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 families become hopeful and engaged in their own success. By integrating Getting Ahead principles, we move beyond short-term fixes to create lasting change that breaks generational cycles and strengthens communities.
During the Getting Ahead workshop, tools are provided for “investigators” to support the shift from a just-getting-by world to a getting-ahead world. There are no lectures, but co-learning through “investigating” the past and a future life to solve problems by building essential resources for stability. Upon graduation, investigators have developed a future story along with a new network of supports to reach it!
Getting Ahead is implemented internationally as part of the Bridges Out of Poverty model, which is a transformational look at poverty through the lens of economic class. The Bridges framework educates both the resourced and the under-resourced with the same language; improving individual relationships and engagement, organizational and business outcomes, community collaboration and systems that help everyone to get ahead.
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