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Adolescent Consultation Services
2013 Year-End Report
To Our Donors and Colleagues
“The purpose of life is to
contribute in some way to
making things better.”
- Robert F. Kennedy
Fran Miller is ACS’s Board
President. An active member
of the board for over 20 years,
Fran holds professorships in
law, health care management
and public health at Boston
University. She is an authority
on health law and comparative
healthcare systems and is
passionate about all families
having access to care.
To protect confidentiality, ACS
does not use the names, photos,
or identifying features of clients.
However, the hands pictured on
the cover of this report are the
hands of actual clients.
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Forward at 40!
As we celebrate our 40 years, we’re reminded of the
thousands of court-involved children and families
we’ve helped. It’s really quite staggering.
In this report...
• Anxious and depressed kids who we’ve helped get
back to school;
2 Spectrum of Services
• Autism spectrum kids whose behavior we’ve
helped people understand;
3 Simon’s Story: Right Place,
Right Time
• Kids who witnessed or experienced abuse who we’ve linked with specific
trauma-informed services;
4 A New Day, a New
Probation: An Interview
with Commissioner Dolan
• Kids struggling with drugs who we’ve gotten into substance abuse
programs;
6 Treatment Groups
• Kids reacting aggressively – reactions often based on early childhood
experiences – who we’ve helped through our treatment groups.
7 Adverse Childhood
Experiences (ACEs)
• Parents who themselves have been abused and strive beyond words, each
day, to be good parents. We’ve helped them with parenting and with
services for themselves.
8 Forward at Forty - the
November Event
Thank you for your steadfast support in helping us restore health and hope
to these kids and families!
ACS works at the individual level, but also at the broader systemic level.
We pushed hard in 2013 – to improve the laws that impact children and
families and to seek increased funding statewide for programs that serve
them. One major achievement was the passage of the Raise the Age law that
extends the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court to include 17-year-olds. You
helped make that happen!
You can imagine the sense of urgency that we feel in all of our work.
These kids don’t have tons of time for things to slowly resolve. And you
can imagine the tremendous sense of satisfaction when we succeed – getting
kids the help they need to thrive in school and live in a supportive, loving
family. This is what we’ve done for 40 years – one child, one family at a
time. This is what you’ve helped us do!
9 Client Demographics
10 Jessie – Third Time’s a
Charm
12 Collaborations:
Massachusetts Alliance
of Juvenile Court Clinics
(MAJCC) and Cultivating
Youth Voices (CYV)
13 Financials
13 ACS History
14 Donors and Timeline
Thank you for your steadfast support. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Rebecca Pries
Executive Director
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Spectrum of Services
Evaluations
Evaluations of children and teens are
the foundation of ACS services.
Emergency Evaluations
When there is a question if a child may
require hospital-level care because of a
risk of suicide or a risk of harming others.
Comprehensive Evaluations
ACS interviews the youth and
family, gathers collateral
information, and submits
a confidential report to
the Judge with specific
recommendations,
identifying both strengths
and problem areas.
Funded by:
- Massachusetts Trial Court
- Department of Mental
Health
- You (our private donors)
Treatment
Services
Specialized Testing
Through our unique
partnership with the
Juvenile Court and
Juvenile Probation,
ACS engages
adolescents and families who would
not otherwise receive treatment.
Individual and Family Therapy
ACS offers both short-and
long-term counseling.
Treatment Groups
- Young Men’s Group
- Young Women’s Group
- Anger Management Group
- Motherhood Group
Groups focus on skills training and are usually co-led by a
clinician and student intern.
Funded by:
- You (our private donors)
We routinely screen for
learning difficulties. We also
do testing of psychological
processes, neuropsychological
functioning or cognitive
capabilities.
Community Consultations
ACS has ties with hundreds of schools
and community providers who often
turn to ACS for help: for information
about basic court procedures to
specific mental health services.
Education and Advocacy
Education and Advocacy is an ACSdeveloped service model that strengthens the resiliency
of children and
families. (see below)
Funded by:
- You (our private
donors)
Sustaining Positive Changes
Education and Advocacy (E & A)
helps children and their families
sustain positive life changes. ACS
clinicians leverage public and private
resources to find services for vulnerable
youth within their home communities.
Individually tailored responses, which
take into account the urgent and
Year after year, E&A has been a catalyst for positive changes for thousands
of kids and families. These noteworthy results only exist because of the
generosity of everyday people like you.
ACS thanks its loyal donors for “giving
legs” to these great outcomes!
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comprehensive needs of the child
and family, are what lead to their
success. In the course of E & A, ACS
clinicians:
• Educate children and families about
issues identified in the evaluation
process – special learning needs,
mental illness, substance abuse.
Outcomes
Compliance with Treatment
87%
School Attendance
89%
Increased Family Involvement 81%
• Advocate for the clients and link
them with community services
– medical care, mental health
treatment, in-home support for
a family.
• Follow up with clients and providers
to help ensure that clients are actually
getting the recommended services.
Simon’s Story:
Right Place,
Right Time
Simon was a bright-eyed 14-year-old
when he was referred to ACS. His
mother, a recent Haitian immigrant,
was raising him on her own and was
overwhelmed by his out-of-control,
impulsive behavior and substance
abuse. Simon was also skipping school
and falling behind in his classes. With
continued decline in his behavior,
Simon’s mother filed a formal request
with the Juvenile Court, seeking help
with her struggling child.
substances to relieve stress and anger.
From Simon’s mother, Leah was able
to understand that her own trauma
and immigration history impacted
her ability to care for her son in the
ways he needed. At the same time,
she was dedicated to helping him and
was desperate to do whatever it took
to help him remain safe, healthy and
happy. Above all, she expressed her
very deep concern that Simon’s habit
of running away was exposing him to
very dangerous circumstances.
Over the course of ACS’s involvement
with Simon, Leah and her supervisor
came to realize that Simon’s immediate
needs could not be met while he was
still living at home. Because of his
past struggles to remain in shortterm placements, ACS concluded
that Simon needed a longer-term
residential program with an on-site
school. Through thoughtful and
persistent collaboration with The
Commonwealth’s Department of
Children and Families, Simon’s school
district, his Probation Officer and
mother, ACS was able to help secure
a placement for Simon that would
provide him with the best opportunity
to forge meaningful connections with
others, access appropriate therapeutic
services and consistently attend school.
After his placement, Leah continued
to follow up to see how Simon was
doing. She learned that while he still
sometimes felt like running away,
he was learning new strategies to
help him talk about his feelings with
staff members rather than reacting
impulsively or in anger. Simon is now
consistently attending school and is
engaged in treatment. Simon is now
in the right place at the right time to
work on moving in a more positive
direction.
To protect confidentiality, ACS does not use the
names, photos or identifying features of clients.
After his referral to ACS, Simon’s case
was assigned to Leah, a Master of
Social Work intern, and her clinical
supervisor. Leah immediately began
reviewing Simon’s school and medical
records, uncovering a long history
of hospitalizations, out-of-home
placements and failed treatment
attempts. She learned that when
Simon was a toddler, his father was
incarcerated; his absence had left a
huge hole in Simon’s life.
When Leah interviewed Simon, he
talked about having very confusing
feelings and acknowledged using
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A New Day, a New Probation:
An Interview with Commissioner Dolan
Edward J. Dolan was appointed Commissioner of the
Massachusetts Probation Service in June 2013. He previously
served as the Commissioner of the Department of Youth Services.
Dr. Dan Sanford is ACS Clinical Director.
Dan: Congratulations! You were
Dan: Juvenile Probation has been a
appointed Commissioner in June.
How’s it going?
partner with the Clinics – working
with us to help kids and families move
in a more positive direction and away
from further court involvement.
Ed: It’s been really good. There’s a lot
to do, but there are so many really
good people eager to move Probation
in a positive direction. It’s an exciting
time to be in the courts. In a lot of
respects, it’s a new day.
Dan: The Juvenile Court Clinics are
at the intersection between the legal
and mental health systems. Have you
started to see more openness to the
two systems working together?
Ed: Definitely. You see it in discussions
about specialty courts – drug courts,
mental health courts. Both have a real
role for the Juvenile Court Clinics.
The point of emphasis for the court
system has shifted from just being an
effective venue for the delivery of justice
to one really concerned with results.
Probation is the operational arm of the
courts. Ideally we want the issues to
resolve and crime and recidivism to be
reduced. That’s our work.
Ed: It’s about delivering the right
services at the right point to prevent
deeper penetration into the court
system. I think there is much more
openness to connecting to the human
service agencies. We really want to truly
partner with the Bureau of Substance
Abuse Services around effective drug
treatment and with the Department of
Mental Health for folks who present
with mental health issues.
Dan: While at DYS*, I’m sure you
saw your fair share of kids who were
traumatized or growing up in chronic
chaos and neglect.
Ed: The kids that came to DYS were
not invented the day before. 55% had
some previous connection with DCF**.
The system had tried to intervene and
apparently was not very effective. If
you applied any sort of trauma scale
to the kids, the scale wouldn’t go
high enough. 45-50% were in special
education. They had spotty educational
attendance and achievement. These
kids were struggling!
* Department of Youth Services
** Department of Children and Families
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Dan: Those are the kids ACS sees
for court-ordered psychological
evaluations. Our evaluations tell the
kid’s story: This is the child’s situation
and this is the history. Then, more
importantly, here’s what we can do
that will be in the best interest of the
child. These kids are so varied; it’s
never going to be one size fits all.
Ed: One thing we’ve learned is that
you can’t take kids out of the home,
work with them intensely for 6-8
months without ever involving the
family, and then just re-insert the
kid back into the same family and
community. That’s why you’re starting
to see a more integrated approach to
working with the kid in the context
of family and community.
Dan: How would you describe
Juvenile Probation? What do you see
as its particular challenges? How is it
different from Adult Probation?
Ed: It’s a different period on the
developmental continuum. The
thing that is most challenging about
kids is it’s a pretty dynamic run
from 12 to 21. Being able to be
trained up to know where this kid
is developmentally is not always
easy. The chronological age doesn’t
necessarily have a lot to do with
it. There’s also a greater level of
complexity. With an adult client, I
don’t have to deal with the complexity
of their parents or their school.
At Probation, we’ve flipped from a
negative view to a positive view of
kids. We want to look for and celebrate
success, achievement and development.
That switch in perspective permeates
the system and harnesses people into
doing things for the reason they got
into the business in the first place –
that commitment to working with kids
and finding creative solutions.
Dan: It’s about shifting expectations.
Ed: And kids sense that. The
expectations of who those kids are
and the expectations for them become
much more optimistic.
Dan: It is a change in mindset. For
example, we try to write strengthbased reports, but it can be difficult
when you’re faced with so much
negativity. It’s sometimes hard to
make that shift over to the positive
side of things, but when you do,
you definitely see that it becomes a
different and more useful report.
Ed: The new Child Requiring
Assistance law is an expression of that
shift in perspective. We need to figure
out a better way by identifying the
missing operational pieces to actually
make that negative to positive shift
happen so kids are kept safe, don’t
runaway and are not unnecessarily
criminalized. Often you need 4 or 5
different alternatives to wrap-around a
kid to keep these kids safe. Being able
to use the pieces of the system in a
measured way is extremely important.
We need to align ourselves with
you as court clinicians, the provider
community, and the advocate
community and harness that to do the
work. I’m always telling people that
it’s a new day. It’s a new Probation.
“It’s about delivering
the right services at the
right point to prevent
deeper penetration
into the court system.”
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Treatment Groups
ACS’s Young Men’s, Young Women’s,
Anger Management and Motherhood
Groups received referrals from the
Court and Diversion Programs. Over
half of the kids in group treatment
had been diverted from formal court
proceedings; first-time offenders
finished without a court record. Here
we highlight three of the powerful
treatment groups ACS provided.
These are the hands of the members of
one of our Young Men’s groups together
with their group leaders.
“I have new ways to
deal with problems.”
- 14-year-old girl in the
Young Women’s Group
Young Men’s Group
The Young Men’s Group is an open
and safe space where court-involved
boys find validation as they share their
experiences and struggles. Using a
variety of exercises, the group helps
the boys increase awareness and
understanding of their emotions,
reframe their emotions and develop
healthy coping mechanisms leading to
improved behavior. The group covers
topics such as gang involvement,
drug use, relationships and anger
management.
“Just do what you gotta do, and
it’s done before you know it.”
- 15-year-old boy in the Young Men’s Group
Members of the Young Men’s Group were asked to decorate pumpkins with
one side representing how they felt on the inside and the other representing
how they presented themselves to the world.
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Young Women’s Group
The Young Women’s Group provides
a positive peer setting for teenage girls
to talk about healthy relationships and
to improve their decision making. The
Group addresses the specialized needs
of court-involved girls and helps them
discover their untapped strengths.
Young women, like Jessie (see page
11), learn new strategies for dealing
with difficult emotions and stress.
Strengthened by mutual support, the
girls tackle serious and often sensitive
issues such as “sexting” and other risky
sexual behaviors, conflict with their
parents, self-care, healthy eating and
ways to reduce stress.
Motherhood Group
The Motherhood Program is offered to
court-involved mothers from all walks
of life. The small-group setting allows
each mother to share her individual
struggles. Women reflect on their
roles as mothers and develop skills in
mindfulness and parenting. The group
covers topics such as domestic violence
and stress management and uses art to
explore therapeutic issues.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Abuse and neglect, homelessness,
mental and medical illness can lead to
significant future risk. ACS intercedes
at a critical point when positive
outcomes are still possible – even for
kids in the most adverse circumstances.
A Center for Disease Control (CDC)
study examined the connection
between childhood exposure to ten
types of trauma and dysfunction
and both short- and long-term health
and social outcomes. These 10 Adverse
Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are
divided into two categories:
abuse and neglect ACEs and
household dysfunction ACEs. The
ACEs study had remarkable results:
As the number of ACEs increased, so
too did the risk for several physical
and mental health problems, such as
obesity, depression, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD), illicit
drug use and liver disease.
During the last 12 months ACS
collected ACEs data, information was
collected on 142 clients. This data
revealed that ACS clients have an
average of 4.7 ACEs, compared to the
national average of 1 ACE. In addition,
ACS clients have, on average 2 abuse
and neglect ACEs and 2.6 household
dysfunction ACEs. These Adverse
Childhood Experiences take a toll on
children, contributing to the problems
that brought them to the attention of
the court.
ACEs Among ACS clients
Emotional Abuse
47.9%
Physical Abuse
40.8%
Emotional Neglect
Physical Neglect
35.9%
Mother Treated Violently
51.4%
Household Substance Abuse
Household Mental Illness
49.3%
Parental Separation/Divorce
Sexual Abuse 14.8%
64.1%
56.3%
76.8%
Incarcerated Household Member 28.2%
What is the link between these ACEs and
adverse health and social outcomes?
ACEs, such as:
•emotional abuse
•physical abuse
•sexual abuse
•family dysfunction
If untreated…
Mental health
issues, such as:
•anxiety
•anger
•depression
Maladaptive coping
mechanisms such as:
•smoking
•drug use
•overeating
•sexual promiscuity
Long-term
outcomes:
•heart disease
•COPD
•liver disease
•early death
ACS interventions engage clients in services to help them
develop healthy ways to manage difficult past experiences
and move their lives in a positive direction.
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Forward at 40! ACS honors Bessel van der Kolk,
Dan Jacobs and Pete Caron
On November 13, ACS celebrated its 40th anniversary with
friends, donors, and colleagues at the Union Club of Boston,
joining together to honor Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Dan
Jacobs and Pete Caron. ACS honored Dr. Van der Kolk for
his visionary work on trauma.
Dr. Dan Sanford, ACS
Clinical Director, DYS
Commissioner Peter
Forbes, and ACS Board
Member Michael
Lafleur, Esq., share a
common interest in
court-involved youth.
Bill Paine, ACS Board Chair, Mary Shahien,
ACS Board Member, and Dr. Bill Hudgins.
Dr. Adele Pressman honored Dr. Van
der Kolk for his work, which has
transformed the life trajectories of
court-involved children and families.
Middlesex County First Justice Jay Blitzman
bonds with Dr. Van der Kolk who stresses
the use of dance and song for people with
trauma “to bring the body to life.”
ACS social worker Bethany Hadley and
psychologist Susan Flood join First Justice
Jay Blitzman to celebrate ACS’s 40 years!
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Dr. David Wilcox, ACS Board
Member, chats with Pam Riffin,
ACS HR and Finance Manager.
ACS gave Dr. Dan Jacobs the
Founding Father Award for his more
than 40 years of dedicated service.
Pete Caron received the Indispensable
Friend Award, for providing vital
infrastructure support.
“Your vision, wisdom, compassion and generosity have opened
so many doors for vulnerable court-involved children and their
families. You’re one in a million – you inspire us all!”
- Fran Miller in presenting Dan Jacobs’ award
Dr. Dan Jacobs with ACS Board President
Fran Miller, celebrating Dan’s 40 plus years
of dedicated service to ACS.
Dr. Judy Kantrovitz, along with Board
Members Dr. Dan Jacobs and Jane Siegel.
Lia Poorvu, ACS Board Member,
Indispensable Friend Pete Caron, and ACS
Executive Director Rebecca Pries.
Dr. Richard Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Caron,
Priscilla Hunt, and Pete Caron celebrate
Pete’s award.
Jenna Rice, Brandeis student,
and her mother Jude Aronstein,
donor and former ACS staff.
Erika Rickard, Hanna Hussey, and
Julian Cyr of the Massachusetts
Commission on LGBTQ Youth.
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Client Demographics
All clients: The 490 clients ACS served in 2013 represented the following:
GenderRace
Age
50%
40%
Hispanic
25%
White
49%
Male
65%
Female
35%
30%
AfricanAmerican
15%
20%
10%
0
under 7
Asian 6%
Other 5%
7 to 12
13 to 15
16 to 17
18 and over
Mental Health Disorders
Out of all the comprehensive
evaluations performed in 2013, Mood
Disorder, ADD/ADHD, Anxiety,
and Suicidality are the most prevalent
mental health conditions found
among ACS clients, leading to a high
incidence of hospitalization. Overall,
80% of ACS clients have at least one
mental health disorder. Nationally,
70% of youth in the juvenile justice
system have at least one mental health
condition and at least 20% live with
a severe mental illness.*
ADD/ADHD
65%
Mood disorder
Anxiety
Suicidality
36%
74%
63%
Hospitalization (for mental health issues)
43%
* Skowyra, K.R. & Cocozza, J.J. (2007) Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the
Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile
Justice System. The National Center for Mental Health and Jevenile Justice; Policy Research
Associates, Inc. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Delmar, N.Y.: The
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; Policy Research Associates, Inc.
Suicide and Court-Involved Kids
Suicide is a serious, multi-faceted
problem that affects court-involved
children. In the U.S. suicide is the
third leading cause of death for
children 10 to 14**. Concern about a
child’s risk of self-harm is frequently
the reason for the Juvenile Judge to
order the ACS clinician to conduct an
emergency evaluation. Some of these
necessitate immediate hospitalization;
others result in a less restrictive
placement or enhanced therapy
and home-based services. The high
percentage of children who have been
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psychiatrically hospitalized reflects
both levels of harm to themselves as
well as high levels of aggressive, out-ofcontrol behavior, often in the home.
ACS clients have many of the risk
factors that place them at greater
risk for suicide, including previous
suicide attempts, family history
of suicide, history of trauma, and
history of depression or other mental
illness. Children having 4 or more
Adverse Childhood Experiences are
4 to 12 times more likely to struggle
with depression, suicide attempts,
alcoholism, and drug abuse as
adults.*** (See page 7 for information
on Adverse Childhood Experiences.)
** “Youth Violence: National Statistics” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
27 December 2013. Web. 24 April 2014.
*** Felitti, V.J., Anda, R.F., Nordenberg, D., Williamson, D.F., Spitz, A.M., Edwards, V, & Marks,
J.S. (1998). Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading
causes of death in adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. American Journal of
Preventative Medicine, (14(4), 245-258.
Jessie
– Third Time’s a Charm
Jessie was 13 and living with her
grandmother when she was first
referred to ACS. Her grandmother had
asked the Juvenile Court for assistance,
as Jessie was using drugs, sneaking
out of the house at night, skipping
school and being combative at home.
Jessie’s grandmother had tried to
help Jessie on her own by seeking out
therapy, but Jessie consistently missed
appointments or refused to go.
continued to decline. By her next
court date, she had picked up a charge
of assault and battery related to a fight
with some girls in her neighborhood.
After this incident, Jessie’s probation
officer thought ACS’s group treatment
would be beneficial. The judge ordered
attendance in the Young Women’s
Group as a condition of her probation.
ACS evaluated Jessie and discov-
starting the Young Women’s Group.
She was very hesitant. She was wary of
therapy ever since a school counselor
had reported her statements about
being sexually abused by a family
friend. While Jessie understood that
her counselor had to report the abuse,
she felt betrayed and lost trust in
therapists. Though Jessie had agreed
to attend the Young Women’s Group,
ered that she came from a family with
a general lack of stability and a long
history of multigenerational trauma,
including her mother being sexually
assaulted by a family member. Janice,
the ACS clinician, discovered these
underlying issues and made recommendations for services in the community. Despite this, Jessie’s behavior
Jessie came and met with Janice
again, this time in preparation for
she didn’t follow through. She never
attended a single session. Wanting to
give her another chance, her probation
officer referred her to the group for a
second time. Again, Jessie promised
Janice that she would attend but,
again, she failed to appear. Finally,
after the third referral, Jessie, by now
15, finally signed on and attended
the group.
Over the course of the Young
Women’s Group, Jessie was involved
in an altercation with another
student at school. Though she was
suspended for a number of weeks,
she still attended the group. During
one session, she talked about being
disappointed in herself over the
incident and received support from the
other group members. They helped her
realize that she could overcome this
setback. As the group progressed, Jessie
became a leader– she volunteered her
own experiences and offered support
and advice to her peers. At the last
meeting, Jessie informed the group
that she thought she might like to
become a social worker someday!
The positive experience she had
in the Young Women’s Group helped
Jessie get back on track. Her school
attendance became more consistent,
her relationship with her grandmother
improved and she found healthy
outlets for her anger and frustrations.
Jessie began to see a future for herself
– she was determined to continue
making the best choices she could to
make that future a reality.
It takes time and patience to win
the trust and respect of many of the
kids that ACS sees. Our clinicians have
learned that most often, perseverance
wins the best rewards.
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Collaborations: MAJCC and CYV
Massachusetts Alliance of
Juvenile Court Clinics (MAJCC)
MAJCC’s Advocacy has led to
increased public support for Juvenile
Court Clinics statewide
Working together with a skilled
advocate, MAJCC educates publicsector decision-makers about the
vulnerabilities of court-involved kids
and families and the need for increased
funding to better serve them.
ACS continues to lead this
group’s advocacy, outreach
and communications.
Dr. Dan Sanford, ACS Clinical Director, Dr. Gary
Dube, JRI Program Director, Kris Latour Kennedy,
LICSW, CFF Program Director
MAJCC has been successful in working toward the
increased funding goal of $2
million set by DMH and the
Trial Court in 2005. Limited gains in 2007 and 2008
increased funding by $1.186
million statewide. In FY12 DMH
added $126,000 and over the next two
years (FY13 and FY14) the Legislature
appropriated an additional $424,655.
With these very welcome gains, the
Juvenile Court Clinics are now on the
homeward stretch ­– they now need
$260,000 to achieve the original goal
of $2 million set eight years ago.
You can learn more about MAJCC at:
www.kidsandthelaw.org/majcc.html.
ACS receives separate funding for
MAJCC from the Gardiner Howland
Shaw Foundation and C.F. Adams
Charitable Trust.
Cultivating Youth Voices (CYV)
Empowering Youth to Speak Out
Court-involved youth had no platform
to speak out about their experiences
in the court system. Cultivating
Youth Voices (CYV) formed in 2008
to address this problem. ACS serves
as the lead agency, joining together
with the Children’s Law Center of
Massachusetts, Citizens for Juvenile
Justice, Health Law Advocates and
Salvation Army /Bridging the Gap.
CYV held the third annual Kids and
Judges Day in Middlesex County in
April of 2013. Court-involved youth
from the Salvation Army’s Bridging
the Gap Program met with Middlesex
County’s Judge Peter Coyne to learn
and to ask questions.
In 2013, CYV also expanded Kids and
Judges Day into Essex County. On
June 6, 2013, Judge Amy Nechtem
met peer leaders from Girls Inc. at
the Lynn Juvenile Court to answer
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Associate Justice Amy Nechtem welcomes young women from Girls Inc. to her court.
questions like, “How do you become
a judge?” and “Has a case ever been so
hard that it got to you emotionally?”
Judge Nechtem remarked that she loved
“spending time with the girls, answering their questions to help guide their
futures. I believe a very important role
of the court is to support, enlighten,
encourage and mentor the next generation of leaders in our community.”
Visit the CYV blog at:
cultivatingyouthvoices.wordpress.com
The John W. Alden Trust supports
Cultivating Youth Voices and believes
in CYV’s mission to empower teens to
speak out about their experiences, while
maintaining confidentiality around the
specifics of their court-involvement.
* Kids and Judges Day was launched in 2011 with the expert guidance of Kim Stevens from
the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC). For more information about
NACA, please visit www.nacac.org, or contact Kim Stevens at [email protected].
Financials
From the most recent audited fiscal year: FY 2013 (July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013)
Income FY 2013
Public Sector Contracts
$843,427 $845,000
Grants and Contributions
$460,217 $460,000
Other Income $110,465 $53,000
MAJCC
$12,000 $19,000
In-kind
$95,480 $94,000
$1,521,589 $1,471,000
$1,124,946 $1,157,000
Occupancy (In-kind & Rent)
$138,881 $127,000
Professional Fees and Insurance
$155,224 $119,000
$5,000 $28,000
$35,482 $40,000
$1,459,533 $1,471,000
Total Income FY14 Budget
Expenses
Salaries, Benefits, Taxes
MAJCC
Other Expenses
Total Expenses
FY13 Program Efficiency
Program
Services
83%
Fundraising
5%
Administration
12%
FY13 Funding Sources
Public
Sector
Contracts
56%
Grants and
Contributions
30%
Contributed
Facilities and
Services 6%
Other
Investments 8%
Serving vulnerable kids and families
since 1973
ACS served only the Cambridge Court until 1998
when ACS was awarded the state contract to provide
juvenile court clinic services throughout Middlesex
County. The program developed expertise in serving
court-involved teens and families and built strong
linkages with community service providers, including
schools, hospitals and other treatment facilities. Since
1999, the Department of Mental Health (DMH) has
administered the contract that covers approximately
60% of ACS’s overall operating budget.
Private sources allow ACS to provide services not
covered by the contract, such as specially targeted
treatment and follow-up services, and to respond
to the diverse needs of the Juvenile Court sites in
Cambridge, Framingham, Lowell and Waltham.
In-kind office space at each of the juvenile court sites
uniquely positions ACS to provide effective services to
troubled youth and families from all 54 of Middlesex
County’s urban, rural, MetroWest and Merrimack
Valley communities.
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Calendar Year 2013 Donor List
Through a longstanding public/private partnership, we create successes for vulnerable kids
and families. ACS has state contracts for a portion of our work. But it’s only with you – our
individual, foundation and corporate donors – that we can make a real difference. We have
transitioned to a new donor management system and have made every effort to record names,
levels and loyalty accurately. Thank you for contacting us if you see an error or omission.
CHAMPIONS
(Gifts from $2,500 to $4,999)
Anonymous
Trustees of the Ayer Home
Rhoda Baruch
Adelaide Breed Bayrd
Foundation
LEADERS
James and Lois Champy
(Gifts of $5,000 and above)
Roberta M. Childs
Foundation
Private Sector
Clowes Fund
Anonymous (2)
C.F. Adams Charitable Trust
Ronald Ansin
Cogan Family Foundation
Mary W.B. Curtis Trust
Devonshire Foundation
Fredrick A. Bailey Trust
Nancy and Richard Donahue
Bennett Family Foundation
Hunt Alternatives Fund
Marion F. Boynton Trust
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Cambridge Community
Foundation
Perpetual Trust for Charitable
Giving, Bank of America,
N.A., Trustee
Ann and Marvin Collier
James W. and Patricia T.
Poitras Fund
Draper Laboratory
Lia G. and William Poorvu
Family Foundation
Moses Kimball Fund
Wendy Shattuck and
Sam Plimpton
Gardiner Howland Shaw
Foundation
TJX Foundation
Cosette Charitable Fund
Forest Foundation
Thomas E. and Barbara B.
Leggat Fund
MENTOR Charitable Fund
Middlesex Savings
Charitable Foundation
John J. Petrowsky
The Janey Fund
Charitable Trust
Public Sector
Beth K. Pfeiffer
Estate of Phyllis W. Kauer
Department of Mental Health
Klarman Family Foundation
Massachusetts Juvenile Court
Frederick E. Weber Charities
Corporation
Scott and Laura Malkin
ADVOCATES
William Paine
(Gifts from $1,000 to $2,499)
Aquidneck Foundation
“ACS helped me when I was a teen –
that’s why I serve on the board today!”
Judith Aronstein
Ann and Donald Brown
Cambridge Trust Company
Pete Caron
- Michael Lafleur, Esq., Assistant District Attorney
1973
1975
1978
1980 1982 Program begins
as the Learning
Disabilities Project
Funding received from
Cambridge Public
Schools for special
needs and courtinvolved kids
Challenge grant from
Hyams Foundation
first private sector
funding
Program changes
name to Adolescent
Consultation Services
ACS Advisory Board
established
Substance Abuse
Education Group
formed
Forward@40 – a brief history
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Fay Chandler
Jim and Carolyn Birmingham
Lael and Charles Chester
Barbara H. Clark
Anne Covert
Roxann Cooke
Peter B. Culman
Memorial Fund
Thomas and Andrea Dupree
Doran Family Foundation
Joe Figueiredo and
Linda Stewart
Robert and Esta Epstein
East Cambridge Savings Bank
Mary K. Eliot
Richard Friedman
Jonathan Hecht and
Lora Sabin
Joseph E. and Frances E.
Heney Charitable Trust
Charles and Sara Goldberg
Charitable Trust
Christine Kondoleon and
Frederic Wittmann
Terrie Graham
Barbara F. Lee
Frances and Hugh Miller
George and Ann Macomber
Tim and Joanne Oyer
Edward H. Mank Foundation
Gary and Mary Pforzheimer
Richard and Claire Morse
Foundation
Jonathan and Amy Poorvu
Lawrence Kotin
Phyllis Kauer, mother of
Susan Mimno, ACS’s first
development director, passed
away in 2013 at the age of
100. “Mum was well aware
of how much pleasure I have had in my work with ACS
and chose to honor ACS in her estate plans.” Pictured is
Mrs. Kauer, celebrating Christmas at Susan's home, and
Susan, continuing to support ACS in her retirement!
G. Daniel Prigmore
Laura M. Prager and
Frederick Millham
Mary and David Shahian
Rebecca and Weldon Pries
SUPPORTERS
Vivian Shoolman
Karen F. Richards
(Gifts up to $500)
Stevenson Family
Charitable Trust
Abby Rockefeller and
Lee Halprin
David K. Wilcox and
Charlotte R. Pierce
Eric M. Shank
ALLIES
Marilyn and Irvin Yalom
Susan Ayers and
Nancy Salonpuro
Jay Blitzman
Rich Wenger
Leslie Boden and Judy Yanof
Jane and John Bradley
(Gifts from $500 to $999)
Sara Bursac
Richard and Bonnie Barnum
Paul and Catherine
Buttenweiser
Beard Family Charitable Trust
Ellen Cohen and
Daniel Haber
Grace R. Conway
Alice DeLana
Damelis and
Gabriel DeVisnyey
Mary C. Eliot
Anne Ellsworth
Margaret S. Fearey
Fiduciary Trust Company
Charles Flather
1986 1991 1995 First Treatment Group
for young men formed
First Parent and Teens
Communications skills
group formed.
ACS obtains
nonprofit tax exempt
designation; Advisory
Board becomes Board
of Directors
1996 Young women’s
treatment group
formed due to increase
in female referrals.
ACS publishes first
edition of English/
Spanish “Kids and the
Law: A Users Guide to
the Court System”.
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Calendar Year 2013 Donor List (continued)
Peter and Kathleen Forbes
Louise and Alan Mann
Sheila and Malcolm Foster
Joseph and Rachel Martin
Nancy and Richard Fryberger
Jacques and Margaret Gelin
Joseph A. and Julia L.
McOsker
Dori A. Gerber
Evy and Joe Megerman
Stephen Rosenfeld and
Margot Botsford
Owen and Miriam Gingerich
Elise Merriam
Eleanor Rubin
Nancy Grossman
Robert G. Millar III
Dan Sanford
Jamie and Kara Gruver
Susan and Pieter Mimno
John and Rhoda Schwarz
Suzanne and Easley Hamner
Alex Moot and Nancy Roosa
Melvin Scovell
Lissa and Melville Hodder
Ellen Moot
Edward Shapiro
Nina and Gerald Holton
Gale Munson, Esq.
Robert N. Shapiro
William Hudgins
Linda P. Myers
Katherine and Ralph Hughes
Mary and Sharif Nada
Francine Sherman and
Scott Tucker
Daniel Jacobs and
Susan Quinn
Andrew Navarette
Clare and Geoff Nunes
Robert Silberman and
Nancy Netzer
Theodore J. Jacobs
Scott O’Gorman
Claude and Elizabeth Smith
Daniel G. and Alison
Poorvu Jaffee
Katherine Page and
Alan Hein
Prudence L. Steiner
Jill Janows
Shirley Partoll
Virginia L. Kahn
Katherine and Tony Pell
Helen and Rudy Kass
Dawn and Pete Polomski
James Kitendaugh and
Lynne Cavanaugh
Jane Prager
David Riley and
Nathan Darvish
David and Deirdre Rosenberg
Jane and Ben Siegel
Judith and John Styer
Peter and Charlotte Temin
Thursday Mothers’ Group
Kathan Tracy
Soledad Valenciano
Judith Klau
Adele Pressman and
Robert Gardner
Thomas Kreilkamp
CT Ransdell
Ruth Whitney
Ann LeVarn and
David Greenbaum
Laurie Raymond
Mark and Lynne Wolf
Pam and Tom Riffin
Geraldine Zetzel
Sophia B. Wadsworth
John Macomber
1998 ACS awarded state
contract to provide
juvenile court clinic
services throughout
Middlesex County.
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“As Dr. Seuss said in
The Lorax, ‘Unless
someone like you cares
a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get
better. It’s not.’”
2002 ACS establishes
court clinic sites in
Lowell, Cambridge,
Framingham and
Waltham
New Education and
Advocacy Program
launched
- Pete Caron
2003 ACS publishes English/
Khmer edition of “Kids
and the Law: A Users
Guide to the Court
System”
ACS hires
neuropsychologist to
address increased need
for educational and
emotional testing
HONORARY GIFTS
In honor of Pete Caron
Susan Ayers and Nancy
Salonpuro
In honor of
Daniel Rothenberg
In honor of Rebecca Pries
About ACS
Mary K. Eliot
Lia G. and William Poorvu
Estate of Phyllis W. Kauer
Established in 1973,
ACS evaluates,
counsels and
advocates for
at-risk youth and
their families. In
partnership with
the Juvenile Court,
ACS clinicians work
with court-involved
children and their
families to understand
their needs and
bring together the
necessary resources
to find real solutions
to their underlying
problems. Ellen Cohen and Daniel
Haber
In honor of Lia G. Poorvu
Alice DeLana
Rhoda Baruch
Daniel G. and Alison Poorvu
Jaffee
In memory of Bill Ransdell
Ann and Donald Brown
CT Ransdell
Jonathan and Amy Poorvu
Lawrence Kotin
Sheila and Malcolm Foster
Rebecca and Weldon Pries
Jonathan Hecht and Lora
Sabin
Prudence L. Steiner
Estate of Phyllis W. Kauer
In memory of
Steven Dechaine
Katherine and Tony Pell
James Kitendaugh and Lynne
Cavanaugh
In honor of Jane Siegel
Dori A. Gerber
Judith Klau
In memory of Margaret
“Pam” Treimann
Judith Klau
Barbara F. Lee
Katherine and Tony Pell
In honor of Dan Jacobs
John J. Petrowsky
Evy and Joe Megerman
Karen F. Richards
Rebecca and Weldon Pries
Mark and Lynne Wolf
Louise and Alan Mann
Rebecca and Weldon Pries
Jane and Ben Siegel
ACS serves all clients
and families with the
same goals in mind:
to enable kids to stay
out of locked settings
while helping both
clients and families
develop valuable life
skills and access the
services they need to
thrive and succeed.
Jane and Ben Siegel
In honor of Lia G. and
William Poorvu
Scott and Laura Malkin
2006
2009 2010 2012 2013 Massachusetts
Alliance of Juvenile
Court Clinics (MAJCC)
established, a
statewide advocacy
group that represents
the interests
and goals of the
Commonwealth’s
network of Juvenile
Court Clinics
ACS kicks off
Cultivating Youth
Voices (CYV) Project to
give voice to courtinvolved youth
First ACS-sponsored
Kids and Judges
Day at Middlesex
County Juvenile Court
in Cambridge
First ACS-sponsored
Kids and Judges Day
at Essex County
Juvenile Court
40th Anniversary
Celebration!
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ACS Service Area–Middlesex County
The Massachusetts Trial Court
provides ACS with in-kind office
space in Cambridge, Lowell, and
Framingham. We serve children
and families from all 54 cities and
towns in the County.
ACS Juvenile Court Clinics serve
the four Juvenile Court locations in
Middlesex County:
- Cambridge - Lowell
- Waltham
- Framingham
*
Board of Directors
President, Frances Miller
Chair, William H. Paine
Treasurer, Jacquie L. Kay
Clerk, Jane R. Siegel
James A. Champy
Nancy L. Donahue
Silvia M. Gosnell
Terrie Graham
Daniel H. Jacobs
Michael Lafleur
Lia G. Poorvu
Laura M. Prager
Rebecca E. Pries
*
*
*
Mary M. Shahian
Jane R. Siegel
David K. Wilcox
Executive Director,
Rebecca E. Pries
Clinical Director,
Dr. Dan Sanford
HR and Finance,
Pamela Riffin
Advisory Council
Haley Bishop
Gerald Chertavian
Roxann C. Cooke
Mary C. Eliot
Tracy D. Gee
Robert Gittens
Joel Goldstein
Fatinha R. Kerr
Thomas E. Leggat
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Jorge Quiroga
Katharine E. Thomas
Kathan Tracy
Adolescent Consultation Services, Inc.
To protect confidentiality, ACS
does not use the names, photos or
identifying features of clients.
189 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, MA 02141
Phone: 617-494-0135
Fax: 617-494-0136
Email: [email protected]
www.acskids.org