About Us

The mission of Families Flourish is to create a more equitable community for families by empowering them to achieve and succeed through a holistic support initiative.

PROPEL

Families Flourish empowers families to address their total needs over a 3-year period, reversing historic barriers by fostering greater inclusivity, equality, opportunity and access to housing, education, and family wellness.

PROMOTE

Families Flourish helps communities embrace and create housing that is accessible to all. Parents are provided tools to improve life outcomes for themselves and their children through requisite programs. Life coaching focuses on financial literacy, life skills, job and career advancement, health and wellness, and access to quality education for children. Families are also provided tools to achieve financial capacity, housing stability and affordability through rent support.

PROSPER

Families Flourish is about paving the way for success. Our results show 58%/$17,000 average increased income, 100+-point higher credit scores, health and wellness improvements, and kids thriving at grade level and above in their schools. At the end of the three years, families can access housing that fits their needs.

Why Do We Need Families Flourish?

By reversing historic barriers and fostering greater inclusivity, children, in even a few years before reaching age 13 can have positive long-term life outcomes.

31%

Higher Incomes in Early Adulthood

26%

Less Likely to be Teen Mothers and have a
70% Lower Risk of Severe Anxiety Disorders.

32%

More Likely to Attend College

$302,000

Higher Lifetime Earnings

*Chetty, R., Hendren, N., & Katz, L. F. (2016). The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment. American Economic Review, 106(4), 855–902

We pave the way for success, parents are provided tools to improve life outcomes for themselves and their children through participation in required programs and coaching, together with access to housing stability and affordability through rent support.

Why Do We Need Families Flourish?

From Our Social Media Feeds

Our September 2024 appearance at Columbus Metropolitan Club, featuring CMC CEO Sophia Fifner, CMC member Toni Bell, Flourish CEO Amy Klaben, Johns-Hopkins Dr. Craig Pollack, Hon. Michael B. Coleman, Westerville Mayor Kenneth Wright, Gahanna Council Chair Merisa Bowers, moderator Darci Congrove and a representative from Robert Weiler Cos.

Taping at ABC6 are board member James McDougal, CEO Amy Klaben and board member Keith Jones.

Flourish Director of Development & Communications Shiloh Todorov and ambassador Jo’el Jones pose at the Columbus Urban League luncheon step-and-repeat. Families Flourish was a sponsor of the event.

Left to right above, the evening featured opening remarks by Families Flourish board member Carl Faller, a welcome by ACLU of Ohio’s Raphael Davis-Williams (and not pictured, YWCA’s Liz Brown), Ohio Chamber of Commerce CEO Steve Stivers was a panelist with Upper Arlington Mayor Ukeme Awakessien Jeter, Flourish CEO Amy Klaben gave closing remarks, additional panelists Dr. Craig Pollack of Johns Hopkins and Brandy Rosel, a college student whose family completed the Families Flourish program; with Oakwood Management CEO and Flourish Board member Keith Jones serving as moderator.