Participants: TJC Dental Hygiene, UT Tyler School of Pharmacy, East Texas Food Bank Agency Conference, Love in Action, DSHS Regions 2 & 3, TJC Vocational Nursing, Christian Women's Job Corp Lindale, Literacy Council of Tyler, Malakoff, Christian Homes, TJC Social Work, UT Health Science Center and hundreds more in multiple public sessions.
Annual Outreach: 700+ participants
Annual Outreach: 700+ participants
Bridges Out of Poverty Workshops
Learn about proven concepts, strategies and approaches to prevent, reduce, and alleviate poverty. This training assists employers, community organizations, social service agencies, and individuals gain insight and strategies.
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This workshop introduces participants to a comprehensive approach for understanding the dynamics that cause and maintain poverty from the individual to the systemic levels. Bridges Out of Poverty uses the lens of economic class and provides concrete tools and strategies for a community to prevent, reduce, and alleviate poverty.
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Participants will review poverty research, examine a theory of change, and analyze poverty through the prism of the hidden rules of class, resources, family structure, and language. Throughout the workshop, participants will receive specific strategies for improving outcomes for people living in poverty. The workshop is designed to provide a broad overview of concepts.
Everyone in our community plays a role in poverty elimination and through the ETHNN Bridges campaign you will learn about your role. Your participation will ensure that we achieve critical mass of community members who understand and utilize Bridges Out of Poverty constructs in their personal and professional decision making.
- Adopt an accurate and comprehensive approach to poverty.
- Analyze our own environment, circumstances, and role in society.
- Build relationships of mutual respect with people from other environments and classes.
- Redesign programs and procedures to better serve people who come to the organization for help.
- Apply Bridges constructs to our own staff and organization.
- Address change at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.
Everyone in our community plays a role in poverty elimination and through the ETHNN Bridges campaign you will learn about your role. Your participation will ensure that we achieve critical mass of community members who understand and utilize Bridges Out of Poverty constructs in their personal and professional decision making.
Certified Bridges Trainers
Christina Fulsom
Mike Taliaferro
Pam Jacobsen
Susan Rodriguez
Christina Fulsom
Mike Taliaferro
Pam Jacobsen
Susan Rodriguez
Upcoming Bridges Workshops
2021 Bridges Out of Poverty Training Schedule
- Additional 2021 dates coming soon!
Bridges Out of Poverty Certified Facilitators
with Phil DeVol (far left) co-author of Bridges Out of Poverty - Strategies for Professionals and Communities.