Poverty Awareness for Community Engagement (PACE)
What is PACE?
This custom-designed professional development training provides key lessons regarding poverty and classism in our culture. It addresses:
- increasing awareness of different class cultures in the US
- how poverty is defined
- how economic class affects behaviors and mindsets
- the challenges faced by those living in poverty
- personal reflections of attitudes regarding poverty
Who should attend?
This training is relevant to all professionals who work with people living in poverty, including:
- community-based organizations
- social service agencieswelfare to work programs
- faith-based organizations
- health care systems
- criminal justice system
- educational systems
- law enforcement agencies
- government agencies
- business organizations
What does the Curriculum include?
- book clubs
- class acts (learning activities and exercises)
- faces of poverty (hunger close to home, making ends meet & poverty quizzes)
- poverty briefs and profiles (fact sheets on issues of poverty)
- videos and DVDs
- Just Neighbors Toolkit
- community change circles
- poverty simulations
To learn more about the PACE training or pieces of the curriculum, please contact Cynthia Muhar, at 414-256-4670 or cynthia.muhar@ces.uwex.edu
For information about a non-profit grass-roots initiative whose mission is ‘To fund post-secondary education for graduates of public schools in the City of Milwaukee’, as a means to address poverty, please visit http://mkepromise.wetpaint.com/
