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 continues to enjoy an excellent reputation in the community. Because of this and because of the variety of academic, vocational, and employability skills provided to the consumers we serve, the support coordinators, which are their referral agents are very inclined to refer consumers to our agency. For the past two years the state budget for "the agency for persons with disabilities" has increased approximately 3% increase in medicaid waiver funding. These dollars have been used to serve consumers that were on the medicaid waiver waitlist. Thus, opening up additional enrollment opportunities. Ade is always in the forefront of keeping our legislators in tallahassee aware of the need for these budget issues, so we were very proud when these additional funding were passed by the house and senate. 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 2017-18 ade received 125,000 for the culinary training program and 75,000 to operate ade's silver program for seniors with developmental disabilities. 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, physical 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 ceo 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 banks. This ensures that the revenues collected through our multiple funding sources are guaranteed by fdic within their guidelines and limits. Our fiscal department monitors the status of all banks we have professional relationships with. As we realized that the health of great florida bank deteriorated we made the decision five years ago to transfer all our major operational accounts to jgbbank, which later became sabad”

“Interest expenses -99,796 interest expenses 99,796”