Preferred Behavioral Health of Nj Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Children's programs including children's mobile response and stabilization services which are available to families 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, when a child is in crisis. This service is an in-home intervention and aims to stabilize and diffuse a crisis for families that request it. The visitation program serves families who are required to have supervised visits with their children. The goal of this program is to maintain regular contact on a planned basis between child, parent, family members and/or significant others that will reinforce the plan of reunification, help the child to maintain a sense of family identity or determine other permanent plans for the child. Healthy families serves to prevent abuse and neglect of children under three years of age by providing early risk identification and intervention to families at risk. Assistance to at-risk parents is provided to promote positive child development for their infants and young children. The program staff ensures that families at risk for child abuse and neglect receive appropriate health and supportive services as well as identify and build on family strengths. Project independence is designed to give adolescents ages 16-21 a head start for responsible living as young adults. Each participant is given a comprehensive independent living skills assessment to determine life skills proficiency levels. Intensive training is then provided through both educational groups and individual skills training sessions. Participation in the program is at least six months long but can continue as long as the youth's commitment to obtaining the goal is evident. School-based youth services offer social and health development for students and families in the lakewood and brick school districts. The programs are offered in a school setting and provide a wide range of behavioral health and social services such as individual, group and family counseling, case management, substance use services, college exposure, job readiness training and recreation. Lifeset, a program of youth villages, is an individualized, evidence informed model that pairs a highly trained specialist with each young person to help identify and accomplish goals. Begun in 1999, lifeset has helped more than 20,000 young people become successful adults across the country. In a randomized trial, lifeset showed positive impacts in many areas of participants' lives, including reduced homelessness, increased economic well-being and better mental health.prevention first provides evidence and research-based programs to furnish children, parents and communities with tools that empower all to make healthy, responsible decisions. Our professional and experienced instructors have created seminars and activities that engage and inform. Prevention first is committed to strengthening the foundation of children and families by empowering them to successfully handle everyday life situations as well as extraordinary challenges such as substance use, harassment, intimidation and bullying.compass is a local program serving ocean and monmouth counties under the umbrella of New Jersey statewide student support services (nj4s). Nj4s is a new statewide initiative from the New Jersey department of children and families (dcf), and was designed to enhance access for students to prevention and mental health screening services. Programs will focus on the core service categories of mental health, suicide prevention, bullying and violence prevention, substance use prevention, and sexual health and teen pregnancy prevention. The program supports public and charter school students and caregivers in ocean and monmouth counties at no cost.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
• Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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; 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: -2.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.8; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings