In 2001, the Community Information and Crisis Center was consolidated under A Better Way, merging two 24/7 services that are now handled by cross-trained staff.

In the same year, A Better Way received a three-year $400,000 federal grant to start the LOVE and Acts of Kindness (AOK) programs provided at various community pre-schools and former Wilson Middle School.

A four-year $1.9 mil. 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant was received in 2003 from the Indiana Department of Education. During this time, services were provided at Wilson and Northside Middle Schools, and Grissom and Sutton Elementary schools.

In 2004, Passage Way, the 10 apartment transitional housing building for adults and children who are domestic violence victims, was completed and welcomed the first residents.

A Better Way began a new clothing donations policy in 2005. A partnership was formed with the St. Vincent DePaul Society in Muncie. Clients receive vouchers for free clothing for themselves and their children.

A Better Way is also a participating member of the Delaware County Sexual Assault Response Team. This is a collaborative effort with several other agencies who strive to provide the most comprehensive services possible to survivors of sexual assault in Delaware County. Other participating agencies include the Delaware County Prosecutor’s Office, IUBMH-SANE, Muncie Police Department, Muncie Victim Advocate Program, and the Delaware County SMART team.

Teresa Clemmons has been the Director of A Better Way since 1995 and has been the agency Executive Director since 2007. In 2007, the agency name was changed from Family Services of Delaware County, Inc, to A Better Way Services, Inc. The current emphasis is to put the agency on more solid financial ground through active board fund development.

All regular ABW staff received ASIST suicide prevention training in 2009. A Better Way now answers calls for the 24-hour National Suicide LifeLine at 1-800-273-TALK. Newer staff members now receive the SafeTalk training to enable them to assist callers undergoing a suicidal crisis.

In 2012, an additional support group was created specifically to meet the needs of sexual assault survivors. This group seeks to provide a safe, comforting place for survivors to meet with one another to begin or continue on their journey of healing and recovery.

With the start of 2014, A Better Way joined in the national initiative to begin reducing the restrictive effects of excess rules plaguing domestic violence shelters across the nation. This effort strives to focus on empowering survivors of domestics violence by giving them the freedom and the tools to regain control of their own lives once again. It places an emphasis on promoting guidelines for healthy, cooperative interactions within the shelter environment without enforcing a defined set of ‘rules’ for how clients should live.

From January 2016 to January 2018, A Better Way served as a back-up call center for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network resulting in an average of 27,000 suicide/crisis calls handled each year. After January 2018, A Better Way continued to serve as a Regional Suicide Hotline for a nine-county area.

At the beginning of January 2018, with funds provided by The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, A Better Way became a Rape Crisis Center, providing walk-in services, on-site counseling, safety planning, protective order assistance, and more to victims of rape and sexual assault.

In 2020, A Better Way covered  37 counties in Indiana for the National Suicide Lifeline and adopted chat services in September of that year.

In 2021, suicide hotline services expanded even further to cover a total of 56 counties in Indiana through the National Suicide Lifeline.

A Better Way acquired Genesis of Richmond, IN, and now provides shelter and services for victims located in Blackford, Delaware, Fayette, Henry, Jay, Randolph, Union, and Wayne counties.