FAMILY PATHFINDERS OF TARRANT COUNTY

We seek to create a thriving community where individuals and families are self-sufficient. Pathfinders’ Mentoring and Financial Capability programs address issues of poverty through practices that yield long-term ROI by reducing the social costs associated with financial instability. These social costs include mounting debt, an inability to meet basic needs, poor job performance, poor health, decrease in children’s academic performance and even homelessness.

Mentoring and Financial Capability programming provides a pathway from poverty to self-sufficiency. As one family becomes economically stable, that success is passed on to the next generation breaking the cycle of generational poverty, thus creating a ripple effect of change that in turn builds stronger families and more connected communities.

Our mission to eliminate poverty from our community by empowering individuals and families to find their path to social and financial well-being created lasting change by helping vulnerable families achieve financial stability, build assets, decrease debt and save for the future. By implementing best and promising practices in Adult Mentoring and Financial Coaching our programs create behavior change that help low-income families actualize their potential and break barriers to economic mobility. Mentors and Financial Coaches walk alongside their clients as they learn how to better manage their money, attain career or education goals and become financially stable. These behavioral changes produce a great impact on lives in the short term, but an even greater impact in the long-term as individuals continue to grow toward permanent economic stability.

Pathfinders provides financial empowerment services in the form of adult mentoring and financial coaching programs designed to break the cycle of poverty. Recognized as a Best Practice by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Mentoring program matches trained volunteer mentors with those struggling to overcome the bonds of poverty. Because of our high-performing program, we are often contacted by non-profits across the country to provide technical assistance. Pathfinders is a recognized leader in financial capability as evidenced by our more than 30 partnerships to provide financial coaching across North Texas. Furthermore, the Financial Capability program has earned national recognition as evidenced by invitations to present our financial capability model and success at the nationwide Mission Asset and Siemer Conferences.

2022 Agency Outcomes:

92% of clients are better able to manage their finances
$4,669 is the average family savings increase
$6.781 is the average debt reduction

91% of mentoring clients increased their self-sufficiency by three points or more
13.3 is the average self-sufficiency score increase, significantly higher than the three-point projected outcome
58% reduction in recidivism for reentry clients

These outcomes highlight the impact of our Financial Empowerment services on the lives of people who have become stable, contributing members of our community. These behavioral changes produce great impact on lives in the short term, but even greater impact in the long term as they grow towards permanent economic stability.