AUDITED STATEMENT

The audited financial statements were produced by BDO Dunwoody. The audit is unqualified and identifies a surplus of funds which are a result of various fund-raising activities over the year and include:

• Workshops / Training
• Raffles
• Food Booth at the Racing Against Drugs Event
• Golf Tournament

The notes to the audit also identify an outstanding litigation which was reported last year and has still not been settled.

Revenue:

Program Funds are received from Health Canada, First Nations & Inuit Health Branch, National Addictions program. The program funds are structured in the following manner: 80% core funding and 20% based upon performance incentives. Performance Incentives are further broken down in the following manner: 5% annually for licensing & accreditation, 10% annually for maintaining a minimum of 80% occupancy, 5% annually for 351 operational days.

Chippewas of the Thames Instruction & Training are contracts with the Chippewas of the Thames school board for our learning centre and Chippewa Employment & Training for 2 subsidized CYW Training positions.

Miscellaneous revenue includes the following: honourariums & fees for NNHC staff conducting workshops, training, Accreditation surveys and fund raising.

Personnel:

The staff were able to receive a 2% increase to their salaries although there is no increase in funding. Staff salary increases are achieved through the redistribution of existing funds.

Administration:

This area of the budget includes costs for facility rental, land rental, Chippewa Gym rental. The staff have the option to contribute 2 or 5 dollars per pay period towards a Staff Social Fund which then enables them to participate in social functions throughout the year with a discount or free of charge. A youth activity fund is also set up and receives funds from youth fund raising events.

Treatment Operations:

Training Costs have remained high due to the Reality Therapy & Choices theory training provided over the year for the advanced levels and basic level training for new staff.

NNHC has an education contract with Chippewa Board of Education, which facilitates the provision of educational program supervision, Teacher evaluations, special education resources, education training.

Facility Operation & Maintenance

Building maintenance expenses are tracked for client specific damages to property. The many program and staffing changes have had a visible impact in the consistent decline of cost and number of client incidents over the years.

There is no additional funding to cover capital costs. All expenses are covered in the annual budget.