About TTS
Transition to Success® is a system of care that changes our understanding and treatment response to the condition of poverty.
Does your organization aim to help people struggling with poverty? Transition to Success can help. Our methodology can help your organization reframe how it thinks about and responds to poverty – from management at the top to boots on the ground. While we offer consulting as a stand-alone product, our trainings include consulting hours to help ensure a smooth integration into your organization at all levels of operation, including, but not limited to: data collection, research & evaluation, analyzing & compiling business data for poverty intervention, and community collaborations, engagement and education. Certification also includes access to our online Community Portal. The portal is a networking tool that connects our geographically diverse community – allowing collaboration across disciplines to improve your organization’s readiness and effectiveness in responding to poverty. Our Community Portal also includes access to a number of resources not available to the general public. Contact us to discuss how we can serve you and your organization’s needs!
Our History
“Poverty is not natural. It is man-made
and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. ”
In 2010, desiring to get back to her social work roots, Dr. Marcella Wilson, executive director and founder of Transition to Success, left a 25-year career as a managed healthcare administrator to lead a large charity in Detroit, Michigan. While in this role, Dr. Wilson realized that the programs designed to help struggling, poverty-stricken families were simply not working. Beyond the fragmented funding, the intense competition between nonprofits, the grueling reporting requirements, and the complex and rigorous regulations, the impact of the 2008 recession had brought Detroit recognition as the poorest city in the United States. And she was at the helm of one of it’s leading organizations charged with helping those without.
With 10,000 clients, including pregnant women, young children, homeless youth, frail elderly, homeless families, adults struggling with HIV/AIDS and returning citizens, Dr. Wilson discovered a community filled with good intentions working within a broken, disconnected, dysfunctional delivery system. Asking the question “How do you treat poverty?” Dr. Wilson’s journey to affect change in Detroit began, led to a revolutionary paradigm shift and a new framework for treating the condition of poverty—that framework and its protocols became Transition to Success.