2018-751-E Finance - The Art Therapy Institute performance agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:4FF28E49-EE56-4A40-9331-F55AA8A05998 EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION facilities, and our free, open, weekly Arts and Peer Support Group for adults with severe and persistent mental illness has been going strong since 2011. Our more recent programs include domestic violence art therapy groups with Latina women, providing art therapy to adults experiencing homelessness, and working with veterans to explore trauma in creative and safe ways through metal work and mask making. All of these programs are conducted in collaboration with other agencies. We love working with community-based partners! Via the above programs, we provided art therapy services to approximately 500 community members in 2017. In addition to these client numbers, we trained over 50 professionals through our continuing education series, and over 200 community members attended one of our monthly, community-based art shows. We also trained 3 masters-level interns in 2017, and recruited over 20 new volunteers. ATI has a proven track record of fiscal responsibility. We continuously pursue diverse funding streams in order to increase program sustainability and seek out donated art materials and other donated services whenever possible. Due to unanticipated federal and school-based budget cuts in the summer of 2017, we lost $27,000 in funding. We recovered this amount in our year-end fundraiser in 2017 thanks to increased community giving. We are honored and humbled by the growing support we receive from community members (near and far). Our organization is built around community members who believe deeply in our work and help us grow capacity so we can continue to provide much-needed mental health services to amazing and deserving people. e) Other Pertinent Agency Information (Ex. Has the agency experienced any major changes in the past year? Is there a new Executive Director?Are there new initiatives? 2017 brought many changes for ATI; however, all of our previous programming is still going strong, and exciting new initiatives have been established. In August, 2017, founding Executive Director, Kristin Linton, left the agency, and former Associate Director, Hillary Rubesin, stepped into the role. While this was an unexpected shift for the agency, Hillary has been with ATI since 2008, so the transition went relatively smoothly. ATI also voted in a new Board president, Susie McDonald, in the Fall of 2017, who led ATI in the successful year-end fundraising campaign that recovered the lost funding mentioned above. In addition to these changes in leadership, ATI acquired a second office in the YouthWorx building in Carrboro in September 2017. Joining the wonderful community at YouthWorx has opened up new collaborations and capacity-building endeavors for ATI, especially with Youth Forward, who gave ATI a small grant in 2017, and with the Refugee Community Partnership, who ATI works closely with on various newcomer programs. As stated above, ATI also began new program partnerships in 2017. ATI started collaborating with the Compass Center and Interact to provide domestic violence art therapy groups to Latina women. ATI also began collaborating with Liberty Arts to lead metal working groups for veterans living with PTSD. New partnerships in the newcomer community began as well, as ATI started providing new groups with Church World Service, the Refugee Community Partnership, and the Duke Kenan Refugee Project. Finally, ATI is working on new capacity-building endeavors. We hired two part-time research assistants to help with program evaluation. We hired a refugee woman from Burma as a part-time accountant and bookkeeper. We continue collaborating with the UNC School of Social Work on both our newcomer programming and our Arts and Peer Support Group, and a group of MA-level students from Duke are currently helping us with fundraising and strategic planning. ATI is very excited about all of these changes in 2017, and is hopeful for the year ahead! Agency Information 1/23/2018 10:01:04 AM P a g e 1 0 o f 2 4