Martha O’Bryan Center is building a better future through strategic action by empowering families, innovating program models, advocating for policy change, and disrupting systems that hinder economic mobility.
Martha O’Bryan Center is building a better future through strategic action by empowering families, innovating program models, advocating for policy change, and disrupting systems that hinder economic mobility.
We offer a two generational (2-Gen) Family Centered Coaching program model that shifts the power to the head of household and tracks objectives and successes of both children and caregivers.
Programs and services are created to connect one client priority to another, building achievements, momentum and meeting benchmarks set by the client or family.
We “work to solution” meaning we work with clients until they have achieved their objective, even when an outside partner is part of the solution.
Informed by client voice, we build models that innovate traditional services for greater effectiveness.
Our direct service design models incorporate consideration of how they might be replicable in various urban, rural, and suburban settings so others can benefit from the innovation.
Where policies work against academic achievement of children or suppress economic upward mobility, we work to modify or change those policies through advocacy and demonstration.
Our policy change work involves:
We analyze and attack the largest impact issues for low wealth families, such as the Benefits Cliff.
From the beginning, we incorporate families in the systems change work by way of focus groups, peer ambassadors and navigators.
We innovate systems that suppress upward mobility by: