2024-11-14T19:09:30-07:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 270679437 CREATING A FAMILY CREA 8288628200 874 Lambs Creek Road Brevard NC 28712 Dawn Davenport Executive Director 8288628200 2024-11-14 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Dawn Davenport 874 Lambs Creek Road Brevard NC 28712 739125 0 X www.creatingafamily.org X 2016 NC Creating a Family is the national adoption & foster care education and support nonprofit. Our mission is to strengthen foster, adoptive, and kinship families and the professionals who support them by creating expert-based, trauma-informed resources, community support, and training. Our vision is that every adopted and foster child has a family who understands their unique strengths and challenges and is equipped to help them thrive. 15 15 6 4 0 0 326604 306382 340733 409882 5666 20085 3960 2776 676963 739125 0 0 0 0 305812 354308 0 0 47375 141713 217614 447525 571922 229438 167203 659575 822807 140220 129024 519355 693783 Foster, kinship and adoptive parents need information because our children often struggle with emotional and educational challenges that can make parenting hard. It is important that this information be expert-based and trauma-informed rather than the anecdotal sharing that often takes place. The MISSION of Creating a Family is to do just that - to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster and kinship parents and the professionals who support them by creating engaging, expert-based and trauma-informed resources and training. We create resources for families raising kids who have experienced the trauma of neglect, abuse and prenatal exposure. Our resources embrace all the current media in order to fit the learning style and time availability of busy parents. In addition to education, we know first-hand the power of support and being surrounded by others who understand your experience. As such, we run a large online support group for adoptive, foster and kinship families. 0 0 46242 0 32171 Creating a Family's Interactive Training and Support Curriculum for Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Families was designed to make it easy for organizations to run engaging, high-quality support groups (in-person or online). Our curriculum is a turnkey resource developed to help facilitators provide support and training while building community, reducing caregiver stress, and helping caregivers feel more confident in parenting children exposed to trauma. In 2020, Creating a Family worked to create, pilot and test the new Interactive Training & Support for Foster/Adoptive/Kinship Families Subscription Service. Ten curricula were developed in 2020 and offered to the public in 2021. During 2021 an additional 10 curricula were developed. In 2022, 5 more curricula were developed. In 2023 we launched a new website to house our Curriculum, making it more accessible and user friendly to organizations running support groups for foster, adoptive and kinship families. The Interactive Training & Support Curricula provides resources and wraparound services with the goal of increasing the number of parent support groups available to families by making it easier to facilitate and maintain high-quality groups where parents develop social connections, reduce stress, and feel more confident in parenting children exposed to trauma. Each curriculum includes a video, facilitator guide, and handouts. The wraparound subscription service has initial facilitator training for online or in-person groups, access to participant evaluations, and access to a curriculum library that includes 25 topics for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents. During 2023, 495 curricula were utilized by 47 organizations. 78344 0 0 In 2023, Creating a Family continued to develop the Prenatal Exposure Training for Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Parents. This training is designed to help participants recognize children who may have been impacted by prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs and trains them on best practices for working with these children and youth to help them thrive. The training was delivered over three sessions and includes a video with embedded video interviews with experts from UNC's Knowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Duke University School of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Fullerton Genetics Center, and foster parents with lived experience raising children with prenatal substance exposure. Further, the videos included animated videos that we created to help explain and animate complex concepts. The training was piloted with two additional randomized control studies and presented online. The piloted training was delivered by a staff facilitator and included group discussion for each session. Participants had access to an online resource library to reference further materials on topics presented during the training, including diagnosis, strategies, and further resources. The training is designed to be delivered either in-person or online. We continue to work with NC State University to evaluate the training through two additional Randomized Control Trials delivered online. In late 2023, the training was updated from three videos to five videos. We expanded the session three video into three age-specific sessions for parents, including birth to age four, age four to age eleven, and age eleven to young adults. These new sessions allow participants to spend more time discussing strategies to support children in these age groups. Finally, in November 2023, we conducted listening sessions with several North Carolina Department of Social Service staff across the state to determine their needs around training child welfare workers on prenatal substance exposure. 31518 0 0 Another invaluable program service is the Creating a Family podcast. This free, weekly, one-hour production, hosted by Executive Director, Dawn Davenport, covers topics in the fields of adoption, foster care and kinship care with guests that are specialists in their respective fields. There were 261,560 listens during 2023 and 2.96 million listens since the podcast's inception. In 2023, we added a second weekly, short-form publication, Weekend Wisdon. This 5 to 10 minute episod is designed to answer listeners' questions. 29644 0 0 The Creating a Family website, www.CreatingaFamily.org is the focal point of our organization. Our mission is to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them in raising children exposed to trauma, including prenatal exposure, by creating expert-based and trauma-informed resources and training for parents and professionals. Our website is where we house the resources and trainings we create. In 2022, Creating a Family averaged 56,900+ average page views monthly. There is no charge for the vast majority of resources provided on the site. 46975 0 268321 Creating a Family provides online courses for adoptive, foster, and kinship parents and continuing education courses for social workers in the child welfare field. We have 75+ parent courses for pre-adoptive, in-service foster, and post-adoption families. Each course is 1 hour and comes with a Certificate of Completion. Our courses align with the federal requirements for international adoption and various state-specific pre-adoption education requirements. Our courses address topics relevant to adoptive, foster, and kinship families. We also offer 18 courses accredited by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) to offer continuing education (CE) credit for social workers. In 2023, more than 33,359 courses were enrolled. 40139 0 14440 Creating a Family reaches out to individuals through its weekly adoption, foster care, and kinship newsletter to 7,900 subscribers and through its broad exposure to the social networks that it maintains on Facebook (9,400+ followers and over 11,000 followers of the Support Group page), Twitter (6,500+) and Pinterest (6,500+) followers. Creating a Family also reaches out to adoption and foster professionals through its weekly newsletter to 2,900 subscribers and through LinkedIn (1,383) followers for the Executive Director. 139039 0 66949 In 2023, Creating a Family further expanded our outreach and support services to relative caregivers by developing and piloting a kinship navigator program in Western North Carolina. The kinship navigator provides information and support in English and Spanish to grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship caregivers. In addition to a toll-free support line, Creating a Family launched both in-person and online support groups providing opportunities for peer support and learning. We also continued to provide information on legal permanency options to North Carolina kinship caregivers through NCkinshipfamilies.org. This is a multimedia website that we developed featuring expert videos, kinship caregiver videos, tip sheets, and other resources to help relative caregivers consider their best options when making permanency decisions. The website also offers links and information on how to find an attorney and additional legal resources. All of our programs for relative caregivers are developed with input from our Kinship Advisory Board made up of relative caregivers from across the state of North Carolina. 5504 0 28000 Creating a Family provided weekly content creation in the form of articles and corresponding images for an outside organization to publish on their website. 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The complete Form 990 was then circulated to the full Board along with a covering memo highlighting key parts of the document. Comments were requested and all comments were addressed before mailing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Conflict of Interest Policy is required to be signed by all Board Members upon joining the Board. The policy is updated periodically from all Board Members and any conflict would be reviewed by the Executive Committee. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors reviews the Executive Director's compensation and benefits package in relation to that of other Executive Directors for nonprofits of comparable size in the geographic region. The Committee makes a recommendation to the full Board which in turn finalizes and approves the compensation package. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The audited financial statements and the Form 990 are available on the company's website. The governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Evaluation of Programs & Courses 20,500/0/0; Video Production 15,666/0/0; Program Supplies & Expenses 15,020/0/0; Product Content Manager 7,232/0/0; Audio Engineer 5,041/0/0; Kinship Navigator program workers 4,232/0/0; Continuing Education Certification 4,775/0/0; Graphic Designer 1,180/0/0