Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc.

“The 990 is reviewed and approved by the board before filing with the irs.”

“Conflict of interest issues are dealt with on a board level via self-declaration of conflicts. Abstentions from votes are documented in the organization's minutes.”

“The executive committee considers the executive director's salary separate from all other staff and submits a recommendation to the board. The recommendation is based on the executive committee members' experiences in the industry, and the committee will also request hr to perform a comparability study from time to time (not necessarily annually). Salary decisions made at the board level are communicated via memo directly to the payroll specialist and human resources manager. Board members are also involved in the board approval of annual budgets.”

“The organization makes its governing bylaws, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available upon request in its main office at 10 distillery drive, westminster, md. The organization's financial statements are also available on the organization's website.”

“Hsp operates the shelter and housing program with the housing first approach. Programming services the most in need first, providing open- access, low barrier services. Hsp believes homelessness should be prevented. If it cannot be prevented, homelessness should be brief. Shelter and housing services strive to help participants increase their income, secure permanent housing, and provide necessary community supports and linkages to prevent homelessness. Shelter services provide overnight support and case management services to homeless individuals and families. Shelter staff connect homeless participants to housing opportunities - regardless of what might be going on in their life. Shelter services case managers focus on stabilizing participants, connecting them with basic needs and community resources, increasing their income, and rapidly securing permanent housing. Hsp manages 5 of carroll county's homeless shelters. Shelter services operate 24 hours, seven days a week, to ensure participants are safe and stable. In addition to stability and support services, shelters also provide food, laundry facilities, telephone, and mail assistance. In fiscal year 2020: . Women's shelter served 53 total participants . Family shelter served 78 total participants; 36 adults and 42 children . Men's shelter served 23 total participants . Safe haven (a long-term shelter for participants with chronic and persistent mental health diagnosis)served 55 total participants . Cold weather shelter (operates from november 15th-march 31st) served 169 participants . Services provided safe, stable on-going support for 322 unique participants, 270 households . 39% of shelter participants exited to permanent housing . 25% of shelter particpants increased their income . 86% utilization rate with an avereage length of stay of 112 days housing services work to prevent homelessness wherever possible. Housing services seamlessly blend services for those experiencing homelessness to those at risk of becoming homeless. Hsp conducts housing and shelter services screenings 5 days a week via walk-in hours and throughout the community. A participants complete the assessment, they are referred to appropriate housing resources. If a participant meets the federal definition of homeless, they then are referred to coordinated entry. Coordinated entry completes a needs assessment, to objectively assess the participant's vulnerablity or need. Participants are then referred to shelter services, permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities (pshpwd), or rapid re-housing program. Pspwd provides housing and case management services to chronically homeless, hsp maintains 15 rental units for participants. Rapid re-housing provides short term rental assistance to participants experiencing homelessness. While participants wait to access services, they can participate in homeless recovery case management services, with a focus on securing housing. If a participant is at-risk of becoming homeless, has an eviction, or needs a security deposit, hsp has additional services to meet those needs and avoid homelessness. Hsp is the county-wide access point for security deposits and eviction prevention, serving as the authorizing agency for several community funding streams. Hsp also partners with the united way, to administer the family stability program, providing case management and short-term rental assistance to families at-risk of homelessness who have a child in the school system. In fiscal year 2020: . Completed housing and shelter services screenings for 336 households/556 total participants; 399 adults and 157 children . Coordinated entry served 453 total participants; 329 adults and 106 children; 30% excited to permanent housing . Permanent housing served 19 households/26 total participants; 21 adults and 5 children; 50% of households exited to permanent housing . Rapid re-housing served 36 households/73 total participants; 50 adults and 23 children; 92% of households”

“Family support: the carroll county family center provides support services to parents and their children under four years of age. A priority is to assist parents in making sure that all their children are healthy - physically, developmentally and emotionally. This is accomplished through a variety of activities and services, including immunization checks, developmental screenings, parent/child activities and quality child developmental care while parents engage in support programming at the center. The family center supports parents through programs designed to increase parenting effectiveness and self-sufficiency skills. The parenting classes utilize several research-based curricula: "the nurturing program," "the chicago parenting plan- and "parents as teachers". Self- sufficiency services include adult education classes in ged preparation, esl, computer literacy and job readiness. Other center-based services include: case management, health classes, a parent leadership program, cooking classes and peer support activities. In addition to these center- based services, the family center also offers a home visiting program. Our in-home interventionist is trained in the "parents as teachers" curricula and provides these programs as well as case management to families in their own homes. Services are provided free of charge, and transportation is provided on a case by case basis to assist families in accessing center services. In fy 2020, 39 families participated in center-based activities and 20 families received home visit services. This comes to a total of 59 families (134 people). Despite the covid-19 pandemic causing the program to close down for direct contacts from the mid-march through the end of the fiscal year, services continued to be provided to all families through weekly phone calls, zoom classes, posts on social media, and deliveries of materials. A total of 2004 participation visits were logged by center-based families and 742 participation visits by home-visit families. Child & adult care food program: the child & adult care food program (cacfp)is a program of the united states department of agriculture (usda) and allows enrolled childcare providers to be reimbursed for the healthy meals and snacks they serve to children in their programs. Forty-five (45) licensed family childcare providers participated in the cacfp in fy 2020, providing meals for over 350 children. The providers received 109,757 in reimbursements, and a total of 123,040 meals and snacks were served during this time.”

“Economic mobility programming provides integrated employment and training, financial education, and long-term case management services to help people believe in themselves and their future. Economic mobility programming encompasses opportunity works, financial education services and our volunteer income tax preparation (vita) site. Opportunity works offers a unique blend of hands-on job training, job readiness assistance, and long-term case management support services to help participants re-enter the workforce and become thriving community members. Opportunity works enrolls participants with significant barriers to employment, including criminal background, mental health disorder and substance abuse history. Opportunity works focuses on providing community- based re-entry services. In fy 20 opportunity works served 143 individuals: 96% had a significant barrier to employment; 90% did not commit a crime during the program year; 57% mastered 5 or more job skills; 60% resolved two barries to employment; 50% maintained or increased their income through employment. Opportunity works utilizes job training platforms to teach hands-on skills: 1. Second chances, carroll county's only free store, that served 1,880 households; 2. The community garden is a 7,800 square foot produce and herb garden, centrally located in downtown westminster. 100% of the harvest directly benefits our low-income community. In fy 20, 791 pounds of produce fed over 100 people. Financial education services help participants with budgeting, access to fair banking services and developing solid financial habits. Services offered include monthly financial education workshops, financial consultation as well as one-on-one financial coaching for up to one year. 34 participants attended 60 scheduled financial education workshops. 106 participated in ongoing financial coaching services: 67% increased their financial well-being; 71% created a household budget; 35% maintained that budget for 90 days; 16% maintained for 6 months; 62% achieved a financial goal, purchased an asset, paid down debt, or created savings. Carroll cah day, a semi-annual county-wide event, served 320 participants by providing financial resources, vendors, family-friendly activites including a financial simulation and scavenger hunt, free shredding services, free tax preparation and free credit checks. Our vita site prepares free tax returns for low to moderate income households. Vita is an irs sponsored program. The vita site promotes taxpayer education, accessing vital tax credits, as well as saving your refund. Taxpayers saved 1,150. Vita prepared 737 tax returns giving back over 1.2 million dollars to our working poor community. This year brought many unique programming difficulties and challenges. Economic mobility services responded to the pandemic quickly by increasing outreach, shifting programming and developing new strategies. Opportunity works remained open for programming. Staff also conducted outreach and delivered services at our temporary day center and homless encampments. Financial education services went virtual - adding 2 new covid-related budgeting workshops and all conducting workshops virtually. Coaching services continued via phone and email. Our vita site also remained open - one of three in the state - throughout the pandemic.”

“Investment expenses -1,836 investment expenses 1,836”