Dear Friends of the Ecker Center,

The Ecker Center is a mission driven organization.  We are focused, in everything we do, on fulfilling our mission – “to provide quality mental health services that are responsive to community need.”  This year state budget shortfalls had huge impacts on our ability to fulfill our mission.  The state drastically reduced the number and kind of services it would fund for individuals who do not have Medicaid as well as reducing the services that could be provided without prior authorization to a small segment of Medicaid covered people.

The Ecker Center is continually striving to find ways to fulfill its mission and one way was to adopt a very problem oriented brief therapy model in order to serve as many people as possible.  To our surprise our clients tend to prefer the new way of delivering a scarce service over the old less focused way that had no predefined end point. The other advantage of the new model is that we have no waiting list for therapy.  This year we increased our use of volunteers such as counseling interns, clerical helpers and fund raising workers. Despite late state payments that lead to the state owing us almost a million dollars at one point, we have met all our financial obligations on time during the year.

As you read through this annual report you will see the long list of individuals and organizations that have helped us throughout the year. Without them we could not fulfill our mission.

Sincerely,

Board of Directors (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011)

Officers:

Directors:            

Committee Members:

Management Team:

Categorization of Recipients by Service

Total number of People Served FY 2011                    3,326

Service                                                                  Recipients of Service

STATEMENT OF REVENUE AND EXPENSES

FISCAL YEAR 2011 AUDITED

Community Revenue

   Fundraising                                                                                      $           58,809

   United Way and Community Chest,

       Municipalities and Townships                                                                      95,244

   Other                                                                                                          288,791

Total Community Revenue                                                                 $         442,844

Government Revenue

   Illinois Department of Human Services                                                $      3,418,294

   Department of Housing and Urban Development                                             318,770

   Other                                                                                                          392,499

Total Government Revenue                                                               $      4,129,563

Agency General Revenue

   Program Service Fees                                                                       $         570,632

   Investment and Other Income                                                                       99,728

Total Agency Generated Revenue                                                    $         670,360

TOTAL REVENUE                                                                                $      5,242,767

Direct Program Expenses

   Outpatient                                                                                       $      1,248,593

   Psycho-social Rehabilitation                                                                         259,573

   Psychiatric Emergency Program                                                                   444,420

   Housing and Urban Development                                                                 426,103

   Supervised Residential                                                                                307,311

   Case Coordination                                                                                       416,991

   Community Integrated Living Arrangement                                                   310,048

   Crisis Residential                                                                                        468,817

   Community Counseling Services                                                                    80,480

   Supported Residential                                                                                 301,780

Total Program Expenses                                                                  $      4,264,116

Support Services

   Administration                                                                                 $         612,232

   Fundraising                                                                                                  16,329

Total Support Services                                                                      $         628,561

TOTAL EXPENSES                                                                              $      4,892,677