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Name:	Transitions, Inc.
Address:	700 Fairfield Avenue
	Bellevue, KY 41073
Phone:	(859) 491-4435
Web Address:	www.transitionsky.org
Also known as: Grateful Life Foundation

Transitions, Inc. meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

According to the charity, Transitions exists to provide residential treatment and related services to those who experience substance abuse and associated difficulties and to help individuals and families move toward a better understanding of themselves, their problems, and their opportunities, and thus make the transition to improved physical, mental, and spiritual health. ABSTINENCE PROGRAMS: Clients are exposed to abstinence-based self-help groups. TREATMENT PROGRAMS: Both individual and group counseling services are offered in all programs. Programs cover a number of topics including basic life skills, spirituality, and employment readiness. The main focus is facilitating individual responsibility, self-sufficiency, and rejoining the community. EMPLOYMENT AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: All clients eligible to work are required to do so and must give back to others by performing community service. NON-MEDICAL DETOXIFICATION: Transitions offers seven to 10 day programs where men and women safely undergo withdraw from alcohol and other drugs. The program admits Kentucky residents 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. RESIDENTIAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT: The charity offers a 90-day program for men in Dayton, Kentucky, and women in Covington, Kentucky, that allows their children under age 12 to accompany them. Pregnant women and new mothers can stay up to nine months. Transitions, Inc. operates halfway houses which provide rehabilitation and substance abuse treatment in long-term programs. Upon completing the residential programs, clients may participate in outpatient aftercare counseling for up to one year. MEN'S RESIDENTIAL RECOVERY PROGRAM: Clients participate in residential recovery services for six to 12 months or longer. INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT SERVICES: Substance abuse treatment lasts six to eight months where clients receive several hours of treatment a week while remaining employed in the community. CHILDCARE: The charity's licensed childcare center accepts a limited number of children from the community.

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, Transitions, Inc.'s program expenses were:

Ashland	1,077,237
WRAP	905,039
Two Rivers	866,926
Housing/Homeless	844,314
Grateful Life Center	739,333
Droege House	720,671
York Street	692,908
Dougherty	496,984
Detox	299,646
Total Program Expenses:	$6,643,058

Chief Executive : Mr. Jerry (Mac) McArthur, Executive Director

Compensation*:

$122,978

Chair of the Board: Mr. Jerry Monahan
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Retired Union Official

Board Size: 15

Paid Staff Size: 136

*Compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail, invitations to fundraising events, Internet

Fundraising costs were 3% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $748,746, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This charity is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Transitions, Inc.'s audited financial statements - consolidated for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010.

Source of Funds
Services Rendered	6,356,365
Contributions	748,746
Food Stamps	428,511
Client Fees	315,177
Rents	177,599
Interest and Dividends	62,227
Total Income	$8,088,625

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 92%  Fund Raising: Less than 1%  Administrative: 8%

Total income				$8,088,625
	Program expenses			$6,643,058
	Fund raising expenses			22,717
	Administrative expenses			580,859
Total expenses				$7,246,634
Income in Excess of Expenses				841,991
Beginning net assets				3,002,975
Other Changes in Net Assets				(535,690)
Ending net assets				3,309,276
Total liabilities				1,350,133
Total assets				$4,659,409