Center for Developmental Services D-B-A Cds

“The organization provides a full copy of the form 990 to every member of the board for review prior to filing.”

“The organization regularly and consistently monitors and enforces compliance.”

“The executive director's compensation is reviewed and approved by independent persons.”

“Documents available to the public upon request.”

“Cds serves over 6,800 schildren annually with any suspected or identified developmental delay or disability, as well as their families. Some children come to cds for a one-time evaluation for a problem such as a speech delay or a learning difficulty, while others come several times a week for years to address life-long conditions such as crebral palsy and autism. The families of these children are our clients too, as they spend many hours in our facility and receive support from trained staff and volunteers as it is needed. Cds clients are served on-site in our 35,000 square foot facility which houses our partners, areas for occupational, physical and speech therapy, a therapy pool, a family-friendly lobby, parent resources, and a library/ media center. The partners at cds collaborate to meet the needs of our families and often cross-refer patients to multiple agencies within the cds partnership. The staff at cds helps reduce the amount of time the partners must spend on activities not directly related to client care, such as reception, office management, outreach, and facility maintenance. The volunteers at cds add extra value for our families through tutoring, reading to the children, lobby entertainment, grounds keeping, disinfecting toys, preparing mailers, and organizing the library as well as serving on our board of directors. Those volunteer efforts saved over 755 hours of staff time last year. Since most families come to cds every week, we want to provide as much support as possible. We offer educational seminars for care givers and families, workshops for children, and special events. At cds, we enhance the experience of being part of a greater collaboration of services. Our family seminars cover a wide variety of topics. For example, cds held a series of financial literacy seminars over the summer ranging from family budgeting to creating a special needs trust. We also host stress seminars, support groups, and collaborative meetings increase the collective resource knowledge within the community. We have several other programs offered throughout the year in our library, conference rooms, and lobby. These include dental education, story time, holiday events, special visits from first responders, and appearances from local sports teams. We include siblings as well in programs such as outshine, our homework help program. Once a week, students ages 5-13 are able to attend and receive extra homework help for various school subjects. Weekly prizes and raffles for good grades make it fun as well as beneficial. Cds staff members attended 79 community health fairs last year to expand awareness of the resources available to families who may need them. Our partners do not have the staff to go out individually for this, so cds represents all of our partners when we are in the community. We also offer media and library resources for children and parents to use at our facility, and host a lunch and learn for anyone wanting more information about disability resources available in the upstate, even those outside our partnership. In one location, over 6,800 children each year receive screening, evaluation, educational, therapeutic, and support services. Our clients are primarily young children (66% are 0-5 years old) and the majority (53%) are greenville county residents. We serve clients from all ethnic backgrounds as well. Due to the large capital investments made to our facility, depreciation costs are significant. This non-cash expense items drives our net loss for this program. Without depreciation expense, our operating result is consistently positive.”