Homeless Childrens Network

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Organization Details

Formation Year

1997

Legal Domicile

Principal Officer

April Silas PhD

Phone

4154373990

Tax Period

2024-07-01 to 2025-06-30

Homeless Childrens Network, founded in 1997, is a mid-sized nonprofit in the Human Services sector that reported $12.7M in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue grew 11% year-over-year, indicating healthy expansion.

Mission

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other social service agencies, to coordinate the provision of such services through and with certain homeless family shelters in San Francisco and to provide educational and charitable services to the public as permitted by Section 214 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code.

Program Service Accomplishments

Program 1

Expenses: $5,086,171

Africentric Programs:Black Birthing Health Initiative (BBHI): BBHI is designed to promote mental health and wellness, provide client-centered and culturally tailored care, and ensure accessibility to essential services for underserved and marginalized birthing individuals and their families in San Francisco including Black/African American birthing individuals. This program serves individuals of all backgrounds, and brings focused expertise to uplift Black birthing people through services that are reflective of their cultural identity and lived experiences. BBHIs innovative model of care includes: (1) accessible and free services, (2) services provided in physical spaces that are designed to feel non-medical and welcoming, diligently avoiding the replication of clinical or oppressive environments, (3) extension of services from pregnancy and throughout infancy and childhood up to the age of three, and (4) utilization of Afri-centric and community-based models of healing that are intentionally culturally congruent.Community Holistic Overdose Prevention Program (CHOPP): CHOPP is designed to integrate outreach and awareness, education and training, and peer-based and direct treatment activities to prevent substance use disorder (SUD) and save lives in San Francisco. CHOPP meets the need for community-embedded support through trained Peer Support Specialists versed in overdose prevention practices and who have lived experiences and expertise in the communities served.Kupona Early Intervention, Outpatient, and Intensive Outpatient Programs (Kupona): HCNs three Kupona programs address the need for culturally-responsive, tailored outpatient services that holistically combat substance use among youth in San Francisco. Kupona is a Swahili word encompassing healing, recovering, and getting well. This program is designed to work at the intersections of substance use, mental health, and spiritual well-being of youth, families, and communities. While HCN welcomes and serves youth and families of all ethnicities and populations in San Francisco, the priority populations for the Kupona programs include those who identify as Black/African American and people of color, housing insecure, and at-risk youth under the age of 18 who are residents of San Francisco and Medi-Cal beneficiaries.Community-Based Substance Use Prevention and Education Initiative: This innovative initiative is expanding community awareness of substance-use disorder (SUD) within the greater San Francisco community. The goal of this awareness campaign is to prevent and reduce substance use and fatal overdoses in San Francisco including those in communities most impacted by SUDs such as Black/African American communities by building capacity within community-based organizations and strengthening systems of care through interconnected, culturally affirming referral and resource networks. Key components/activities include Substance Use and Overdose Community Presentations provided by peer educators and an annual Targeted Public Awareness Campaign.Jabali Youth Advocacy: HCNs Jabali Youth Program is a youth-led advocacy committee that amplifies the voices of youth around substance abuse and prevention by utilizing a culturally-responsive, trauma-informed youth development program model. Youth empowerment, leadership, and civic engagement are the core of this model in helping youth to succeed in school, work, and adulthood. Through weekly youth meetings, educational sessions, thought-provoking discussions, shared learning, group activities, and real world examples, youth are supported to reflect on their lived experiences, hone their own stories, build messaging platforms, advocate for a youth voice in the conversation, and take action in addressing substance use in San Francisco.

Program 2

Expenses: $3,930,620

Ma'at:HCNs groundbreaking Maat Program was launched to create greater opportunity for culturally responsive behavioral and mental health approaches for children, youth, and families in San Francisco who have been historically marginalized, while also supporting those impacted by systemic inequities, intergenerational trauma, and racism. Maat uses a whole-person approach to deliver Afri-centric, culturally responsive, heartfelt mental health and wellness care. The program aims to facilitate healing within the family and community systems in neighborhoods across San Francisco, and provides effective treatment to increase equity of access and remove obstacles to service at no cost to clients and their families. HCNs annual external evaluation reports for this program have identified positive impacts for not only the youth clients participating in Maat, but also for youths caregivers and even for their school systems.Ma'at Youth Leadership: HCNs Maat Youth Leadership Program supports highly vulnerable, low-income/very low-income youth and adolescents who are at risk of not making successful transitions into adulthood within San Francisco. The goal of this Afri-centric, culturally responsive initiative is to help youth develop leadership and life skills, and to support their transition to adulthood by fostering an understanding of systemic inequalities, related traumas, and challenges within a culture of wellness and healing. At the beginning of the program, youth leaders identify a goal they want to achieve during the program. In FY 2024-25 according to the annual evaluation report, 100% of youth leaders reported achieving goals in areas such as maintaining or improving GPA, gaining financial literacy and stability, graduating high school, preparing for college, or gaining skills for future career paths.Community Mental Health (CMH): HCNs CMH Program is successfully deepening mental health support for children aged 0-18, families, and adults in the Bayview-Hunters Point, Western Addition, Tenderloin, South of Market, Fillmore, and Castro neighborhoods in San Francisco. CMH spans three service categories: (1) Afri-centric, whole-person/communal wellness services, (2) culturally responsive mental health services including for those who identify as LGBTQIA+, and (3) Afri-centric early childhood mental health support services. CMH offers individual, group, and community support to individuals of all ages, workshops, coaching, training through a consultative model for early childhood educators, and participation in city-wide collaborations.

Program 3

Expenses: $2,948,626

Mental Health Services:Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT): HCNs General EPSDT Program provides culturally competent, strengths-based behavioral health services for children and youth aged 0-17. This includes underserved youth populations such as newcomer Latine youth; immigrant youth and their families; LGBTQIA+ identified youth; youth without housing; and children and youth not attending school due to mental health disorders or emotional disturbances. HCNs therapeutic model employs a strengths-based, culturally responsive, inclusive, whole-person approach to mitigate the long-term effects of traumatic events and intergenerational trauma. Services include individual therapy, family therapy, collateral support, and case management.Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (ECMHC): HCNs ECMHC Program serves young children ages 0-5, their families, and the people and providers who make up the system of care with the aim of improving social, emotional, and behavioral health and well-being of young children at sites all across San Francisco. HCN has deep experience providing ECMHC services for early care and education (ECE) programs (including family child care settings), Family Resource Centers (FRCs), and in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). HCNs services include consultations and feedback, professional development, training and support groups, therapeutic playgroups, school/classroom observations, early intervention, and culturallygrounded referrals and linkages.Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP): CPP is a nationally recognized, trauma-informed therapeutic intervention that supports family strengths and relationships and supports healing from stressful experiences while upholding family and cultural values. This initiative provided support for a cohort of clinicians to take part in an 18-month CPP training and learning collaborative. HCNs CPP clinicians work within HCNs Maat and General EPSDT programs providing behavioral and mental health services. By engaging in CPP clinical training, Maat and General EPSDT clinicians are equipped with an additional effective clinical-based practice for engaging families in therapy.Entre Nosotros: HCNs Entre Nosotros (in English, Within Us) initiative is a community mental health program that fosters culturally affirming mental health and wellness spaces for underserved and historically marginalized children, youth, parents/caregivers, and families including those from Latine-identified and Spanish-speaking communities to access and reclaim holistic healing practices. Entre Nosotros goal is to destigmatize mental health and enhance wellness through culturally-rooted, trauma-informed, and community-based group support services such as newcomer youth support groups and parent/caregiver support groups. Amani Mental Health Training: Amani is a workforce development program designed to prepare individuals to provide peer support and community mental health services. HCNs Amani Program utilizes a culturally responsive, Afri-centric framework that inspires and encourages participants to embark on an inward journey that ultimately guides the wellness journey that they will provide for other community members in the future. Amani has a history of serving low-income job seekers including those from historically marginalized communities such as Black/African American communities, reducing unemployment and displacement, and helping meet the urgent need for healing in diverse communities by training culturally competent entry-level peer support specialists and mental health professionals.Brighter Futures: By design, HCNs Brighter Futures program is built on HCNs Maat model to mitigate, and where possible, eliminate barriers to care for underserved and marginalized fathers and families, including mental health stigma, illness, distrust of the healthcare system, absence of culturally competent providers, and lack of insurance or underinsurance. HCN was funded under this program to support fathers and their families through group healing circles, individual therapy sessions, and case management. Findings from an evaluation report about HCNs Brighter Futures Program in FY 2024-25 revealed that the programs focus on equipping participants with practical skillssuch as emotional processing, parenting strategies, and self reflectionhas the potential for lasting and intergenerational impact.

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Trantor Score

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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)

Financial Overview (2024)

Revenue Breakdown

Contributions & Grants $12,724,538

Program Service Revenue $0

Investment Income $550

Other Revenue $10,779

TOTAL REVENUE $12,735,867

Expense Breakdown

Grants Paid $0

Salaries & Benefits $10,425,142

Fundraising Expenses $511,425

Program Expenses $12,015,988

Other Expenses $2,922,210

TOTAL EXPENSES $13,373,487

Year-over-Year Comparison

	2024	2023	Change
Revenue	$12,735,867	$11,512,163	+0.1%
Expenses	$13,373,487	$12,089,121	+0.1%
Net Income	$-637,620	$-576,958	+0.1%

Key Indicators

✗ Grants to Organizations ✗ Grants to Individuals ✗ Lobbying ✗ Political Activity ✗ Foreign Activities ✗ Donor Advised Fund ✓ Schedule B Required

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Governance

Voting Members

Independent Members

Employees

Volunteers

Governance Policies

✗ Conflict of Interest Policy

✗ Whistleblower Policy

✗ Document Retention Policy

Special Practices & Reported Activities

✗ Operated a School

✗ Operated a Hospital

✗ Provided First Class Travel

✗ Reported Conflict of Interest

✗ Reported Asset Diversion

✗ Excess Benefit Transaction

✗ Made Political Expenditures

✗ Engaged in Lobbying

✗ Operated Donor Advised Fund

✗ Maintained Art Collections

✗ Filed Form 720

Compensation of Officers, Directors & Key Employees

Total Officers

$1,072,500

Total Directors