Youth Development Incorporated

“After the return is prepared by an independent accounting firm, management and the board of directors review the final form 990 for completeness and accuracy. The governing board approves the final copy and the return is filed”

“Each employee is required to review and sign a conflict of interest statement annually. Each year the board of directors and management are required to sign a conflict of interest policy which is reviewed and approved by the board of directors. If any covered member decides they may have a conflict of interest, the member will be excused from the meeting while the board determines if there is a conflict of interest. Such person would not be allowed to vote on the item being discussed. There were no instances of conflict during the year.”

“Youth development inc. (ydi) commissioned an outside firm to do a complete and comprehensive comparability study of our prior year wage levels. All compensation decisions were based upon this data and were documented.”

“Youth development inc. (ydi) commissioned an outside firm to do a complete and comprehensive comparability study of our prior year wage levels. All compensation decisions were based upon this data and were documented.”

“All governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available at the organization's administrative office upon request”

“Early childhood education and family development division (ece) provides food services, transportation services, home visitation, subsidized extended daycare services and monitoring expectant mothers in various programs. Head start service centers are certified by the national association for the education of young children (naeyc) and have five-star ratings. All head start center programs meet the performance standards with emphasis on school readiness through the utilization of a research-based curriculum, development of social/emotional skills, family engagement, health, nutrition, mental health and transition services. Head start programs are located in bernalillo, rio arriba and taos counties. In fiscal year 2022, the early childhood division served over 1,000 families in the head start program.”

“Health, safety and nutrition: ydi programs in this category range from sponsoring a health fair with bicycle giveaways and other items encouraging health lifestyles for families; using court-sponsored donations for extracurricular activities for children such as yafl, cheerleading, driving school, dance groups, boxing and karate training; providing counseling services through medicaid for eligible youth and families; an "urban garden" program that encouraged youth and supervisors in learning how to grow fruits and vegetables - some of the bounty from this program was distributed during the health fair; a teen pregnancy prevention program providing tutors, education and life-skills training and activities for targeted youth after winter ball and prom nights; a teen court program designed to educate teens about alcohol use and mis-use that results in dwi offenses and running the participants through mock trials, a food/nutrition program that assists home daycare providers to plan usda approved meals using menus and shopping lists and then reimbursing the day care providers for the foods purchased for the children in their home daycare sites - over 6,000 meals in this fiscal year. Residential and shelter care: ydi provides short-term shelter to teenaged children (ages 12 - 17) who are homeless and/or runaways due to problems in their family of origin homes and provides counseling for the child and the family in order to encourage family reunification. For children ages 16 - 21 ydi provides a residential program providing transitional support to teach life skills, jobs skills and locate and establish permanent living situations for individuals moving from homelessness to stable housing.”

“Special event expenses 9,140 special event expenses -9,140”