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Bridges and Briya Public Charter Schools were awarded the Mamie D. Lee Campus, an underutilized Washington DC Public School building and grounds for redevelopment. Originally constructed in 1967, the Mamie D. Lee School was designed for “special-needs” children, so the campus seemed like an ideal pairing for a site, building and program. Collectively, their vision is to create a site with wraparound services for children and families with a focus of those with special needs. Their campus partnering realizes this vision of providing a full spectrum of education programming from infant and toddler to adults.  With aspirations to extend services to the families, and other supportive community adults, Bridges and Briya constructed more space than their program needs for leasing to Mary’s Center Community Health Education, Training and Research. Mary’s Center is a federally qualified health center that provides health care, family literacy and social services to individuals whose needs too often go unmet by the private systems. Mary’s Center Community Health Center provides counseling and medical service to their families as well as the surrounding community.