Center for Transforming Lives

Head start and early head start served 529 children during the program year. The children receive full day and full year childcare programming with support services. Head start children receive support services in health, mental health, education, and family support. All families are assigned family advocates, often social workers. Family advocates assess family needs and provide resources and support for those identified family needs. Ctl head start excels in providing services to the most vulnerable children and families in the community. Ctl head start ended the program year providing services to 24% of enrolled children with disabilities. The requirement is 10%. In addition, of the 529 children served,15% experienced homelessness.

Child and family development centers prepare children from birth to age 5 from at risk families for success in kindergarten with intensive early education. The child and family services team has been able to reach additional children through its head start and early head start collaboration. Ctl serves approximately 626 children enrolled in child development centers and community partnerships. Ctl believes that the dual general anti-poverty intervention is the most effective way to create economic mobility moving women and their children out of poverty. Ctl child and family services department is one of the very few providers in tarrant county for children between birth to five who are experiencing homelessness. 15% of children cared for by the Center are children experiencing homeless. If children are in the care of their mothers, mothers can work, receive training or go to school to assist them to improve their current situation.

Center for Transforming Lives works quickly to move families out of shelters and into homes of their own. Case managers then work to build a cycle of emotional and financial stability for each family, using a trauma-informed, two-generation approach. Center for Transforming Lives offers both on-site and community-based housing, paired with comprehensive support. From 9/1/22-8/31/23, ctl's housing program served 231 families. Ctl's emergency shelter (es) program serves women and children experiencing homelessness, who are victims of physical or sexual assault or with past abuse history, who live in, or fled to, tarrant county. Ctl's es program has an onsite bed capacity of 15. Ctl's transitional housing (th) also has an onsite bed capacity of 15 and supports community-based housing as well. Onsite es and th offer women and children experiencing homelessness rooms with access to a communal kitchen, living room, and laundry facility.

Economic mobility services offers financial coaching, financial education and microenterprise support. We served 351 adults with the average increase to savings for participating women engaged in coaching, $466,000 funding to women and children to support their immediate needs, and 18 new businesses were established through our microenterprise program.ctl's clinical counseling services (ccs) program is dedicated to increasing the emotional well-being of women, children, and families and utilizes evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic modalities. The therapeutic interventions utilized have been identified as effective in meeting the needs, behaviors, demographics, and symptomology of the individuals and families served. Ccs offers filial therapy with young children from birth to 4 years old, child-centered play therapy for children ages 4 and up, traditional talk therapy for adolescents, and traditional talk therapy for adults. In addition, ccs offers individual, couples, family, and group counseling. All services are provided at no cost to the participant. Therapy is provided by licensed therapists and/or master's level student interns under the supervision of an independently licensed clinician and is available to any ctl participant or member of a participant's household. In the last fiscal year, ccs served 126 individuals for a total of 1,611 hours of counseling/therapy. Additionally, ccs tracks outcomes such as numbers served, achievement of treatment goals, and reduction of trauma symptoms.