The Association for Development of the Exceptional Incorporated

“An officer of the organization will examine the return and the accompanying schedules prior to filing the return.”

“Board of directors review and approve the executive director's compensation.”

“Board of directors review and approve the other officer or key employee's compensation.”

“The governing documents are made available to the public upon request.”

“To provide specialized academics, vocational training, and employment services to adults with developmental disabilities, focusing on each participant's abilities and choices, maximizing their potential while guiding them towards a path of acquired skills, self-determination and community inclusion.”

“Be able to successfully run our excellent program, for example: 1)client recruitment- ade has an excellent reputation in the community. Because of this and because of the variety of vocational training provided the support coordinators are very inclined to refer consumers to our agency. For the past two years the state budget for agency for persons with disabilities has increased approximately 3% increase in medicaid waiver enrollment rates. These dollars have been used to serve consumers that were on the medicaid waiver waitlist. We are very thankful that these new consumers are now enjoying well deserved services. Ade is one of the forefront agencies keeping our legislators in tallahassee aware of the need for these budget issues, so we were very proud when these additional funding is passed by the house and senate, since we have always been at guard, not just for our agency's concern, but for all the persons with developmental disabilities in florida. Furthermore, we have never been vetoed by our governor which is a testament to our quality of service. 2)staff recruitment-utilizing the career building advertising tool through the miami herald, indeed, south florida workforce-professional placement unit, jobing.com, and having a constant presence at job/career fairs, gives us an array of choices to employ the best candidates possible within our field. The better the quality of the staff the more success in the delivery of services. 3)staff development - ade continues to enhance the potential of our staff through trainings. Especially our direct care staff is given an assortment of in-service trainings such as: knowledge of developmental disabilities, 0 tolerance, osha, cpr, hiv, first aid, behavior management, pac, and others. 4)excellent programming- a proficient, qualified staff under the guidance of a watchful management allows us to conduct an exemplary program, which enhances our reputation and encourages additional enrollment and growth. During the 2011 fy ade started its "professional culinary, baking and restaurant maintenance training program". It was continuously funded at 100,000 per year, until fy15-16, when the funding was increased to 200,000. During 2016-17 unfortunately it was a very hard year for special projects in tallahassee and ade was not able to receive the culinary training stipend. Nevertheless, we were able to accommodate the chef i, and chef ii positions into our operational budget, and provided the culinary program at a more constraint level until the next fiscal year when we aim to recover our funding for this program. As in previous years, ade continues to add a higher level of proficiency and sophistication to our vocational skills training areas, and also regards a high priority on our community inclusion component of our adult day training program. Additionally, we continue to offer our other vocational training areas, such as: art expression, cosmetology, jewelry design, an exercise program, car washing and detailing, packaging, bagging, collating, culinary training and baking, computer classes, horticulture, money budgeting, community awareness, community mobility, first aide, and independent living proficiency, and many other skills. 5)fiscal management - ade's executive director and top management staff continue to operate focusing the priorities to conservation, sustainability, and comparative procurement to ensure the maximum results out of every dollar of funding received. Our billing specialist keeps a most efficient control of our collections in reference to our general revenue and medicaid waiver state billing. As well, as a communication line with all support coordinators to ensure that all the proper state authorizations are current and correct to ensure that all possible collections are billed appropriately and reimbursed promptly. 6)banking relationships -ade's board of directors and management has always believed in diversifying all bank accounts, and assets amongst alternative”

“Interest expenses -16,240 interest expenses 16,240”