2026-08-13T08:47:39-05:00 2026-03-31 271895149 Heveron & Company CPAs PLLC 260 Plymouth Avenue South Rochester NY 14608 990 2025-04-01 160992259 The Center for Youth Services Inc CENT 5854732464 905 Monroe Avenue Rochester NY 14620 Elaine Spaull Executive Director 5854732464 2026-08-12 1 Jeanne Beutner P00228650 5852322956 2026-08-12 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Elaine Spaull 905 Monroe Avenue Rochester NY 14620 18470006 0 X www.centerforyouth.net X 1971 NY Counseling, Prevention, School Based, Workforce, and Runaway Homeless Services for youth. 30 30 483 201 0 0 10274425 9154668 7521931 8560721 423524 130468 28200 54455 18248080 17900312 0 0 0 0 13520525 14697995 0 0 149106 2726867 2890982 16247392 17588977 2000688 311335 11942560 12709605 2967295 3199000 8975265 9510605 X We partner with youth to realize their full potential, by creating opportunities, removing barriers, and promoting racial justice. 0 0 8867606 8083416 School Based Programs:The Center's school-based programs work with youth and families to enhance school stability, connectedness, and improved attendance, which leads to academic success and graduation. These programs include: Alternatives to Suspension, Crisis Intervention/Help Zone, Expanded Learning Opportunities, and Prevention Education Services. The programs are offered at both elementary and secondary schools in the City of Rochester, New York, in school sites throughout Monroe County, most notably in Greece and Penfield, in charter schools and in contiguous counties throughout New York State.(Continued on Schedule O) Alternatives to Suspension programs are designed to reduce short-term out-of-school suspensions, minimize disruptive behavior, and keep students on track with their academics. Crisis Intervention/Help Zone programs support the academic and interpersonal success of students by providing immediate crisis response, offering an individualized intervention for social and emotional behaviors, and providing parental engagement opportunities in crisis situations as well as prevention and intervention opportunities. Expanded Learning Opportunity programs provide academic enrichment and recreational opportunities with the goal of improved attendance, increased academic success, and fostering well-rounded youth. The Prevention Education Services Program provides research-based, interactive workshops geared towards schools and youth organizations to help children and teens to make informed, healthy decisions. Workshop topics include: communication, alcohol and drug awareness, prejudice, depression and suicide, sexuality, and conflict resolution. This past year, The Center served youth in 90 schools in the Monroe, Livingston and other surrounding counties. EarthWorks is committed to engaging students in the natural world to unlock the curiosity that drives independent learning. We do this through expeditionary, hands-on learning and play; where we allow children to explore, understand and interpret the world around them. Our programs range from seasonal forest school, wilderness survival classes, outdoor classroom instruction and garden education. Each class will include elements of outdoor play, practical skill building, survival techniques and hands-on learning opportunities. Students who join us will be encouraged to cooperate, problem solve and work together to reach success. Strings for Success (SFS) is a free, inclusive, and innovative instrumental strings program available to all students in grades 2-8 at the Dr. Charles T. Lunsford School 19 in the Rochester City School District. In addition to high-quality music instruction, SFS students participate in ensembles, performances, field trips, and learning opportunities with visiting artists from Rochester and beyond. Strings for Success is offered during the school day so that all interested students can participate.These program includes funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $1,549,782. 3741571 64943 Runaway and Homeless:1. Emergency Shelter ProgramThrough our homeless youth shelter, The Center House, or in their volunteer Host Homes, the program provides a short-term voluntary safe haven to homeless and runaway youth ages 12-21 (12-17 for Shelter, 12-21 for Host Homes). During their stay, youth receive chemical dependency prevention counseling, individual and family counseling, and case management services to assist in reuniting them with their families, as well as supportive aftercare services.(Continued on Schedule O.)Through Life Skills workshops and one on one counseling, The Center works with each youth to increase their coping skills and avoid environments that lead to high risk activities such as alcohol and substance abuse. When reunification is not possible, youth are assisted with securing alternative stable housing.2. Transitional Living Program (Devonshire, Chrysalis House, and Arnett House)The Transitional Living Program is designed to support older homeless youth ages 16-21, who do not have family support as they transition into adulthood. The Center provides subsidized apartments or assistance in securing stable housing, case management and independent living skills training for up to 18 months. Chrysalis House is a maternity group home, combining a safe and structured environment with adult supervision in a large and beautiful home. It is designed for homeless pregnant/parenting and non-parenting teenage girls in desperate need of safe and stable housing who benefit from the structure and support provided to youth living in this home. The newest program, Arnett House, is for LGBTQ+ and youth who have experienced trafficking ages 16 - 24. It is a 3-bedroom house that serves up to 6 young people with case management, life skills, and other supports for 6 - 8 months.3. Street Outreach ProgramThe goals of the Street Outreach Program are to provide education and prevention services to reduce the incidence of sexual abuse and/or exploitation of street youth, and to help them leave the streets. The Center does this by building trusting relationships with street youth, providing them with survival supports (food, clothing, hygiene products) and giving them immediate access to emergency shelter services. Counselors also work very closely with community agencies to connect youth with needed services. 4. Project Safe PlaceThis community collaboration among The Center, community businesses and volunteers offers young people access to safety 24/7. The goal of the project is to create safe and accessible points of entry for youth ages 12-21 at all Tops Markets, RTS buses, YMCAs, City of Rochester Parks and Recreation, and other locations. Youth can access Safe Place locations day or night and are immediately connected with trained professionals and volunteers from The Center who will assist them in connecting with the services they need. 5. New Beginning HouseThis 3-apartment, 6-bedroom building is for young men ages 16-24, who are experiencing housing instability while trying to complete their education and/or obtain and maintain employment. Much like our Transitional Living Program and Emergency Shelter, the New Beginning House is built on the Center's foundation of positive-youth development and trauma-focused service delivery. Length of stay and intensity of services is driven by the needs of the resident. Services include independent living skills, mentorship opportunities and connection to on-going, permanent relationships with safe adults in the community.6. Rapid Rehousing ProgramThis program assists young adults ages 18 - 25 who are currently homeless and residing in emergency shelters in quickly obtaining independent, permanent housing in the community. Specialists assist with apartment searches and applications as well with obtaining employment in order to maintain housing and in identifying landlords who are willing to partner with the program.7. Crisis Nursery: The Crisis Nursery (two locations including Owen's House) operates two 6 bed respite shelters for children ages 0-14 years, and up to 17 as part of a sibling group, with parental consent and involvement. The program responds to families in crisis 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, providing safe and consistent care in an effort to reduce the trauma on the children and their families. 8. Safe Harbour: The Safe Harbour program provides advocacy and intensive case management for minor victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Through partnership with Monroe County Youth Bureau and DHS, The Center's Safe Harbour program also provides training and case coordination for Child Welfare programs and other non-profits serving vulnerable youth. These programs include funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $2,966,324. 581814 233949 Workforce Initiative: Learn 2 Earn (L2E): This asset-based year-round workforce program includes both the L2E out of school program for youth 16-21 years and in school participation for youth ages 14-18 years still in school. RochesterWorks! is the funder for the L2E out of school program and the in school program in funded through the support of the ESL Foundation. These programs provide both summer employment and permanent employment through job coaching, career exploration, credential attainment, and volunteering in the community, mentoring and academic enrichment, and social/emotional support as well as personal exploration. L2E is also particularly focused on the needs and challenges of older youth who may also face homelessness and are in need of employment and educational opportunities to sustain and thrive. This program includes funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $306,787. 2534930 232868 Counseling Intervention:Counselors provide essential chemical dependency prevention, individual and family counseling, and crisis intervention services including youth intake and assessment, case management, advocacy, and follow-up. Utilizing evidence-based practices and programs, counselors work with youth to increase decision-making skills and protective factors in order to reduce alcohol and substance abuse and other high-risk behaviors. Counseling staff are stationed in The Center's downtown office, schools, and community organizations.Information and referral services are available 24 hours a day through the staffed help line to ensure maximum accessibility and responsiveness to youth needs.This program includes funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $626,086.Teen Court: Rochester Teen Court is a voluntary, peer-to-peer alternative intended to turn a young person's first encounter with the adult criminal justice system into their last. A judge presides over the court with youth volunteers serving as jurors and attorneys. Cases are selected when defendants realize their responsibility and are willing to accept the sentence selected by their peers. Sanctions include community service, counseling and relevant workshops. Peer Court utilizes volunteers within the school to serve on a panel in a restorative justice model. Peer Accountability Court:The Greece Central School District decided to address long term suspensions for actions that impaired the academic process by adding a Peer Accountability Court or PAC in its secondary school sites. Based on the approaches taken by Rochester Teen Court, the PAC program is a sentencing option, and students take responsibility for their actions and then face the consequences using a restorative practice model. The goal is the repair harm and build community in a school setting which results in a reduced out of school suspension and a reengagement with the school. The students involved with the PAC program has impacted the academic environment and are working on resolving that behavior and moving forward with repairing the harm that may have been caused. This initiative is supported and supervised by the leadership team in Rochester Teen Court.Youth Development Opportunities and Volunteerism: The talents, skills, and time given to The Center by hundreds of youth and adult volunteers transform the lives of our youth. These generous community members listen, counsel, tutor, provide meals, host parties and college tours, plant flowers, clean our buildings, sort books, furnish coats, scarves, suitcases, duffle bags and provide holiday gifts. Simply put, The Center could not operate as they do without them. It is through their spirit of generosity and understanding, and their belief in what they do here at The Center that makes these volunteers so precious to The Center.Bridge to Peace - Restorative Practices - Youth Leadership:The Center for Youth was founded more than 50 years ago on the principles of youth voice and youth leadership, on removing barriers and providing social and racial justice and on repairing harm and building community. The newest initiative, located at 797 Monroe Avenue, provides the agency the opportunity to return to this mission in a new site that is led by youth and focuses on the use of restorative practices across all programs. The Bridge to Peace building is the home of the Learn to Earn program, arts of all types, including dance, music, and visual and graphic arts, as well as basketball and other sports. Most importantly, 797 Monroe welcomes youth of all ages and incorporates the use of restorative circles in all programs. Celebrating youth voice is essential in all Center programs but nowhere more emphasized than at the Bridge to Peace. With a keen eye to anti-violence and social justice, the additional programs offered at 797 Monroe connect with other agencies, school districts and programs to insure that youth are respected and valued and that their voices are heard.Engagement in the City of Rochester R Centers - The Center for Youth was invited to integrate its services in the R Centers throughout the City of Rochester to provide social emotional support and crisis intervention to young people by embeddings our services and support in the recreation centers to become full partners with the City of Rochester and to impact children and youth across 5 sites. The work involves providing complementary programs to the work of the recreation center and acts as a resource and referrals for families as well as youth who might struggle with positive engagement. The Center staff assigned to the R Centers are skilled in restorative practices, positive youth development, counseling and case management and navigation of systems. The CFT of Child Family Therapist provide higher level one on one support as well.The Nook - The Center's 905 Monroe Avenue location is the home of a food pantry and clothes closet that supplies a variety of non-perishable food, diapers, hygiene products and other youth needs. 2534930 232868 15725921 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 27 0 1 483 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 NY X X Amy Appoloney 5854732464 905 Monroe Avenue Rochester NY 14620 Martin Weingarten Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Christine Coward Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Shaun Nelms Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Terra Keller Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Jason Piper Treasurer 2.30 0.70 X X 0 0 0 Olga Mendez Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Margaret Burns Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Milton Pichardo Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Kate Beardsley Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Matthew Reynell Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Christian Hancey Vice President 2.30 0.70 X X 0 0 0 Doug Hendee Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Erica Smith Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Cheryl Gossin President 2.30 0.70 X X 0 0 0 Miranda Carter Director 1.20 0.70 X 0 0 0 Kermin Martinez-Hernandez Director 1.20 0.70 X 0 0 0 Jessica Naclerio Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Alicia Nestle Director 1.20 0.70 X 0 0 0 Sangeeta Sarraf Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Cedrick-Michael Simmons Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Ashara Baker Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Jeffrey Green Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Jackie Kubera-Martin Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Latoya Lee Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Anita Misra Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Heather Wohaska Secretary 1.20 0.70 X X 0 0 0 David Campos Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Charlie Colbert Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Sammie Drayton Jr Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Rosalie Remarais Director 1.20 X 0 0 0 Elaine Spaull Executive Director 35.00 0.70 X 190642 0 2871 Amy Appoloney Director of Finance 35.00 0.70 X 81048 0 6172 271690 0 9043 1 0 1 0 0 256500 731232 5454821 2712115 9154668 School-Based Programs 624100 8083416 8083416 Workforce Initiative 624100 233949 233949 Other Program Revenue 624100 178413 178413 Runaway/Homeless 624100 64943 64943 8560721 229490 229490 248639 347661 -99022 -99022 -99022 222033 731232 222033 0 Other Revenue 900099 54455 54455 54455 17900312 8615176 0 130468 288039 249347 38692 12740838 11896271 782624 61943 326836 294077 26038 6721 1342282 1240977 91618 9687 5000 5000 27985 27985 16026 16026 511383 337793 173549 41 1648 481 1167 1068200 903743 148138 16319 507633 468374 38251 1008 62054 61835 219 284107 267764 16343 24526 6039 18364 123 98478 9311 89167 117053 99801 16396 856 Youth Allotments 47741 47741 Membership Dues 25092 7833 14511 2748 94056 83881 374 9801 17588977 15725921 1713950 149106 801318 261935 4789924 5550364 1801058 1229799 1526602 2143166 146110 206318 2726366 1881151 548925 845215 2011868 2188731 316755 284077 11942560 12709605 1139059 1487726 8921 11717 506104 413807 1313211 1285750 2967295 3199000 X 4304676 5143239 4670589 4367366 8975265 9510605 11942560 12709605 311335 224005 0 X 0 1 X 1 1 1 X 6711700 7072052 10505559 10274425 8969760 43533496 6711700 7072052 10505559 10274425 8969760 43533496 4584356 38949140 22346 42754 374311 179146 229490 848047 160237 231035 283541 282224 276488 1233525 45615068 31938533 0.85390 0.88440 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10, Explanation of Other Income: Other income derived as a result of the Organizations exempt purpose RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 1 X 800733 500 84415 885648 775237 500 24996 800733 698332 500 76405 775237 756248 500 -58416 698332 762348 650 -6750 756248 0.37644 0.62356 0 0 1594028 900501 693527 358694 216600 142094 419585 419585 0 354059 344465 9594 845215 Refundable Advances 1001673 Operating Lease Liabilities 284077 1285750 Part IV, Line 2b: The custodial account balance is made up of income from earnings of youth in the program. The Center encourages them to invest and deposit their savings with the Center, and the dollars are given back when they leave the program. Part V, Line 4: The Center uses the earnings on the permanent endowment for major capital projects or recurring operational needs. The specific expenditures of the funds are determined on a case-by-case basis by the Audit, Finance, and Investments Committee in consultation with the Center's management, and in accordance with applicable New York State law and the Center's spending policy. Fashion Week 641888 461266 180622 50999 26 129598 Center Gala 279167 251835 27332 23149 75 3050 1058 2 32210 19000 13210 9600 3183 426 953265 732101 221164 83748 3284 3050 131082 221164 0 X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Elaine Spaull Executive Director 190642 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2871 0 193513 0 0 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The Form 990 is reviewed by the Audit, Finance, and Investments Committee, Executive Director, and Finance Director before being filed. A draft is also made available to each Board Member to review before being filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The Governance Committee of the Board is responsible for recruiting, screening, interviewing, and selecting individuals qualified to become Board members to stand for election to the Board at the Annual Meeting. In its review process, the Governance Committee assesses, among other things, if the candidate is free of conflicts of interest that would interfere with their ability to discharge their duties as a Board member or would violate any applicable law or regulation. Prior to the initial election of a director, such person must complete, sign, and submit a written statement identifying any potential conflict. Thereafter, on an annual basis, a director must sign an Affirmation of Compliance and Disclosure Statement. The director is also under a continuing obligation to disclose any potential conflict of interest by filing a supplemental Disclosure Statement, as soon as a potential conflict of interest is known or reasonably should be known. Officers and Key Employees also are required to identify potential conflicts and submit annual Disclosure Statements. The Governance Committee of the Board oversees the implementation, and compliance with, the Conflict of Interest Policy. The Disclosure Statements are reviewed by the Governance Committee. The Committee makes determinations with respect to conflicts of interest and Related Party Transactions. The person with a conflict of interest cannot be present at or participate in the Committee's deliberations or voting on the matter giving rise to the conflict. The minutes of the Committee's meeting at which a conflict of interest or Related Party Transaction is discussed or voted upon documents in detail the existence and resolution of the conflict. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15a The compensation for the Executive Director is determined annually by the Board of Directors, in an executive session, at which time the Directors review various data, including comparability data, and make a decision. Their deliberations and approval are contemporaneously substantiated in the minutes of the meeting. The salaries of other key employees and all other employees are approved annually by the Board of Directors during the budget approval process. In general, once established, the base salaries are thereafter reviewed for annual increases. During the course of the year, the Executive Director, in consultation with the Human Resources director, may, from time to time, make modest changes to an employee's salary to reflect changes in job responsibilities or to make market adjustments. Such changes and their impact on the budget are reported to the Audit, Finance, and Investments Committee in a timely manner. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available upon request. CYS Properties Inc 905 Monroe Avenue Rochester NY 14620 161457922 Owns and leases property to Center for Youth Services, Inc. NY 501(c)(2) The Center for Youth Services Inc 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0