About Mothers' Club

The Power of Two-Generation Learning
Mothers’ Club of Pasadena reaches out to isolated, impoverished parents with young children and provides them with practical skills, education, self-confidence, companionship, and most significantly, hope for a better future for themselves and for their families. At the same time, their young children are provided with a safe, nurturing learning environment that promotes healthy growth and development, and builds strong, lasting bonds between parents and children.

The Power of Experience
Mothers’ Club has done this for over 40 years, and was among the first organizations to implement an innovative, two-generation learning approach. National research and Mothers’ Club’s own evaluation results confirm that educating a parent and child together is an irrefutable way to promote long-term, positive change within a family and a community. As a model program in the field of family literacy, Mothers’ Club uses two-generation learning strategies to fulfill its mission to prepare families living in isolation and poverty to succeed in school and in life.

The Power of Prevention
Recent research has proven that children from low-income and minority families who participate in quality early childhood education programs with intensive parent participation are less likely to drop out of school, wind up in the juvenile system, in gangs, or become pregnant. Mothers’ Club is not only preventing all of these issues by reaching families while they’re young, we are also breaking the pattern of low-educational attainment, which in turn breaks the cycle of poverty. Two-generation learning models are proven to achieve this because by increasing the education levels of parents, you increase learning outcomes in children.