PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN

Programs

1. Mental health services - pathway's mental health services department provides trauma-informed care for children, adolescents, and families across multiple locations in northeast ohio. Services are offered in outpatient offices, schools, homes, and community settings to ensure accessibility and meet clients where they are. We provide individual, group, and family therapy; case management; early childhood mental health consultation; behavioral health respite, and specialized case management focused on family empowerment and independent living for transitional age young people. Our licensed clinicians and case managers use a range of evidence-based practices to promote healing and resilience, including trust-based relational intervention (tbri), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (tf-cbt), dialectical behavior therapy (dbt) skills, emdr(eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and other nationally recognized models. These approaches address trauma, anxiety, depression, behavioral health challenges, family stressors, and developmental needs. As a designated zero suicide agency, we integrate systematic suicide risk assessment, safety planning, and crisis response into…

   $2,483,521 spent$2,563,624 earned by the program
   49% of program spending

2. Foster care services - Pathway Caring for Children's dedicated, highly trained staff work diligently to recruit, train, and support family and treatment foster parents across stark, cuyahoga, summit, columbiana, portage, tuscarawas, and surrounding counties. In fy 25 they received an average of 75 referrals per month for children needing foster care due to abuse, neglect, family disruption, or emotional and behavioral issues. Over the past fiscal year, pathway has seen a notable increase in referrals driven by a rise in children with disruptive behaviors and repeat placements, a growing number of nonverbal children and those with autism, older youth requiring intensive physical care, and larger sibling groups of five or more, many of whom are entering care due to housing instability; additionally, there has been a surge in children with multiple diagnoses such as odd, adhd, mood disorders, depression, anxiety, ptsd, and learning disabilities, often requiring medication, as well as more children who have been removed from traditional classroom or child care settings and need alternative education options, with a significant number unable to share rooms due to unsafe, sexualized, or…

   $1,897,497 spent$1,676,733 earned by the program
   37% of program spending

3. Pathway Caring for Children now provides essential housing and case management services to young adults who leave foster care at 18 but are not yet 21.before launching in february 2018, the ohio department of job and family services (odjfs) researched similar programs nationwide. They formed an advisory council, an internal workgroup, and consulted with public and private agency staff, juvenile court staff, and former foster youth. Together, a program was designed that: - is young adult-driven: empowering participants to take charge of their futures. - promotes lasting connections: building social networks for lifelong success. - supports education and employment: helping participants gain skills and jobs that meet their financial needs. - ensures safe, stable housing: providing a secure environment for growth. - links to health services: connecting participants to physical and behavioral health resources. - teaches daily living skills: preparing young adults for independent living. - builds self-advocacy skills: encouraging participants to advocate for themselves.from july 2024 to june 2025, we've proudly served 51 young adults with the help of our dedicated full-time liaisons.…

   $578,324 spent$553,067 earned by the program
   11% of program spending

4. Pathway Caring for Children offers the most comprehensive post-adoption and kinship services in northeast ohio. We provide a unique, pathway-developed family empowerment service that offers extensive specialized treatments for all families, including adoptive and kinship. Pathway uses an evidence-based treatment model called trust-based relational intervention (tbri) to deliver support and interventions to the entire family to form healthy attachments and restore relationships. Children and families participate in agency-based support groups, individual and family therapy, and in-home interventions.

   $138,070 spent$46,848 earned by the program
   3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,097,412.