Connect Summit County

What it reported doing in 2022

Program 4 mental wellness alliance connect currently coordinates the mental wellness alliance (mwa). Mwa is a coalition focused on bringing together summit county's key stake holders and mental health providers to create a powerful and coordinated approach to address the community's mental wellness challenges. One of the committees that make up the mwa is the equity committee which ensures equity of mental health and substance use programs and services for latino and underserved community members. Currently there are 10 latinx leaders who are members of the committee and represent summit county non-profits, the park city police department, the summit county behavioral department, and the park city school district. We will recruit new members from similar organizations in wasatch county, and we will invite marginalized community members to join the committees, as well. The mental wellness alliance brings together partners and community members in summit county to foster collaboration and identify gaps in service and support. This collaborative approach ensures effective delivery of mental health services to the community, and also includes law enforcement and the county's school districts. Connect has hired a mental wellness alliance coordinatorl to coordinate the mental wellness alliance and its partners. Mental wellness alliance partners that offer mental health programs and wellness services include: christian center of park city, the council on aging, holy cross ministries, jewish family service of Utah, latino behavioral health services, live like sam foundation, people's health clinic, peace house, summit county clubhouse, summit county health department behavioral health division, summit county recovery foundation among others. Program 5 support groups connect recently hired a support group coordinator who leads two, on-going support groups for caregiving and grief in summit county. These groups meet multiple times a month, and provide additional support for like-minded individuals, while also offering additional resources and support as needed using aforementioned programs. As this is a new program for connect, we would like see support groups of all types-grief, caregivers, aging population, and parents-meet at least four times a month for at least nine months, with approximately eight participants per group session. We will track this using google forms. Additional info which can help connect is a non-profit organization based in summit county, Utah that works to de-stigmatize mental illness through community wide educational programming and awareness campaigns, to increase access to existing behavioral-health services, and to advocate for funding for local behavioral-health services. During the grant period, connect staff and board of directors re-engaged our community members and community leaders, which increased our visibility, thus increasing the use of our mental health resource phone line, financial assistance program, and distribution of our 1000+ mental health resource guides. We offer all of these services and printed materials in both english and spanish. We had the opportunity to increase our programming efforts to include spanish-speaking community members and rural community members by being present at more local town events like the july 4th rodeo in oakley, the "ask me anything" youth panel produced at the kamas library, and various other events in heber and coalville. Our intentional expansion of the location of our events has allowed us to extend reach and provide our services to people outside of summit county and into wasatch county and salt lake county. As a result, we are partnering with the arts council of summit county and park city for the latino arts festival, a three-day event in june 2023. Our outreach efforts also allowed us to increase the use of our mental health resource line by 50% and a 100% increase in the participation our financial assistance program. Because of our efforts as outl

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
• Program expense ratio: 56%; rating input score 56
• Fundraising efficiency: $4.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -24.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings