Since 2018, we’ve been supporting organizations and community partnerships that are dedicated to helping both children and their adult caregivers. With our strategy, we offer funding for project planning and implementation, plus opportunities for our grant partners to learn and grow in delivering services that benefit the whole family. Read on to explore our grantee partners and the impactful work they’re doing to foster family well-being.
The Center for Urban Families (CFUF), along with anchor community partners, is building a 2Gen Ecosystem in Baltimore City to support families, including fathers. This initiative aims to help families break the cycle of poverty and ensure that every child is ready for academic success through services like coordinated case management, family empowerment, and advocacy. CFUF is also applying the 2Gen philosophy to its entire organization to build a holistic system of change for multi-generation households.
CHN Housing Partners is working with community organizations to launch the Louise C. Stokes Cleveland Scholar House, an innovative approach designed to help single parents achieve college degrees by removing obstacles. This comprehensive model will provide affordable housing, rental assistance, childcare, educational support, and services to support parents, with partners such as Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, Step Forward, Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, United Way of Cleveland, and student participants involved in the planning.
Community of Hope is enhancing its maternal and child health services by integrating emotional wellness, home visiting services, and parenting support for perinatal patients and families with young children. They are strengthening programs with family-centered coaching practices, evidence-based therapies, and wraparound family supports to help families achieve healthy pregnancies, maintain postpartum wellbeing, and provide nurturing environments for their children.
Founded in 1963, Tri-C is Ohio’s oldest and largest public community college. They are implementing a 2Gen approach to assist families that have both a parent lacking a high school diploma and a teen off-track from graduating high school on time. The approach requires intensive coordinated and tailored supports to help adult and teen learners persist in earning a high school diploma and a workforce credential.
Educational Alliance is strengthening integration of its high-quality early childhood education with parent/caregiver and child wraparound services so that families can build the skills and social capital needed to succeed in school and life. Educational Alliance is implementing a new model of co-located services and expanded community partnerships through its Family Resource Center, housed at the Manny Cantor Center.
Enterprise Communities Plus 2Gen (EC Plus) leverages partnership between Enterprise, Goddard Riverside Community Center, and Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement to reach out to low-income families in affordable housing and connect them to services early to prevent housing crises. Through family coaching and addressing multigenerational challenges together, they aim to maximize the housing stability, well-being and intergenerational economic mobility of NYC families with low incomes.
Friends of the Future, in collaboration with Hawai‘i Community College – Kō Education Center (KōEC), is implementing Learning to Thrive, an initiative to create a supportive environment for student-parents and their families to excel academically and achieve long-term goals. Their work includes establishing a family-focused learning space, a comprehensive career and education center, and a Student-Parent Advisory Council for program co-creation and peer mentoring.
Literacy Partners is integrating its intensive English for Parents courses into a network focused on the social determinants of health to support immigrant families with low incomes. This approach involves healthcare providers referring parents of young children to Literacy Partners’ language and literacy program, community partners coordinating services, and early childhood centers offering child development and early learning data. The goal is to empower immigrant parents with literacy and language skills to enhance their children’s healthy development and school readiness.
Mamatoto Village is committed to combating health disparities for Black mothers, babies and their families. Their Mothers Rising Home Visitation Program empowers Black women by establishing career opportunities in maternal health and offering accessible perinatal support services. Mamatoto Village is enhancing the program’s capacity to support families by hiring more perinatal community health workers, increasing mental health supports, and developing a customized electronic health record system to enhance data collection and address clients’ social determinants of health challenges.
Familia Adelante/Family Forward is a collaborative effort in the Bronx, NY, led by Mercy Center, along with partners Fiver Children’s Foundation, Qualitas of Life Foundation, and Certified Mindfulness Practitioner Tanya Valle, all working together to enhance the well–being of immigrant families. They are focusing on their “Whole Family Approach,” which offers comprehensive services, family coaching and supports to families aiming to enhance economic stability, educational success, family dynamics, and the well-being of both adults and children.
The Parent Child Centers in Rutland and Bennington counties are working with 5-10 partners in each community to streamline service navigation for families. This initiative seeks to foster a sense of community and connection among parents and service providers, reduce isolation associated with poverty, establish a support network for parents, and enhance coordination among local service providers. The partners hope to demonstrate how building social capital can lead to better outcomes and address policy barriers to smoother navigation at both local and federal levels.
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a community health program for low-income first-time pregnant women, focusing on improving pregnancy, child health and family economic outcomes. In Cuyahoga County, MetroHealth’s NFP tackles high rates of premature births and infant mortality by connecting new moms-to-be with registered nurses who provide health screenings, direct services, guidance, and community supports until the child’s second birthday.
Family Partners is a collaboration among service providers and community residents that reduces barriers for young families in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood and helps ensure children are ready for kindergarten. It combines the SPARK early literacy home visiting program from Family Connections with OhioGuidstone’s mental health services and improves access to family resources through the Cleveland Central Promise team. All programming and activities are informed by an active Parent Advisory Council.
To enhance comprehensive family support leading to economic stability and well-being, The Centers is integrating its Health, Workforce, and Early Learning systems, offering training and education opportunities for multiple generations. This approach involves tailoring child-centered services to meet the needs of parents and adopting a family-oriented perspective in adult programs to serve the entire family. The goal is to establish an inclusive intake system and integrated family services by aligning and coordinating services and embedding a whole family mindset across departments, service areas, management positions, and staff roles.
Cash+Community Works is a neighborhood-based initiative that empowers NYC’s under-resourced communities. Its objective is to assist 300 families over a 3-year period in making constructive transformations in their lives and communities. This is achieved by offering peer-supported guidance, personalized goal setting, and direct financial aid, with collaborators like Root Change, New York University, Getting Out Staying Out, and Custom Collaborative.
Towards Employment’s Whole Family Approach to Workforce Services combines intensive career support and financial coaching with family supports to improve income, family stability, and overall well-being. This service is available to program participants and alumni with children in the organization’s Career Pathways programs, and taps family-centered coaching, trauma-informed care, and community partnerships to help families thrive.
United Way of Central Maryland and the Anne Arundel County Partnership for Children, Youth & Families are incorporating 2Gen services at a homeless prevention program in North Anne Arundel County. The program is designed to break the cycle of multigenerational family poverty by expanding services to include the children and adding family coaching to help families thrive, not just survive. This initiative aims to help families maintain housing, ensure stability with the children’s education, and boost self-sufficiency.
University Hospitals is implementing the national, evidence-based HealthySteps model at its UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Ahuja Center for Women & Children to best meet the needs of its patient population and broader community. HealthySteps provides onsite multi-generational care through mother-infant dyadic services. The primary aim is to promote supportive, nurturing parent-child attachment, which builds a critical early foundation for development and leads to improved outcomes in child health and safety, mental health, and early literacy and school readiness.
The Ho’owaiwai Network Kohala Collaboration broadened an established coalition involving County government, nonprofit organizations, local businesses, and residents on Hawai’i Island. This coalition aimed to explore a holistic approach to support families in the Northern region of Hawai’i Island. Their work to create a school-based pilot, however, was put on hold due to the Covid-19 public health crisis.
The United Hospital Fund initiated the Partnerships for Early Childhood Development Collaborative to address the social needs of pediatric patients and their families. In this collaboration, eight hospital systems worked on enhancing social needs screening and referral partnerships with community organizations to tackle social and environmental factors affecting healthy child development. While the collaborative and funding have ended, six of the participating systems continued to expand their efforts.
