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Our Milestones
Since Room to Grow's founding in 1998, over 850 families have participated in our program. These families have made thousands of visits to our sites, meeting with our clinicians every three months and receiving critical support and information to encourage and promote their children's healthy development. At the same time, we have distributed over $4.5 million worth of new and nearly-new baby items to provide these children with a safe and enriched environment in which to grow, learn, and thrive.
One of the most powerful measures of our success is our retention rate. Many programs that support families in poverty struggle to get clients to attend appointments; to maintain a commitment to receiving services; and to create trusting, long-term relationships with their counselors. Room to Grow has excelled in this area. Our client compliance rate, which measures the number of families who have started with our program and remained committed to it throughout the first three years of their child's life, is exemplary. Measured in New York since 2003, over 80% of clients have completed the full three-years of the program. In Boston, where the figure has been measured since March 2005, the rate is over 87%. These figures provide evidence of the importance of the service we are providing to our clients, the needs we are meeting, and the quality of the referrals we receive from the prenatal programs with which we work. Another measure of our success is the exceptional number of donations of baby items we have secured from individuals, community partners and corporations. In 2006, our sites received baby items valued at nearly $900,000. At each visit, our clients receive over $1,000 worth of baby items, so it is essential that we continually collect clothing, toys, books and other items from our community of in-kind donors. The tremendous number of donations that we receive year after year is testimony to the enthusiasm of our donors who recognize what a simple, fundamental service we are providing; and how easy - yet necessary - it is to support it. |
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