Our Impact
One Family offers two direct-service programs that help families experiencing or at risk of homelessness achieve self-sufficiency: Credential to Career Coaching and One Family Scholars. We also offer Technical Assistance to train others in our coaching methodology, and engage in Public Policy advocacy. Together, this leads to incredible impact in the lives of individual families as well as on a larger systemic scale.
Credential to Career
Impact Overview
Individual, client-centered coaching
empowers each participant to make a self-sufficiency plan that really works for them
New jobs obtained by participants have an average
salary increase
of $21,381
Over 50 different
fields of interest
to date, illustrating the program's highly individualized approach
156 families with low incomes
served to date in the program
One Family Scholars
Impact Overview
91% of alumni are stably housed
according to a 2019 alumni survey
Graduation rate: 81%
compared to the national average of 47%, and only 8% for single mothers
95% of program
alumni are now
working or re-enrolled
in school for a further degree
Average full-time salary of $55,708
for program alumni, enabling families to leave poverty behind.
Public Policy
Impact Overview
In coalition, helped increase the MA Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money back in
the pockets of 400,000+ working families
12 current and former One
Family program participants share their stories to create meaningful change as part of One Family's Advocacy Team
In coalition, helped advocate for the successful passage of an eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic
The MA Legislature included funding for the One Family Scholars program in the FY19 and FY20 state budgets
Technical Assistance
Impact Overview
Created comprehensive education and career resource guides for 8 MA regions
Equipped 40+ service providers with tools, resources, and coaching techniques related to education and career success
Service providers trained by One Family have now helped over 2,200 families on their paths to self-sufficiency
Workshop attendees experience a 20 percentage point confidence increase around caching for education and career success
