The House of the Good Shepherd
The House of the Good Shepherd
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About this organization
Mission
The House of the Good Shepherd provides care that changes children's lives.
About
Child care and support - food, clothing and shelter costs for children in the program. 712 clients are served by these programs and services. The operation of foster family homes offers approximately 180-200 children on any given day the opportunity to live with families in Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Oswego, and St. Lawrence counties (NY). Offices in Utica and Watertown, New York coordinate regular and therapeutic levels of foster care. Additional services include individual, family, and group counseling and case management. Planned respite foster care is also offered to foster parents at the house as well as other child service agencies. This service provides children and families with a brief break to help relieve parenting stress. The Bridges to Health (B2H) program provides intensive care coordination and support services to children enrolled in preventive services with a local department of social services or residing in foster homes or in aftercare services with OCFS post discharge from a DJJOY facility for purposes of maintaining them in a family home setting - birth, kinship, or foster boarding home families. Youth and families residing in the 14 county Central New York area are prioritized for this program. Families Forward is an intensive home-based prevention program designed to reduce the risk of out of home placement for the most at-risk youth and families in Jefferson County. Non-secure detention (NSD) provides boys and girls, ages 12 to 18 waiting to appear in family court or for a placement, with short-term residence, schooling, and support services. Placement can only occur as a result of a family court remand or by law enforcement authorities managing an off-hours AWOL situation. Children's residences - provides boys, ages 6 to 18, and girls, ages 11 to 18, living in on-campus residences with the treatment and support they need to reunite with their families or to prepare to live on their own. Residences include two levels of intensity - 'hard to place' designated institutional program and regular level institutional program. Services include a variety of mental health services, care coordination and case management, recreational, and therapeutic milieu services, independent living training; post-discharge case management; and in-home support services. Milton A. Abelove Children's Shelter provides children, ages 6 to 18, short-term diagnostic residence and treatment, to identify treatment and placement services needed to address family issues and facilitate the return of children to their families; this program also provides emergency shelter services for children in crisis. The organization also operates the Schafer Residence, a psychiatric residential treatment facility. This facility is the community's only long-term psychiatric care facility for young people, ages 8 to 18. Services include 24-hour nursing care, psychiatric, psychological, social work and mental health counseling, recreation, therapeutic milieu, and case management services, including post discharge case management services.
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
The non-profit's mission is outlined in the filing as being “The house of the good shepherds mission is to provide care that changes childrens lives. the agency provides a broad continuum of care and services for at-risk and severely emotionally disturbed children and their families in a variety of settings including inpatient and institutional residential care, non-secure detention group home, foster homes, special education school, and community-based preventive and case management programs for children residing at home. services include a variety of mental health therapies, care coordination and case management, special education, recreational, therapeutic milieu, independent living training, and other related specialty services with a goal of ensuring safety, healing, permanency, and wellness.”.
When outlining its responsibilities, they were referred to as: “The house of the good shepherd's mission is to "provide care that changes children's lives".”.
- The state in which the non-profit operates has been officially reported as NY.
- The filing reveals the non-profit's address in 2019 to be 1550 CHAMPLIN AVE, UTICA, NY, 13502.
- As per the non-profit's form for 2019, they have 554 employees on their payroll.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$19,117.
- The organization has 10 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1872.
- The organization pays $16,964,905 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $311,244 in fundraising expenses.
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