What is this blog about?

I have been preparing to facilitate a course for people who are in poverty to help them recognize and develop their resources. The course is called Getting Ahead In a Just-Gettin'-By World or GA for short. It was developed by Phil DeVol by utilizing Ruby Payne, Ph.D's framework for understanding poverty. I anticipate this to be an enriching project for myself and the participants, so I wanted to document and share my experience.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Eleventh Session

Tonight the investigators dissected how they will improve resources based on last week's self-assessment.  Each investigator identified a main goal (balanced life, happiness, stability, etc.) and named the resources they need to build in order to achieve the goal.  We wondered why so much time was allotted to this module until we got into it.  

I appreciate how everything reinforces everything else.  New concepts build on previously learned concepts, which I think will help the investigators increase their ability to think abstractly.  Maybe the concepts aren't so new as they are more complex.  It's like peeling away the layers of concepts, if that makes sense.

Pam and I shared a diagram of the ally/mentorship model with the investigators that illustrates how each person's mentors can help with each resource, which reinforces the idea of the eleven resources.  Ruby's definition of poverty now takes on a different meaning for me since I have witnessed it.

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