The toddler who was struck by a car on Santa Barbara’s State Street in October is making “meaningful strides” in her recovery, and is “out of the woods as far as the most initial and acute phases of her injury,” according to an update posted by her family on GoFundMe.

Rob and Jess Stephenson, 3-year-old Ava’s parents, wrote that the toddler is “beginning to respond more to us and the world around her.”

Ava has also started working with a therapy team to help her “gradually reacquaint herself with her body, her abilities, and her surroundings,” they wrote.

“She’s still very much in the early, early stages of recovery: learning how to do everything all over again. We’ll know more as she shows us more. We are being told therapies like speech, OT, PT work wonders, and take considerable time.”

The family hopes to move her from the pediatric intensive care unit to the pediatric floor at a Los Angeles-area hospital sometime in the next few weeks.

The girl was crossing the road with her family in a marked crosswalk shortly before 10 a.m. on Oct. 18 in Santa Barbara when she was hit by a vehicle.

The car was traveling eastbound on State Street at the time, per police.

Officers with the Santa Barbara Police Department are investigating the incident, but they said at the time that drugs and alcohol do not appear to be factors.

Additional information about the circumstances of the collision or the driver’s name has not been released by police.

Ava was taken first to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, then transferred to a specialized hospital in Los Angeles, where she is receiving around-the-clock care.

Ava’s aunt, Julie Stephenson, launched a GoFundMe page shortly after the collision to help support the girl’s parents, who are self-employed and do not have paid time off available to them.

The GoFundMe had brought in over $151,000 as of Thursday.

She also created an Amazon wish list for household essentials to help out Ava’s brother, Milo, who remained in the care of a grandparent.

Jess and Rob said that the family is “adjusting to new routines” and thanked the community for their support.

“You have carried us through some of the most difficult days of our lives. We ask that you continue to keep Ava and our family in your thoughts and prayers, especially as she begins the long road to recovery and we navigate these changes together,” they wrote.

“Please continue to reach out, check in, and keep us in mind. Your support, in whatever form it takes, means more than we can express.”