Poverty Summit

145 Pavilion Lane,Youngwood PA 15697

06 October, 2022

Description

The Poverty Simulation Why a Simulation? Poverty is a reality for many individuals and families. But unless you’ve experienced poverty, it’s difficult to truly understand. A Poverty Simulation bridges that gap from misconception to understanding. It's an interactive immersion experience. It sensitizes community participants to the realities of poverty. Just Harvest’s Poverty Simulation delivers crucial insight into the world of low-income community members and helps participants experience their everyday struggles. The event, Crossing the Poverty Line: The simulation is not a game. It is based on clients and their lives. The simulation exists to: Promote Poverty Awareness During the simulation, role-play a month in poverty and experience low-income families’ lives.Increase UnderstandingLocal ChangeTransform Perspective The goal of the simulation is to shift the paradigm about poverty away from being seen as a personal failure and toward the understanding of poverty as structural, a failure of society.Bridges out of Poverty If your business, agency, or organization works with people from poverty, only a deeper understanding of their challenges-and strengths-will help you partner with them to create opportunities for success. Bridges Out of Poverty is a community support program developed by Dr. Ruby Payne, which provides a general overview of poverty and addresses strategies for finding feasible solutions. The training is intended to educate local leaders, clergy, community groups, local agencies and volunteers on the issues many people encounter daily and help them develop an understanding of how to most effectively serve in a way that transforms the community by addressing the underlying causes. Bridges Out of Poverty uses the lens of economic class and provides concrete tools and strategies for a community to alleviate poverty. Participants will review poverty research, examine a theory of change, and analyze poverty through the prism of the hidden rules of class, resources, family structure, and language.