Teambuilders Counseling Services Inc

“Two of the officers (and co-founders) of the organization are married - shannon freedle, ceo and dr. Lorraine freedle, phd, cco.”

“Teambuilders is organized as a non-stock not-for-profit corporation that has no members.”

“The board of directors are responsible to appoint new, replacement, or additional board members.”

“The 990 is distributed to and reviewed by the board of directors upon filing.”

“The ceo monitors for conflicts of interest in hiring practices and business relationships, except that when a potential conflict of interest arises that involves a member of the executive team, the governing board is directly involved in determining whether a conflict of interest actually exists, and whether it poses a risk to the best interest of the agency. Conflicts of interest in hiring practices primarily arise when employing more than one member of a family. Teambuilders does the bulk of its work in rural and frontier communities where the available pool of qualified individuals is often limited. In instances where a related individual may be the best canidate for the job, the ceo ensures that such individuals are not directly supervised by related parties. In the case of business relationships, the ceo is responsible for identifying potential conflicts, and informing the governing board when one could potentially arise. Together, the ceo and the governing board ensure that all business relationships are commercially reasonable, are maintained at arm's length, and are in the best interest of the agency to engage and/or continue.”

“Periodically, teambuilders' governing board engages an independent firm to conduct a compensation study which provides a fair market range of compensation and benefits for key employees. The analysis includes consideration for the size and scope of the organization, including its gross revenue, number of employees, range of services, regional cost of living consideration, and experience, education and scope of authority of the key employees. Members of the executive team, including the ceo and cfo, analyze industry compensation and benefit information available from the bureau of labor statistics, guidestar, and the child welfare league of america to develop and periodically adjust compensation structure for non-executive positions. When setting compensation for non-executive employees, the agency considers the location of employment, the department in which the employee will be employed and credential level required to hold the position offered.”

“Form 990 is available at www.guidestar.com, and is always available upon request. The irs determination letter is available upon request. Form 990 is posted on the new mexico attorney general's non-profit website.”

“Audited financial statements are available upon request and are posted on the new mexico attorney general's non-profit website.”

“In february, 2013 the new mexico human services department engaged public consulting group (pcg) to conduct a program integrity audit of 15 agencies comprising 85% of the state's behavioral health service capacity. All 15 agencies were notified of stop payment on funding due to findings of "credible allegations of fraud". On june 24, 2013, the teambuilders was formally notified that the new mexico medicaid agency, the human services department (hsd), would suspend medicaid, non- medicaid, and state coverage insurance payments paid to the teambuilders through optumhealth new mexico and/or the new mexico medicaid program, including its sci managed care teambuilderss, effective immediately. The new mexico attorney general has begun the process of reviewing each agency but , as of the completion date of this form, has not made a determination of the legitimacy of the accusation against teambuilders. Teambuilders ceased service delivery on august 18, 2013 and has been winding down operations since that time. However, it continues to challenge the audit results and to pursue legal remedies.”