Presbyterian Counseling Service DBA Samaritan Center of Puget Sound

“Draft form 990 is provided to the board of directors and others upon request. Form 990 is used to review the past year's financial position, reinforce the fiduciary responsibility of the governing board, and as an indicator of any changes that may need to be made in the future.”

“Disclosure of conflicts of interest are discussed openly throughout the year.”

“The board of trustees performs a review of the executive director. All clinical staff and administrative staff have performance reviews by the executive director. Compensation is determined using comparable data, regional data, samaritan institute guideance, and fiscal resources. The board of trustees approves the executive director's compensation. The finance committee of the board of trustees approves all other leadership and administrative members' compensation.”

“Documents are made available upon request.”

“Samaritan center of puget sound, a non-profit organization, provided 22,206 hours of counseling services during the 2014-2015 fiscal year. There were 2,007 people: individuals, couples, and families served by 36 state licensed, master's and doctoral level therapists who met clients in 20 locations throughout king, pierce, and kitsap counties in the puget sound area. Our staff included therapists who speak spanish, tagalog, ilocano, german, mandarin, and taiwanese. We welcome people of all faiths, backgrounds, and lifestyles. More than half of those who came to samaritan for counseling did not pay our full fee due to economic dilemmas or insurance company fee adjustments, based on their insurance benefit. This required an estimated $767,870 commitment of providing uncompensated care. Our ability to meet this ever-increasing need is based on our fundraising efforts overseen by our president and board of directors. Of our total counseling hours, 676 were provided through the low fee clinic where samaritan externs, masters level therapists who are working toward state licensure and who, in return for supervision by experienced samaritan therapists, provide counseling for extremely low-income clients. We had nine externs who provided services during the year and 162 hours of supervision were provided by samaritan therapists. Samaritan center is also offers professional training for therapists and educational offerings for the community. During the fiscal year, samaritan center provided four emotionally focused training sessions for 62 therapists and four mindfulness based stress reduction classes for 89 individuals. The agency also provided mediation, consultation for churches, organizations and businesses. Samaritan center also has the careteam program, which had 90 volunteers, serving on 19 careteams, which provided emotional and practical support to 27 clients living with hiv/aids, known as carepartners. During the 2014-2015 fiscal year, careteam volunteers provided 2,311 hours of support.”