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Thompson Child & Family Focus

Strengthening Children, Families and Communities

aka Thompson   |   Matthews, NC   |  www.thompsoncff.org

Mission

Thompson's mission is to empower children & families to achieve their goals through trauma-informed early childhood, family stability, and mental health services. Our vision is: All children healthy, All families thriving, All communities strong.

Ruling year info

1944

President/CEO

Mr. William Jones

Main address

6800 Saint Peter's Lane

Matthews, NC 28105 USA

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Formerly known as

Thompson Children's Home

EIN

56-0547460

NTEE code info

Children's and Youth Services (P30)

Group Home, Residential Treatment Facility - Mental Health Related (F33)

Family Services (P40)

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Many communities need high quality services in the early childhood, family stability, mental health, and residential programming areas to combat out-of-home placements, build family functioning, strengthen mental health, and combat effects of trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Early Childhood

Child Development Center Clanton Road in Charlotte, NC:
Five star, high-quality child development center with an emphasis on family support and developmentally appropriate practices for children six weeks old to five years.

Population(s) Served
Infants and toddlers

McKinney-Vento Case Management/A Childs Place:
Specialized case management focused on resources, relationships, & self-sufficiency to improve the lives of homeless children & their families.

Child Welfare Case Management/Placement Stability Unit:
Intensive case management with goals to stabilize, connect to services, and create permanency plans specific to the youth experiencing out-of-home care.

Family Education:
An array of education classes for parents with children of various ages, aimed at fostering a strong foundation for successful parenting.

Family Partners:
Peer support partners with lived experience guiding families.

Foster Care:
Private foster homes located across North Carolina providing basic, therapeutic, & respite care to youth & 24/7 support & training to foster parents.

Friends of the Children - Charlotte:
Life navigation program that provides a salaried, professional mentor to Charlotte's most at-risk youth for 12.5 years, no matter what.

Population(s) Served

Family Centered Treatment:
Home-based treatment to stabilize youth & families who have experienced trauma and those experiencing complex mental health symptoms.

Intensive In-Home:
A high intensity, home-based service working with youth & families often in their home & community with 24/7 on-call support.

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) - in SC:
An EBP based on the belief that a youth's behavioral problems are often due to multiple factors.

Outpatient Therapy Services:
Individual, family, & group counseling with clinical assessments.

School-Based Therapy:
Mental health services to school aged youth provided via outpatient therapy during the instructional day at select Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

High-Fidelity Wraparound:
An evidence-based model that helps empower youth & families to find their voice & develop the skills necessary to successfully navigate various systems such as juvenile justice, child welfare, & the school system.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Families

Adira:
A Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) that serves adolescent females with a mental health diagnosis and involved in human trafficking.

Crisis Stabilization:
Residential care for youth ages 12-17 with brief, intensive, clinical services.

Enhanced Residential Treatment Center (ERTC):
A therapeutic blend of PRTF for youth ages 11-17 with a mental health diagnosis, providing Family Centered Treatment and/or High-Fidelity Wraparound to youth & their families prior to their return to home environments.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Families
Children and youth
Families

Where we work

Affiliations & memberships

Association of Fundraising Professionals - Member 1986

Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance - Organization 2009

Council of Accreditation of Child and Family Services, Inc. 2000

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) 1999

Prevent Child Abuse America - Member 2000

Alliance for Children and Families - Member 2005

Association of Volunteer Administrators 1991

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

% of clients satisfied with services

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Goal is 90%

% of clients experienced mental health gains

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Goal is 70%

% of clients increased their whole health score from intake to discharge

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Increasing

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Thompson takes an agency-wide trauma-informed, evidence-based, whole-health, multi-generational approach to serve communities to reach our vision of "All children health, all families thriving, all communities strong."
Agency KPIs include:
90% Client Satisfaction
70% Mental Health Gains
90% Aftercare - no need for higher level of care
90% Aftercare - no psychiatric hospitalizations

Thompson employs a strategic approach for achieving its goals. The board of directors, agency leaders, and all staff are led by a shared vision, which is frequently and clearly communicated to all.

Thompson hires top tier talent to work for the best outcomes for the children and families we serve. Thompson is in a continual process of developing expertise in the areas of early childhood, family support & stability and mental health by making sure our staff receive training in current, evidence-based approaches.

Agency leadership engages with other community leaders to be sure we are meeting needs collaboratively and efficiently, without duplicating efforts.

As an agency, each program's KPI progress is tracked on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis using scorecard reviews, client satisfaction surveys, outcome measurements, and internal monitoring reviews by our Performance & Quality Improvement team.

Thompson is committed to meeting the rigorous expectations of Council on Accreditation, and continually evaluates each area of the agency according to objectives and outcomes, making change as necessary to be sure we are helping each client succeed.

Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson) is a trauma-informed human services non-profit organization, accredited by the Council on Accreditation (COA). We strengthen children, families, and communities through the delivery of evidence-based services.

Thompson has a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) plan that uses an agency-wide, team-based approach that measures and analyzes data on program operations and outcomes to ensure that we are providing high quality and appropriate services to the children, youth, and families in our care.

In fiscal year 2022-2023, Thompson served a total of 3,090 clients through a total of 3,482 total services.
247 services were provided in Early Childhood programs.
1,723 services were provided in Family Stability programs.
1,328 services were provided in Mental Health programs.
184 services were provided in Residential programs.

Program Achievements in FY22-23 include:

97% of clients were satisfied with their services, exceeding the 90% goal.
84% of clients experienced mental health gains, exceeding our 70% goal.
92% of clients increased their whole health score from intake to discharge.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.
  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We act on the feedback we receive

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Thompson Child & Family Focus

Board of directors
as of 04/11/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board co-chair

Mrs. Rebekah Stivers

Wells Fargo

Term: 2026 - 2023


Board co-chair

Mr. A.T. Castillo

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Term: 2022 - 2025

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Steve Hall

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John Murchison

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Sarah Gordon

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Rebekah Stivers

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Timothy Broderick

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Andrew Herrnstein

Investors Trust

Heather Lawrence

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Janet Merle

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Christy Shea

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Sandy Wyckoff

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J.D. Costa

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Jalila Smith

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Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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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

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 1/18/2024

Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.

Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Male

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability