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 work with families experiencing instability in our communities. The full day individual lens workshop provides a common understanding, language and new innovative strategies that improve client/customer relations, engagement and outcomes.
For organizations who want to take a deeper dive, the institutional lens workshop is a second full day that reviews and applies the Bridges lens to their programs, services, policies and procedures; ultimately enhancing the workplace culture, improving collaboration and achieving performance targets.
Here’s a more detailed look at what makes Bridges Out of Poverty unique:
- Socioeconomic Lens: Bridges uses an economic class lens to understand how we all think, behave and prioritize differently based upon a social cognitive learning theory.
- Inclusive Approach: Bridges addresses poverty at multiple levels, including individual, organizational and, community, promoting a holistic and inclusive approach to community wellbeing.
- New Tools and Strategies: Bridges provides practical tools and strategies for understanding and addressing poverty, empowering individuals and communities to come together and work collaboratively using a person-centered coach approach.
- Focus on Relationships: Bridges Out of Poverty emphasizes the importance of building positive relationships between individuals from different backgrounds, fostering understanding and empathy for one another’s unique values and strengths.
- Community Involvement: Bridges Out of Poverty empowers community involvement, recognizing that everyone has a role to play in addressing poverty.
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