Bridges Out of Poverty represents a powerful tool for change. Based in part on Dr. Ruby Payne’s
myth-shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to the millions
of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty.
Bridges training contains case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific
solutions you and your organization can implement right now to:
Redesign programs to better serve people in poverty
Build skill sets for management to help guide employees
Upgrade training for front-line staff like receptionists, case workers, and managers
Improve treatment outcomes in health care and behavioral health care
Increase the likelihood of moving from welfare to work
8:30 am - 3:30 pm, Central Community Church, 6100 Maple, Wichita 67209
Presenter: Phil DeVol, Senior Consultant, aha! Process, Inc.
Early Bird Registration is $175 (until June 15), Registrations received after June 15 are $200
Any cancellations received after July 6 will be assed a 25% ($50) cancellation fee.
Rising to the
Challenge: Reducing Childhood Poverty and Improving Childhood Outcomes
in Kansas town hall meetings, sponsored by Governor Brownback, will be held Monday,
Nov. 14 in Kansas City; Wednesday, Nov. 16 in Wichita; and Thursday Nov.
17 in Garden City.
Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful
spotlight on one of America's central challenges, the inequality that
leaves
the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the
entire
bottom 90 percent.
Most of the proposed remedies involve
changes in taxes and regulations, and they would help. But the single
step that
would do the most to reduce inequality has nothing to do with finance at
all.
It's an expansion of early childhood education.
