119 Years of Service

October 20, 2025

Dear friends,

August 31 marked our 119^th anniversary as an organization, and our first few months in our new Riverside campus, a campus known across the county and the country for its beauty and serenity.

Besides offering our participants and staff an environment that supports the work of building financial and emotional well-being, the Riverside Campus provided us with the opportunity to significantly expand our services.

• First, we opened our free drop-in child care. This transformative service supports mothers who come in for their first interview, for counseling, to attend a class or to operate their small business. Mothers have privacy, dignity and focus, while their children are safe and nearby.
• Second, we launched our Donation and Distribution Center, allowing us to collect and distribute kits for newborns and new homes, diapers, wipes - so many more basic needs are being met for families than ever before.
• Third, we opened Riverside Coworking, bringing small business development supports for new or existing small businesses to Southeast Fort Worth. Since our opening in June, we already have 87 regular members and are adding more every week.
• Fourth, we began offering Mobile Health Services, with three community health partners on-site offering free or low-cost health care services to the community, with plenty of room for expansion.

Throughout the move and growth, we kept solidly focused on results with our existing services. Here are some highlights:

• 255 homeless families were moved out of shelters or off the streets into homes. 91% of them remained stably housed.
• 618 infants, toddlers and preschoolers, were educated in our centers. 90% were on track developmentally in all areas by the end of the year despite having faced poverty and housing instability.
• Economic mobility participants saw an average increase in their credit scores of 95 points and an average increase in annual income of nearly $17,000!
• 177 children and adults received more than 3,000 hours of counseling. 86% demonstrated a reduction in trauma symptoms.

Yes, there is poverty in our community, especially for single mothers and their children, and no, we can’t solve all the problems, but there is much we are doing today and there is so much opportunity for what we can accomplish tomorrow.

I cannot thank you enough for your generosity of time, treasure and talent. Thank you for making our work possible!

Be well,
Carol