Center for Urban Poverty Solutions
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As part of it mission to advance policy and practice towards solutions in urban communities, the Center for Urban Poverty Solutions provides professional development training for social workers, teachers, pastors, health care professionals and other human service professionals [and volunteers] working in low income urban communities.
Classes are culturally informed and emphasize an asset orientation to work with people living in poverty. Our objective is to help practitioners to develop and deliver programs and services that better equip the individuals and families they serve to liberate themselves from the negative impacts of urban poverty.
A Brief Course Overview
*Poverty Race Class & Culture
This class introduces the complex relationship between poverty race, class and culture in low income urban communities.
Topics include: The origins of Racism in America, understanding the structural manifestations of race and class bias, and why race still has a systemic impact on generations of low income people.
*THIS IS A PREREQUISITE FOR ALL OTHER CLASSES
Other class offerings include:
Why Community Programs Fail
This class explores how systemic structural and cultural bias impacts the development (and delivery) of programs and services in low income urban communities. Topics include: confronting cultural bias, common program development mistakes, asset-oriented assessment and how to develop culturally informed programs and services.
Politics & Poverty
This class explores how politics influences poverty in urban communities. Topics include: How poor people view politics, and how to evaluate and advocate for public policy that supports positive change in urban communities.
Faculty
Faculty includes experienced practitioners, licensed professionals and certified educators.
CEUs or Professional Development Credit may be available. Ask for details.
Professional Development Training
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* If you have have problems with Downloads or Application Requests, please contact Robert Caldwell at rcaldwell6@gmail.com
