Be the Moment That Changes Everything
Every child deserves to grow up feeling safe, loved and protected. But for many families, one unexpected challenge can place a child at risk.
At Family Compass, we step in before a crisis becomes tragedy. Through long-term, evidence-based home mentoring, parenting education and personalized support, we help parents build the confidence, skills and stability they need to create safe healthy homes. We stop child abuse before it happens.
One Caring mentor.
One encouraging conversation.
One moment.
Sometimes that's all it takes to change a family's future. One moment can change generations. When parents gain the tools to build a safe, healthy home, they don't just change their child's life today. They help break cycles and create a healthier future for generations to come.
In 2025, Family Compass served nearly 2,200 parents and children, helping prevent 842 children from ending the child welfare system. Since 1992, we've walked alongside more than 62,000 North Texas children and parents because every family deserves the opportunity to thrive.
Too often, our answer is, "we'll call you as soon as we can." Our family advocates spend months, even years, walking alongside parents as they learn new skills, overcome challenges and build stronger futures for their children. Because our services are intensive and relationship-based, our caseloads remain full and families often wait for help.
Your gift helps us shorten the wait!
When you give today, you're helping a family receive support before stress turns into abuse or neglect.
You're helping create the moment everything begins to change.
The mission of Family Compass is to build healthy families and a strong North Texas community by preventing child abuse and neglect. We believe that every child has the right to a healthy family and environment, the opportunity to succeed in school, and the capacity to experience life without abuse or violence.
$31 will cover a home visit for an individual
$100 provides bay proofing supplies and a first aid kit for a family with a new baby.
$100 will cover the materials for a single parenting class in the community.
$200 will cover the cost of two car seats
$250 Allows us to provide a safe place for two infants to sleep in their homes which can prevent infant deaths.
$1,000 provides a combination of home visits, parenting education materials and safety resources to stabilize and support a family with a new baby for several weeks.
$2,500 will cover home visits for a family served in our home mentoring program for five months.
$5,000 will cover the cost of weekly parenting classes for one month.
$6,000 will keep 2 children out of the CPS system and save the community $1,662,000
$10,000 will cover the cost of 100 car seats. Last year, we gave out over 120 car seats!
Family Compass stands against racism, oppression, and injustice, all of which are embodied in the recent and historic murders of Black people in our communities across the country.
The conversations we've had at our agency around this are not new. We are an agency that "teaches" for our profession. Over the years and most recently we've heard from the families we work with how hard it is to have no choice but to teach their own child to behave differently than other children in order to be safe because of the color of their skin. We have witnessed the pain it causes a parent to know, whether their child learns it from them or not, that at some point they can expect to be treated differently. These are examples straight from our team, many of whom have faced similar experiences. These incidents are echoed, magnified, and repeated throughout the families we serve and the communities in which we live.
Our mission is to stop child abuse and neglect before they can happen. There are three factors that, especially when combined, can lead to child abuse and neglect: stress in the home, living conditions in communities, and the way parents were raised themselves. Our success in our mission rests on our ability to help decrease stress in the lives and homes of the families we work with and to help parents change the future trajectory of their children's lives. The stress of living under oppression is a barrier we must overcome. It is cumulative, significant, and destructive. However, it doesn't have to and shouldn't be this way.
We don't have all the answers. We are committed to continuing to ask the questions, to have the dialogue, and to work towards effective change. We are committed to continuing to create internal opportunities for our team to process, share, support, bear witness and listen. We are committed to ongoing learning and deep exploration of our own biases. We are committed to supporting the families and communities we serve as they deal with the trauma of their lived experiences. We are committed to working with our partners in our community who stand with us in the fight for equity and inclusion as we know this must be a collective effort.
This commitment rests not only at the core of our mission but at the very core of our humanity.
Organization name
Family Compass
Tax id (EIN)
75-2400158
Causes
Youth & Children
Operating Budget
$1,000,000 - $2,999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Address
4210 Junius Street