"Bridges Out of Poverty" Training on November 12th in Pensacola
Thursday October 30, 2008, Pensacola
“Now I understand the people I’m serving.”
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.
Unite Escambia’s Poverty Solution Team is hosting a BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY training event on Wednesday, November 12 from 8:30 am-3:30 pm at Temple Beth-el at 800 N. Palafox Street.
Attendees will:
Develop mental models of the environments of poverty, middle class, and wealth;
Examine the causes of poverty;
Begin to understand how the differing environments can produces different hidden rules;
Define resources that are necessary for a high quality of life and explore community action and policies that can enhance resources; and
Explore how the information can be used to created relationships between and among classes so that all can participate in solving problems at the community and systemic levels.
We have 50 spaces available at a cost of $25 that includes lunch and training materials. To register, send check payable to Catholic Charities to Janet Westlake, Bridges to Circles community organizer, at the Catholic Charities Outreach Center, 1815 N. Sixth Avenue, Pensacola, FL, 32503. Questions, call Janet at 429-7296, ext. 18; 602-8601; or email westlakej@cc.ptdiocese.org.