United Cerebral Palsy-Center for Disability Services
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
In a recent meeting with the key staff leaders of the CDS, they identified the following issues that they are working to address...
1. Need for additional funding for projects not currently supported by the state or general operating support.
2. Paying off the current Accounts Payable of $90,000 as soon as possible.
3. Improving staff compensation to improve tenure and stability.
4. Improving staff training needs.
5. Need for a new strategic planning process in the fall of 2017.
6. Capital improvement needs for the school including a new boiler and meeting current building codes.
7. Improved technology needs for group homes/CILAs, and adaptive technology for the adult day program.
8. Updated website and branding to address the 2014 organizational name change.
9. Need for improved home-based services including respite, community-based participation, and accessibility.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Melvin J. Larson Education Center
School program for children ages 3-21 with developmental disabilities
Residential, Developmental Training, and Other Programs
To provide adults with developmental disabilities with day program services and training to provide them with meaningful day. Training provided includes life skills, music classes, and recreation activities.
Where we work
Awards
School of Excellence Award 2014
National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
School of Excellence Award 2013
National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
School of Excellence Award 2012
National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
Affiliations & memberships
United Way Member Agency 2014
Department of Human Services 2014
External reviews

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Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
1. Provide nationally recognized programs, service, and facilities in a safe and friendly environment.
2. Optimize and leverage financial position.
3. Achieve operational and environmental excellence.
4. Foster a motivated and accountable team culture.
5. Become an agency leader in diversity.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. Develop loyalty and support through customer satisfaction.
2. Create programs, services, a facilities that promote our mission.
3. Ensure services are coordinated with client need.
4. Maximize funding opportunities.
5. Best practice financial systems.
6. Proper allocation of resources.
7. Develop consistent communications.
8. Identify and streamline critical processes to improve services.
9. Partnership expansion.
10. Develop environmental awareness.
11. Promote teamwork.
12. Cultivate personal and professional growth.
13. Encourage creativity and innovation.
14. Understanding diversity.
15. Accountability and responsibility.
16. Variety in services.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
1. Elements of the plan will be incorporated into the agency's orientation process for ll new staff, board members, and collaborative partnerships.
2. The strategic plan will be incorporated into all of the agency's planning and decision making.
3. The agency's leadership team will conduct staff meetings on a regularly scheduled basis to review the plan's progress and report results to the board.
4. Every employee's goals will have a direct correlation to the strategic plan.
5. The performance appraisal process will reflect the completion of the strategic plan initiatives as an evaluation criterion.
6. The agency will measure and evaluate the progress of all goals and initiatives at every level --- short term, mid term, long term, and ongoing --- to actively calculate the realistic component pf each goal.
7. The agency will provide regular reporting on the strategic plan's progress.
8. Assigned staff will provide updated reports on each initiative they are directly or indirectly responsible for.
9. The measurement system used to track goal and initiative progress will be consistent throughout the district.
10. We will review the inventory of measures on a regular basis and make necessary adjustments to ensure the measures continuously add value to the decision making.
11. Each year, the staff and board will review the planning process and may address any issues, concerns, or process that need improvement.
12. At the beginning of the fourth year of this five year strategic plan, the agency will begin the process for a strategic plan to address the next five years. The goal is to create a seamless transition from one plan to the next, and to avoid a lapse in the planning process.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
So far, we have accomplished improvements in communications, fundraising, and in paying down our accounts payable.
What's next is to renovate our building through capital improvements along with our group homes/CILAs, improve our brand's usage of our relatively new organizational name, and improve our direct services to all of our clients.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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United Cerebral Palsy-Center for Disability Services
Board of directorsas of 01/19/2023
Mr. Joe Kirkeeng
First Secure Bank
Term: 2024 - 2022
Mary Spreitzer
North Central College VP for Human Resources
Paul Cabay
Cabay Construction
Kay Riley
Cardinal Transport
Joe Kirkeeng
Bank President
Fred Ferrara
Retired Culinary Arts Professor
Patricia Desiderio
Retired Teacher
Frank Cortina
Lawyer
Jennifer Johnson
Retired Principal
Lauren Lindholm
Purchasing Supervisor
David Rumsey
Retired from ExxonMobil
James Keck
Web/IT
Kerry DeAngelis
Retired
Wendy Briley
Secretary at Illinois Dept. of Corrections
Michael Brenczewski
Insurance Agent
Tanya Rand
Realestate
Greg Bloum
Retired Pharmacist
Sarah Palya
Chamber of Commerce Employee
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes