Michelle R. Yisrael michelle@empowerachild.com
April Ford aprilford@empowerachildatrisk.com
169 E 147th Street
Harvey, IL 60426
(708) 698-7286 Office
(708) 331-7457 FAX
The Omega Institute of Knowledge is a partnership between two women endowed with a shared desire to serve and empower God’s children and their families. Our goal is do business with those who can in order to generate funds for those who can’t. We plan to utilize www.empowerachildatrisk.org as a public charity. Our objective is to provide low-cost and in-kind services to agencies whose clients are at-risk children living in high risk areas. We are in the business of creating tools that bridge the gap between parents and teachers. We develop innovative curriculum specifically suited to the particular needs of our clients.
We provide support for teachers bogged down with too much red tape, parents faced with the challenge of at-risk youngsters, and administrators seeking innovative programs to enhance student learning. We focus on ideas, concepts, products, and services that will empower the whole child. We help strength the partnership between parents and teachers. We stress spirituality, health & wellness, team work, as well as academic excellence. We understand that in order to empower the whole-child, a focus on the family is necessary.
As our way of “gleaning the field”, we are birthing a sister initiative, empowerachildatrisk.org, operating under the umbrella of The Omega Institute of Knowledge, Inc a nonprofit organization that will soon provide violence prevention workshops to at-risk youth living in high risk areas and send simple slide in shoes, chalk, crayons, pens, pencils, markers, and colored pencils to the Hands Together Organization and the Foyer Benjamines Orphanage in Haiti.
Introducing Michelle R. Yisrael
In the spirit of Mary Bethune McLeod, Michelle is enthusiastic about the shared vision to empower children. Born Michelle Rhnea Boisseau, meaning “Who is like God”, her passion was the written word. Though Michelle’s friends fondly call her Amirah, meaning a gentle speaker and a quiet storm, she prides herself in consciously seeking to be one who is like God. Michelle is skilled in various genres of writing. Author of multi-cultural curriculum developed for both at-risk youngsters who live in high risk areas as well as curriculum designed especially with homeschooled children in mind, over 150 poems, 25 children’s plays, 30 short stories, and a novel in progress, Michelle is no stranger to the written word nor issues dealing with children. Michelle has over 25 years of experience in education, curriculum design, and administrator of The Israel Academy. The Results Project being her most famed endeavor.
(Visit The Results Project)
To add to her writing repertoire, she has a Bachelor’s degree in Professional and Technical Writing, a Master’s degree in English, a Soul degree in Love, and a passion for nurturing the human soul. Michelle has created and developed specialized curriculum for parents who home school their children including curriculum designs with the African American child in mind. Additionally, she has written specialized curriculum for young expected parents, The WorkQuest Project for drop-out prevention and recovery, and a workshop for young entrepreneurs. She currently teaches English at Kennedy King College on the southside of Chicago. Because of her diverse background and her passion to serve, Michelle adds finesse and experience to her work and truly makes others soar.
Introducing April Ford
April Weaver-Ford has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and utilizes instructional skills that require the ability to apply crisis intervention while balancing multi-level educational methodogies, commonly known as modified teaching. April has an insurmountable passion to teach and help develop young minds, which have been misunderstood or forgotten. Her deisre is to help turn her students into productive, respectable members of their families and communities. She is skilled at combining creative arts, writing, drama, and psychology and is developing a social therapy program that is both unique and exceptional.
April’s goal is to utilize art, counseling, and crisis intervention as a means of empowerment. She understands the need to focus on the family since parents play the most important role in the viability of education and educational institutitions. She takes great pride in the possessing the innate ability to involve parents in the success of their children. She gently coaches parents and encourages them to take ownership of their child’s success. She brings a passion unequal to others in her field. April takes great pleasure in forming this partnership in the development of curriculum and programs specifically designed to “empower a child”.
What we do
We are currently conducting literacy workshops for youth at-risk of failure. “Beat the Streets” behaviorial management program includes a reading circle, writing conference, and social therapy activities proven to encourage, motivate, and inspire most youngsters whether at-risk or not. We coach parents who homeschool their children. Additionally, we conduct staff development workshops specializing in Teacher Burnout Remedies for teachers who work with at-risk youngsters living in high risk areas.
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