The Young Women's Project

What it reported doing in 2023

P2p-sbmh (peer to peer school based mental health program, dbh funded). This program overlaps significantly with the mental health campaign (mhc). With the overall goals of reducing stigma and the impact of toxic stress and trauma, increasing school-based mental health services, and expanding school-based mental-wellness education, the school-based behavioral health student peer educator pilot program (sb-bh p2p) trained and supported a cadre of more than 122 youth staff leaders (ages 14-19) from 30+ dc public schools who will use education, referrals, social media, and student on- line support (sos) virtual wellness centers to educate to engage 12,032 peers and connect them to mental health services. P2p-sbmh youth staff reached 12,032 peers with mental health education and support including 11,013 through classroom presentations and 2,120 with weekly resources and skills-focused information. Youth connected 2,879 directly to counselors and mental health providers. More than 65% of youth staff and youth reached will live in high poverty neighborhoods and wards 5, 7 and 8. With the overall goals of reducing stigma and the impact of toxic stress and trauma, increasing school-based mental health services, and expanding school-based mental-wellness education, the mental health campaign trained and supported a cadre of more than 122 youth staff leaders (ages 14-19) from 30+ dc public schools who used education, referrals, social media, and student on-line support (sos) virtual wellness centers to educate to engage 12,032 students (including 2,200 each week with personalized messages) through training, text chats, social media, and presentations, covering 10 health issues including toxic stress, resilience building, sleep, trauma, anxiety, healthy relationship building, consent, conflict resolution, meditation, mindfulness, breathing, brain science,, depression, substance use, suicide, nutrition, and accessing school based and city-wide mental health services. We also connected more than 2,400 youth to counselors and other supports, presented 42 testimonies to dc council and submitted 82 written testimonies, and conducted a survey with 1,040 students from 36 schools including 16 dcps and 14 public charter schools, 3 private, and 3 middle schools living in all dc wards with significant representation from wards 7 and 8 (30% of survey takers), 4 (24%) and 5 (15%). Since 2020, ywp peer educators have conducted an annual youth mental health & wellness survey--documenting high rates of youth stress, depression, and isolation and low rates of service access. We used the survey findings and our experience to educate teachers, counselors, principals, and agency leaders on the needs of youth - who are still in crisis with high rates of depression (31%), suicide (14%) and high stress (77%). Finally, mhc deepened the role of our l2 (advanced) youth leaders this year: 12 l2 mhc youth leaders served as trainers for new staff, implementing a 8 hour curricula including substance use, nutrition, food deserts, and nutrition. Engaging l2 youth allows us to maintain larger teams and be able to deliver the curricula in smaller groups.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 56.7%; rating input score 57
• Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
• Fundraising efficiency: $78.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th 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: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • 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: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 43.4%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.79; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 24.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings