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Bridges Out of Poverty Program Options

Bridges Out of Povety workshops provide a new lens for practitioners working with people who are economically vulnerable.

Workshops

Options:
A one or two-day workshop

This training introduces a triple lens to view poverty through… the individual, the institutional and the community.

  • Creates a mental model for various economic realities and resultant behaviour
  • Identifies and practices the skills of making and maintaining relationships within the client life cycle
  • Understandings about household dynamics and profiles specific issues in your community
  • Interrogates the poverty research continuum into the causes of poverty
  • Develops understanding of the hidden rules of economic groups, the unspoken cues and habits and how this impacts your work/agency setting
  • Distinguishes between the different registers of language to build communication that connects people
  • Analyses the nine resources model and identifies methods to build social capital for individuals, institutions & communities
  • Establishes the key concepts that underlie Bridges Out of Poverty and how to apply them within your community
  • Provides examples of collaborative models for “Bridges” institutions and the Getting Ahead Program

The workbook Bridges Out of Poverty serves as a training manual in the seminars and includes chapters on relationship building, mentoring, redesigning programs, and community collaboration.

Who should attend?

Social, legal and health professionals whose daily work connects them with the lives of economically vulnerable people.

Train the Trainer

  • Permitted to present Bridges Out of Poverty through a limited license agreement for users employed by a Permitted Institution only.
  • “Permitted Institutions” includes only the individual school campus, or other institution/agency that is the trainer’s principal employer at the time of Certification or for which they principally act as an independent contractor at the time of Certification.
  • This training is open ONLY to people who have recently completed a two day Bridges Out of Poverty workshop.

Who should attend?

This training is open ONLY to people who have recently completed a two day Bridges Out of Poverty workshop. Social, legal and health professionals whose daily work connects them with the lives of economically vulnerable people.