Partners in Opportunity

The mission of Partners in Opportunity (PIO) is to put the low-income children in its program on the path to college by helping their families to secure affordable housing in high opportunity neighborhoods, and by providing participant families with comprehensive, wrap-around supportive services. The PIO supportive services program is a two-generation model (i.e. it seeks to support parents as well as children), and is grounded in three primary pillars: helping parents to achieve economic self-sufficiency so that they can maintain housing stability in a high opportunity neighborhood; helping families to build community and social capital; and providing—or facilitating connections to—robust, child-centered interventions to ensure that children in the program are on the path to college readiness.