Disability Rights New Mexico

“The form 990 is prepared by the independent auditor, and the draft is reviewed by the executive director, the office manager, and all board members prior to filing with the irs.”

“The conflict of interest policy is reviewed every year in january. Board members are required to complete and/or update the conflict of interest form at that time. Potential conflicts of interest are reviewed and discussed at board meetings, as applicable.”

“The board of directors periodically reviews and documents compensation levels for ceos of other similar organizations as part of due diligence with respect to compensation and benefit levels. Compensation levels for other staff are determined by the ceo, not the board, pursuant to organizational policy. However, information on salaries and benefits paid for comparable agencies is periodically reviewed and staff salaries are occasionally adjusted based on such review.”

“The organization's governing documents are available upon request. Financial information is included in the form 990, which is also available upon request. Basic information about the organization, its services, and funding sources is provided through the organization's website, www.drnm.org.”

“The board of directors serve in a volunteer capacity.”

“Additional funding that would reduce the lengthy waiting list for community-based waiver services. We helped families regain behavioral health services for school children with behavior disorders after a disruption in the statewide service system and secured compensatory special education services for children who had been denied those services by their public school district. Drnm continued its efforts to improve services statewide through the jackson class action lawsuit.”

“Conducted an in-depth investigation of the deaths of two adults at an unlicensed boarding home which confirmed that they died of carbon monoxide poisoning due to a propane heater that had been improperly installed and revealed that there had been no oversight or monitoring of the boarding home--which was a shed not intended to be used for housing--by any state or local agency or officials. Drnm staff provided input into an investigation by the department of justice regarding use of excessive and often lethal force against persons with mental illness by the albuquerque police department and served on a city-county task force that studied service gaps and made recommendations for ways to better serve persons with mental illness and reduce their involvement with police.”

“With disabilities who need long-term services to navigate the system and access the services they need and brought to the attention of state officials and legislators that the new system was not serving as many individuals as intended, was not meeting federal requirements for exempting persons with disabilities from mandatory enrollment in an alternative benefit plan rather than regular medicaid, and was discriminating against persons with the most severe disabilities by limiting the amount of services they could receive. Drnm provided trainings statewide on the new opportunities for health care coverage through medicaid expansion and the health insurance exchange. Drnm convinced two state universities to expand their services to students with disabilities and not require such students to apply for assistance from the state vocational rehabilitation agencies.”

“Client assistance program civil legal services protection and advocacy for beneficiaries of social security protection and advocacy for voting access protection and advocacy for traumatic brain injury protection and advocacy for assistive technology”