Valley Cities Behavioral Health Care

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule ovalley cities counseling and consultation (valley cities) (the organization), a not-for-profit community behavioral health center, has been the local source for quality behavioral health counseling and substance use counseling since 1965 in Washington state with clinics in auburn, federal way, kent, renton, meridian at northgate, rainier beach, enumclaw, midway, pike place, bitter lake, and the cohen veterans network in lakewood. Valley cities serves approximately 20,000 individuals each year. Valley cities also provides adult inpatient behavioral health services in seattle and kent. Valley cities is accredited by the joint commission on the accreditation of healthcare organizations (jcaho) and commission on accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf).valley cities provides licensed mental health and substance use counseling for youth and adults; supported employment and education services; outreach services and housing programs for the homeless; family support programs offering youth and family activities; and specialized veterans services that deliver counseling and family support services to veterans and their families. Additionally, valley cities provides voluntary inpatient withdrawal management and residential chemical dependency treatment for adults, as well as involuntary secure withdrawal management and psychiatric treatment for adults. The development department conducts fundraising, marketing, public relations, grant writing, and public policy advocacy. The human resources department oversees personnel, staff training, student intern, and volunteer functions, and the administration and finance departments oversee the revenue cycle team, support staff, accounting and payroll operations.valley cities continues to integrate trained and certified peer support specialists into all programs, allowing their own recovery, and motivating others to find hope and growth in their recovery process. Valley cities clinics offer a unique model of care, team-based care. All clients are assigned to a case manager who then assists them in connecting to resources in the agency and in the community. Clinicians are trained in evidenced based treatment modalities including cbt+ (trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children). Through care coordination, valley cities still treats children, adults and older adults, but as a team approach so each individual gets the focus that they need. Services are provided to meet the needs of children, youth and their families with mental illnesses or emotional disturbances; children, youth and families who are in crisis; and children and youth who are victims of trauma or family violence. These services include individual and family counseling; in home family support and advocacy; school-based counseling; crises intervention; case management; psychiatric assessment; case coordination with other service providers; medication management; support groups and skills for training parents; outreach clinical teams for homeless families; community consultation and education; and specialized treatment for those with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Services are also provided to assist adults and their families with substance use services. Services are trauma-informed and designed with an emphasis on recovery and hope. Valley cities provides employment and educational services so that clients can be supported to return to work or school. The substance use counseling services include inpatient, intensive outpatient, outpatient and specialized relapse prevention services and are integrated with the mental health services for those clients that have co-occurring mental health and substance use problems.valley cities' programs consist of: case manager services: the case manager is the main point of contact at valley cities. They help walk the client through how to get services at valley cities, ask them about what difficulties they are having and try to find ways t

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
• Fundraising efficiency: $22.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 9.8%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings