3.17 RACMI Community of Practice: The Complexities of Poverty

8500 East State Street,Rockford IL 61108

17 March, 2021

Description

This Community of Practice Session with take place via Zoom. The discussion will begin at 8:30 a.m. This session will focus on the complexities of poverty and introduce you to the Bridges Out of Poverty Framework to improve participant outcomes. You will leave with a better understanding of the dynamics that cause and maintain poverty from an individual, community and systemic level. This training session is appropriate for any nonprofit employee or volunteer, regardless of service area. Mary Cacioppi, Executive Director of One Body Collaboratives, will share the Bridges Out of Poverty framework which offers a new way to view the issue of poverty, and provides tools and resources to equip you to rethink the way you deliver services, leading to improved outcomes for program participants. The impact of poverty is felt across sectors, in all parts of life. Poverty is a complex problem that demands a comprehensive approach. Therein lies the challenge; Poverty is not resolved with a single program or even set of programs, because there so many variables. This session provides an overview of the Bridges Model as it relates to the individual, and covers the following concepts: Social Cognitive Theory, Mental Models of Economic Class, Causes of Poverty, Hidden Rule Among Economic Classes, the Eleven Resources, Registers of Language, Household Dynamics, and more. It will help you and your organization discover why “middle class” solutions to poverty do not produce the results we are looking for, and WHAT WORKS! This training will change the way you view poverty forever and provide you with tools and strategies to implement within your organization. Your innovations can impact the lives of people in poverty, improve the outcomes of your organization, and help build a broad community initiative. The Bridges Out of Poverty model operates on the law of attraction: If you like this approach, then take ownership of the ideas and apply them where you live and work. About the Trainer: Mary Cacioppi, Executive Director at One Body Collaboratives has earned the Bridges Out of Poverty Trainer Certification. Mary’s certification included in-depth work on the Bridges Out of Poverty and Applying Bridges Concepts strategies and constructs. Additional certifications that Mary has achieved include: Certified Facilitator of the Getting Ahead and Getting Ahead in the Workplace curriculums. Community of Practice sessions provide useful and relevant information for all case managers and human services professionals, regardless of your area of service. These quarterly events are held to strengthen skills and increase knowledge on specialized topics, share information and best practices for the field of case management in general, and provide an opportunity for networking among local case managers to help you successfully implement the foundation skills of the community wide approach to Case Management. The Rockford Area Case Management Initiative is a community-wide approach to deliver individualized strength-based and person-centered support services that help participants achieve specific, self-defined outcomes leading to a healthy self-reliance and interdependence within their community.