Bridges Out of Poverty

This workshop is a comprehensive approach to understanding poverty. Bridges Out of Poverty uses the lens of economic class and provides concrete tools and strategies for a community to understand, address, and alleviate poverty. Registration includes copies of the Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities workbook, which will be provided to participants.

Participants of this workshop will:

• Examine the resources by which you create stability.
• Discover the causes of poverty.
• Create and analyze a mental model for economic environments.
• Discover the hidden rules of economic classes.
• Analyze our language and story structures.
• Discuss stability within family and support systems, and the importance of building social capital.
• Learn new tools and strategies for improving relationships and outcomes.