Beyond The Safety Net - BTSN

This channel helps families, advocates, and policymakers navigate the real-life impacts of the benefits cliff—caused by a welfare trap that punishes progress.

Beyond the Safety Net (BTSN) frames the benefits cliff as the diagnosis of the conditions created by that trap. It’s called a cliff because one small raise can trigger a steep drop—SNAP, Medicaid, childcare, housing—all gone. I’m a Black mother of twin boys, a Boston native, and a systems thinker using current technology, data, and lived experience to turn complexity into clarity.

Through story-driven videos, explainer content, and digital tools, BTSN helps people, community builders & leadership to recognize the signs, prepare for the impact, and share their story. Your experience is evidence. Evidence builds tools. Tools shift policy. And policy changes lives.

Watch, share, and submit your story to help turn lived experience into policy-shifting data.
Visit: https://contact-btsn.systeme.io/8fbe0c7c