BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY
Poverty comes in many forms and is defined as the extent to which an individual does without resources whether financial, spiritual, mental/educational, physical, support system, relational/role models, emotional, or knowledge of hidden rules.
The Connectional Ministry office has a poverty simulation kit that can be used to create an experience that puts participants into other people’s shoes an experience a month in the life of a person or family living in insecurity. The experience is for three hours with debriefing and opportunities for next steps.
The Bridges Out of Poverty model discusses the need for individual, communal, and societal investigation to discover changes that need to be made to overcome poverty. Bridges work is a part of the Aha!Process.
In a Bridges six-month virtual cohort you will take a deep dive chapter by chapter into this work of learning mental models of poverty, middle class and wealth, tyranny of the moment, theories of change, generational poverty, and organizing for power. Past cohorts have spent time with the authors of Bridges curriculum, bonded with people from different disciplines, and discovered passions for this work in their communities and workplaces. In a Bridges six-hour day training a presenter will dive into these same concepts to understand the Bridge’s philosophy. Other trainings on other topics can be found on the Aha!Process website.
After a Bridges training a participant has completed the first step to become a R Rules or Getting Ahead facilitator. Further training is needed for both.
Contact Rev. Kathy Dickriede to learn more about any of these ministries.
The East Ohio Conference Office:
located in North Canton, OH,
near Akron-Canton Airport.
Address:
8800 Cleveland Ave. NW
North Canton, OH 44720
Phone:
(330) 499-3972
Office Hours:
Monday through Friday
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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