Single Mothers Subspoke 
The Single Mothers Subspoke is part of the Home and Family Spoke in A Bolder Way Forward. Single parents and mothers face unique challenges in their familial situations. Death and divorce are some of the reasons women are left to raise children in non-traditional family circumstances. Often assuming most, if not all, of the roles of parenthood is overwhelming and daunting at best. This subspoke is focused on improving access, affordability, resources and support for single mothers navigating this potentially lonely and difficult terrain. Without some assistance, single mothers are often thrown into circumstances that can accelerate both negative and transgenerational issues. By eliminating barriers for these women and children, we can also increase economic opportunity, intellectual growth, personal development, health and well-being, as well as life-long societal contributions for women and girls in Utah.
Subspoke Leaders
Emily Martin Prisbrey
Founder/Owner, Martin Prisbrey LinkedIn Profile
Emily Martin Prisbrey serves as the Director of Development for The FoRB Foundation and CEO of Martin Prisbrey LLC. In 2006, a divorce catapulted her into the world of single parenthood. She is well versed in the resources, scholarships, resources issues and policies these women face.
Jill Jackstein Angerbauer
Founder/Owner, GNC
LinkedIn Profile
Jill Jackstein Angerbauer is Founder & CEO of Global Nonprofit Consulting. A single mother with over 25 years of executive leadership expertise in healthcare and government agencies, Jill advocates for fair prices in healthcare, pediatric oncology, survivorship, and children's rights.
Ave Love
Founder, Divorce Co-Op
LinkedIn Profile
Ave Love is the Founder of Divorce Co-Op and a Certified Divorce Coach, providing ethical, structured, and effective support during the divorce process. As a single mother, she is an advocate for awareness, skills training, and community.
Bold Vision & Goals
To make Utah a place where more girls and women can thrive in any familial circumstance, particularly where the primary and often sole provider and caregiver is a single mother. The Single Mothers Subspoke leaders and partners have forged the vision and goals below.
Vision: Boldly increase access to resources and support for single mothers and their children in the state of Utah.
Goals:
- Work with key partners in passing meaningful legislation that supports single mothers and their children that positively impacts families. [Metric Forthcoming]
- Increase stackable educational opportunities and sustainable employment for low-income single mothers through business partnerships, supporting Utah’s Workforce Development Spoke Goal #2 to reduce divorce-driven poverty and alleviate the tax burden on Utahns.
- Bring awareness to the issues of single mothers and their children through community advocacy and media outreach.
- Investigate Utah specific data research on single mothers and their children.
Subspoke Resources:
- Resources for Single Parents
- Infographic: Single Mothers in Utah
- Podcast: Single Mothers in Utah
- Research Snapshot: Single Mothers in Utah
- Single Mothers Scholarship Opportunities
- Research: Attainment for Black Single Mothers in College
- More Single Mother Scholarships
Working Groups
- Single Mothers & Legislation Working Group: Elle Pulsipher (Community Advocate) & Taralie Jones (Community Advocate)
- Single Mothers & Higher Education Working Group: Emily Martin Prisbrey (Founder/Owner, Martin Prisbrey, LLC) & Katie Bunnell (President, Live Your Dream Foundation)
- Single Mothers - Communication Outreach and Advocacy Working Group: Tiffany Unwin Sowby (Founder, Rising Violet)
- Single Mothers & Healthcare Working Group: Jill Angerbauer (Founder/Owner, Global Nonprofit Consulting)
- Single Mothers - Widows Support Working Group: Becky Nielsen Spencer (Community Advocate)
- Single Mothers - Suicide/Mental Health Survivors Working Group: Yolanda Briganti White
Partners
Get Engaged: Ways to get engaged include becoming a member of a working group, sharing resources and events for Single Mothers with us, partnering with our subspoke, and signing up for the Home & Family Spoke newsletter.
Megan Turner
Spoke Coordinator
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megan.bwf@gmail.com