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Essential Families, a state of Missouri registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been at the forefront of delivering critical children and family development services, accessible virtually 24/7, akin to how AMAZON delivers products and services to your doorstep.

Essential Families, leveraging our Collective Impact Integrated Service Platform (CIISP), is leading a collective of 38 Community Partners, that has closed the Digital Divide for 578 households.

The Essential Digital Equity Program model and approach has delivered “measurable impact”, proving the need, and positive community effect of our Essential Digital Equity Program.  Moreover, with adequate funding, over 4-year period, our Essential Digital Equity Program is sustainable for years to come.

Our Essential Digital Equity Program, designed and built in compliance with National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Section 60304(c) of the Infrastructure and Jobs Act of 2021, and the state of Missouri Digital Opportunity Plan, is tailored to scale across any rural or urban community in the United States.

Our Essential Digital Equity Program has eight (8) services designed and built to stabilize children and families, leveraging affordable and reliable broadband Internet.

Once the individual/family is stable, Essential Families, in collaboration with our 38 Community Partners, has nine (9) Digital Workforce Development services (job training programs) designed to enable Cover Population participation in the “Digital Economy”.  

The University of Missouri/BLOCH, a highly respected third-party data analysis and reporting entity, produced a Digital Equity report using Essential Families Digital Equity raw data.

Please click this link: UMKC/BLOCH to see UMKC/BLOCH Essential Digital Equity Program report.

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Essential Digital Equity Program

Essential Digital Equity Program

Essential Families, a state of Missouri registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been at the forefront of delivering critical children and family development services, accessible virtually 24/7, akin to how AMAZON delivers products and services to your doorstep. Essential Families, leveraging our Collective Impact Integrated Service Platform (CIISP), is leading a collective of {community_partner} Community Partners, that has closed the Digital Divide for {served_clients} households.

The Essential Digital Equity Program model and approach has delivered "measurable impact", proving the need, and positive community effect of our Essential Digital Equity Program. Moreover, with adequate funding, over 4-year period, our Essential Digital Equity Program is sustainable for years to come. Our Essential Digital Equity Program, designed and built in compliance with National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Section 60304(c) of the Infrastructure and Jobs Act of 2021, and the state of Missouri Digital Opportunity Plan, is tailored to scale across any rural or urban community in the United States.

Our Essential Digital Equity Program has eight (8) services designed and built to stabilize children and families, leveraging affordable and reliable broadband Internet. The University of Missouri/BLOCH produced a Digital Equity report using Essential Families Digital Equity raw data.

Essential Rural Digital Equity Program

Essential Rural Digital Equity Program

The Essential Rural Digital Equity Program, includes broadband internet and services, provided 24/7 from anywhere, designed and built to stabilize children and families, leveraging affordable and reliable broadband Internet. Once the individual/family is stable, Essential Families has nine (9) Digital Workforce Development services (job training programs) designed to enable participation in the “Digital Economy”, by way of good paying “work from home digital job, or starting a business.

Our Essential Digital Equity Program is a proven model and approach that has solved the Digital Divide for 559 households in the greater Kansas City area. Please, don't take our word for it, ask UMKC/BLOCH, who analyzed our 18 month "raw empiricial data", and produced the final Essential Digital Equity Program report.  Here's the UMKC/BLOCH report

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Essential Resources- EveryThing

Essential Resources- EveryThing

Providing 24/7 essential  basic resources for children and families, supporting multiple languages...easy to use, like Google. 

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Essential Telehealth

Essential Telehealth

See licensed Primary Care Doctor and/or Mental Health therapists or psychologist 24/7 - by Video or Phone.

Essential Telehealth provides the same accurate diagnosis and high-quality care you would get in person, but from the comfort of your own home, car, ANYWHERE! No waitlist.   Physicians can diagnose, treat and prescribe prescriptions electronically sent to a pharmacy of your choice.

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Essential Parenting

Essential Parenting

Offering 12 virtual parental education sessions, 24/7,  by trained Essential Parental Educators (EPE). Supports expectant mothers, parents, grandparents, or guardians of children birth to nineteen (19).

Our Essential Parenting Educator can also serve as substitute Home Visitor for agencies, needing this resource. Service areas include health, nutrition, family engagement, mental wellness, and education.

Includes our Essential Telehealth, for Primary and Mental Health care.

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DIANE

DIANE

Essential Parenting, Essential Telehealth, and EveryThing (local essential resources) for grandparents raising their grandchildren.

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Digital Workforce Development

Digital Workforce Development

Nine (9) highly Google searched, "high paying" Work from Home  jobs, and business startup opportunities.  Work from Home and business startup opportunities include Digital Navigator, Remote Digital Marketing Professional, Essential Parental Educator, AWS Linux Administrator, AWS Cloud Job, Virtual Chef (Meal Prep), AI/ML Developer, and Digital Content Creator. 

Essential Youth Mental Telehealth Group Program

Essential Youth Mental Telehealth Group Program

Youth 10 years of age and up, Mental Telehealth group sessions by a licensed clinicians 24/7.  Coming Soon!

Covered Population

(Aging, Incarcerated, Veterans, Disabled, Language Barrier, Racial or Ethnic Minority Group, Rural)

Designed and Built Based on e Infrastructure and Jobs Act of 2021, Public Law 117-58, 135 Stat. 429 (November 15, 2021), commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Digital Workforce Development

(Economic Development Closes the Digital Divide)

During our first successful Digital Equity pilot, funded by Kauffman Foundation, Essential Families worked DIRECTLY with the covered population, in the greater Kansas City area, to understand what they needed to close the Digital Divide. 24/7 access to essential resources, laptops, training, affordable Internet, mental/primary health, help with their children, work from home jobs, and starting a business, using the Internet, were the primary needs to close the Digital Divide. Jobs and starting a business scored very high in our empirical data analysis. According to section 60304 (c) of the Infrastructure and Jobs Act of 2021, Public Law 117-58, 135 Stat. 429 (November 15, 2021), commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, economic development closes the Digital Divide. The below tables illustrate the WAITLIST for our Digital Workforce Development programs, which closes the Digital Divide, and sustains our Essential Digital Equity Program.

Essential Digital Equity Workshop

Essential Telehealth

Essential Telehealth provides the same accurate diagnosis and high-quality care you would get in person, but from the comfort of your own home, car, ANYWHERE! 

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