ANNUAL REPORT

2016 - 2017

Supporting children, youth and young adults to achieve

their potential through effective partnerships

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This year again, it has been our honour to lead this organization and its exceptional and professional staff as we work together for the children, youth and families of Sarnia Lambton. Through our work on delivery of programs, projects and planning initiatives, Pathways Health Centre for Children has been able to influence best practices within and beyond the boundaries of Sarnia Lambton. We are very proud of the accomplishments of all our teams – whether their work is highly visible in our community or whether it is lower key yet essential to supporting our clients to achieve their goals in the areas of function, family, fitness, fun, friends, and future. Daily, we have the privilege of seeing our Mission, Vision and Values in action at Pathways as staff and volunteers interact with the children, youth, families, community partners and each other. There is a passion for the work done inside and beyond these walls that clients and families understand and experience, and that all our staff have a hand in, no matter their area of work. It is our belief in the different abilities of the children and youth in our care that unites us and drives that passion. Here are just a few passages we want to highlight from the past year: We lived through the crash of one of the original 40 year old AC units during early July, the hottest period of last summer. A big thank you goes out to the Building Services team and C.A.C.H.É. staff who worked together to keep the conditions bearable for the children. Maintenance staff worked tirelessly with suppliers to bring in a temporary solution while we waited for the new unit to be built and installed. It was not until the following February that we received word – to our delight and relief – that the Ministry of Children and Youth Services would cover all the costs of the temporary AC repair and the permanent replacement. The experience, however, brought home in a very concrete way, the need for Pathways to keep sufficient reserves on hand. Despite our “new look” and expanded square footage, the infrastructure for the remaining 2/3 of the building dates back almost 40 years. Last summer, without sufficient reserves on hand, we would have had to close C.A.C.H.É. – our integrated child care and other areas of the Centre where staff and clients would have been at risk of heat exhaustion. Summer also saw collaboration on the refreshment of our Strategic Plan with the participation of staff, families, Board and volunteers. The three directions of Reaching Out to our Community; Enhancing the Child, Youth and Family Experience; and Achieving Organizational Health will guide Pathways over the next 5 years as Board, leadership and staff work with our community partners to deliver on the vision of the Special Needs Strategy for an Ontario where children and youth with special needs get the timely and effective services they need to participate fully at home, at school, in the community and as they achieve their goals for adulthood.

Message from the

Board Chair and the Executive Director

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Jenny Greensmith Executive Director

Kevin Hazzard Board Chair

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Kevin Hazzard Board Chair

As part of strategic planning, we scanned the economic environment against our current fund development potential. We had known for a while there would come a time when we must reduce the reliance on a transfer from reserves to balance the operating fund. Three-year forecasting told us that the time was now, and this was not a sudden realization. 2016-17 will be remembered as the year Pathways began to realign services to Ministry budget. Pathways has historically operated to meet community demand for services, above Ministry funded service levels that have not grown to match inflation or the level of need in our community. We asked for the understanding of our staff and families as we prepared to make changes that would begin to impact wait times and program offerings for our clients and their families. The fall marked the soft launch of the Lifelong Learning Program for transition-aged young adults of 19 and up. Operating out of our Lambton Room, this program meets a need in our community for young adults with disabilities who have left school and still need to learn and practice life skills to build social networks and a meaningful life for themselves in their community, while reducing the potential of social isolation. Revenue to sustain the social enterprise is generated through tuition fees with the surplus flowing into Pathway’s operational budget to support the clinical services we provide to children ages 0 – 19. In December, following more than two years of planning as a community, Pathways received Ministry approval as the Coordinating Agency through which families in Sarnia Lambton can access coordinated service planning for a range of services across sectors. By the end of March 2017 our Lead Planner was on board and so began the journey to build our internal and community capacity towards a planned launch to children, youth and families by October 2017. Speaking for Pathways, we are particularly pleased to be leading this initiative since we see that it will build on the service coordination that our families identified to us as a need many years ago. As we close out the 2016-17 year – we have these messages: To all the team at Pathways with whom we have the pleasure of working: thank you for the depth of caring and kindness you share. Yours is chosen and blessed work. It takes time, talent, knowledge, commitment, energy and inspiration to keep on doing what you do, and it matters! To our volunteers who choose to give of their time and talents: thank you from us all. Whether you work on special events, in our Centre or out in the community supporting our programs please know that we couldn’t keep on doing what we do without you. To our donors and event sponsors: we are honoured by your willingness to partner with us through financial support. Thank you for your tremendous vote of confidence in Pathways as an organization, and for sharing our belief in the different abilities of our community’s children and youth. To our Board of Directors, thank you for your thoughtfully considered guidance as we navigate these challenging times and work to balance our service capacity with the need to achieve sustainable financial stability so that Pathways can remain a viable and vibrant organization to serve future generations of children and youth with special needs, and their families.

Jenny Greensmith Executive Director

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See what we see...

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Believing in the different abilities of our children and youth

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BALANCE SHEET (as of March 31, 2017)

The Auditor’s Report of BDO Canada LLP, Chartered Accountants, dated June

20, 2017 is appended to the comprehensive financial statements from which this

financial summary was obtained. A complete set of audited financial statements

are available upon request from Pathways Health Centre for Children.

2017 2016

(in thousands of dollars)

Operating Fund $

Cash/Short-Term Investments 261 432

Receivables 266 180

Prepaid Expenditures 68 94

Long-Term Investments 0 0

Current Liabilities -413 -524

Fund Balance 182 182

Property and Equipment Fund 3203 3442

Capital Fund 1229 1119

Net Equity $4614 $4743

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AUDITOR’S REPORT

Volunteer Facts

TOTAL NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS

125

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TOTAL NUMBER OF VOLUNTEER HOURS

8,198

TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENT PLACEMENTS

36

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TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENT HOURS

5,946

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

for the year ended March 31, 2017

Source of Funds

How Funds were Spent

In thousands of dollars

On behalf of our children and families,

thank you to our annual donors,

friends and sponsors who have given so generously of their time and resources

in 2016-2017.

Operating Fund 2017 2016

Income

Ministry Grants $ 3785 $ 3723

County of Lambton 1539 1482

Rotary Foundation 54 54

Contracted Services 104 221

Other 804 749

$ 6286 $ 6229

Expenditures

Salaries, Benefits and Employee Expenses $ 5696 $ 5716

Supplies 266 300

Facility Expenditures 286 170

Other 220 250

$ 6468 $ 6436

Excess of Revenue over Expenditures $ -182 $ -207

Transfer from Capital Fund 182 290

Transfer to Property and Equipment Fund 0 -83

Change in Fund Balance $ 0 $ 0

Property and Equipment Fund

Expenditures

Therapy/Other Equipment $ 0 $ 20

Computer/Telephone Equipment 0 12

Furnishings and Fixtures 0 3

Building 0 110

0 145

Deferred Contributions 64 59

Amortization -302 -316

Net Change in Fund $ -238 $ -112

Capital Fund

Income

Gifts, Bequests, Fundraising and Donations $ 380 $ 530

Interest and Other Income 19 19

399 549

Expenditures

Operations $ 107 $ 121

Excess of Revenue over Expenditures $ 292 $ 428

Expenditures

Transfer to Operating Fund $ -182 $ -290

Transfer to Property and Equipment Fund 0 -62

-182 -352

Change in Fund Balance $ 110 $ 76

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017

Kevin Hazzard - Board Chair Adrienne Lee Dean Edwardson - Vice Chair Chris de Jourdan John McNeil - Treasurer Dana Petko Geoffrey Moore - Past Chair Dr. Rajni Saraf Patricia Dwyer - Secretary Godfrey Stevens (until June 2016) Warren Kennedy Dr. Michael Stoesser* Jenny Greensmith*

*ex-officio member of the Board

Annual Fundraising Events

Bench Press Contest

April

Mustang Sally Rally Poker Run 3rd Saturday in May

Sarnia Street Machines: Cruise in the Park

Last Sunday in June

Sarnia Street Machines: Hot August Nights First Thursday in August

ARTZscape by the Bay

Third weekend in August

Secret Santa Shoppe Last 2 weekends in November