Bridges out of poverty training 2023

Date: October 6, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: WCCC, Youngwood Campus, Student Achievement Center, Event Center Room
Registration is required. Slots are limited!
For more information, contact Heather McLean either via email or at (724) 433-1359.

AM Session: Experience a Poverty Simulation
Designed to sensitize participants to the realities faced by low income families surviving month to month on a minimal income.

PM Session: Bridges out of Poverty
Providing concrete tools and strategies to alleviate poverty through research and the analysis of the hidden rules of class, family structure, language, and resources.

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Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. of Baytown, Texas has been a professional educator since 1972. She has been a secondary-school teacher and department chairperson, an elementary-school principal, a consultant, and a central-office administrator. The lessons learned during these years are the bedrock on which aha! Process, Inc. has been built.

Her first book, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, is a powerful tool for educators to use when teaching children from poverty. She has led hundreds of workshops and has worked with several thousand teachers and administrators, both nationally and internationally. Ruby Payne founded aha! Process, Inc. (formerly RFT Publishing Co.) in 1996 and serves as its president. In that capacity, she continues to consult and write.

This cohort is for leaders in the community to learn to empower, lead, and facilitate the Bridges movement in the future.

About this Event

Bridges Out of Poverty Virtual Cohort hosted by Missions and Community Engagement in the East Ohio Conference of the UMC will begin this fall! This is an in depth book study of the 5th Edition Bridges out of Poverty Strategies for Professionals and Communities. Participants will meet via zoom to read, discuss and investigate opportunities for Bridges implementation within their communities. Participants will meet twice a month, on Wednesdays over lunch (11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) for 6 months, September 2022-March 2023. The cohort is free, however, purchase of Bridges books is required for all participants.

• Getting Ahead Investigator Workbook $22
• R Rules Student Workbook $17
• 5th Edition Bridges Out of Poverty Strategies for Professionals and Communities $30

If the cost of purchasing books is a barrier to participation, please contact S2RpY2tyaWVkZSB8IGVvY3VtYyAhIGNvbQ== for scholarships.

The cohort will be limited to 20 participants. so we ask that only one person from each church/agency/mission site register. If space is still available after September 5, an additional person from a registered agency will be able to sign up until we reach 20 participants.

Outcomes

• Participants must agree to attend all 12 sessions with a completion rate of no less than 90% attendance.
• Participants must review a Getting Ahead Investigator Workbook and R Rules Student Workbook in the month of December in preparation for January guest speakers.
• Participants will meet with their organization and create a future picture, to be shared at our April meeting, based on Bridges work in their communities.
• Participants must engage their organization/community in at least one Bridges related initiative beginning in Fall 2023.
• Participants must agree to come together and share their Fall 2023 work in January 2024.

Meeting Dates (Wednesdays, 11:00am-12:30pm)

• September 14, 28
• October 12, 26
• November 9, 30
• January 11, 25
• February 8, (Tuesday, the 21 because of Ash Wednesday on the 22nd)
• March 8, 22

Contact Kathy Dickriede, EOCUMC Director of Missions and Community Engagement, with any questions: S2RpY2tyaWVkZSB8IGVvY3VtYyAhIGNvbQ==

Influencing the way individuals think about poverty is key to creating positive change in the community. As part of a community initiative, we adopted a strategy made popular in the Sarnia region of Ontario for mobilizing community change, the Bridges Out of Poverty framework.

The objective of the framework is to look at poverty through an economic lens while exploring other circumstances that contribute to poverty that an individual has no control over. The framework is built on the proven concept that everyone in the community has a role to play in poverty reduction.

We offer Bridges training to anyone interested in learning more about the social and economic impact that poverty has on individuals and our community. Locally, we have already spoken with over 10,000 individuals in the private and public sectors including business, members of the health field, schools and faith-based organizations. Since 2013, we have provided training to more than 40 organizations from various community sectors throughout Wellington, Dufferin and Guelph.

• Impact of Bridges Out of Poverty in the Community Evaluation

• The Impact of Bridges Out of Poverty (video)

Bridges Out of Poverty Workshop/Training Request

Please note that Bridges Out of Poverty training is currently on hold and requests made through this form are not being responded to at this time. Check back to this page for updates.

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