A HOME AND A HAND

Interfaith Family Services pulls families out of the financial fires

By WILL MADDOX

Photo by DANNY FULGENCIO

Looking back, Monic McMiller realizes that she was too generous.

She couldn’t say no when her friends and extended family asked her for money. Her own ability to save paired with a stable career as a nurse weren’t enough to keep her out of financial trouble.

She thought she was making the right decisions and being helpful, but in the end, she couldn’t manage her resources.

“I was trying to help everybody but myself,” she says.

McMiller moved to Dallas nine years ago, and her marriage dissolved. As financial pressure mounted, she needed to make a change. She couldn’t afford the life she was leading and began struggling financially.

“Decisions I made in the past were still haunting me and made me revisit a part of my life where I was feeling worthless,” she says.

A friend told her about Interfaith Family Services, located