Providing emergency shelter, family housing, and long-term leasing support to women and their children
Equipping children with full-day education, including childcare, Early Head Start and Head Start cost for ages 6-weeks to 5-years-old
Educating women through financial literacy classes, individual and group coaching, career-readiness, and small business development resources
Supporting women and their children in healing past and present trauma through individual, family, and group services
Poverty is the most pressing societal issue of our time.
Mothers with children are one of the fastest-growing homeless populations. Just this year, more than 15,000 children will experience homelessness in Tarrant
County. Another 100,000 children live in impoverished conditions.
Parents living in poverty experience high levels of abuse, chronic stress and hardship, frequent moves and transitions, and trauma. The prolonged, toxic stress and chaos of these conditions
often cause long-term negative impacts on children, including actual damage to their developing brain. Trauma interrupts neural pathway development that is necessary for a
child's mastery of age-appropriate social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language skills.
With limited early childhood emotional and educational support, fewer than 48% of 5-year-olds experiencing poverty are ready for Kindergarten. Unprepared for
school, these children typically fall further behind annually and are at three times the risk of dropping out.
Without an education, living-wage jobs remain out of reach and trap young adults in a generational cycle of poverty.
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The Center for Transforming Lives' two-generation approach to disrupting the cycle of poverty starts by addressing the immediate needs of our families, through safe housing and trauma-informed counseling.
We work side-by-side with mothers and their children to achieve long-term stability by providing specific programming tailored to each individual and the family unit as a whole.
Center for Transforming Lives' case managers, coaches, and family advocates are critical to this strategy and build personal relationships with each family member throughout their time with us. Our team works with women and their children to learn and support their needs, provide resources, and serve as emotional companions during this transitional growth.
Our services are rooted in the belief that all families deserve access to quality education, opportunities and social capital,?and in order to foster emotional and financial well-being, creating a legacy that passes from one generation to the next.
