2022-02-24T15:44:07-08:00 2021-06-30 952076568 Leaf & Cole LLP 2810 Camino Del Rio South Suite 200 San Diego CA 92108 990 2020-07-01 942358632 WALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES WALD 6195845777 8525 GIBBS DRIVE 100 SAN DIEGO CA 92123 TERESA STIVERS CEO 2022-02-24 true TERESA STIVERS 999009999 LATONYA M KNOX P00513874 6192947200 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2020 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z TERESA STIVERS 8525 GIBBS DRIVE 100 SAN DIEGO CA 92123 17948073 false X WWW.WALDENFAMILY.ORG X 1976 CA Walden is a therapeutic foster family and adoption agency, which is engaged in the recruitment, certification and training of foster and adoptive parents, the placement of foster and adoptive children and a transitional housing program for foster youth. 14 14 126 30 0 17785790 17933592 0 21908 14481 -676797 0 17130901 17948073 0 0 6537379 7494078 0 533946 9728776 10374250 16266155 17868328 864746 79745 7173492 7781775 2460766 2989304 4712726 4792471 Walden Environment dba Walden Family Services (Walden) is a nonprofit organization formed in 1976 to provide advocacy, out-of-home placement, and treatment services for children unable to remain in their own homes due to abandonment, abuse, or neglect. Waldens goal is to help stabilize children, youth, and families through community-based prevention and intervention services. Walden is a therapeutic foster family and adoption agency engaged in the recruitment, certification, and training of foster and adoptive parents; the careful placement of foster and adoptive children; and housing and life skills programs for youth transitioning out of foster care. Waldens funding comes primarily from federal, state, and county welfare programs. Each year, Walden provides services to roughly 1,500 children, youth, young adults, and families through an array of programs and services described here. false false 9756830 Transitional Housing Placement (THP) Programs:Unlike the nearly 65% of youth who leave foster care with no place to call home and no connection to the community, youth in Waldens transitional housing programs learn how to live on their own in the community, build relationships with mentors, and earn a college degree or learn a vocation.THP for Non-Minor Dependents (THPP NMD:Waldens transitional housing placement for non-minor dependents program was among the first of its kind in California. Youth choose to remain in foster care until age 21 to pursue their education and employment. Walden helps these young people decide where to live, covers rent and utilities, and provides basic home furnishings. In addition, Walden social workers provide young people with the structure they need to set realistic goals and teach youth the life skills most young adults learn from their parents. Walden currently operates the program through our Riverside, Los Angeles, and San Diego offices.THP-Plus:Because few young adults are self-sustaining even at age 21 with or without parental support Walden began offering services to former foster youth ages 21-25 in 2017. Our THP Plus began providing up to 36 months of transitional housing placement and life skills support for youth in San Diego County and launched a THP Plus program in Los Angeles in 2020. 4742096 Foster & Adoption Services:Children and youth enter foster care when their families are not able to safely care for them. Waldens foster care and adoption program enables infants and sibling groups, youth who identify as LGBTQ, and teens and children with development disabilities, emotional and behavioral challenges, and special healthcare needs to grow up knowing the love and sense of community that living in a family provides.Foster resource families support and care for children until they can return to their family. When children cannot return to their birth family, Walden carefully matches them with individuals and couples seeking to build their family through adoption. Walden provides child-family therapy, training, and ongoing support to facilitate the familys adjustment through each stage of child and youth development.Walden provides resource family homes and Intensive Services Foster Care for children, including those with behavioral and emotional challenges and/or special healthcare needs.Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs/ Intensive Services Foster Care:Waldens Special Health Care Needs (SHCN) and Intensive Services Foster Care (ISFC) program enables children and youth with significant medical needs to move out of skilled nursing facilities and hospitals, into highly skilled, specially trained, and certified foster families. Often, these children have medical equipment-dependent conditions and may require apnea monitors, nebulizers, oxygen, feeding tubes, and other adaptive technology. The program also serves infants who were drug-exposed or born premature, who are failing to thrive, who have insulin-dependent diabetes or life-threatening medical conditions. Foster parents receive intensive training and support to care for these special healthcare needs.Care for Children with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities:Walden serves the needs of foster children and teens with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, and other challenges. The goals are to prevent institutionalization and prepare children and teens for maximum independence through participation in a full range of typical childhood experiences in family and community settings.Mental Health Services:Under the California Continuum of Care Reform, FFAs are expected to increase access to mental health services for the youth in their foster care programs. Walden contracts directly with San Bernardino and Riverside Counties to provide specialty mental health services to Walden youth in their care in those counties. The clinics provide medication management, therapy, rehabilitation, and other appropriate services. Children and youth in need of mental health services in Waldens other districts are referred to trusted community partners.Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Program:Walden is a recognized provider of culturally competent care for youth, education, and inclusion of the LGBTQ community. In addition to services for LGBTQ foster youth in our care, Waldens leadership provides training and support nationally for other child welfare providers, foster parents, and birth families. Walden Family Services actively recruits and educates members of the LGBTQ community about becoming certified foster and adoptive parents. Walden Family Services has attained the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Innovator status, the highest recognition awarded, for our commitment to all children and families.Foster Care for Pregnant and Parenting Teens:Walden provides support and training to parenting youth through our housing and FFA programs. Services include support with parenting classes, budgeting assistance, and referrals to community resources. The program offers services and support to teens that have custody of their children, and teens working toward reunification with their dependent children. 1175248 San Bernardino County ProgramsOur San Bernardino and Victorville offices provide a variety of programs to prepare young people for college, career, and community life, and to support parents in developing the skills to build positive relationships with their children.Nurturing Parenting Program - First 5 San Bernardino:Walden offers free parenting classes for young parents with children 0-5 years old, in the county, using the nationally recognized Nurturing Parenting Curriculum. Using an evidence-based philosophy to help enhance parenting skills, the program offers a 16-week course to help young parents provide for, and in some cases reunite with, their children, and break the child welfare cycle.Extended Care/Aftercare:Waldens San Bernardino offices offer current and former foster youth life skill training and connections to community resources. This program also provides case management, employment, education, community engagement, and emergency financial assistance to former foster youth 18-21 years.Independent Life Skills Classes:Walden provides life skill classes throughout San Bernardino County for foster youth ages 16-18 years. Classes focus on key life skills including, career education, budgeting, relationships, self-advocacy, and community connectionsCAPTS:Walden provides therapy and parenting classes to families referred through San Bernardino Child and Family Services.Resource Family Approval:Walden provides resource family approval assessments for kinship care families in San Bernardino County. 15674174 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true true true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 16 0 false 126 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 14 14 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X TERESA STIVERS 6195845777 8525 GIBBS DRIVE SUITE 100 SAN DIEGO CA 92123 TERESA STIVERS CEO 40.00 0.00 X 156905 0 13982 SUE EVANS COO 40.00 0.00 X 159815 0 5639 SUE GARCIA CFO 40.00 0.00 X 101323 0 2338 LESLIE LEVINSON CHAIR 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JENNIFER SEIFERT Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JAVIER METOYER Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ALLISON GELBRICH-DOWNING Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 CHERIE ENGE Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 RAJAH GAINEY Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 TED GOOCH Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 AMBER LOPEZ GAMBLE Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 EMILY SHULTS Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ANDREA DA ROSA Vice Chair 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JACKIE HELM Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ELENORE A VAUGHN Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ROGER ZUCCHET Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KRISTI CRAFT-MARTINDALE Board Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 418043 21959 3 false true false 0 17100546 833046 3100 17933592 0 14481 14481 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17948073 14481 0 0 0 0 316720 92316 118578 105826 0 5690169 4582215 858738 249216 0 1078244 811192 193263 73789 408945 307660 73299 27986 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25714 481 6085 19148 0 0 0 679659 524380 117520 37759 0 0 43957 28204 14857 896 0 0 15060 15060 98779 73336 19750 5693 TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM 6780137 6780137 RESOURCE FAMILY REIMBURSEMENTS 2237669 2237669 CONTRACT LABOR 239904 111083 122775 6046 BAD DEBT 69516 69516 183855 110441 65827 7587 17868328 15674174 1660208 533946 2253237 2208192 2397151 2947734 118556 32404 1712906 1916271 0 0 0 0 465343 447088 160347 120319 25808 40028 0 0 0 0 200491 190058 7173492 7781775 1227655 1669891 981550 988850 251561 330563 2460766 2989304 X 4661395 4762150 51331 30321 4712726 4792471 7173492 7781775 79745 X false true X true true true X 11722477 13096378 22222938 17798916 17933592 82774301 0 0 11722477 13096378 22222938 17798916 17933592 82774301 112361 82661940 287 709 7874 21908 14481 45259 0 0 82819560 0.99810 0.99960 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 36421 24352 12069 106517 78886 27631 17409 17081 328 40028 OVERPAYMENTS 330563 330563 X 17974023 25950 25950 17948073 17948073 17894278 25950 25950 17868328 17868328 Part X : FIN48 Footnote Walden is a public charity and is exempt from income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and Section 23701(d) of the California Revenue and Taxation Code. Walden believes that it has appropriate support for any tax positions taken, and as such, does not have any uncertain tax positions that are material to the financial statements. Walden is not a private foundation. X X false false false false false false false false false SUE EVANS COO 144815 15000 2320 3319 165454 TERESA STIVERS CEO 136905 20000 2074 11908 170887 Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process THE CFO REVIEWS THE 990 TAX RETURN FOR ACCURACY AND THEN THE CEO REVIEWS AND SIGNS THE FORM. AUDIT COMMITTEE CHAIR ALSO REVIEWS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts ANNUALLY EACH BOARD MEMBER IS REQUIRED TO SIGN A CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY. BOARD MEMBERS ARE REQURIED TO DISCLOSE ANY POSSIBLE CONFLICTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND REFRAIN FROM VOTING ON ANY TRANSACTION OR MATTER BEFORE THE BOARD IN WHICH A CONFLICT OR POSSIBLE CONFLICT EXISTS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management WE HAVE A COMPENSATION SALARY RANGE GUIDE FOR ALL JOB TITLES AND NEW HIRES SIGN AN OFFER LETTER DETAILING SALARY AND BENEFITS. WE BENCHMARK AGAINST THE NON-PROFIT SALARY PROFILES. FOR THE CEO, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAKES HIRING AND COMPENSATION DECISIONS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available THE PUBLIC INSPECTION COPY OF THE ORGANIZATION'S FORM 990, FROM THE PREVIOUS THREE YEARS, WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION OR COPYING AT THE ORGANIZATION'S MAIN OFFICE DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS AT NO CHARGE.