Center for Transforming Lives two-generation family services disrupt the poverty cycle by supporting the whole family in achieving immediate stability, followed by services that lead to long-term independence.
Critical to this strategy are our Coaches, Case Managers and Family Advocates who address each family’s most immediate needs, such as safety, employment, housing and mental health care, to move them out of crisis and into stability.
The relationship with Center for Transforming Lives team members and clients are consistent throughout their time in our programming, ensuring each family receives the support they need to reach their long-term goals.
Each year, we invest $18,281 per child in high-quality early education, which returns an estimated $133,451 in lifetime benefits—including better school success, higher earnings and improved health—multiplying every dollar more than sevenfold over a child’s life.
For every $13,241 we invest to house a family for one year, we generate approximately $26,322 in value through reduced shelter use, emergency healthcare, justice system involvement and Child Protective Services involvement—nearly doubling our investment each year.
For every $1,579 we invest in financial coaching and credit building, participants experience an average $4,000 in financial improvement—including increased income, more savings, less debt and stronger credit. That’s a return of $2.54 for every dollar spent.
One hour of counseling costs $237, but over the next 12 months, that hour leads to about $2,695 in benefits—from improved mental health to reduced crisis care use—making every session a powerful, year-long investment.
Center for Transforming Lives partners with single mothers and their children so they can thrive. Founded in 1907, Center for Transforming Lives is one of Tarrant County’s biggest family safety nets, working to disrupt cycles of poverty and homelessness among the most vulnerable in our community. The non-profit meets the needs of 3,000 women and children annually, through a comprehensive and evidence-based, two-generation and trauma-informed model. Thanks to housing support, early childhood education, economic mobility services and counseling services that work across generations, parents and children establish security and well-being as a family. Led by CEO Carol Klocek since 2009, the $24 million non-profit opened its new Riverside Campus headquarters in May.
Center for Transforming Lives is the only homeless services provider in Tarrant County and one of seven early childhood education centers to achieve National Accreditation, recognized for the highest standards of care in the nation.
Center for Transforming Lives partners with single mothers and their children so they can thrive. Our services are two-generational and establish long-term financial and emotional well-being.
3001 S. Riverside Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76119
info@transforminglives.org
(817) 332-6191
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