Depelchin Children's Center

What it reported doing in 2024

Counseling and family services: depelchin offers prevention/early intervention, counseling and parent education programs to promote healthy families and keep children from entering the child welfare/juvenile justice systems. The evidence-based programs help in two primary ways: first, by decreasing the future need for more intensive services and second, by reducing the need for intervention by child protective services or law enforcement. Depelchin's pei services target issues such as family conflict, youth alcohol, tobacco and drug use, bullying and school drop-out. Through its parent education classes, depelchin helps parents build and maintain healthy relationships with their children and work through family issues (see continuation on schedule o) such as conflict and divorce. The triple p positive parenting program also provides resources and information to support parents in dealing with common parenting discipline challenges. This program focuses on identifying the causes of child misbehavior, how to effectively manage it, and ways to promote healthy child development. This program helps participants learn how to incorporate strategies both in their daily lives and in situations involving higher risk. This program is provided in a home-based format where parents receive up to one hour of services for approximately 12-16 weeks. In this program, all participants receive standard triple p, which is a 10 session program focusing on concrete behavioral interventions. Families that exhibit a greater need based on parenting assessments or families that express a desire for additional services may also receive pathways triple p, an additional 5-session program that focuses on managing anger, changing negative thinking patterns about children and being more positive as a parent. In 2024, depelchin served 6,261 individuals through its prevention/early intervention services and parenting programs.tags program: depelchin's transitioning to adulthood through guidance and support (tags) program serves young adults who have aged out of foster care without a permanent family. Established in 2013, tags provides an individualized, secure, supportive environment with opportunities for former foster youth to grow socially, emotionally, and financially. The goal of the program is to help young adults exiting foster care become independent, productive, educated, self-sufficient members of the community. Former foster youth from anywhere in Texas are eligible to participate. New residents usually enter in need of help with enrolling in school and finding employment: 38% of incoming tags participants are neither working nor attending school. Within ninety days of beginning the program, 100% are in school and/or working at least 80 hours per month, laying the groundwork for life as independent, self-sufficient adults. Tags houses 20 young women and men aged 18-22 who live in the elkins building on the depelchin campus. Depelchin also has an agreement with Texas southern university (tsu) for a small number of young adults served by tags and enrolled with the university to live on the tsu campus.tags provides individualized case management with skill-building opportunities tailored to each resident's need and interests. Youth may participate until their 22nd birthday, and most graduate from the program within 12-18 months. In 2024, the tags program served 35 young adults.depelchin children's center offers parenting services specifically targeting fathers residing in the greater houston area with children birth to eighteen years old. Fathers, grandfathers, male caregivers, and caregivers that identify as male/father are eligible for services. The fatherhood focus services utilize the evidenced based model 24/7 dads program. This program is offered in twelve sessions and provides an array of parent education focusing on the importance of the father role in a child's life. In addition to the 24/7 dads curriculum services include co-parenting and case

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -3.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.82; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings