Lifeways Inc.

“The executive director reviews the 990 with the board members before filing, and a copy is available to them at their request.”

“When a person applying for employment is a member of the immediate family of a director or committee member which by rule or practice regularly nominates, recommends, or screens candidates, that director or committee member shall be disqualified from participation in any selection procedure or subsequent personnel action regarding the relative. The requirements of this section shall include contracts, consultation, and extra-duty contracts. Further, any director or so related shall abstain from board action involving a member of that director's immediate family. Further, any director being employed with an agency lifeways serves or provides services to shall abstain from board action involving that agency. If a conflict of interest arises, the director shall abstain from the action and be absent from any discussions relevant to the conflict of interest or step down from the board or from involvement from the board committee.”

“Compensation for the executive director shall be reviewed annually. The board of directors performs the review taking into account the following: 1. The compensation package is based on duties, tasks, and oversight of the organization and such compensation reflects a fair compensation for such duties. 2. When possible, the compensation package will be compared to other executives of non-profit agencies in the area with similar duties. No board member shall participate in this review that has a conflict of interest. All deliberations and decisions of this annual review will be reflected in the minutes of an official board meeting.”

“Governing documents and policies are available to the public upon request.”

“The corporation offers alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention services to youth in rapid city and custer, south dakota, working with the rapid city & custer areas in south dakota to provide prevention education in schools. The organization runs interventions to screen and refer students in crisis due to potential alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and to provide individual family and group counseling for students experiencing difficulties related to alcohol and drug use. The organization also conducts prevention groups for students who have violated district alcohol and other drug use regulations, facilitates support groups for students, and assists district staff in the supervision of prevention activities.”

“Lifeways is a nonprofit, state accredited adolescent alcohol and drug agency providing proactive prevention, early intervention and outpatient treatment agency. In the past 19 years, lifeways has implemented universal, selective, and indicated evidence-based prevention strategies in the rapid city & custer areas in south dakota. Lifeways is the only prevention agency with addiction counselors in the schools, impacting over 7,000 students every year. Lifeways continuum of services may include evidence-based curriculum in the classroom, school-wide awareness campaigns led by peer- to-peer mentors, individual/group support, early intervention programming, assessments, in-school recovery support for students returning from treatment, parent education/support, and outpatient treatment with a family education component.”