2019-01-28T15:38:29-08:00 2018-06-30 952076568 Leaf & Cole LLP 2810 Camino Del Rio South Suite 200 San Diego CA 921083820 990 2017-07-01 956379598 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS CENT 8582725777 4508 MISSION BAY DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA 92109 VERNA GRIFFIN TABOR EXEC DIR / CEO 2019-01-28 true JULIE A FIRL P00085551 6192947200 X 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z VERNA GRIFFIN-TABOR 4508 MISSION BAY DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA 92109 5221324 false false X WWW.CCSSD.ORG X 1972 CA THE MISSION IS TO END RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE BY BEING A CATALYST FOR CARING COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. THE VISION IS FOR ALL PEOPLE TO LIVE FULL, FREE, EXPRESSIVE, AND EMPOWERED LIVES IN A SAFE, HEALTHY, VIBRANT, AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITY. 10 10 91 268 0 4582921 5107194 27049 11089 176 305 -1195 3892 4608951 5122480 0 0 3114681 3587766 0 410000 1444305 1254495 4558986 4842261 49965 280219 3559707 3924874 2155691 2239882 1404016 1684992 X THE MISSION IS TO END RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE BY BEING A CATALYST FOR CARING COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. THE VISION IS FOR ALL PEOPLE TO LIVE FULL, FREE, EXPRESSIVE, AND EMPOWERED LIVES IN A SAFE, HEALTHY, VIBRANT, AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITY. false false 2214312 Legal, Counseling, and Advocacy Services (LCAS):Intimate Partner Violence Services (IPVS): IPVS services are provided in East, Central, and North San Diego County. Three full-time victim advocates provide crisis counseling, safety planning, intimate partner violence lethality assessments, court accompaniment, application assistance, information, referrals, and emotional supportto victims of intimate partner violence. Advocates are experts in local resources. They utilize their community connections to help survivors access safe housing, legal services, counseling, immigration services, food, clothing, and other support services. IPVS is led by a full-time Legal Team Manager and provides services atthe San Diego Family Justice Center, the El Cajon Courthouse, and CCS East, Central and North Offices. This free, confidential service is available in English and Spanish with additional languages, including sign languages, provided by certified interpreter services. This year CCS expanded its services to survivors of intimate partner violence by offering Domestic Abuse Forensic Exams (DAFE) accompaniment. In conjunction with countywide efforts to better respond to individuals who have been severely injured or strangled, CCS provides accompaniment and advocacy to IPV survivors during and after forensic exams.Sexual Assault Services (SAS) - SAS is one of the largest state-funded rape crisis centers in California. SAS covers most of San Diego County, spanning a territory nearly the size of the state of Connecticut. SAS provides an in-person emergency response to every sexual assault victim in its service area who undergoes a sexual assault forensic examination. CCS volunteers and staff are scheduled around-the-clock to respond within 30 minutes of a call-out, and they remain by a victims side throughout the entire forensic examination process. SAS is staffed by five full-time victim advocates and a program manager who provide follow-up services after the emergency response. Additionally, the SAS team includes two full-time advocates who are out-stationed at San Diego State University and San Diego Community College District (City College, Miramar College, and Mesa College) to provide SAS advocacy on campus. This team also supports victims who are referred from other sources,including self-referrals and walk-ins. SAS services include crisis counseling, safety planning, trauma-informed client services, and help with connecting to other resources, including counseling, legal services, housing, medical care, food, clothing, and immigration assistance. Advocates also provide in-person emotional support during detective and attorney interviews, preliminary hearings, and other court events.CCS is a founding member of the San Diego countywide Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), a 37-year-old collaborative project which includes civilian, military, and tribal advocates, law enforcement, sexual assault forensic nurse, crime lab, and prosecutorial agencies. All members of SART meet monthly, cross-train, and follow a standard response protocol to ensure compassionate, survivor-centered services.Legal Services: With a staff of eight California-licensed attorneys, CCS highly skilled legal team is the largest pro bono legal team, serving survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault, in San Diego County. CCS legal services include:Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) - Staffed by the full-time Legal Team Manager and two staff attorneys, LAV provides civil legal remedies and direct representation for victims of sexual assault. LAV specializes in the civil legal needs of sexual assault victims in the following areas: housing, employment, education, privacy,safety, and financial compensation, as well as Civil Harassment Restraining Orders. The program assists survivors with immigration concerns through a subcontract with Casa Cornelia Law Center. LAV is San Diegos go-to legal services program for privacy law (representing victims in criminal court), and Title IX issues (sexualviolence as discrimination) throughout the County. LAV is the only sexual assault-specific direct representation legal services program in San Diego County. Domestic Violence Legal Services: One full-time attorney provides restraining order assistance twenty (20) hours per week at the El Cajon Courthouse, and pro per family law assistance twenty (20) hours per week at CCS East County Office, including filling out paperwork, client consultations, and hearing preparation.Family Justice Center Intimate Partner Violence Services: Two full-time attorneys out-stationed at the San Diego Family Justice Center provide pro per family law assistance, client consultations, and hearing preparation to victims of intimate partner violence in Central San Diego and Mid-City. These attorneys also coordinate San Diego Countys Central, East, and North High Risk Teams, a multidisciplinary response team that includes law enforcement, the City and District Attorneys Offices, several intimate partner violence service providers, and Probation. This team meets monthly in each region to collaborate and conduct case reviews in order to increase the safety of victims who are at serious risk of intimate partner violence-related homicide.North County Legal Services (XL): One full-time attorney and one full-time legal advocate provide pro per legal services, including filling out paperwork, client consultations, and hearing preparation for victims of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the North Region.Trauma-Specific Counseling: CCS operates counseling programs in North, Central, and East County. A team of four Marriage and Family Therapists provide individual, group, family, and child counseling using a variety of best practice, trauma-specific approaches, including trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT),Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), guided imagery, expressive arts therapy, play therapy, sand tray therapy, and mindfulness therapies. Our counseling programs include up to five masters-level Marriage and Family Therapy or Social Work Intern students who receive intensive training, supervision, and commit twenty hours per week to CCS. Moreover, CCS was awarded a child-focused grant to expand our therapeutic services to youth (see CHAT), including additional Marriage and Family Therapists and Child Advocates. The child advocacy allows CCS to ensure that all youth seeking support to heal from trauma have wrap-around, holistic resources and referrals suited to their unique needs. Individual and group counseling for adults and children is also offered on-site at our business offices and short-term emergency shelters.Child Abuse Treatment (CHAT): The trauma of childhood abuse can impact a childs overall wellness. The CHAT program offers trauma-specific therapy and advocacy services to address the effects of trauma. CCS focuses on the childs strengths and where the child needs support in order to improve their coping strategies and opportunities for healthy life choices. All services are available in English and Spanish. The CHAT program serves children who are under the age of 18 and victims of intimate partner violence, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse and neglect as well as witness to violence or a crime. CCS offers these services with two Marriage andFamily Therapists and two Child Advocates. Therapists create a safe trauma-informed environment to improve coping strategies, decision-making and assist in the development of skills to manage emotions and behaviors. In addition, advocates provide coordination with schools and other agencies involved with the childs wellbeing. CCS Child Advocates provide information and support that includes crisis intervention, safety planning, court accompaniment, victim of crime assistance, monitoring academic progress, and assist in parent education. 1124386 3731 Housing and Advocacy Services (HAS):Intimate Partner Violence Shelters: CCS operates both short-term and long-term confidential intimate partner violence shelters. Project Safe House (PSH) is a short-term 24-bed intimate partner violence shelter located in East San Diego County, and Hidden Valley House (HVH) is our short-term 35-bed intimate partner violence shelter located in North Inland Region of San Diego County. Both shelters are staffed 24-hours per day by certified intimate partner violence counselors. Intimate partner violence victims and their children are sheltered in these programs for up to two months. While living in the shelter they receive advocacy, counseling, safety planning, client services, legal assistance, food, clothing, transportation assistance, and other services and resources to help them stabilize and transition to more permanent housing. Next Step is our long-term confidential intimate partner violence shelter program where families that need more time to get on their feetcan stay up to eighteen months. Next Step families are housed in one apartment at PSH and five two-bedroom units in a separate facility called Next Step North. In total, Next Step offers up to 40 beds for long-term shelter. All CCS intimate partner violence shelter programs accept adults and children of all genders. Shelter services are offered in English and Spanish with additional languages, including sign languages, provided by certified interpreter services.Housing First: Beginning in 2018, CCS can now address long-term safe and stable housing as a key component to long-term survivor self-sufficiency. The program improves the way communities respond to intimate partner and sexual violence by integrating housing stability into advocacy, assisting survivors on accessing and/orretaining housing. With the addition of a Housing Coordinator, mobile advocacy services are offered in the community for survivors of violence. Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Hotline Counseling: Toll-free, confidential, 24-hour hotline crisis counseling, safety planning, information, and referrals to a host of follow-up services, including counseling, advocacy, legal assistance, medical care, shelter, food, and clothing. Hotline counseling is provided by certified Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victim Counselors, in English and Spanish with additional languages provided by certified interpreter services. CCS Hotline staff and volunteer assist over 6,000 calls annually, which prompted the addition of a Hotline Coordinator to the CCS team. 269386 7358 Prevention, Education, and Advocacy Services (PEAS):Healthy Relationships & Violence Prevention Education: CCS is invested in the promotion of healthy relationships and the prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence through interactive, empowering education focused on topics related to the development of healthy relationships skills. For example, we teach healthy communication and conflict resolution skills, consent- and boundary-setting, and how to challenge social norms and media messages that perpetuate violence throughout our communities. CCS prevention education programs are available in English and Spanish and are generally provided in schools or other community settings in a developmentally and culturally humble manner. This year, CCS added Athlete Upstander Prevention Education in which CCS provided healthy relationships and bystander intervention trainings to all incoming first-year student athletes at San Diego State University.Teen Dating Violence Prevention Education (TDV): TDV education programs are delivered in a multi-unit format, offered as a series of three to five workshops. This gives participants multiple opportunities over time to practice and refine the healthy relationship skills they are learning. TDV also allows ample time forparticipants to work with their peers to identify ways they can stand up against intimate partner and sexual violence and create change by challenging the social norms that perpetuate violence. In addition to serving students from kindergarten to college, CCS staff also provides trainings for teachers and parents, addressing theimportance of modeling healthy relationship, communication, and conflict resolution skills as they interact with youth. CCS Prevention & Community Engagement Specialists encourage parents to engage in meaningful conversations with their children, starting as early as preschool, understanding that healthy relationship skills can become wonderful habits if taught early on. CCS currently has formal partnerships with Escondido Unified High School District, Cherokee Point Elementary School, Wilson Middle School, San Diego State University, Mountain Empire Unified School District, San Diego Court and Community Schools, and San Diego CountyProbation Department. 141317 3749401 true true false false false false false false false true true false false false true true true false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true 22 0 true 91 true false false false false false true true true true false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 10 10 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CA X X DEEDRE ROBLES 8582725777 4508 MISSION BAY DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA 92109 MICHAEL LIBRIZZI Vice President 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 TRACY SKADDAN Director 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JEREMY NICHOLS Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 JESSICA PRIDE President 5.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 ANITA MAHAFFEY Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KATIE SULLIVAN Secretary 4.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 ANITA RAJ Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 KATHLEEN MEDINA Director 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JOE DUNN Vice President 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 DUNG NGO Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 VERNA GRIFFIN-TABOR ED/CEO 40.00 0.00 X 104358 0 8902 104358 8902 1 false false false 0 286098 4101800 719296 35080 5107194 FEES FOR SERVICES 624100 11089 11089 11089 305 305 0 0 0 0 95495 286098 98844 -3349 -3349 0 0 OTHER INCOME 624100 7241 7241 7241 5122480 18330 -3044 0 0 0 0 114794 17219 61989 35586 0 2999688 2339809 426058 233821 0 220202 166696 34302 19204 253082 191823 39003 22256 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37855 71 37784 93630 70110 5897 17623 0 0 144485 141882 1164 1439 62263 55372 2221 4670 0 0 74236 35269 38967 0 133132 115765 7880 9487 45737 29393 14330 2014 PROGRAM EXPENSES 358978 350605 141 8232 TELEPHONE & COMMUNICATIONS 79850 72417 2866 4567 PROFESSIONAL FEES 73317 45151 26307 1859 REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE 54823 45029 3571 6223 96189 72861 18093 5235 4842261 3749401 682860 410000 503973 746920 297744 298050 630610 716113 10527 12341 0 0 0 0 17841 20260 3208199 1100638 2075599 2107561 0 0 0 0 23413 23629 3559707 3924874 263951 349224 1776087 1756342 115653 134316 2155691 2239882 X 1299611 1593291 93755 80835 10650 10866 1404016 1684992 3559707 3924874 280219 757 X false true X true true true X 4239881 3943399 4050035 4581671 5107194 21922180 34506 39281 52859 27049 11089 164784 0 0 0 4274387 3982680 4102894 4608720 5118283 22086964 0 0 22086964 193 122 185 176 305 981 0 193 122 185 176 305 981 35593 42036 77629 5140 6159 26763 8143 7241 53446 4315313 4030997 4129842 4617039 5125829 22219020 0.99410 0.99390 0.00000 X 10650 681 465 10866 9954 1166 470 10650 10653 -272 427 9954 11099 -177 269 10653 10079 1273 253 11099 1.00000 true false false 880011 880011 953817 395588 558229 1218612 607737 610875 97895 44759 53136 57864 52554 5310 2107561 INTEREST PAYABLE 134316 134316 X 5369664 757 246427 247184 5122480 5122480 5088688 246427 246427 4842261 4842261 Part X : FIN48 Footnote CCS 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. false TEA & TONIC 340648 286098 54550 25420 25199 36604 11621 OTHER EVENTS 40945 40945 381593 286098 95495 25420 25199 36604 11621 98844 -3349 Gift Cards 14 6030 FMV Food/Clothes 38 29050 FMV false true false Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: General Program (PRG):In partnership with Deaf Community Services and San Diego Regional Center, CCS was awarded state and federal funding to deepen each agencys capacity to serve survivors of violence who are Deaf/deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late Deafened, or DeafBlind and/or individuals living with intellectual or developmental disabilities.Internally known as Access to Services, CCS has upgraded facilities and enhanced language access throughout the agency to ensure all survivors can equitably access services. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Form 990 is reviewed by the Board Finance Committee and Executive Committee with report to the full Board. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts The policy is reviewed annually with the Board of Directors. Conflicts are presented to the Board Executive Committee and the Board President presents the conflicts to the entire Board. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management The Board of Directors provides written input for the CEO's evaluation. The President is responsible to meet with the CEO and review the written evaluation and establish goals. Any increase of the CEO's salary is reviewed by the Board Executive and Finance Committee. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees The Board Executive and Finance Committee annually reviews and approves the salaries of all Executive Staff at CCS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Governing documents, policies, and financial statements are available upon request.