Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Education resources and trainings - c.a.s.e.'s training programs and educational forums integrate theory, research, and best and innovative practices designed by our experts as well as national experts and those with lived experience in pre- and post-adoption support to meet the specific needs of local, national, and international foster, kinship, and adoption communities. In 2025, 6,396 registrants signed up for 10 strengthening your family webinars and three additional webinars. 273 individuals participated in 12 customized trainings, workshops, and presentations provided by c.a.s.e. Staff to parents or professionals via contracting and community organizations. 87 individuals in the association of tac professionals participated in four trainings. One wise up! Train the trainer workshop was offered with three new organizations becoming licensed wise up! Sites for a total of 17 licensed sites. C.a.s.e. Also offered five support group series for parents and adult adoptees with 353 individuals participating. C.a.s.e. Delivered 390 in-demand educational webinars to support families and professionals. School-based mental health professionals training - in 2024, c.a.s.e. Adapted the nti training for mental health professionals to assure school-based mental health professionals, including school counselors, social workers, therapists, psychologists, and other professionals and administrators, would have the ability to understand and address the mental health and development challenges of students with experiences of adoption, foster care, and kinship care in public, private, and charter k-12 grades. Many of these students experience academic and social/peer challenges due to their early adverse experiences combined with interruptions in learning resulting from multiple moves and placement changes. This training was launched in september 2023. Implementation in local and national schools and school districts and evaluation activities are funded by private funding. In 2025, 1,029 school-based mental health professionals enrolled in the training with 2,029 enrolling since the training launched. Additionally, implementation specialists provided professional development workshops and worked with schools, school districts, and state departments of education to promote integration of the training. Academy for elevating clinical practice in permanency (the academy) - the academy was created in 2021, then known as the national demonstration and teaching clinic (dtc), to address the combined national mental health crisis and national workforce shortage by preparing mental health professionals to serve the adoption, foster care, and kinship caregiving community more efficiently and effectively. At the academy, therapists of all levels grow and deepen in adoption specialty practice through a range of supports. These include: - newly created advanced coursework proprietary to the academy - participation in year-long learning cohorts with their peers and advanced consultants - access to c.a.s.e.'s learning management system with two uniquely created instructional video collections, proprietary to the academy - optional training in the simulation laboratory audiences of the academy include interns, mid-level/post mental health clinicians, and advanced clinicians. The academy piloted with the intern audience at c.a.s.e. From 2022-25, through a collaboration for workforce development with the university of Oklahoma 2023-25, and with two of the three courses for advanced clinicians that were piloted in 2024, ran again in 2025, and a new course was added along with two 20 session learning cohorts: one for mid-level and one for advanced clinicians, respectively. Demonstrable outcomes on various measures are showing promising results including pre and post data. Offerings will be available simultaneously to intern and advance audiences in 2026.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
• Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
• Fundraising efficiency: $24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings