San Diego Center for Children

“The form 990 is reviewed by the audit committee. The audit committee recommends edits, updates and adjustments, if any. Once satisfied, the committee recommends approval of the form 990 to the board of directors. With the board's approval, the chief financial officer executes and files the form 990.”

“Each new board member completes and signs a conflict of interest statement at the beginning of their term. All board members re-sign a conflict of interest statement yearly, in october, at the annual meeting of the board. If a transaction arises where there is a conflict of interest, the person with such conflict is not allowed to vote on the transaction.”

“Annually, human resources does a compensation analysis of the highly compensated by comparing the center to other similar organizations. Information is gathered from 990 returns and compensation surveys specific to non-profits. The compensation information for the ceo and cfo is reviewed by the board of directors annually.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are not available to the public.”

“The san diego center for children offers the most comprehensive continuum of behavioral health services in the region, including prevention, assessment, outpatient treatment, transition services, special education and school-based mental health, wraparound, foster care, and residential treatment. Currently, the center provides care to over 1,450 children, teens and families - impacting thousands more lives including families, peers, neighbors, teachers, and other caring adults. In the past year we have maintained the census in our residential treatment programs through establishing private managed care contracts, and continuing to build our strong relations with san diego county health and human services and multiple school districts. We are the only provider of the highest level of licensed residential treatment for children ages 6 to 13 in southern california. In a benchmarking analysis, our rate of successful discharge to lower level care exceeds the average for california residential care. Our contracted programs with san diego county health and human services continue to show year-over-year growth and coordinated development to meet the changing needs for specialty mental health, juvenile probation, and foster care services. The center additionally continued to grow the family wellness center clinic in the east region, providing fee-for-service outpatient and school-based behavioral health care to children, teens, and families regardless of their means of payment. Services include psychological and educational assessment, therapy, and psychiatry for youth and families; additional specialty services include school consultation, comprehensive assessments of families' needs and family therapy, and behavioral intervention for youth and young adults on the autism spectrum. Our goal is to become a "one stop shop" in supporting families to develop the skills and resources they need to help their child thrive. Enrollment in our school based and special education services continued to increase. In 2018, we continued to enhance our successful transitions program to aid transition aged youth with mental health and other special needs in developing individualized transition plans, essential skills of independence and connections to personal and community supports. Lastly, we have had greater impact in our community outreach through print, tv, and social media; corporate presentations; a newsletter and our website. Our graduate training program for clinical and educational fields provides direct care training and supervision for 25 master's and doctoral students annually.”