Father Flanagan'S Boys' Home

“Philip J. Ruden and Michael J. Eglseder - Business Relationship”

“The Treasurer reviewed the completed Form 990 and provided an electronic copy to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors for their review. The members of the Audit Committee had one week to submit their comments and questions. Upon satisfactory resolution of questions and electronic copy of the final Form 990 was provided to all directors before it was filed.”

“Father Flanagans Boys Home regularly and consistently monitors and enforces compliance with its conflict of interest policy mainly through official annual affirmations, self reporting and observation. Directors are covered by a board of trustee policy and officers and employees are covered by a separate policy. Directors must report any perceived or actual conflict of interest to the Chairman of the Boards Executive Committee. A director in question must cooperate in a review by the Executive Committee and has no vote in determining whether a conflict exists. A board member may be disqualified from participating in certain deliberations and votes during and after any review. A board member may be required to resign if a conflict exists.”

“The compensation of the CEO/Executive Director was determined by the Board of Trustees Compensation Committee using comparable data for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations. Documentation of the decisions made regarding the compensation have been maintained with the determination incorporated in an employment contract. The compensation of all other officers were last dertermined in 2012 as described above, however, officers do not have employment contracts.”

“Father Flanangans Boys Home makes its governing documents and conflict of interest policy available to the public upon request. Articles of incorporation and bylaws can also be obtained by the public through the various Secretary of State offices. Financial Statements are available to the public upon request and on its website at www.boystown.org.”

“Nebraska/Iowa Services consists of the Family Home Program, Intervention and Assessment Services, In-home Family Services, Foster Family Services, and Community Support Services including Common Sense Parenting, and the Center for Behavioral Health. There are 60 family style Family Homes on the Home Campus, which is in the incorporated Village of Boys Town, Nebraska the Village. These homes have a total capacity over 400 youth. Six to eight troubled boys or girls from throughout the United States of America, with ages generally ranging from 8 to 18, live in a home with a specially trained professional married couple called Family Teachers. The couple provides treatment planning, skill development, spiritual guidance, a family style environment, and love and care, with the help of an Assistant Family Teacher. Each home is monitored, evaluated, and advised by a Program Director and other support personnel. The homes are certified by the Council on Accreditation. Homes are not mixed by gender but are mixed by age, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. The program is also served by four Intervention and Assessment Homes, which provide short-term intervention and assessment services for youth. In addition to its residential program, the Home Campus also operates a Foster Family Services Program, In-home Family Services, and Community Support Services programs. The Home Campus also operates a Center for Behavioral Health, which in 2013, served approximately 3,300 youth and families with behavioral problems on an outpatient basis and is a training center for doctoral level psychologists.”

“Boys Town National Research Hospital BTNRH provides medical and surgical services at two hospital locations and six outpatient clinics in the Omaha, Nebraska, metropolitan area. BTNRH is recognized internationally as a leader in communication disorder research and as a referral center for children with disorders of the ear, hearing and balance, cleft lip and palate, speech, and voice, as well as related disabilities. BTNRH clinical programs served more than 44,000 children and adolescents in 2013 through a total of more than 208,000 patient visits. Boys Town Pediatrics, BTNRHs group of pediatric physicians, provides primary care and specialty pediatric medical services at four clinic locations in the Omaha area. BTNRH also provides medically directed behavioral health services. These services include four residential treatment centers RTC. The RTC East is located at the BTNRH downtown campus and has the capacity to serve up to 47 youth. In October 2013, the newest RTC West was opened with an additional 34 beds. This program is attached to the BTNRH west Hospital. Additionally, BTNRH operates two open staff secure RTCs located in the Village of Boys Town - one home for 13 boys, and one home for 14 girls. Each of these RTCs is staffed with a multidisciplinary medical and behavioral health staff.”

“Programs across America directly served nearly 29,000 youth in Nebraska/Iowa and 10 affiliated sites nationwide. These affiliated sites are Boys Town California, Boys Town Central Florida, Boys Town Louisiana, Boys Town Nevada, Boys Town New England, Boys Town New York, Boys Town North Florida, Boys Town Florida, Boys Town Texas, and Boys Town Washington, DC. Programs offered throughout the nation include Intervention and Assessment Services, Family Home Services, Foster Family Services, In-Home Family Services, and Community Support Services including Common Sense Parenting, Outpatient Behavioral Health Services, and National Community Support Services. Boys Town invests and emphasizes quality through staff training, evaluation, and outcomes research by having departments committed to the quality of Boys Towns programs. The Training and Evaluation Department provides technical training, evaluation, and quality/control/quality assurance of Boys Towns nationwide system of services. The Program Fidelity Department provides program monitoring, consultation, and staff and program development to the ten program sites across America. National Community Support Services provides training and resources to parents, child care providers, and educators throughout the United States and internationally. Services are offered through Education and Common Sense Parenting training packages, and books from the Boys Town Press. In 2013 over 11,000 parents, teachers, administrators, and professionals were trained allowing Boys Town to indirectly impact approximately 140,000 children through this training.”

“The Home Campus Educational Program consists of the Boys Town High School and the Wegner Middle School. The Village schools serve youth at Boys Town and provide academic and vocational training skills necessary for contemporary society. All Boys Towns schools are fully accredited by the state of Nebraska and the North Central Association. A full range of special education services is provided to all youth who require this type of assistance. The Boys Town Day School in the Village of Boys Town and the Duncan Day School in Duncan, Nebraska serve youth who cannot receive educational services in a public or alternative school setting due to behavioral problems and academic deficiencies. These schools meet all requirements of Level III schools under Nebraska Department of Educations Rule 51 and currently educate students from multiple school districts in Nebraska and Iowa. These schools have also served parentally placed private youth and court placed youth. Boys Town served over 120 students in Day School services in 2013.”

“Boys Town National Hotline and Public Services meets the informative and public service needs of youth, parents, teachers, and youth professionals who are involved directly or indirectly with helping youth. The Boys Town National Hotline the Hotline at 1-800-448-3000 helps hundreds of thousands of children and families throughout all 50 states each and every year. The Hotline provides toll free phone, as well as Web based, crisis service for troubled children and families. The Hotline received over 151,000 contacts in 2013. The Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with trained, skilled, professional operators. The Hotline is equipped to handle calls from people who speak a variety of languages. In an effort to reach the highest number of youth in need of assistance, through a medium more frequently used by youth, the Boys Town National Hotline launched a Web site mid 2009 called yourlifeyourvoice.org. In 2013, the Web site had over 300,000 visits. More than 14,000 youth contacted the Hotline professionals for assistance through the Web site via e-mail or chat. In addition to operating the Boys Town National Hotline, Boys Town also operates the Nebraska Family Helpline. The Nebraska Family Helpline was conceived when Nebraska lawmakers realized families experiencing crises needed a central, knowledgeable place to go to get help or answers to their questions. The Helpline counselors assist families in managing immediate crisis situations, make referrals, help them navigate government systems, and follow up with families to ensure they received the help they needed. The Nebraska Family Helpline has been honored in the press and by the legislature for its effective service to Nebraska families. Nearly 3,800 calls were made to the Helpline in 2013.”

“Gain on beneficial interests in external trust assets 7,518,766, Increase in beneficial interest in Father Flanagans Fund For Need Children 88,450,726, Increase in interest in Affiliated organizations 1,416,774, Pension income 1,677,629, Pension related charges 17,576,780.”