2016-11-16T12:51:03-07:00 2015-12-31 990 2015-01-01 330724044 AMERICA ON TRACK AMER 7145317144 PO Box 4141 Tustin CA 927814141 Claire Braeburn Executive Director 7145317144 2016-11-10 2015 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z Claire Braeburn PO Box 4141 Tustin CA 92781 951839 0 X www.AmericaOnTrack.org X 1995 CA Serving more than 10,000 Orange County children and families each year, America On Track breaks the cycle of poverty, incarceration and hopelessness through long-term youth development, education and life-enhancing programs. America On Track, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was founded in 1995 to fill identified service delivery gaps in the fields of human services, education, health & fitness, and violence & drug use prevention throughout Orange County. The mission of America On Track is to inspire Brighter Futures by building youth leaders, supporting families, and strengthening communities through life-transforming programs. Our vision is to create more vibrant communities by addressing social inequities and health disparities through evidence-based programs that focus on leadership development, mentoring, academic achievement, fitness & nutrition, and drug use prevention. Our motto is: Creating Brighter Futures for Communities & Youth since 1995! 11 9 11 186 0 0 1053131 950287 0 0 1492 1552 0 0 1054623 951839 3278 4615 0 0 565662 514515 0 0 5452 446659 373707 1015599 892837 39024 59002 918375 929245 127626 79494 790749 849751 Serving more than 10,000 Orange County children and families each year, America On Track breaks the cycle of poverty, incarceration and hopelessness through long-term youth development, education and life-enhancing programs. America On Track (AOT), an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was founded in 1995 to fill identified service delivery gaps in the fields of human services, education, health & fitness, and violence & drug use prevention throughout Orange County. The mission of America On Track is to inspire Brighter Futures by building youth leaders, supporting families, and strengthening communities through life-transforming programs. Our vision is to create more vibrant communities by addressing social inequities and health disparities through evidence-based programs that focus on leadership development, mentoring, academic achievement, fitness & nutrition, and drug use prevention. Our motto is: Creating Brighter Futures for Communities & Youth since 1995! 0 0 266149 0 0 America On Track continued to implement a Tobacco Prevention Project ( an innovative, comprehensive, community-based program that is being implemented in the North Region of Orange County - funded by the Orange County Health Care Agency).Our goal is to report a stabilization and/or reduction in the prevalence of tobacco use among the youth population. This project includes, among numerous other objectives, working with 4 target high schools, conducting tobacco and e-cigarette prevention education presentations to over 1,600 high school students, developing meaningful and active youth task forces at each high school, and conducting town hall meetings with parents from each of the 4 high schools. Also, the project includes working with 270 tobacco retailers in the high school catchment areas and partnering with law enforcement to assess illegal sales to youth as well as educating the merchants on youth access laws, developing and institutionalizing a 5 Star Merchant reward program and a Social Sources awareness campaign. 164969 0 0 Since 2010, America On Track has been implementing two consecutive 5-year grants from the California Tobacco Control Project (CTCP), California Department of Public Health to reduce secondhand smoke exposure in Orange County. These efforts focus on voluntary and legislated policy work in the arenas of Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing, Smoke-Free Recreational Areas, Smoke-Free Outdoor Dining, Smoke-Free Residential Child Care Centers, and a new Smoke-Free Homes project in partnership with Emory University. Efforts under this grant have yielded the following results to date: 54 Multi-Unit Housing complexes have adopted a 100% smoke-free policy including individual units and balconies, representing a total of 2,977 residential units; 39 licensed residential child care facilities have adopted 100% smoke-free policies for their properties, 39 restaurants have adopted smoke-free outdoor dining policies, and the City of Santa Ana passed a Smoke-Free Parks ordinance. 157813 0 0 America On Track was awarded a 4-year grant (2013-2017) from the County of Orange Health Care Agency, Nutrition Services to provide direct nutrition education classes to adults and children who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and who subsist below the federal poverty level in various key locations in Orange County. EVALUATION RESULTS: In 2015, AOT staff conducted 328 nutrition education presentations to 2,922 unduplicated low-income adults and youth as well as to 4,697 repeat individuals who participated in a series of 2-5 classes. Altogether, AOT conducted nutrition education classes for a total of 7,619 SNAP-Ed Eligible individuals, of which 2,726 were adults and 4,893 were youth. 80444 4615 0 America On Track's Emerging Leaders program is a unique, multi-faceted afterschool program designed to inspire today's youth to become tomorrow's leaders through a focus on the development of strong leadership and public speaking skills in order to help create a brighter future. It is a huge time commitment because it pairs outstanding teens with 4th through 6th grade students in a very structured afterschool program that requires weekly attendance from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm throughout the entire school year (30 sessions). America On Track staff members lead the program that provides the following components: Leadership Training, effective Public Speaking Skills Coaching, Training on How to Become a Successful Mentor, Social & Character Development, Nutrition Education, Music Appreciation as well as Fitness & Recreation, and much more. The teen leaders participate in the leadership process provided by America On Track, and their many talents and skills are incorporated into various components of the program. The teens receive intensive and ongoing training and are coached to assist in presenting lessons. It is a synergistic approach to developing future leaders. Our Emerging Leaders program is designed to benefit the teens and the elementary school students as well as our communities. 143551 0 0 America On Track's Brighter Futures for Children of Prisoners program is a holistic and multi-faceted comprehensive approach to helping the most vulnerable children of Orange County. For 13 years now, the successes of our Brighter Futures program for children of prisoners has been based on 5 interwoven components: a one-on-one mentoring program with trained and carefully selected adults who meet with their mentees every week for 2 hours per week; STEM workshops on a quarterly basis to promote a useful and fun approach to science; a "College Is For Me Too" summer educational/inspirational camp at a college campus to demonstrate that college is attainable and enjoyable, free age-appropriate books, and special outing. Additionally, nutritional seminars and wraparound services are provided to the guardians. Since the cost of incarceration is now 69 billion dollars per year nationwide and Orange County is #7 in the Nation in prison population, and 1 of every 5 CA discretionary dollars goes to incarceration, this is a problem of great magnitude. The children of incarcerated parents (over 20,000 in OC alone) who did not choose these parents are predicted to follow in their footsteps if they do not receive support and guidance. AOT is the only nonprofit in OC providing comprehensive services to these "forgotten" children. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Chairman of the Board, who is also a CPA and head of the Finance Committee, reviews the 990 and then it is forwarded to the entire Board of Directors via email for their review and comments. It is approved at the next Board of Directors meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The Board of Directors reviews and approves the compensation for the President and the Executive Director. The Board members use data as to comparable compensation for similarly qualified persons in functionally comparable positions at similarly situated organizations. The process is documented in the meeting minutes. This process was last undertaken in 2010. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization makes it governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. Whenever possible, said documents are provided in electronic form and sent via email. America On Track filed a Form 8868, Application for Extension of Time to File an Exempt Organization Return for an Additional 3-month Extensions, and it was approved (Notice #CP211A). The new due date was November 15, 2016. This return is being filed on November 16, 2016 because America On Track's Board of Directors meeting was scheduled for 11-16-16, and the agenda included reviewing and approving the Form 990 prior to submission.