In the program year ending August 31, 2023, the agency provided  9,232 encounters with parents and children, both virtually and in-person touching just over 5,700 families.

  • Home Visitation program: served 157 families, providing almost 2,393 home visits and group encounters with with parents and children registering an average of 39 encounters per family.
  • Prenatal Education program: helping to ensure full term healthy pregnancies for both mother and child providing over 240 hours of education to 60 prenatal mothers.
  • Group education program: served over 137 families providing over 425 encounters with parents to increase parenting skills needed to be reunified with their children.
  • Early literacy program: provided in-person and virtual community wide Storytime events with early learning activities and putting books in the hands of preschoolers. Serving over 5,077 parents and children and distributing 2,715 books to children.
  • Car seat assistance program: provides families without financial resources education on car safety and provides car seats for infants and children. One of the largest car seat distribution programs in the State of Texas.  Over 280milies were provided with car seats.
  • Mental Health Services:   The Parenting Cottage partnered with Covenant Health & UMC to provide maternal mental health services and pediatric mental health services to almost 100 families resulting in over counseling sessions.
  • Bright By Text:  The Parenting Cottage partnered with Texas Tech Public Media and the State of Texas to provide a free texting service to parents in the So. Plains area.  The free texting service allowed parents to enroll and then receive age appropriate parenting tips and also notice of community events geared toward families.  The texting service has over 1,000 subscribers in PY 23.
  • The agency actively participated in efforts in the community to bring awareness to child abuse and neglect including being a lead partner agency in the South Plains Coalition for Prevention of Child Abuse
    • Participation in the GO BLUE LUBBOCK efforts held each April during National Child Abuse Awareness Month
    • Participation in the 9th Annual Child Abuse Awareness Conference.
  • All of the services at the Parenting Cottage are provided at no costs to families.
  • 90 cents out of every dollar raised is spent directly on programs for families.
  • General & Administrative expenses and fundraising account for only 10 cents out of every dollar raised.