First Choice Social Services

What it reported doing in 2024

FIRST CHOICE SOCIAL SERVICES PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE LOW-COST GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL GROUPS TO MEN AND WOMEN WHO USES VIOLENCE AGAINST THEIR INTIMATE PARTNER THROUGH OUR BATTERING INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAM. WHILE PROVIDING NO COST SUPPORT SERVICES I.E. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES THROUGH OUR PARTNER ADVOCATE PROGRAM. THESE PROGRAM SERVICES ARE PROVIDED IN MANY SOUTHERN DALLAS LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES WHERE CRIME IS AT ITS HIGHEST. IN OUR BATTERING INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAM (BIPP), WE CURRENTLY PROVIDE NINE WEEKLY GROUP SESSIONS CONSISTING OF 8-20 MEN/WOMEN PER GROUP. THIS YEAR WE SERVED 4,000 CLIENT SERVICE HOURS. THIS PROGRAM IS ACCREDITED THROUGH THE STATE OF TEXAS. THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO HOLD MEN ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR USE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THEIR LIVES. IN OUR PARTNER ADVOCATE PROGRAM, OUR SERVICES CONSIST OF PHONE CRISIS SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND REFERRAL TO FOOD BANKS, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS, ASSIST WITH FILING PROTECTIVE ORDERS, CASE MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE BIPP GROUPS THAT THEIR PERPETRATOR IS ATTENDING EACH WEEK. THESE SERVICES ARE OFFERED AT NO COST. WE PROVIDED 425 VICTIMS AND CHILDREN SERVICE HOURS. OUR WRAP AROUND SERVICES HOURS INCREASED THIS YEAR BY 50% DUE TO SOME ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOT PROVIDING SERVICES REQUESTED. WE INCREASED OUR PARENTING EDUCATION, EMERGENCY CRISIS COUNSELING, CLOTHING & FOOD REQUEST. Our partnership with State Fair of Texas has impact our leadership skills through participating in several community engagement days. State Fair of Texas also provided tickets for our client families to attend the state fair. Our partnership with Dallas College Social Work/Substance Abuse Internship program provides interns much needed experience within their career field as well as assisting us with capacity building. The partnership with Dallas ISD assists in providing the SISTAHS program to help those teen girls that are experiencing dating violence, peer to peer mentorship, homeless and crisis case management. We are beginning this school year providing the SISTAHS program at Seagoville High School and we are providing our newest program Girls In Real Life Situations (GIRLS)Seagoville middle school. These new and existing partnerships continue to assist us in providing services/programs that are outside of our scope of services. Our Executive Director has been asked to serve on the AI Safety Committee for Texas Council on Family Violence. We continue our community collaborations with State Fair of Texas, Lincoln High School, Martin Luther King Center, City Of Dallas MLK Recreation Center, Griggs Chapel Missionary Baptist church, we are currently providing teen programs in DISD High Schools and Middle School and Griggs Chapel MBC. We are housed at the MLK center to make our services more accessible to the teens we serve. We also partner with MLK staff, Sam's Club of Dallas, Dominos, Little Caesars, Honey Baked Ham, Jimmy John's, HEB, Walmart and Sprouts in assisting us with providing snacks and lunch for the program. Through our partnerships with our local grocery businesses, we were able to provide hot breakfast, snacks and food for the SISTAHS graduation ceremony and Jostens provided cap and gowns for our SISTAHS graduation ceremony. FIRST CHOICE SOCIAL SERVICES ACCOMPLISHMENTS: . WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH NEW ORGANIZATIONS THIS YEAR TO FURTHER OUR COMMUNITY PRESENCE AND MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR CLIENTS. . WE ARE SERVING ON THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR METRO CARE DALLAS AND BANK OF AMERICA. . We are in our fourth year receiving a grant from TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY JUSTICE ASSISTANCE DIVISION (2) YEAR GRANT . WE ARE INCREASING OUR SERVICES TO TEENS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED DATING VIOLENCE, SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND HOMELESSNESS . WE HAVE A TEEN PROGRAM COORDINATOR THAT PROVIDES SUPPORT GROUPS, ANGER MANAGEMENT, BATTERING INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS, PARENTING, VAPING PROGRAM. . WE HAVE

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
• Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 41.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings