Alliance Inc.

“The organization is an operating subsidiary of the sheppard and enoch pratt foundation, inc.”

“The sheppard & enoch pratt foundation, inc. Holds reserved rights which include the powers to appoint board members.”

“The sheppard & enoch pratt foundation, inc. Holds reserved rights which include the powers to appoint and remove board members. They also hold the right to approve certain select transactions of its subsidiaries.”

“The form 990 is provided to the full board for individual review and formally reviewed by the finance committee prior to being filed.”

“Compliance officers track each required employee to make sure each employee and board member complies with the conflict of interest policy. The board reviews this each year during the annual risk assessment review.”

“Currently the professionals that make up the board of alliance work together to determine a salary that they feel is fair and reasonable for the ceo based on available resources such as comparable data, outside resources, and any other sources of information they deem to be valuable in making this type of decision. The process for determining compensation for other officers (cfo and cco) of the organizaiton is also based on available resources such as comparable data and outside resources. This compensation is also approved by the board.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“Child and adolescent community services: care coordination (c&a cc) - alliance, inc.'s child and adolescent community services: care coordination (c&a cc) program works with youth experiencing various behavioral health diagnoses who are at risk of out of home placement. It is our goal to involve everyone who has a role in serving a youth with emotional or behavioral challenges in the process of supporting the youth and family. This includes families, advocates, educators, and mental health, social service, health service and addiction service workers. We use a strength-based perspective to allow a family driven experience with the goal of keeping youth in a family setting in their home and community while increasing access to community-based services. Youth who meet eligibility criteria will have access to intensive wraparound care coordination through alliance, inc. This process includes: offering strengths-focused assessment, building a child and family team led by the family, working with family to identify natural and community supports to participate on the team, giving families a voice and choice in creating and directing their plan, connecting families to community resources and making crisis support available from alliance, inc. Staff 24/7. Hours of operation are generally 8:30 am to 5:00 pm monday through friday with flexible scheduling as late as 8:00 pm if necessary. Enrollment is available in baltimore city, baltimore county, harford county and howard county. Number of clients served annually is 138. Individual supported housing (ish) - alliance's independent supportive housing program was implemented to develop long-term, affordable housing options for approximately 30 adult individuals with mental health disabilities within approximately 10 total properties spread amongst harford county, baltimore county, and baltimore city. Most commonly, tenants graduating from residential rehabilitation programs, or similar circumstance, would be potential tenants for this program. The program is structured as independent living and tenants would have previously demonstrated a level of independence while receiving more intensive supports. Tenants would have an array of community mental health support options available such as: outpatient mental health clinics for psychiatric and therapeutic appointments; psychiatric rehabilitation programs (prp) to provide on-site skills training, strategic goal development, and drop-in community and in-home support and intervention; vocational rehabilitation services to assist with job development, counseling, acquisition, and support; and comprehensive health home services. Tenants would be selected from local community-based mental health recovery programs. These individuals will have demonstrated progress in their mental health recovery and readiness for independence in the community. Number of tenants served annually is 3.”

“The organization did not change either its oversight process or selection process during the tax year.”