2016-02-12T15:15:29-08:00 2015-06-30 Leaf & Cole LLP 2810 Camino Del Rio South Suite 200 San Diego CA 921083820 990 2014-07-01 956379598 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS CENT 8582725777 4508 MISSION BAY DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA 92109 VERNA GRIFFIN TABOR CEO/EXEC DIREC 2016-02-12 true JULIE A FIRL P00085551 6192947200 X 2014 2016-08-17 19:52:53Z VERNA GRIFFIN-TABOR 4508 MISSION BAY DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA 92109 4135791 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, VIBRANT, HEALTHY, AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITY. 13 13 101 292 0 4235361 3943399 39026 39281 193 122 40733 48195 4315313 4030997 0 0 2765960 2701978 0 257636 1472441 1159894 4238401 3861872 76912 169125 3186777 3457666 2054183 2156124 1132594 1301542 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, VIBRANT, HEALTHY, AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITY. false false 1331602 LEGAL AND ADVOCACY SERVICES - LASDomestic Violence Victim Advocacy (DVVA): DVVA services are provided in East, Central and North San Diego County. Three full-time victim advocates provide crisis counseling, safety planning, domestic violence lethality assessments, court accompaniment, application assistance, information, referrals, and emotional support to victims of domestic violence. Advocates are experts in local resources. They use their community connections to help victims access safe housing, legal services, counseling, immigration services, food, clothing, and other services. DVVA also includes a volunteer ride-along victim advocacy program in collaboration with San Diego Police Department (SDPD) Mid City Division. Volunteer advocates ride along with SDPD patrol officers during shifts known to have high numbers of domestic violence incidents, so they are immediately available to provide advocacy services to victims of domestic violence and their children during a police response. DVVA is led by a full-time DVVA Manager. DVVA provides services at the San Diego Family Justice Center, San Diego Police Department Mid City Division, CCS East, Central and North Offices, and the El Cajon Courthouse. This free, confidential service is available in English, Spanish, and Arabic.Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy (SAVA) - SAVA is one of the largest and most productive state-funded rape crisis centers in California. SAVA services cover 90% San Diego County, spanning a territory nearly the size of the state of Connecticut. SAVA 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 20 minutes of a call-out, and they remain by a victims side throughout the entire forensic examination process. SAVA is staffed by three full-time victim advocates and a program manager who provide follow-up services after the emergency response. This team also supports victims who are referred from other sources, including self-referrals and walk-ins. SAVA services include crisis counseling, safety planning, trauma-informed case management, 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.This year, CCS was awarded a subcontract from San Diego State University to provide sexual assault victim advocacy on campus. CCS hired one full-time SAVA who is out-stationed at the SDSU health center.CCS is a founding member of the San Diego countywide Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), a 35-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 seven California-licensed attorneys, CCS highly skilled legal team is the largest pro bono legal services in San Diego County. CCS legal services include: Victim Rights Legal Services (VRLS) - Staffed by a full-time Litigation Manager and two staff attorneys, VRLS provides direct representation of victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. VRLS 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. VRLS is San Diegos go-to legal services program for privacy law (representing victims in criminal court), and Title IX issues (sexual violence as discrimination) throughout the County. The program has earned an unprecedented 90% success rate in administrative, court, and negotiated outcomes. VRLS is the only sexual assault-specific direct representation legal services program in San Diego CountyEast 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 Domestic Violence Services: One full-time attorney out-stationed at the San Diego Family Justice Center provides pro per family law assistance, client consultations, and hearing preparation to victims of domestic violence. This attorney also coordinates San Diego Countys Central High Risk Team, a multidisciplinary team that includes law enforcement, the City and District Attorneys Offices, several domestic violence service providers, and Probation. This team meets monthly to collaborate and conduct case reviews in order to increase the safety of victims who are at serious risk of domestic violence-related homicide.Rural Legal Services: One full-time attorney and one full-time legal advocate out-stationed at the Campo Community Center provides pro per legal services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking who reside in rural communities in East San Diego County. 1178090 COUNSELING AND RESIDENTIAL SERVICES - CRSDomestic Violence and Sexual Assault 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. CCS Hotline staff and volunteer handle over 6000 calls annually.Domestic Violence Shelter: CCS operates both short-term and long-term confidential domestic violence shelters. Project Safe House (PSH) is a short-term 15-bed domestic violence shelter located in East San Diego County, and Hidden Valley House (HVH) is our short-term 30-bed domestic violence shelter located in North Inland Region of San Diego County. Both shelters are staffed 24-hours per day by certified domestic violence counselors. Domestic violence victims and their children are sheltered in these programs for up to three months; while living in the shelter they receive advocacy, counseling, case management, 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 domestic violence shelter program, where families that need more time to get on their feet can 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 42 beds for long-term shelter. All CCS domestic violence shelter programs accept men, women, and children. Shelter services are offered in English and Spanish.Trauma-Specific Counseling: CCS operates counseling programs in North, Central, and East County. A team of three 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 nine masters-level Marriage and Family Therapy or Social Work Intern students who receive intensive training and supervision and commit twenty hours per week to CCS. Individual and group counseling for adults and children is also offered on-site at our short-term emergency shelters. 295782 PREVENTION & EDUCATION SERVICES - PSVViolence Prevention Education: CCS is invested in the promotion of healthy relationships and the prevention of sexual and physical violence through interactive, empowering education focused on topics related to the development of healthy relationships skills and the prevention of relationship and sexual violence. 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 sensitive manner. In addition to serving students from Kindergarten to college, CCS staff also provides trainings for teachers and parents, addressing the importance of modeling healthy relationship, communication, and conflict resolution skills as they interact with youth. CCS Prevention Coordinators 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. Teen Relationship Violence Prevention Education (TRVP): TRVP education programs are delivered in a multi-unit format, offered as a series of two to five workshops. This gives participants multiple opportunities over time to practice and refine the healthy relationship skills they are learning. TRVP also allows ample time for participants to work with their peers to identify ways they can stand up against relationship and sexual violence and create change by challenging the social norms that perpetuate violence. 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 County Probation Department. 36246 2841720 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 false false false false false false false false false false true 22 0 true 101 true false false false false false false true true false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 13 13 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 Director 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DEBBIE HIGGINS Treasurer 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 RACHEL INMON Director 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 CARLOS GOMEZ Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 AMY RYPINS President 4.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 STEPHANIE WAGNER Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DAVE BRODY Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 ANITA CRANDALL Vice President 3.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 LAURA MILLER Vice President 4.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 PHYLLIS DODDS Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DAVID SALISBURY Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 JOE HORIYE Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 LINDA OAKLEY Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 VERNA GRIFFIN-TABOR ED/CEO 40.00 0.00 X 100298 0 7169 100298 7169 1 false false false 0 222496 3027355 693548 18123 3943399 FEES FOR SERVICES 624100 39281 39281 39281 122 122 0 0 0 0 146830 222496 104794 42036 42036 0 0 OTHER INCOME 624100 6159 6159 6159 4030997 45440 42158 0 0 0 0 111528 24536 45726 41266 0 2197184 1560443 513460 123281 0 185671 131716 43213 10742 207595 141192 51908 14495 0 5000 5000 26610 23562 1442 1606 0 0 0 27879 27879 26261 682 49 25530 33410 17879 4159 11372 0 0 152107 151569 417 121 56178 50593 2977 2608 0 0 65900 65900 0 95872 84444 5047 6381 35417 25946 7968 1503 SUBCONTRACTS 198533 198533 PROGRAM EXPENSES 73998 73491 9 498 TELEPHONE & COMMUNICATIONS 71029 64325 2194 4510 UTILITIES 65849 63478 1122 1249 225851 196452 16925 12474 3861872 2841720 762516 257636 414739 426067 298959 145543 349131 639021 65897 7837 0 0 0 0 19610 22049 3255309 1058406 2014144 2196903 0 0 0 0 24297 20246 3186777 3457666 143985 271886 1850531 1805909 59667 78329 2054183 2156124 X 747287 973640 374208 317249 11099 10653 1132594 1301542 3186777 3457666 169125 -177 X false true X true true true X 4390623 3673411 4071083 4239881 3943399 20318397 84667 75730 43873 34506 39281 278057 0 0 0 4475290 3749141 4114956 4274387 3982680 20596454 0 0 20596454 668 193 122 983 0 668 193 122 983 35593 42036 77629 7449 8105 5333 5140 6159 32186 4483407 3757246 4120289 4315313 4030997 20707252 0.99460 0.99550 0.00000 0.00010 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 11099 -177 269 10653 10079 1273 253 11099 9621 694 236 10079 10354 -266 467 9621 1.00000 true false false 880011 880011 984702 296010 688692 980584 360364 620220 315443 307463 7980 94569 94569 2196903 INTEREST PAYABLE 78329 78329 X 4059899 -177 29079 28902 4030997 4030997 3890951 29079 29079 3861872 3861872 Part X : FIN48 Footnote CCS 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. 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. CCS is not a private foundation.CCSs Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax for the years ended June 30, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012 are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service and State taxing authorities, generally three to four years after the returns were filed. Part XII, Line 2d: Other expenses and losses per audited F/S INKIND EXPENSES $29079 X X X X X X false TEA & TONIC 216466 181566 34900 44046 1158 24934 7932 CHEF SHOWDOWN 111530 40930 70600 15195 833 1550 9146 1 41330 41330 369326 222496 146830 59241 1991 26484 17078 104794 42036 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: OTHER Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process FORM 990 IS REVIEWED BY THE BOARD EXECUTIVE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE WITH REPORT TO 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 TO discuss the conflicts with the full Board. THEY TAKE ANY APPROPRIATE ACTION IF ANY CONFLICT IS DOCUMENTED. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management The Board of Directors provide written input for the CEO's annual evaluation. The Board President compiles a report and is responsible to meet with the CEO and review the written annual evaluation and establish goals for the next fiscal year. Any increase in the CEO's salary is reviewed by an Independent Board Committee. Annually, the salaries for all positions are researched including the CEO/Executive Director. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees The CFO's evaluation is completed by the CEO. The Board Finance Committee has input regarding the CFO's evaluation. The Board Executive Committee must approve any salary increases for the CFO. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Governing documents, policies, and financial statements are available upon request.