Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$5,967,427

Total expenses

$5,661,711

Contributions and grants received

$5,683,019

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$39,425

Other revenue

$244,983

Total assets, end of year

$6,585,388

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,892,525

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$4,692,863

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,080,139

Management and general expenses

$1,030,845

Fundraising expenses

$550,727

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,080,139

Program services were 72.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Legal, Counseling, and Advocacy Services (LCAS):Legal ServicesUnder the supervision of the Legal Services Director, a team of California-licensed attorneys and legal advocates, serves survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault and is the largest no-cost legal team in San Diego County. CCS legal services include:Intimate Partner Violence Services (IPVS): IPVS services are provided in East, Central, and North San Diego County. Attorneys provide restraining order assistance every week at the El Cajon Courthouse, and pro per family law as well as at all CCS business office locations, including filling out paperwork, client consultations, and hearing preparation. Legal advocates provide crisis counseling, safety planning, intimate partner violence lethality assessments, court accompaniment, application assistance, information, referrals, and emotional support to victims of intimate partner violence. Advocates utilize their significant community connections to help survivors access safe housing, legal services, counseling, immigration services, food, clothing, and other support services. This free, confidential service is available in English and Spanish, with additional languages, including sign languages, provided by certified interpreter services.Legal Assistance for Victims: The Legal Services Director and staff attorneys, LAV provides civil legal remedies and direct representation for victims of sexual assault. CCS specializes in the civil legal needs of sexual assault victims in the following areas: housing, employment, education, privacy, safety, andfinancial compensation, as well as Civil Harassment Restraining Orders. The program assists survivors with immigration concerns through a subcontract with Casa Cornelia Law Center. CCS is San Diego's go-to legal services program for privacy law (representing victims in criminal court), and Title IX issues (sexual violenceas discrimination) throughout the County. These services are the only sexual assault-specific direct representation legal services program in San Diego County.High Risk Teams: CCS attorneys also coordinate San Diego County's Central, East, and North High-Risk Teams, a multidisciplinary response team that includes law enforcement, the City and District Attorneys Offices, several intimate partner violence service providers, and Probation. This team meets monthly in eachregion to collaborate and conduct case reviews in order to increase the safety of victims who are at serious risk of intimate partner violence-related homicide.Counseling Services:CCS Clinical Director (LMFT) leads a team of licensed and pre-licensed therapists to address the traumatic impacts of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. The Counseling Services team also includes Child/Youth advocates who support children impacted by abuse and nurture the health of the entire familysystem. Services include:Trauma-Specific Counseling: CCS operates counseling programs in North, Central, and East County. Skilled Staff Therapists provides individual, group, family, and child counseling using a variety of best practice, trauma-specific approaches, including trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), guided imagery, expressive arts therapy, play therapy, sand tray therapy, and mindfulness therapies. Our counseling program includes masters-level Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work, or Professional Clinical Counselor trainees receive intensive training, supervision, and commit twenty hours per week to CCS.Child Abuse Treatment: The program offers trauma-specific therapy and advocacy services to address the effects of trauma. CCS focuses on the childs strengths, and where the child needs support to improve their coping strategies and opportunities for healthy life choices. All services are available in English and Spanish.The program serves children who are under the age of 18 and victims of intimate partner violence, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse and neglect, as well as witness to violence or a crime. CCS offers these services with Child Therapists and a Child Advocate. Therapists create a safe trauma-informed environment to improve coping strategies, decision-making, and assist in the development of skills to manage emotions and behaviors.Sexual Assault Services (SAS):SAS is one of the largest state-funded rape crisis centers in California and covers most of San Diego County. SAS services include crisis counseling, safety planning, trauma-informed client services, and help with connecting to other resources, including counseling, legal services, housing, medical care, food, clothing, andimmigration assistance. The SAS team also serves in leadership roles within the Countywide SART committee, a multi-disciplinary team of professionals and stakeholders committed to developing and maintaining a survivorcenteredsystems response.Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) provides emergency response to every sexual assault victim in its service area who undergoes a sexual assault forensic examination. Under the supervision of the SART Manager, CCS volunteers and staff are scheduled around-the-clock to respond within 45 minutes of a call and support the victim throughout the entire forensic examination process providing crisis support, advocacy, education, and resources. This response is in-person whenever possible and offered telephonically/virtually when needed. SAS is staffed by full-time victim advocates in Central, East, and North regions who provide follow-up services after the emergency response. Advocates also provide in-person emotional support duringdetective and attorney interviews, preliminary hearings, and other court events.CCS is a founding member of the San Diego countywide Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Systems Review Committee, a 39-year-old collaborative project which includes civilian, military, and tribal advocates; law enforcement; a sexual assault forensic nurse; crime lab; and justice agencies. All members of SART meet six times per year, cross-train, and follow a standard response protocol to ensure compassionate,survivor-centered services.Campus Advocacy: CCS Campus advocacy program includes a full-time Coordinator at San Diego State University to provide SAS advocacy on campus and work with campus staff to strengthen capacity to response to reports of sexual assault. This team also supports victims who are referred from other sources, including self-referrals and walk-ins.

  Expenses $2,184,677

• Housing and Advocacy Services (HAS):Intimate Partner Violence Shelters: CCS operates both short-term and long-term confidential intimate partner violence shelters. Project Safe House (PSH) is a short-term, 24-bed intimate partner violence shelter located in East San Diego County, and Hidden Valley House (HVH) is a short-term, 40-bed intimate partnerviolence shelter located in North Inland Region of San Diego County. Both shelters are staffed 24-hours per day by certified intimate partner violence counselors. Intimate partner violence victims and their children are sheltered in these programs for up to two months, based on need. While living in the shelter, they receiveadvocacy, counseling, safety planning, client services, legal assistance, food, clothing, transportation assistance, and other services and resources to help them stabilize and transition to more permanent housing. Next Step is our longer-term confidential intimate partner violence shelter program, where families that needmore time to get on their feet can stay up to eighteen months. Next Step North (NSN) is a long-term shelter consisting of five two-bedroom units and Next Step East (NSE) is one two-bedroom unit. These programs offer shelter for families for up to 18-months while stabilizing and regaining self-sufficiency. In total, Next Step offers up to 40 beds for long-term shelter. All CCS intimate partner violence shelter programs accept adults and children of all genders. Shelter services are offered in English and Spanish, with additional languages, including sign languages, provided by certified interpreter services.DV Housing First: Established in 2018, CCS addresses long-term safe and stable housing as a key component to long-term survivor self-sufficiency. The program improves the way communities respond to intimate partner and sexual violence by integrating housing stability into advocacy, assisting survivors withaccessing and/or retaining housing. CCS Housing Coordinator provides mobile advocacy, community outreach, and financial assistance for rent and other supportive services.Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Hotline Counseling: CCS provides toll-free, confidential, 24-hour hotline crisis counseling, safety planning, information, and referrals to a host of followup services, including counseling, advocacy, legal assistance, medical care, shelter, food, and clothing.Hotline counseling is provided by certified Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victim Counselors, in English and Spanish, with additional languages provided by certified interpreter services. CCS Hotline staff and volunteers, which includes a Hotline Coordinator, assist approximately 5,000 callers annually.

  Expenses $1,481,254

• Prevention, Education, and Advocacy Services (PEAS):Healthy Relationships & Violence Prevention Education: CCS is invested in the promotion of healthy relationships and the prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence through interactive, empowering education focused on topics related to the development of healthy relationships skills. For example, healthy communication and conflict resolution skills, consent-and-boundary-setting, and how to challengesocial norms and media messages that perpetuate violence throughout our communities. CCS prevention education programs are available in English and Spanish and are generally provided in schools or other community settings in a developmentally and culturally humble manner. CCS participates in the facilitation of the FACES internship program for youth in Hoover High Schoolfocusing on strengtheningprotective factors and building leadership skills. CCS Athlete Upstander Prevention Education provides healthy relationships and bystander intervention trainings to all incoming first-year student athletes at San Diego State University.Teen Dating Violence Prevention Education (TDV): TDV education programs are delivered in a multi-unit format, offered as a series of three-to-five workshops. This gives participants multiple opportunities over time to practice and refine the healthy relationship skills they are learning. TDV also allows ample time forparticipants to collaborate with their peers to identify ways they can stand up against intimate partner and sexual violence and create change by challenging the social norms that perpetuate violence. In addition to serving students from kindergarten to college, CCS staff also provides trainings for teachers and parents,addressing the importance of modeling healthy relationship, communication, and conflict resolution skills as they interact with youth. CCS Prevention & Community Engagement Specialists encourage parents to engage in meaningful conversations with their children, starting as early as preschool, understanding that healthy relationship skills can become wonderful habits if taught early.CCS prevention workshops and interactive violence prevention leadership opportunities are now part of the curriculum for the Health Studies and Social Justice Academy programs at Hoover High School in City Heights. These multi-series workshops also serve as entry points for CCS Close to Home project.High Tech High Todays Healthy Tomorrows (HT3): This year, CCS began to plan and implement our HT3 project to develop school-based prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address Dating Violence, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking for middle and high school youth enrolled in the HT High Point Loma Village schools, ages 10-19, in San Diego, California. The HT3 program staff began to identify and implement integrated, comprehensive, prevention-focused approaches that include primary prevention for HT youth, families, and youth-serving adults, as well as secondary prevention for those at increased risk, emphasizing LGBTQ youth.Close to Home (C2H) - Rape Prevention Education (RPE): Community mobilization models like Close to Home have come to the forefront of prevention efforts for both their innovative nature and their ability to incite sustainable change. The CCS prevention team has continued its work under the Close to Home (C2H) model, which was selected by the California Department of Public Health as a promising practice for sexualviolence prevention. CCS has been implementing C2H in City Heights, one of the most diverse, economically challenged, and populous communities in San Diego County. Through the C2H project, an intergenerational team of City Heights residents facilitates the development of community-designed and community-specific prevention actions. The C2H model has a demonstrated track record of producing empowering, community-led change. CCS is one of a handful of grant awardees currently implementing C2H as a sexual violence prevention strategy in the state of California.Volunteer Program: CCS recruits, trains, and supports numerous volunteers to serve as Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Counselors throughout CCS programs. Direct-service volunteers assist with SART accompaniment, hotline calls, shelter support, therapy services, legal information calls, community outreach, special events, committee service, and more.

  Expenses $327,988

• General Program (PRG): In partnership with Deaf Community Services and San Diego Regional Center, CCS was awarded state and federal funding to deepen each agencys capacity to serve survivors of violence who are Deaf/deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Late-Deafened, or Deaf-Blind, and/or individuals living with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Internally known as Access to Services, CCS has upgraded facilities and enhanced language access throughout the agency to ensure all survivors can equitably access services. Each organization in this collaboration has provided multiple cross-trainings for staff. The intent of the collaboration and trainings is to ensure that each entity has specific understanding of each population, and the capacity to serve high-risk and vulnerable clients who have experienced sexual and intimate partner violence.

  Expenses $86,220

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

12 February 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

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