Kristi House, Inc.

EXPANSION/ENHANCEMENT OF SERVICES: Kristi House will continue to expand and enhance services in the Miami-Dade community to all child victims of sexual abuse, including those victims of sexual exploitation, through direct service and the Multidisciplinary Team.

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH: Kristi House will increase education and outreach to the Miami-Dade community to improve outcomes for all children and increase the visibility of the organization.

STAFF EXPERTISE: Kristi House staff will continue to be experts in the field of child sexual abuse through the development and marketing of that expertise.

FINANCIAL STABILITY: Kristi House Board and staff will ensure the financial sustainability of our mission.

ENDOWMENT: Kristi House Board and Staff will kick off an endowment fundraising campaign in 2018-19.

PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS: Kristi House Board and Staff will continue our commitment to partnerships and collaboration surrounding child sexual abuse and exploitation.

EXPANSION/ENHANCEMENT OF SERVICES: This strategic priority calls for enhancing services specifically for sexual exploitation, which involves adding transportation, critical for client engagement; partnering with University of Miami to research mental health interventions for CSEC; and expanding programming and services offered to Project GOLD clients.

Another specific strategy under this area calls for increasing services for Kristi House case coordination and therapy to better reach children in Homestead and Florida City.

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH: Strategies in this area take a multipronged approach to providing prevention programming in schools, particularly those at greatest risk, developing new child trauma trainings in partnership with FIU, obtaining CEUs for training participants, whenever possible, and continuing to target adults and others responsible for keeping children safe.

STAFF EXPERTISE: Strategies in this area include continuing to provide education and training programs in a variety of venues on the topics of CSEC, children and traumatic stress, sexual abuse awareness, and children with problematic sexual behavior. Service providers, educators, workers in child-serving organizations and parents are targeted.

FINANCIAL STABILITY: Strategies in this area are multipronged, involving increasing private/personal giving, restoring State funding we had for 15 years, and ensuring maximum earnings through Medicaid reimbursement. It also calls for careful analysis of all fundraising efforts to ensure appropriate cost to earnings ratios are maintained, and increased fundraising on the part of Board members. An endowment fund is needed; its anticipated launch is 2018.

PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS: This area seeks to expand and enhance our community partnerships through our work at the CSEC Drop In Center, through our SAMHSA training grant in partnership with child welfare, through presentations at major conferences, increased board participation and PR outreach.

Kristi House's strength lies in its people.

STAFF: Kristi House has a staff of 68 employees. They are led by a senior staff management team of five professionals: the CEO, CFO, COO, Programs Director and Director of Development. Staff is comprised of experienced, qualified clinicians, case managers and administrators who reflect Miami's diverse community. The front-line program staff are multilingual in five languages and many are first-generation immigrants to the U.S. from Central and South America and Caribbean countries including Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Peru, Bolivia, and Italy. They reflect the cultural diversity of Miami-Dade County, unmatched anywhere in the United States.

BOARD: A volunteer board of 25 community leaders, social services specialists and doctors set policy for the organization, raise funds and plan for the future. Board members meet at eight regular meetings annually, and in committees on a monthly or quarterly basis. The Board is active and committed to fulfilling its governance responsibilities, as reflected in successful re-accreditations, program audits and state and federal funding awards.

MANAGEMENT: Kristi House finances are independently audited with no corrective actions in the past 15 years. Kristi House is an accredited member of National Children's Alliance. Kristi House is also accredited by COA, renewed in June 2016, “expedited through the Pre-Commission Review Report (PCR) process as a result of not receiving any out-of-compliance ratings in any of the fundamental practice standards." Kristi House's stakeholder survey scores outpaced the field of COA-accredited not-for-profits in 82% of the measures.

We have helped 22,290 children overcome the trauma of sexual abuse so that it does not forever define their lives.

We have provided education, prevention and training courses and classes to more than 143,000 participants.

We are seeking dedicated and sustained funding to ensure that Kristi House continues to provide this high level of care, services and healing at no cost to families so that cost is never a barrier to a child getting the help they need. We have yet to accomplish this, but have it in our sights.