The Omega Institute of Knowledge is a partnership between two women endowed with a shared desire to serve and empower God’s children and their families. Our goal is do business with those who can give to those who can’t.  We plan to  utilize www.empowerachildatrisk.org as a public charity.  Our objective is to provide   low-cost and in-kind services to agencies whose clients are at-risk children living  in high risk areas.   We are in the business of creating tools that bridge the gap between parents and teachers. We develop innovative curriculum specifically suited to the particular needs of our clients.

         We provide support for teachers bogged down with too much red tape, parents faced with the challenge of at-risk youngsters, and administrators seeking innovative programs to enhance student learning. We focus on ideas, concepts, products, and services that will empower the whole child.  We help strength the partnership between parents and teachers.  We stress spirituality, health & wellness, team work, as well as academic excellence.  We understand that in order to empower the whole-child, a focus on the family is necessary. 

          As our way of “gleaning the field”, we are birthing a sister initiative, empowerachildatrisk.org, operating under the umbrella of The Omega Institute of Knowledge, Inc a nonprofit organization that will soon provide violence prevention workshops to at-risk youth living in high risk areas and send simple slide in shoes, chalk, crayons, pens, pencils, markers, and colored pencils to the Hands Together Organization and the Foyer Benjamines Orphanage in Haiti.

Introducing Michelle R. Yisrael

          In the spirit of Mary Bethune McLeod, Michelle R.  Yisrael is enthusiastic about the shared vision to empower children. Her friends call her Amirah, meaning a gentle speaker and a quiet storm. She is skilled in various genres of writing. Author of multi-cultural curriculum developed for both at-risk youngsters who live in high risk areas as well as curriculum designed especially with homeschooled children in mind, over 150 poems, 25 children’s plays, 30 short stories, and a novel in progress, Michelle is no stranger to the written word nor issues dealing with children. Michelle has over 25 years of experience in education, curriculum design, and administrator of The Israel Academy. The Results Project being her most famed endeavor.

          To add to her writing repertoire, she has a Bachelor’s degree in Professional and Technical  Writing, a Master’s degree in English, a Soul degree in Love, and a passion for nurturing the human soul. Michelle has created and developed specialized curriculum for parents who home school their children including curriculum designs with the African American child in mind. Additionally, she has written specialized curriculum for young expected parents, The WorkQuest Project for drop-out prevention & recovery, and a workshop for young entrepreneurs. Because of her diverse background, Michelle adds finesse and experience to her work and trulymakes  it soar.

Introducing April Ford

          April Weaver-Ford has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and utilizes instructional skills that require the ability to apply crisis intervention while balancing multi-level educational methodogies, commonly known as modified teaching. April has an insurmountable passion to teach and help develop young minds, which have been misunderstood or forgotten. Her deisre is to help turn her students into productive, respectable members of their families and communities. She is skilled at combining creative arts, writing, drama, and psychology and is developing a social therapy program that is both unique and exceptional.

          April’s goal is to utilize art, counseling, and crisis intervention as a means of empowerment. She understands the need to focus on the family since parents are the most important role in the viability of education and educational institutitions. She takes great pride in the possessing the innate ability to involve parents in the success of their children. She gently coaches parents and encourages them to take ownership of their child’s success. She brings a passion unequal to others in her field. April takes great pleasure in forming this partnership in the development of curriculum and programs specifically designed to “empower a child”.

What we do

          We are currently conducting literacy workshops for youth at-risk of failure.   “Beat the Streets”  behaviorial management program  includes a reading circle, writing conference, and social therapy activities proven to encourage, motivate, and inspire most youngsters whether at-risk or not. We coach parents who homeschool their children.  Additionally, we  conduct staff development workshops specializing in Teacher Burnout Remedies for teachers who work with at-risk youngsters living in high risk areas.

This is a testimonial about me from one of my former students.

…I want to say thank you, there is no way I would have been able to do the things I am doing right now. Having a good mentor, whether parent teacher or otherwise cannot be matched. I am 23 years old, devoted father, college graduate, and businessman. As so many others I am able benefit from the sacrifices in which Michelle R. Yisrael, or Sister Amirah as we call her are. It was been a blessing to have had the experience of such a great mentor, teacher, substitute parent. I have been able to use the things I learned an the values instilled in me she, Sister April, Sister Jamillah, Brother Kadu, Sister Hadassah, and others. I am happy to be able to now do the same for others. I am an accomplished businessman because I was given my first experience at The Israel Academy. I was allowed to operate a store out of my locker. Many seeds were sown in us when were young. Right now I am reaping the benefits of those seeds. One of my current mentors, said that the same wind blows us on us all, the way in which we deal with the wind and those issues is what makes us different. I was taught well how to deal with the wind as it often blows challenges and difficulties my way by the hard word and sacrifice of The Israel Academy staff. I can only imagine the level of sacrifice that was made to educate my peers and I. I do know though, that we were family. I am here to tell anyone who wants to listen that Sister Amirah has impacted the lives of so many of us in such a good way. At the time, none of us knew that her influence would actually influence us for the rest of our lives. I was taught personal development when I did not know it. I am appreciative of their efforts. I am now self motivated, and have learned to work, as they did, in an incredible way; not for the money but for the principle. I was taught to work for the good of the people. They taught us that knowledge is not power, instead knowledge with action is power.

Rajneesh Ali
Former Student
The Israel Academy