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2010 annual report
B OA R D O F D I R E C TO R S
K E Y S TA F F
President
Virginia Aaron
Arlene Goldsmith, LCSW, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Marykutty Thalachira, LMSW
Director of Homefinding
Vice Presidents
John R. Cannell, Esq.
Jonathan A. Knee
Patricia S. Levinson
Andrew P. Mezey, MD, MS
Patricia Bryant-Reid, LCSW
Associate Executive Director,
Clinical & Program Services
Minerva Sepulveda, LMSW
Director of Therapeutic Foster
Boarding Home Program
John Encandela, Ph.D.
Associate Executive Director
of Research, Evaluation
& Quality Assurance
Eric Sweeting, MA
Director of Educational Services
Secretary
Barbara R. Rauch, LCSW
Treasurer
Louis Lipschitz
President Emerita
Elizabeth S. Pforzheimer
Diane Abbey
Terri D. Austin, Esq.
Bryan R. Beller
Pascal Desroches
Vivian Farah
Alan R. Fleischman, MD
Robert L. Friedman
Jill Sabin Garner
Susan G. Gevertz
Carol Gutman
Peter R. Haje, Esq.
Joseph R. Ianniello
Ronald Iervolino
Thomas A. Jarecki
Mark N. Kaplan, Esq.
Meryl R. Kaynard, Esq.
Fern June Khan, MSW
Robert D. Marcus
Adam L. Miller
Thomas Newman
Eugene A. Pinover
Sanford B. Prater
Eric J. Rosen
Glenn Rufrano
Meryl Sherman
Susan M. Slater, MSW
Alma T. Young, MSW, Ed.D.
Advisory Directors
Margaret Grey, Dr. P.H.
K.D. Hendricks-Muñoz, MD
Sandra E. Lerner
Cecily Truett
Directors Emeriti
Iris Abrons
Dale G. Berger
Michael P. Gaertner
Louis G. Maloof
Wayland M. Mead, Esq.
Stephen Richardson, Ph.D.
Lorraine Tregde, MPA
Duncan Whiteside
Mary C. Wolf
Executive Director
Arlene Goldsmith, LCSW, Ph.D.
Adrienne Lawler, LCSW
Associate Executive Director,
Management & Operations
Leonard Saul
Chief Financial Officer
Carolyn Synol, MPA
Development Director
Jenny Traslavina
Senior Development Associate
Jessica I. Lutzke, LMSW
Director of Volunteers
& Community Relations
Mark Woltman, MSW
Director of Quality Assurance
Gail Auchterlonie
Director of Human Resources
Marilyn Green
Director of Office Services
Ed Caquias
Director of Information Services
Cindy Cavalli
Executive Assistant to
Dr. Goldsmith/Benefit Coordinator
Carola Haberly, LCSW
Director of Preventive Services
Wendy Geringer, Ph.D.
The Comprehensive Healthcare
Center Director
Harvey Mar, Ph.D.
Director of Mental
Health Services
Michael Vergara, MD
Medical Director
Marcia Thomas, RN, MSN
Director of Nursing & Clinic
Administration
Inna N. Kreyman, LCSW-R
Mental Health Clinic Supervisor
Lincoln Hess, MD
Psychiatrist
Khalid Khan, MD
Psychiatrist
Laura Parsons, Psy.D.
Early Childhood Developmental
Psychologist
Linda Peck, MA, ATR, LCAT
Director of the Henry Geldzahler
Creative Arts Program
Kristine Claphan, MSW
Director of B2H
Healthcare Integrators
Stephanie McGill, LCSW
Director of Partners In Parenting
Michael Celentano, MA
Director of Recreation,
Auxiliary Services & B2H
Waiver Service Providers
Martha Morgan, LCSW
Director of Foster Care
& Adoption
Barbara Babikian
Animal-Assisted Therapy
Coordinator
Carla Riccobono, LSW
Assistant Director of Foster
Care & Adoption
David Shichman, MSW
Resource Specialist
Carol Hirsch, LCSW
Director of the Post Legal
Adoption Network
Amy Pacifici, LMSW
Vocational Specialist
Mission Statement
New Alternatives for Children (NAC) was founded on the belief that all
children, including those who are chronically ill or physically challenged,
have the right to live in safe, loving and permanent family homes. NAC’s
mission is to provide innovative, high quality services in support of birth,
foster, and adoptive families who are caring for children with special
medical needs at home. Working primarily with children whose birth
families live in poverty, NAC seeks to enable them to remain in, or
return to, their homes whenever possible, or to be adopted by loving
families when necessary.
NAC’s innovative services ensure that the physical, social, educational,
recreational, health care, and mental health needs of medically fragile
children are met. By supporting families, NAC prevents the institutionalization of children, precludes lengthy stays in foster care, and facilitates
the timely discharge of children from hospitals where they may have
lived well beyond medical need. NAC builds on family strengths, provides
opportunities, and assists all family members in reaching for and realizing
their dreams.
HONORS & ACHIEVEMENTS
NAC Executive Director Arlene Goldsmith, LCSW, Ph.D., received the prestigious
National Foster Care Leadership Award from the Rowell Foster Children’s Positive
Plan and the Annie E. Casey Foundation for her steadfast commitment to
children placed in foster care.
1,364 Children
& 781 Families Served
AN OVERVIEW OF OUR
Medical Clinic
2010 Programs
& Services
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Preventive
Services
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Developmental Pediatricians
and Nurses on staff
Developmental and
medical evaluations
Coordination and referral
of services
Home Health Aide services
Nutritional services
Mental Health Clinic
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NAC’s Children’s Center
of Excellence model pairs
each family with a
social worker in one
of four programs.
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Bridges to Health (B2H)
Partners In
Parenting
(PIP)
Families have access to
the multi-disciplinary
team of professionals
and services that
support NAC’s four
core programs.
Psychiatric and psychological
diagnostic assessments of
all children
Parental evaluations
Individual, family and
group therapy
Alternative therapies in
art, music and drama
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Educational Services
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Foster Care
and Adoption
Intensive support services
to children in foster care
Educational advocacy
and support for all
school-aged children
Early Intervention services
(ages 0 to 3)
College Bound Program
Tutoring
Parenting education
Recreation and
Volunteer Services
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Mentoring Program
Special workshops
and outings
Group programs for
medically-challenged
children, siblings and parents
Holiday parties
Pet-assisted Therapy
Summer camp placement
Corps of over 300 volunteers
Referral, Advocacy and
Emergency Services
Post Legal
Adoption
Network
(PLAN)
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Homelessness prevention
Vocational services
After school and
recreational referral
GED and ESL referral
Entitlement advocacy
Food, clothing and toy bank
Emergency financial assistance
24 hour hotline
Transportation
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A fleet of wheelchair-accessible
vans with drivers to transport
children and families
AN OVERVIEW
Costs of Care
NAC Prevents Long-Term
Hospitalizations and
Saves Taxpayers Money.
The specialized population of
children that NAC serves is
the most expensive to neglect.
Cost of hospitalization
of a child with a
chronic medical
condition
$365,000+
annually
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C O S T S A R E A P P ROX I M AT E
Cost of
institutionalization
of a child with
a disability
$185,000 – $300,000
annually
Cost of providing
Special Medical Foster
Care for a child with
a profound medical
condition
Cost of providing
Special Medical
Preventive Services for
a family caring for one
or more medically
fragile children
$41,000
annually
$15,000
annually
Cost of providing
aftercare services
(NAC’S PIP AND PLAN
PROGRAMS) for a
family caring for one
or more medically
fragile children
$5,000
annually
2010 Clients Served
In 2010, NAC served 1,364 unduplicated children from 781 families.*
These clients were served through the agency’s Special Medical
Preventive Services, Special Medical Foster Care & Adoption, Partners
In Parenting (PIP), the Post Legal Adoption Network (PLAN) or Bridges
to Health (B2H) programs.
NAC Families
by Geography
Staten
Island
1%
Other
8%
Bronx
40%
Queens
10%
Brooklyn
19%
Manhattan
22%
Families
224
183
74
135
110
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19
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Parents
93
53
* The unduplicated total count of children and families is less than the sum of all children and
families served in each program, as some were served through more than one program.
NAC Children
by Ethnicity
Other
7%
Caucasian
3%
Clients Served by Program*
Children
Special Medical Preventive Services
575
Special Medical Foster Care & Adoption
209
Partners In Parenting (PIP)
173
Post Legal Adoption Network (PLAN)
275
Bridges to Health (B2H)
134
Article 28 Medical Clinic
872
Article 31 Mental Health Clinic
94
Family Forum
19
Alumni Group
9
2010 Program Activity
Special Medical Preventive Services
NAC’s first priority is to keep children safe in a nurturing and stable
home environment. NAC’s Special Medical Preventive Services continued
Latino
44%
African
American
46%
providing intensive case management and comprehensive family support
for birth families caring for one or more medically fragile children at
home. These services have been successful in strengthening families and
keeping them together, as well as, in reducing the risk of abuse, neglect
and/or placement of children with complex medical needs into the
foster care system or institutional settings.
Outcomes
NAC Children
by Age
22+ Years
2%
13-21 Years
37%
0-5 Years
23%
6-12 Years
38%
‰ 575 children from 224 families served.
‰ 2010 marked NAC’s 25th year of providing Special Medical
Preventive Services exclusively for families in New York City.
‰ 60 families successfully left Preventive Services after achieving stability.
‰ 97% of children once at risk of foster care placement or
institutionalization remained safely in their homes.
‰ NAC’s Preventive Services received some of the highest evaluation
marks in the city from the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS),
including 100% in six categories pertaining to safety, well-being
and casework.
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Special Medical Foster Care and Adoption
When a child with a severe disability or chronic illness cannot remain
safely at home, or has no home which to go, s/he is placed in a NAC
special medical foster home. NAC maintained its status as a leading
foster care agency in New York City, finding foster and adoptive homes
for our most vulnerable children. Through the agency’s Special Medical
Foster Care and Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home (for children with
dual diagnoses of medical and mental health conditions) programs, NAC
children achieved permanency in nurturing and supportive homes significantly quicker than citywide averages. Despite the challenges presented
by children with complex medical and mental health needs, NAC has
outstanding outcomes – our children do not languish in care, rarely
move from foster home to foster home, and do not age out of foster
care without a family of their own.
Terrell Thomas-Chukwujiorah
Outcomes
Ever since Terrell ThomasChukwujiorah came to NAC,
the Chukwujiorah family has
been his foster – then adoptive
– family. Terrell is diagnosed with
cerebral palsy and he uses a
wheelchair. Today he is a young
man of 22 who is finding his place
in the adult world with ongoing
support from NAC. He is now
pleased to proclaim,
“My disability does
not define me.”
Over the years, Terrell participated
in many NAC programs. His NAC
Social Worker along with NAC
specialists in education, resources
and vocational services have
helped Terrell to apply to college
and receive financial aid, to obtain
a computer, to deal with housing
issues, and to participate in an
employment internship program.
Currently Terrell is a member of
NAC’s Alumni Group and is looking
forward to being a mentor for
younger NAC children. Recently
Terrell spoke at a training session
for prospective foster/adoptive
parents. His comments on “what
I think a foster parent needs
to know,” were so well received
that he is now applying to become
part of the Speakers’ Bureau at
the City’s Administration for
Children’s Services.
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146 children served through NAC foster homes.
26 children were adopted or safely reunified with their birth parents.
No child aged out of foster care.
NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) ranks NAC as one of the
highest quality foster care agencies, awarding the Special Medical Foster
Care program the highest evaluation scores in the system for safety and
permanency practice and NAC’s Therapeutic Foster Boarding Home program
system-highs for safety, permanency and well-being practice.
Partners In Parenting (PIP)
Despite state cuts in funding for all aftercare programs, NAC is able
to sustain its PIP aftercare preventive services enabling families with
children that have chronic medical conditions to successfully transition
out – and stay out – of the child welfare system. This is achieved
through a multiplicity of coordinated services, from parent support
groups to mental health care, that focuses on enhancing family strengths,
empowering children and parents, promoting employment and
employability, and improving the coordination of services and resources
for all families in need.
Outcomes
‰ 173 children from 74 families served.
‰ PIP saved tax payers over $1 million dollars by keeping children out
of the child welfare system.
‰ 75% of PIP families maintained or improved their employability with
at least one parent working or in school.
NAC’s priorities are to keep
each child safe and in a nurturing
and permanent home.
Post Legal Adoption Network (PLAN)
PLAN remains the only full service post-adoption program in New York
State for families who adopted one or more children with a disability.
The necessity of post-adoption services is underlined by the fact that
adoption dissolutions (when a child returns to foster care after being
adopted) among medically fragile children is estimated to be as high
as 14% nationally. In an effort to assure the permanency of medically
fragile children and support positive, effective and functional adoptive
families, PLAN continues providing a full menu of services, including
parent support and education groups, case management, referral and
advocacy, crisis intervention and counseling.
Outcomes
‰ 275 children from 135 families served.
‰ PLAN continues its outstanding record of having no adoption
dissolutions among families served.
Bridges to Health (B2H)
As a recent expansion of the agency, B2H has become an invaluable
program for scores of children in foster care. This program continues
serving children who are most at-risk in the foster care system – those
who are medically fragile, developmentally disabled or severely emotionally
disturbed. B2H provides individualized intensive support and social services
to assure that the most medically fragile and emotionally-complex children
in foster care stay out of institutions and achieve permanency in a family
of their own.
Outcomes
‰ 134 children from 110 families served.
‰ B2H staff expanded from 60 in 2009 to 88 in 2010.
‰ 74% of parents report increasing their confidence in being able to care for
their child at home after enrolling in NAC’s B2H program.
Family Support Services
NAC maintained its innovative program model of coordinated and
comprehensive “one-stop shopping” of integrated health and social
services for the at-risk families and children served. Our multidisciplinary,
on-site team of professionals helps clients with an array of services
from therapeutic support groups to homelessness prevention, parenting
education, college and vocational advocacy and a food, clothing and toy
bank. These services, and many more, have been vital to the overall
stability and independence of NAC’s children and families.
Outcomes
‰ Over 1,100 children and parents treated in NAC’s Comprehensive
Healthcare Center, consisting of an Article 28 Medical and Article 31
Mental Health Clinic.
‰ More than 100 NAC teens helped to make their college dreams come true.
Outcomes (continued)
‰ NAC expanded its Educational Services Department by hiring a Special
Education Teacher/Reading Specialist to work with children ages birth to
12-years-old to promote the importance of reading and early literacy.
‰ 20 NAC families who were homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
moved to permanent housing.
‰ More than 500 NAC children attended the 5th Annual NAC Kids
Olympics in June.
‰ 1,000 children and family members joined in the festivities at the NAC
annual Holiday Party in December.
‰ NAC held its 3rd Annual “Literacy for All” book fair in November, giving
away more than 500 books to NAC children and youth.
NAC in the News
NAC and its client families were featured on CBS News on two
occasions: June 19 with a report on the NAC Kids Olympics
and again on December 18 with a segment on the annual NAC
Holiday Party.
Board Activities
NAC’s 2010 Annual Benefit Gala was the agency’s most successful to-date.
The NAC Kids Can Gala, held at the Pierre Hotel on November 9, 2010,
raised more than $1.3 million for NAC’s children and had a record turn
out of 650 guests. Much of this success was due to the extraordinary
commitment and support of the evening’s Honorees Peter and Helen
Haje and encouragement of Dinner Co-Chairs Richard Goldstein,
Rob Marcus, Laura Parsons, and Robert Schumer.
NAC welcomed two new members to its Board of Directors:
Vivian Farah and Thomas Newman. Vivian is retired from Saks Fifth
Avenue where she was the Vice President, DMM. She has quickly
become an active member of the Benefit Committee and served as
Benefit Co-Chair, with Virginia Aaron, for NAC’s 2010 Gala.
Mr. Newman is the President of Interactive One, the digital division
of Radio One, where he oversees sales, programming and the product.
He graduated from Harvard College and earned his J.D. from Harvard
Law School. Mrs. Farah and Mr. Newman bring new experience and
enthusiasm to the agency’s Board.
NAC has helped over
100 children
with disabilities and chronic illnesses
make their college dreams come true.
2010 Financial Information
Statement of Financial Position June 30, 2010
ASSETS
New Alternatives for Children, Inc.
was funded by a variety of public
sources in addition to generous
private support from the Board
of Directors, individuals, and
private foundation and corporate
sponsorships. Public funding included
New York City Administration for
Children’s Services, New York State
Office of Mental Retardation and
Developmental Disabilities, New York
State Office of Children and Family
Services, New York State Office of
Mental Health, and New York State
Department of Health.
A copy of New Alternatives for
Children’s most recent audited
financial statement is available
upon request.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Receivables from Government Agencies
Receivables from Contributions and Grants
Prepaid Expenses
Security Deposits
Fixed Assets (net of accumulated depreciation)
Other Assets
Total Assets
$
369,370
1,693,141
844,657
475,824
54,137
601,897
14,077
$ 4,053,103
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
Term Note Payable
Contract Advances
Total Liabilities
$
$
967,934
94,031
1,184,802
2,246,767
NET ASSETS
Unrestricted
Temporarily Restricted
Total Net Assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
$
543,682
1,262,654
$ 1,806,336
$ 4,053,103
Statement of Activities June 30, 2010
REVENUE
AU D I TO R S
WeiserMazars LLP
135 West 50th Street
New York, NY 10020
NYC Administration for Children Services
NYS OMRDD
NYS OCFS
Medicaid
Foundations, Corporations and Individuals
Elected Officials’ Discretionary Awards
Interest and Other Income
Total Revenues
$
7,350,670
40,245
656,260
2,467,337
2,901,578
33,500
17,717
$ 13,467,307
EXPENDITURES
Program Expenses:
Foster Care & Adoption
Preventive Services
Post Legal Adoption Network (PLAN)
Partners In Parenting (PIP)
OMRDD Family Support
Article 28 Medical Clinic
Article 31 Mental Health Clinic
B2H
Management and General
Fund Raising
Total Expenses
Excess of Income over Expenses
$
6,935,063
1,824,949
437,257
443,672
24,716
338,640
412,040
1,441,287
1,281,388
310,334
$ 13,449,346
$
17,961
Expenditures
Year Ending June 30, 2010
OMRDD Family Support
Article 28 Medical Clinic
2.52%
0.18%
Article 31 Mental Health Clinic
3.06%
Partners In Parenting (PIP)
3.30%
Bridges to Health (B2H)
10.72%
Post Legal Adoption
Network (PLAN)
3.25%
Management and General
9.53 %
Preventive Services
13.57%
Fund Raising
2.31%
Foster Care and Adoption
51.56%
Revenue
Year Ending June 30, 2010
Elected Officials’
Discretionary Awards
0.25%
Interest and
Other Income
0.13%
Foundations, Corporations
and Individuals
21.55%
NYS OCFS
4.87%
NYC Administration
for Children’s Services
54.58%
Medicaid
18.32%
NYS OMRDD
.30%
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Foundation
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Micah Kellner
New York State Assemblymember
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Bloomingdale’s
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Burford Group
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Cablevision
Canoe Ventures
CBS Corporation
Cedar Shopping Centers
Centerbridge Partners
Chartis
The Childen’s Place
Chubb Insurance Group
Citi
ClearBridge Compensation Group
Comcast Corporation
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Crème de la Crème, Inc.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank
DIRECTV
EisnerAmper LLP
Ernst & Young
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Evercore Partners
Fidelity National Title Insurance
Company
Forward Industries, Inc.
Goldman Sachs
Greenwich Realty Advisors
Holland & Hart LLP
ING Clarion
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JPMorgan Chase
KGK Agency
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Lazard
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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Morgan Stanley
National Basketball Association
NBC Universal
Netflix
New York & Company, Inc.
News Corporation
Oakridge Investments, Inc.
Paramount Group, Inc.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison LLP
Polo Ralph Lauren
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Rainbow Media
Ross & Company
Samsung Electronics America
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Showtime Networks
Sills Cummis & Gross
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP
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TAG Associates, LLC
Time Warner
Time Warner Cable
Towers Perrin
TW Telecom Inc.
UBS
Vineyard Vines, LLC
YES Network
M AT C h I N G G I f T S
AllianceBernstein
Fitch, Inc.
Goldman Sachs
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Mutual of America
Neiman Marcus Group
Time Warner Cable
Verizon
IN-kINd GIfTS
AMC Theatres
Bertelsmann, Inc.
Bloomberg
Bloomingdale’s
Bluford Books
Chapin School
The Children’s Place
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Federation of Protestant
Welfare Agencies
Gymboree Corporation
Riverview Tenants Corporation
Kids In Distressed Situations
The Knit Wits
The McGraw-Hill Companies
MetroLine Car Service
New Yorkers For Children
The Nightingale-Bramford School
Pajama Project
Payless ShoeSource
Polo Ralph Lauren
Scholastic, Inc.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP
The Today Show
Toys ‘R’ Us
The Walt Disney Company
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
C o r p o r AT E V o l u N T E E r
pA r T N E r S
Accenture
Allen Partners
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Goldman Sachs Community
Teamworks
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New York Life Insurance Company
New Yorkers For Children
Polo Ralph Lauren
Société Générale
The Walt Disney Company
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
NAC would also like to
acknowledge all those who
generously support our
Annual Benefit Gala with
in-kind gifts.
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