Organizations Filed Purposes:
To empower children, families, and the community by providing support and resources to those with autism or social-cognitive challenges: enabling a life to hope, happiness, dignity and purpose.
Empowering Kids provided services to 46 individuals with autism, ADHD, and other social challenges, ages 2-25 from 13 different communities. Individuals attended 1-4 days a week (.5 hour - 2.5 hours sessions), and received services through individual, afterschool, and summer camp programming. Empowering Kids provided $20,656 in program scholarships to 28 children. During programming time, students worked on the following social emotional skills: joint attention, conversation, life skills, perspective taking, social problem solving, play, greeting, self-regulation, independent living, healthy relationships, and friendships through small group instruction and community outings. Due to an increase in students and hours of services, we also rented an additional space to house our afterschool program. As part of our programming, and to help our students be successful in the community, we coordinated monthly outings during the school year, and weekly outings during the summer. The majority of our students attended each outing, and outings included laser tag, ropes course, movies, go-karts, pumpkin patch, bowling, restaurants, state parks and more. Not only did many of our kids get to do activities they wouldn't normally do (due to behaviors, cost, family dynamics, etc.), but parents also received respite during programming time.To educate parents and help them with skills they are working on at home and in the community, parents received a weekly email from our teachers. Many of our parents also reached out at different times for advice on a variety of issues concerning their child or family. When this happened, our teachers worked 1:1 with parents to try and resolve issues.When the pandemic started in March of 2020, we continued to see our younger clients (9 years and younger) in person, and all other services moved to online learning.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Tiffany Tobkin | Director of Programming | 40 | $66,563 |
| Christi Stoll | Office Manager/Secretary | 40 | $61,169 |
| Emily Dreyer | Director | 0.5 | $1,260 |
| Liz Swanson | Director till March | 0.5 | $0 |
| Corinna Douglas | Director till May | 0.5 | $0 |
| Alli Braukmann | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Jerry Hanson | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Kristen Paurus | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Lacey Thiel | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Jen Hendrickson | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Kim Nelson | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Tami Kalina | Treasurer | 0.5 | $0 |
| Cori Brown | Vice Chair | 0.5 | $0 |
| Fred Sailer | Chair | 0.5 | $0 |
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