About Family Compass
In 2024, Family Compass served 2,495 unduplicated individuals—a 39% increase from the previous year. Working in partnership with families, we helped prevent 942 children from entering the overburdened child welfare system, ensuring they remained in their homes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates the lifetime cost to society for each case of child abuse at $831,000. Based on this figure, Family Compass’s prevention efforts in 2024 translated to an estimated $782 million in long-term community savings.
Since our founding in 1992, Family Compass has served more than 60,000 children and parents across North Texas. Through our nationally accredited, evidence-based programs, we continue to focus on prevention before intervention by empowering families, protecting children, and helping them thrive in safe, nurturing environments.
Our biggest challenge is meeting demand. Family Compass is in 35+ municipalities, once or twice a week visiting families, over a two-to-six year period. There is not another organization in the North Texas area that solely specializes in prevention of abuse and operates long-term, evidence-based home mentoring models. These services within our agency normally have a waitlist as our caseloads consistently remain full. When families qualify, they are placed on a first-come, first-served waitlist.
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.
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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
Causes
Social Services
Operating Budget
$1,000,000 - $2,999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American
BIPOC Leadership
Board Chair
Address
4210 Junius Street