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Why invest in a Bridges out of Poverty Workshop?

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Categorized as: Categories Team Building, Training

The Bridges out of Poverty model is a comprehensive, community-focused approach to understanding and addressing poverty, emphasizing the collective need for individual, organizational and systemic change. Bridges offers concrete tools and strategies for individuals, organizations, and communities to work together towards poverty reduction.  The Bridges model offers a series of workshops for professionals, organizations and businesses who … Read more

Organizational Recovery using the Bridges Lens (Part 1)

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Categorized as: Categories Resources, Team Building

Health and Human Services is a rewarding yet sometimes challenging career. Particularly as we continue to try and recover from a global pandemic while now also facing unprecedented current geopolitical tensions. Common challenges we are facing across organizations can include any combination of funding cuts, higher levels of burn out, change exhaustion, depleted staff engagement, … Read more

Performance Coaching

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Categorized as: Categories Leadership, Team Building

Performance Coaching inspires employees to improve their skills and reach their full potential. The goal is to help employees develop strategies for improvement and take control of their professional growth. This does not mean we tell the individual what to do; nobody appreciates that. When you adopt a “coach approach” to performance conversations, you truly believe in … Read more

Mentoring and Coaching

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Categorized as: Categories Leadership, Resources, Team Building

The ability to effectively communicate and build trust are the most critical skills in leadership – and these skills are rooted in successful coaching and mentoring. As a leader, coaching and mentoring are essential not only to seek out for your own development, but also to embed and model with your team. Utilizing internal coaching … Read more

How is Bridges Different from Other Models?

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There are a number of factors that set the Bridges Model apart from other approaches including how we define poverty, how we engage and learn from people, how we recognize the impacts of income disparity, the methods we use to bring people together – and in providing a common language and understanding for everyone. The … Read more

Getting Ahead Model: Getting Ahead in a Just Getting By World

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Categorized as: Categories Resources

The Getting Ahead model is a transformative, co-investigative approach that empowers individuals and families in poverty to assess their own situations, identify barriers, and build resources for long-term stability. Rather than prescribing solutions, it fosters self-sufficiency by helping participants shift from survival mode to stability while strengthening community connections. This model provides wrap around supports while ensuring … Read more

The Bridges Model

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Categorized as: Categories Resources, Training

Bridges Out of Poverty provides a framework for understanding the challenges faced by individuals living in generational poverty and dives into the complex barriers that can keep them there. The workshop explores the hidden rules of economic class, the resources required for stability, and the importance of building social capital to foster long-term stability. It explores … Read more

Suzie Johnson-Smith