Practitioner Training
For Professional & Volunteer Practitioners
Answer Poverty provides training that equips practitioners to develop (and deliver) programs and services that connect more authentically with people living in poverty, helping them to better understand the reality of a life lived in poverty. Building on that better understanding, they will then be able to help families work to liberate themselves from poverty and the negative impact it has on all of us. Offerings include:
The Cost of Poverty Experience™ (COPE) is an immersive role play learning experience that gives participants an opportunity to experience poverty first hand through the scenarios of real families who lived them. It is designed for practitioners to see what the individuals and families they serve experience as they navigate the system of helping organizations, governmental agencies and social challenges they face living in poverty.
Poverty Race Class & Culture is a practitioner training designed to unpack how misperceptions about poverty, race, class, and cultural work to perpetuate poverty in America. It focuses on equipping organization working in low income communities to develop programming that overcomes those misperceptions and work to interrupt the cycle of generational poverty.
Whole Life-Whole Community is a community-based and community led training that works to build on the most important asset that every community has...its people. We work to build the capacity of residents and community leaders to plan, identify resources and build collaborations with other stakeholders to implement community development activity that will help transform their community.