If your business, agency, or organization works with people from poverty, only a deeper understanding of their challenges—and strengths—will help you partner with them to create opportunities for success.

Bridges Out of Poverty represents a powerful tool for change.choice!!!!

Based in part on Dr. Ruby Payne’s  A Framework for Understanding Poverty,

Bridges reaches out to  service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty.

Bridges training contains case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific solutions you and your organization can implement right now to:

• Redesign programs to better serve people in poverty

• Build skill sets for management to help guide employees

• Upgrade training for front-line staff like receptionists, case workers, and managers

• Improve treatment outcomes in health care and behavioral health care

• Increase the likelihood of moving from welfare to work

The book Bridges Out of Poverty is used as a training manual in the seminars and includes chapters on relationship building, mentoring, redesigning programs, and community collaboration.

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