Pathway Caring for Children

What it reported doing in 2024

Mental health services - pathway's mental health services department provides trauma-informed care for children, adolescents, and families across multiple locations in northeast Ohio. Services are offered in outpatient offices, schools, homes, and community settings to ensure accessibility and meet clients where they are. We provide individual, group, and family therapy; case management; early childhood mental health consultation; behavioral health respite, and specialized case management focused on family empowerment and independent living for transitional age young people. Our licensed clinicians and case managers use a range of evidence-based practices to promote healing and resilience, including trust-based relational intervention (tbri), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (tf-cbt), dialectical behavior therapy (dbt) skills, emdr(eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and other nationally recognized models. These approaches address trauma, anxiety, depression, behavioral health challenges, family stressors, and developmental needs. As a designated zero suicide agency, we integrate systematic suicide risk assessment, safety planning, and crisis response into our care model. Our services are individualized and culturally responsive, equipping clients and families with tools to strengthen relationships, regulate emotions, develop coping skills, and build long-term stability.in the past year, we served over 1000 clients across our northeast Ohio service area, improving mental health outcomes and strengthening community well-being.pathway provides prevention services to a population that ranges from early childhood through adulthood and includes families through evidence-based programs and outreach designed to reduce risk factors, strengthen protective factors, and promote mental wellness for children, adolescents, families, and communities. We deliver school- and community-based programs such as all stars, botvin lifeskills training, incredible years/dina dinosaur, strengthening families, too good, and triple p in rural and inner city communities throughout northeast Ohio. These programs build social-emotional skills, improve decision-making, and foster resilience against substance use, violence, and other high-risk behaviors. Pathway's credentialed prevention specialists also partner with schools, parents, and community organizations to offer workshops, group interventions, and individualized support. Services are culturally responsive and developmentally tailored, equipping participants with tools for healthy relationships, emotional regulation, and positive coping. By promoting connectedness, communication, and self-esteem, our prevention services reduce the need for higher levels of care and strengthen the overall well-being of our community. In the past year, we served approximately 800 youth and families through structured curriculum groups, classroom presentations, and community events. Our prevention efforts align with pathway's mission to empower children and families to realize their potential.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
• Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $6.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd 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: 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: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings