Nami Southeast Louisiana

What it reported doing in 2024

Over the last fiscal year, nami southeast Louisiana held 3 separate free support groups in our community. These are nami connection, which is a recovery support group for adults living with mental health challenges, nami family support group, which is open to family members and family caregivers of individuals living with a serious mental illness, and survivors of suicide (sos) which provides family members who have lost a loved one to suicide come together for resources and support. All groups are confidential with participants sharing as much or as little at they wish. Our organization held 169 support groups last year (117 family support groups, 42 connection groups, and 10 survivors of suicide groups) with 1,000 individuals in attendance. (730 for family support group, 228 for connection, and 42 for survivors of suicide). Nami southeast Louisiana also held 2 different signature education classes in the community. These include: peer-to-peer and family-to-family. Peer- to-peer is an 8-week program that meets in a safe, confidential setting where adults living with mental health challenges can learn skills to establish wellness and maintain a solid recovery. Family-to-family education, another 8-week program, was developed for family members or family caregivers who have loved ones living with mental illness. Over the last fiscal year, we provided 6 (2 peer-to-peer and 4 family- to-family) classes with a total of 76 individuals in attendance. In addition to support groups and signature education programs, nami southeast Louisiana added individual sessions of signature nami programs. Nami provider, a program for healthcare providers, administrative and operational staff and medical students to help them understand the lived experience of individuals with mental illness and their families, fostering empathy, collaboration, and compassionate care, offered 2 sessions at a local hospital. Nami in our own voice, a public education program where trained speakers with lived experience share their journey to recovery, was featured in 8 sessions across southeast Louisiana and had 274 participants. Nami southeast Louisiana also introduced sharing hope to our community with 2 pilot sessions and 8 attendees. Sharing hope is designed to create supportive, safe spaces for conversations about mental health within black and brown communities. The nami faithnet pathways to hope conference was also added this year with 60 participants coming together to combat the stigma surrounding mental illness and bringing together faith communities, mental health providers and individuals with lived experience and their families. We have presented on a variety of subjects to support the needs of individuals living with mental illness, family members, health care providers and the community. Conferences, trainings, educational panels, and open forums are presented by mental health professionals, community leaders, various community-based service organizations, and nami representatives. Over the last year we provided a total of 149 events consisting of over 16,719 attendees. This included 25 mental health first aid courses with a total of 558 participants. We also hosted 2 namiwalks event (northshore - may and southshore - october) with 1,243 participants, the autumn polo classic with 400 of participants, and nami angels program where 1,200 individuals in local behavioral health and substance mis-use hospitals received a wrapped gift of self-care items to open on christmas morning. Nami sela's clinical services include both therapeutic support and case management. Therapeutic support is where illness management, problem- solving, and coping skills are addressed. Various therapy modalities are used by licensed clinicians and are utilized offering sliding scale, medicaid and medicare. Telehealth was also made available. 109 clients came to us for therapeutic support last year. Case management services include linkage to resources, access to behavioral health

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $14.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • 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: 4.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings