Family Focus Adoption Services

What it reported doing in 2024

Agency program include: direct placement program - offering counseling and adoption information to pregnant women or new mothers and their families. Should the parents decide to place their baby for adoption through family focus, the agancy provides the actual placement process and follow up services, with particular sensitivity to the surrender dynamics. Family services program - offering local family evaluations and post-placement reports for families adopting internationally or interstate. Family focus is hague accredited, and able to help families adopting from anywhere in the world.child welfare training program - offering the widely-know and well-respected training services of senior agency staff, as requested, to social work agencies and foster and adoptive parent organizations throughout the united states and canada. Family focus is regularly asked to present our forward-looking non-bureaucratic adoption philosophies and practices at major conferences in both countries. We have also provided a webinar for the national older child adoption effort of the dave thomas foundation, know as wendy's wonderful kids, and have done multi-day training in New York, Louisiana, and Massachusetts, as part of the certification on adoption competence given by the national resource center on permanency and family connections, housed at the hunter college school of social work. Family focus provides training on more than twenty different topics dealing with contemporary adoption issues and realties, and is now developing its own fourteen-week certification training program for adoptive and potential adoptive families.waiting child program - working to recruit potential adoptive families for the children in greatest need, the older foster children and youth who languish for far too many years in local foster care, and then effectuating successful adoptions for a lifetime, this program is the heart of family focus, and represents the agency's mission. At a time when most of society still disregards the necessity for these young people to have permanent families before they age out of foster care, at eighteen or twenty-one, family focus has developed techniques that help children and families learn to live together, and then choose to be a permanent family. The agency's success rate with the adoptins of children up to age twenty is ninety-seven percent, compared with a national average of seventy-five percent. Most children placed are from New York state counties, but, to meet current needs, the agency has developed an internet assistance program. For families who are adopting children from many other parts of the country. As part of its older child adoption work, family focus has also developed special ways of recognizing the family's commitment, and there are now agencies all over the united stateswho have begun to use these techniques. Rad! - the "relationships are decisions" program is a long term pilot program. It was created for the most difficult children in the system to keep in adoptive homes. Each child is assigned one worker and each worker has only one child. The worker, future workers, they are called, teaches the children the familial and community concepts that they will need in order to succeed in families. They meet twise a month for about a year. At the end of the year the children are connected to pre-adoptive homes, where they visit for another year, while still meeting twice a month with their future worker. During the third year the children move in with the family, still seeing that same future worker, and move through a series of gradated steps to adoption finalization.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
• Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • 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%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.96; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings