Thomasville Community Resource Center

“A copy of the prepared form 990 is provided to the finance committee for review. At a regularly scheduled board meeting, the form 990 is presented to the full board for review and approval. Once the board has approved the form 990, it is filed with the irs.”

“Thomasville community resource center, inc. Regularly monitors and enforces compliance with the conflict of interest policy by having the board of directors and top management complete a conflict of interest form to be maintained in the organization's records and to determine if any current or possible future contracts should be evaluated due to a conflict.”

“The organization determines the executive director's salary in part by using opportunity knocks data which compares region of the state, budget, etc. Along with the board's analysis of local salary data for executive directors and annual reviews of their salary scale.”

“Thomasville community resource center, inc. Maintains the records within the organization, on-site. The information is made available for public inspection only upon specific request to review such documentation, and must be reviewed on-site.”

“In 1998, tcrc began operating an after-school program to provide a safe and affordable place for children to grow and learn during critical afterschool hours. The tcrc bright from the start licensed afterschool and summer program (asp) serves students between the ages of 4 12 years. This afterschool and summer program is funded primarily through donations, parent fees, and the children and parent services program (caps). Low weekly rates ensure that quality services are affordable to low-income families. Tcrc currently serves 77 students with academic support, tutoring, homework, arts programs through the south georgia ballet in the step up program, volunteer instructor from the fsu school of dance, and volunteer tutors from the magnolia school alumni association. Student enrollment increases to 90 in the summer. Tcrc has had the great pleasure to operate as a 21st century community learning center (21st cclc) provider since 2008. External contractors evaluate all 21st cclc program sites. Qualitative and quantitative data is collected to measure program impact at eight sites in thomas, mitchell and grady counties. The primary focus of the outcome evaluation is the examination of the extent to which the 21st cclc achieved the project objectives. This opportunity has allowed the organization to expand its afterschool program with the over-arching goal of improving academic achievement, behavior, and increasing parental involvement. The sites are grant funded with tcrc as a "sub-recipient" to the georgia department of education. This year over 400 children from k 6th grade were served at the 8 school-based 21st cclc locations. Certified teachers and para-professionals provide academics and homework help. Project based learning activities are provided based on science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (steam). The introduction of the division of human services - department of families and children services (dhs-dfcs) afterschool program, funding in 2016, provided an opportunity for tcrc to focus on foster children, children in relative care situations (with emphasis on grandparents raising young children) and homeless children. Vashti is a summer only enrichment program that serves 30 students on the vashti residential campus. The dhs funding gives us an opportunity to serve children in rural cities in thomas county where there is no transportation. The tcrc executive director met with the pavo and boston city council in 2017. Both councils approved locations to provide services for students. We serve 30 students at the varnedoe street location and 20 at the hand in hand elementary school. When new funds are released our goal is to expand to pavo and boston. The tcrc parent-child home program (pchp) works to close the achievement gap by giving low-income parents the tools, skills, and encouragement to prepare their children for school success. Using books and educational toys, that are gifts to the family, trained home visitor's model reading, play, and conversation activities in families with children from 1 to 3 years of age. Pchp is an evidence-based early literacy, parenting, and school readiness model established in 1979. The program interaction gives the parent an opportunity to gain confidence and recognize they are their child's first and most important teacher, as well as engage the child in early literacy. If developmental delays are observed, tcrc refers to "babies can't wait", georgia's statewide, interagency, service for infants and toddlers. We serve 5 families per year, but we are working on a partnership with the thomasville and thomas county school districts l4 initiative to increase the number of home visitors as well as purchase books and educational toys for the children participating in the program. We will begin serving children in grady county in 2018. The teen pregnancy prevention initiative (tppi) started in 2015. The tppi is a collaborative partnership with morehouse school of medicine, the marguer”

“Thomasville community resource center, inc. Assumes responsibility for oversight of the audit of its financial statements and the selection of the independent accountant. This process has not changed from the prior year.”