Welfare is a Trap.

We Can Help You Navigate it.

BTSN equips families, communities, and organizations to overcome the benefits cliff—a nationwide barrier to housing, access to Food healthcare, and financial stability.

Mission Statement

"We don’t just help you understand the cliff—we help you maximize your benefits while you still have them, so you can build a stable foundation for when they’re gone."

How Sharing Your Story Can Help

Check out this quick video to learn more about how the "benefits cliff", is the diagnosis for the symptoms caused by the disease of economic instability triggered by the welfare system.

With your story, we can help shape the solutions that are created to help people just like you navigate the negative economic impacts triggered by the loss of public assistance.

Have you ever heard the term "Benefits Cliff"?

Stories = Data.

Data = Insights.

Insights = Solutions.

Share Your Story

Have you faced sudden loss of support while trying to gain financial stability through public assistance programs like SNAP, Section 8, TANF or MassHealth?

Your experience matters.

Help raise awareness, shift the data, and advocate for change.

BTSN - Benefit Cliff Toolkit

A free, ready-to-use resource for educators, advocates, and community leaders to raise awareness and lead clarity-driven conversations about the benefits cliff.

Benefits Cliff Data

Real-world insights and data visualizations that reveal how the benefits cliff impacts families, communities, and systems — and why awareness is key to change.

"Nyesha helped me realize I didn’t need welfare... I needed resources. BTSN showed me how to map what I already had and build from there.

— Workshop Participant, Boston

Community Feedback

"From just a quick conversation. Nyesha was able to connect me with resources that would help me with my now and support me with where I want to be later."

— BTSN Community Member, Greater Boston

"I used to feel stuck. Now I have a plan and I understand how to move forward with or without losing everything."

— Workshop Participant, Boston, Mass.

Meet The Founder

Nyesha Wornum, is a Boston-born clarity architect, technologist, and mother of twin boys, Kyng and Knight. Her clarity-first approach to systems thinking, digital transformation, and community empowerment. She believes that when tools are accessible, and systems are clearly understood, meaningful progress becomes possible—for individuals, families, institutions, and policy makers.

She has presented her story & mission in many community spaces. Take a look at a few of those spaces below.

“I created BTSN to help families like mine move from survival to stability—with clarity, not confusion.”

Our team is ready to help. Take an action step toward stability today.

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