees of the board of directors shall have no direct or indirect financial interest in the assets, contracts, or leases of the agency. Business decisions must ensure that contracts and professional arrangements serve the best interest of the agency and our consumers, not private interests. Any member in a position to influence agency business decisions, for which they or their business or professional firm, may receive material benefit, must disclose the nature of the conflict to the board chair. Members with potential conflicts must remove themselves from involvement in such discussions, decision making and voting.”

“A compensation review was completed for the ceo, officers and key employees' compensation in october 2018 by the hr department of the family conservancy. For this review, they used compensation surveys and studies to get a benchmark for the compensation. The board of directors used the information from reports published prior to august 2017 to approve the compensation for the ceo. The deliberations and decisions regarding compensation are contemporaneously documented.”

“The governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available upon request.”

“Head start: the family conservancy (tfc) promotes the healthy development of young children from families with low incomes and special needs by administering a variety of head start services. In missouri, tfc provides home-based head start and offers a variety of support services to area head start providers, such as managing enrollment and placement of students, providing early childhood mental health consultations and providing professional development to program teachers. In kansas, tfc partners with community child care programs in eastern kansas, allowing them to provide head start services to families. Tfc helps increase program capacity, provides professional development to teachers and assistant teachers, assists with health and nutrition planning, and provides support and mental health consultations to partner programs.”

“Early education services: the family conservancy improves access to high-quality early education and child care programs for all families, especially those with limited resources. This support includes improving the overall quality of early education by providing professional development and coaching to early educators, child care providers and program directors; helping parents access care by offering child care referrals and assistance with the state subsidy application process (for wyandotte county, ks families); helping child care providers serve healthy meals by administering the child and adult care food program; and providing a variety of specialty supports such as early childhood mental health consultation.”

“Family support services: the family conservancy provides families the support they need to raise happy and healthy kids - setting a foundation for multi-generational success. Family services include, in-depth parenting education and case management support for low-income families; individual and family counseling services for issues such as trauma, abuse/neglect, anxiety, depression, and more; in-home therapy for mothers suffering from postpartum depression; and case management and counseling for homeless high school students. Therapy/counseling and case management are provided directly in spanish and english; parenting education is provided in multiple languages with the assistance of interpreters.”

“Change in defined benefit pension plan $ (114,737)”

“Description:child care program fees total fees:3564103”

“Description:other contract services total fees:401180”