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5 Steps to Success

  1. Prevention of poverty includes PATH’s Kid Reach, a newly adopted program that matches school-based and community-based mentors to children at risk. Mentoring has been proven to help at-risk children overcome the many challenges they face, including breaking the cycle of poverty.
  2. Rescue – Emergency Services is PATH’s Rescue component. It continues to be our largest program, and it will always be a part of PATH. A crisis is one in which families are not able to meet life’s most basic needs; including food, shelter, utilities, medicine, eyeglasses, and dental emergencies. Once the crisis has been managed, the next goal is family stabilization.
  3. Stabilization includes PATH’s Prescription Assistance for long-term medications, Tyler Community Homes for affordable housing, and PATH’s Special Projects: Souper Bowl, Diaper Drive, School Supply Train, Coats for Kids, and Christmas in the Neighborhood. These drives provide costly necessities that can overwhelm a family barely making it month to month.
  4. Growth can only be attained once the crisis has been addressed and the family has been stabilized. PATH, in collaboration with several local social services agencies, offers an Education Program, a regular schedule of classes including: life-skills, literacy, parenting, nutrition, money management and home-ownership.
  5. Independence is the ultimate, long- term goal for each of the families we serve. Family Support & Development is the independence component of the PATH programs and is the most comprehensive part of the Five Steps. The Family Support & Development program is designed to help a family recognize and leverage their strengths, establish and achieve goals and make positive changes in their lives. The greatest strength of participating families is that by coming to PATH they have taken the first step towards independence. It is their determination and hard work, with a little support from PATH, that helps them achieve independence.
    Families/individuals must be referred into the program. Call 903.597.4044, ext. 126, for more information.