Services
Poverty Institute
Portland, OR: July 20th - 21st 2010
The Poverty Institute is hands on two-day poverty institute for educators, health, justice, social service professionals, and community members who want to better understand poverty and to gain tools for making a difference.
Earn 1 college credit or 11 clock hours from Portland State University.
Price: (does not include food and lodging)
$349.00 non-credit
$395.00 for 1 credit or 11 clock hours
$249.00 Student rate
$299.00 Student rate with college credit
Workshops
Dr. Donna M. Beegle provides inspirational, motivational, informative speeches customized for your Organization. This is Donna's 18th year of providing Keynote presentations. Donna weaves personal experiences with research to provide insights for communicating and working more effectively across race, poverty, gender, and generational barriers.
All sessions are offered in a workshop or keynote format. Donna' s two most requested workshop sessions are “Poverty 101” and “Concrete tools for communicating more effectively.” Participants can receive continuing education credits. All sessions are customized to meet your organizational goals. more
Online Courses
Register here for Fall term 2010
September 27th - December 11th, 2010
3 Credits
This online series provides a foundation for understanding poverty and what to do about it. Currently, the number one source for education on poverty in America is the media. These courses examine poverty as a complex phenomenon experienced by individuals and created through the interaction of individuals within social systems. Insights are provided from the point of view of individuals experiencing poverty, and an introductory understanding of how social systems often support and perpetuate poverty. This series is grounded in theories of the discipline of Communication and Education. more
Coaching Institute
Coaching Institutes prepare participants to serve as poverty coaches in their organization. A poverty coach is trained to conduct “Poverty 101” sessions as well as “Communicating and Working More Effectively” sessions for in-house staff. Coaches serve as local experts for breaking poverty barriers and improving outcomes. Communication Across Barriers Coaches will be trained to conduct Poverty Competency Assessments, help organizations and communities to develop one-year action plans, and assist with follow-up on those action plans.
To be certified for one-year as a Communication Across Barriers Coach, participants must attend a two-day Poverty Institute, a two-day Coaching Institute, subscribe to a free bi-monthly newsletter, and participate in four webinars. After one-year, participants are invited to attend a recertification session. Participants receive Dr. Beegle's “See Poverty...Be The Difference” resource book, a tool kit that includes a two-hour, five session dvd training and a companion workbook.
July 22nd & 23rd, 2010 register here
Poverty Competency Assessments
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?
You've heard of “Cultural Competency.” Donna provides a template for organizational development that examines “Poverty Competency.” Many organizations serve people living in poverty. This assessment examines the organizational policies, leadership, individual attitudes, beliefs, and values, and partnerships through the eyes of people living in poverty to ensure more successful outcomes. The assessment results in the development of a year-long action plan for improving services to people living in the crisis of poverty.
