Youth Diversion - Annual Report Highlights
The 48th Annual Report of Youth Diversion highlights their mission to help youth overcome challenges by providing prevention, intervention, and educational services. The report includes updates on the board of directors, fundraising efforts, and strategic planning initiatives. Notable achievements in increasing support for programs and fostering community partnerships are also showcased.
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CoreValues Helping Youth Overcome Challenges Mission Youth Diversion helps youth overcome challenges by: Providing prevention, intervention and educational services that divert youth from risk and support their abilityto thrive. Vision All youth in our community are supported in making choices that contribute to their overall wellbeing, help them reach their potential and expand their leadership capacity.
BoardPresidents Report Nomination Committee We are saying goodbye to two long serving board members. Dr. John Leverette is retiring from the Board after serving for 6 years. Kristia Maatta will be leaving our board after 4 years of service to pursue a medical degree. On behalf of the Board, we thank you both for your hard work and commitment to the organization. This past year we focused on reviewing and updating our policies to ensure we adhere to Ontario s new Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. We had our first face to face holiday gathering providing board members with the opportunity to unwind and learn more about each other. Our Board of Directors continues to provide strong leadership as we navigate the issues faced by children, youth and families in our community. The welcome Selene Donegan who is a social worker at Family and Children s Services, Cam Gough who is a Staff SGT from the Kingston Police and Matt Murphy who is a retired educator. Nomination Committee is excited to Silvia Cioci Board President FinanceCommittee The Finance reviewing and updating our Financial Risk Management Plan. The committee has and will continue to update financial policies to address the risks facing the agency. Committee was tasked with HR Committee The HR Committee updated our LTD policy and continues to explore options to improve the agency's pay scale StrategicPlanning Committee This committee is tasked with the responsibility to ensure the agency is meeting and exceeding its strategic goals and continues to track our outcomes EquityDiversityandInclusion We continue to be part of our Community s Inclusion Charter and are currently implementing the third phase of developments. We are also active participants in the EDII Community of Practice 3
Donor Stewardship Committee This committee supports and oversees the agency s fundraising and donation efforts. Youth Diversion consistently needs to raise funds to support a number of our underfunded programs. This past year we raised a little over 15% of our overall budget through donations, fundraising and sponsorships. We want to thank the United Way of KFLA and HPE for their ongoing support of our Kairos, Mentoring, Intersections and Rebound Programs. The Community Foundation and the Trillium Foundation were instrumental in supporting our Mentoring and Kairos programs. The Committee would like to acknowledge the following funders for their amazing support this past year: Kinsmen Club Mclean foundation Davis Foundation Stephen & Jocelyne Greenberg Foundation Anna & Edward Churchill foundation William James Henderson Foundation Minto Foundation Bell Lets Talk Kingston Rotary Club Enterprise Holdings BGC/BBBS 4
ExecutiveDirectorsReport Let us not forget that we are on traditional Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat Territory. Our organization is grateful for the opportunity to meet on and use this land. We thank all the generations of Indigenous people who have taken care of this land. Since 2019, Youth Diversion has experienced a 60% increase in the number of children, youth and families who have accessed our programs and services. We have seen a significant increase in mental health and substance use related issues and an alarming increase in hate crime and hate-related behaviours. Children and youth are involved in more assault related behaviours. We have seen a rise in parent/teen conflicts and family violence. As we transition out of the pandemic, the impact on children, youth and families is starting to emerge. While we strive to address the current mental health, addiction, homelessness and school avoidance issues plaguing our community, in the coming years, we will need the support of our community more than ever before. Prevention Donovan, Sarah Hunter, Jasmine Swadia and Victoria Adams) Our preventions team was kept very busy this past year hosting a number of community events to engage children and youth. We launched our WE bound program to support children from 8- 12 years of age and we partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Boys and Girls Club to enhance our Mentoring recruitment efforts. My highlight has to be hearing all the voices in our hallways again thanks to the rebirth of Rebound. Team (Allie McParland, Kristy Love, Caitlin Kairos (Tom Revell, Dale Blimkie, Jaymi Hayward, Lora D Alessandro, Dave Breen, Missy Bodden, Ashley Arsenault, Jake Beatty and Chris Parsons) We were excited to receive United Way HPE and Trillium Funding to expand our Kairos Services into Hastings and Prince Edward Counties. This allowed us to have Kairos Counsellors in all HPEDSB, ALCDSB and LDSB high schools. We partnered with Maltby through a QUEST Grant from the Knowledge Institute to establish concurrent supports for children and youth in KFLA. We continued our partnership with Community Living and OneRoof and we are playing a role in our community s drug strategy. We are seeing an alarming trend; over the past year, 94% of Kairos clients reported experiencing depression, anxiety, mood and sleep issues. 5
My highlight would be the role Kairos has played in supporting students in HPE. Youth Justice/Intersections (Gillian Geneja, Mel Urquhart, Sarah Hunter, Kristy Love, Litesha Lucas and Leah Parnell). received disappointing news about our funding from the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services this year. They denied our funding request for Intersections. If not for the United Way KFLA and the William J Henderson Foundation, Intersections would have been forced to cease operations. We are happy to report that Intersections continued to provide over 160 children, youth and families support at a time when it was most needed. We said goodbye to Litesha and Gillian who where both fixtures in our justice programs. Mel and Leah have done an amazing job as they settle into their new roles. We continue to embed staff with the Kingston Police offering support to front line officers who wish to divert youth. The Justice Team has established a victim support role through the use of volunteer advocates. We School-Based Programs (Joyce Eikre, Arley Irvine, Anatola Stewart, and Allie McParland) The MEND team was very busy this past year with more focus on mediation circles. The team was able to return to hosting in person training this past year. SNAP was very busy this year and dealt with an increase in both mental health and behavioural challenges. The team, in partnership with the teachers in the room, helped 14 youth in grades 9-12 complete a total of 90 academic credits including 6 co-op credits. The classroom engaged in a number of initiatives including specific life skills programs. Thanks to LDSB funding we had the pleasure of hosting Danka Brewer who is an Indigenous Elder and she introduced the classroom to many traditional teachings. Volunteer/Admin (Jackie Franklin, Shayan Noei and Ali Fathi) Our Volunteer Team continues to ensure that our volunteers are properly screened, trained and supported throughout their time with Youth Diversion. Last year we onboarded over 140 volunteers who provided us with over 5000 hours of support. We continue to offer very informative and relevant workshops that have reached 100s of people in KFLA and beyond. 6
Youth Diversion continues to place an emphasis on outcome measures through the various tools that are used to measure our outcomes. It should be noted participants of Youth Diversion are the focus of our outcomes. Pre and post measurements indicate a 16% improvement in recognition of impact of behaviours, 12% improvement in social functioning, 11% decrease in substance use and a 13% increase in decisionmaking. TRACKING OUR PROGRESS that only clients and not 64% of clients were identified as experiencing at least 3 or more ACEs Adverse Childhood Experiences. 61% of clients reported experiencing at least 3 or more adverse childhood events. The following is a breakdown of the ACES events: 99% of clients reported some form of parental issues (addiction, mental illness, incarceration, loss of a parent and/or domestic violence) 54% experienced some form of abuse (emotional, sexual and/or physical) Housing 16% of clientshave experienced a housing issue (homeless,living rough, in a shelter, couch surfing) Mental/Physical Health Concerns Diagnosed 64% of clientshave a confirmedmental health diagnosiswith a totalof 417 diagnosisincluding: 30% ADHD 22% Anxiety 21% Depression 9% Autism Spectrum Disorder 7% PTSD Education 57% of clientsreported a schoolissue including: 28% of clientsreported a learning/behaviouralchallenges 26% suspension/expulsion 25% report schoolavoidance 9
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Leadership in the Community Youth Diversion staff are active contributors to, and participants with, many community initiatives, collaborations, committees and working groups. Their efforts help to maximize resources, ensure timely intervention and support the ability of our young people to overcome challenges. The following is a sample of committees and initiatives Youth Diversion staff contribute to: Provincial Restorative Practices Consortium RoadMap ToWellness Provincial YouthOutreach Community ofPractice Kingstonand Napanee Community Risk Watch Tables One RoofStaff/Management Advisories United Way sYouth Homelessness Initiative ProvincialIntersections Communityof Practice Youth Connectors Collaboration Threat AssessmentProtocol Supervised Alternative Learning Kingston and Area Associationof Administrators of Volunteers Children, Youth and FamiliesServices Planning Committee Provincial Youth Justice Community of Practice HarmReduction Alliance Community DrugStrategy RoundTable Community Safetyand Wellbeing ACE sCoalition Children s Mental Health Network Hastings County QUEST Youth Peer SupportInitiative KingstonRotaryClub LDSBMental Health and Addictions workingtable HPEDSB Mental Health and Addictions working table Youth Wellness HubOntario Human Trafficking Coalition EDII advisory committee meeting Stigmaand Education Subcommittee Indigenous Development Working Group United Way EDII Community of Practice 10
YearsofService Staff The Staff Shawn Quigley Jackie Franklin Dale Blimkie Tom Revell Dave Breen Jake Beatty Jaymi Hayward Arley Irvine Lora D Alessandro Joyce Eikre Anatola Stewart Mel Urquhart 21-25 The Agency s staff is often sought after for their expertise on education, training and providing consultations in the areas of youth justice, addictions, restorative practices and youth engagement. As a result, we reached over 5500 youth and adults through various events and workshops such as United Way presentations, guest lecturing at St. Lawrence College and Queen s University and hosting community psychoeducational workshops. 16-20 11-15 5-10 We want to also acknowledge past staff who have moved on: 1-4 LiteshaLucas Amanda Botham Victoria Adams Kristy Love Caitlin Donovan ChrisParsons Jasmine Swadia Sarah Hunter Emma Pilgrim Jen Griffith Geanina Circei New Hires Allie McParland Missy Bodden Ashley Arsenault Leah Parnell 11
Donor Stewardship This past year our donations, fundraising and sponsorship account for about 15% of our overall budget. We were very fortunate to be part of several third-party fundraising events including: The Lobsterfest Lyndhurst XMRMY The Legg Family Youth In Philanthropy Chinlock Wrestling Youth Diversion would like to thank our Legal partners for their financial support with court donations totally over $10,000 last year. We also want to acknowledge the passing of Kevin Dunbar. Kevin was a strong advocate for the rights of children and youth in our community and was taken from us too soon. Kevin Dunbar Davadie Law Brian Callender Paul Blais David Adams Aitken Robertson Michael Mandelcorn Cunningham Swan Mark Snider In addition to our corporate partners, Youth Diversion also received many personal donations. We d like tothank the followingpeople who give regularly to our cause Judge George Thomson Tim Byrne Alida Moffatt Cathryn Gillespie Wendy Walsh Dr.John Leverette Janet Mitchell Susan Creasy Sandra Lachapelle Fournelle Nabil Mailloux Stephanie Aubertin Aba Mortly Jeff Easton Paul Di Rinaldo Peter & Arlene Glynn 12
LifetimeGiving Visionary$25,000+ Cornerstone $10,000-24,999 BradFrenchand AllianceWirelessSecurity JudgeGeorge Thomson, SusanCreasy FinancialInc, TimByrne, StephanieAubertin Janet Mitchell Advocate$5,000- 9,999 Supporter$1,000- 4,999 RDR Financial, Dr.John Leverette Cher-Mere Day Spa, Jeff Easton, Aba Mortley, Nabil Mailloux, Alida Moffatt, Sandra Lachapelle Fournelle AnnualGiving Platinum $10,000+ Bell Lets Talk, Kinsmen Club, Anna & Edward Churchill Foundation, Community Foundation of Kingston and Area, William James Henderson Foundation Gold$1,000+ Rotary Club of Kingston, The McLeanFoundation, RBC Foundation, Davis Foundation, Minto Foundation, Justin Easterbrook, Enterprise Holdings, Stephen & Jocelyne Greenburg Foundation, Jan MacLean, Philippe Archambault Lobsterfest, Silver $500- $999 The Legg Family, Chris Carvalho, ChinlockWrestling, Youth In Philanthropy, Queen s University, Miguel Parra, Emma Little, Sarah Johnston, Wendy Walsh, Emilie Wheeler, MahammondGasimli, Sharon Johnson, Susan Kulba, Kion Naghaui, Lyndhurst XMRMY, CUPE Local 2022, DympnaRadfork, Ron Hoffner, Shelley & Ted Farndon, Fairleigh Seaton, Peter & Arleen Glynn, Rosemary Brauder, Eithne Dunbar, Rudy Breda, Jeff Mountjoy- Stringham, Sheila Welch, Raly Chakaroua, Myles Rowe, Joan O Donoghue, Henry & Kathy Desouza, Dora Milton, Frontenac Law Association, Matthew Hargreaves, Nathan Jackson, Steven Handy, The Clean Up, Kerri Brockman, CUPE Local 229, Bronze$100- $499 Our FundingPartners United Way Hastings & Prince Edward Limestone District School Board The UnitedWay of KFL&A The Ministryof Children, Communityand SocialServices & Ministry of Health AlgonquinLakeshoreCatholicDistrictSchoolBoard OntarioTrilliumFoundation CommunityFoundationof Kingstonand Area CommunityLiving 1 3
Volunteers On behalf of the staff and myself, we are very grateful for the ongoing support you have all shown to our Youth over the past 49 years at Youth Diversion. Your dedication and hard work has been instrumental in helping us achieve our mission by providing prevention and educational services that divert youth from risk and support their ability to thrive. We are incredibly fortunate to have such a dedicated group of volunteers who are always willing to go above and beyond to help our cause. Whether it is spending countless hours in any of our Programs, organizing events, sitting as a Board member, providing direct assistance to those in need, administrative duties, fundraising, the list can go on. Your commitment and generosity has made a real difference in the lives of so many of our children, youth and families. Your selfless contributions have helped us to achieve many milestones over the past 49 years and we are continuously inspired by your passion and enthusiasm. As we move forward and will be celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2024, we hope you will be able to enjoy this great milestone with us. (More details to follow). We believe with your continued support; we will be able to achieve even greater things and make and even bigger difference in the lives of the youth we serve. Once again, thank you for all that you do. Your contributions are truly appreciated, and we cannot thank you enough. 15 Jackie Franklin Manager of Volunteers
Our Clients 2022 - 2023 saw a 35% increase in our new/ongoing referrals of children and youth we supported in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington Counties and Hastings & Prince Edward Counties. The data below takes into consideration participation in our workshops and psychoeducational programing. Monthly costs include staff time, program costs and regular case management support. Clients 2021-2022 2022-2023 Program Estimatedcostper client KAIROS 443 900 (included clients and workshops) 122 43 1600 (includes clients and community activities) KAIROS $62 per month Mentoring Rebound Youth Outreach 123 86 788 (includes community activities) Mend $20 per month Mentoring $40 per month Intersections $74 per month SNAP $142 per month 96 Youth Justice 104 Youth Justice $131 per month 62 SNAP 64 Rebound $154per month Intersections 203 163 Youth Outreach $3 per month 581 704 (includes clients and workshops 3690 (new and ongoing clients including workshops/events MEND $1,503,808/3690(numberof clients)= $407 per client per year Total 2382 (new and ongoing clients) $407/365 daysper year = $1.17 perday 17
Statement of Revenueand Expenditures Ministry (MOH and MCCSS) 1% Donations/Fundraising/Grants 10% 32% Counselling &Prevention Programs United Way(KFLA & HPE) 18% Revenue Trillium Foundation 16% 23% Other (interest, deferred capital, rebates Salaries and Wages 2% 6% 7% 3% Rent Expenditures Operations including (Admin, Office Supplies/Equipment, Insurance Volunteer costs, Advertising & Promotion) 82% ProgramCosts (travel, staff training, Client Services,Professional Fees, Communication) Other (scholarships, Amortization, fees, donation/fundraising 18
