Other Sessions

Other Sessions

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Poverty Competency

Is your organization really serving people in the crisis of poverty well? Do you have the tools and resources you need to be competent in helping people move out of poverty? Are you systemically setting people who live in poverty up for success? This session provides tools for examining your organization, policies, and practices to ensure more successful outcomes.

Helping with respect and dignity

This session explores those awkward moments where we wonder how to help without offending or embarrassing people? Explore easy strategies for helping people in poverty, while maintaining their dignity.

Assessment Alternatives

This session is designed with strengths perspective theory. It focuses on providing skills for moving beyond red marks and negative feedback.

The history of poverty in the US

If we do not understand history, we are doomed to repeat it. This session describes models used to address poverty, labels we have used to describe people in poverty and illustrates how our history of poverty has shaped our current approaches and attitudes for addressing it.

Poverty Barriers

Examine current and past poverty theories, research and models. This session concludes with participants developing a current action plan for addressing poverty with those they serve.