Community Action Poverty Simulation - UTC - Nov 4

642 East 5th Street,Chattanooga TN 37403

04 November, 2021

Description

UTC School of Nursing invites you to participate in a simulation to promote poverty awareness. The Community Action Poverty Simulation is an interactive immersion experience for students, faculty, staff, or community partners. This simulation sensitizes participants to the realities of poverty. The main objectives are to promote poverty awareness through role-play by living a simulated month in poverty or with low income. Debriefing post-simulation will increase understanding and hopefully inspire local change in participants perspectives and bias towards poverty. For more information, please go to www.utc.edu/povertysimulation There are several ways to be a part of this simulation: 1. A participant is a simulated family member. Students participating for the first time in the simulation should sign up for the "participant" role. 2. A volunteer is a simulated community resource partner (you must arrive 1-hour early for training for this role). The Community Action Poverty Simulation was purchased by UTC SON through a federally funded HRSA grant program as a licensed agreement for private use from Missouri Community Action Network, a Missouri nonprofit corporation. www.povertysimulation.net The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was awarded the Clinical-Academic Network for Developing Leaders (CANDL) grant in 2018 through the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration in order to form innovative academic-practice partnerships and to create pathways for treating chronic pain holistically. Event inquiries will be received by Farron Kilburn, Project Manager for the CANDL grant.