This workshop is a comprehensive approach to understanding poverty using the lens of economic class and provides concrete tools and strategies for a community to alleviate poverty.
Participants will review poverty research, examine a theory of change, and analyze poverty through the prism of the hidden rules of class, resources, family structure, and language.
This workshop is open to the general public and perfect for community organizers, elected officials, concerned citizens, nonprofit staff, mental health providers, educators and school counselors, those working in the health and human service industry, frontline employees and more!
Registration includes refreshments and lunch.
- Scholarships are available. Please email kayla.gasker@panhandlepartnership.com
- Check-in and networking will begin at 8:00 a.m.
- Various agencies will have outreach tables.
- Agencies wanting a table, please email kayla.gasker@panhandlepartnership.com
Special thanks to these sponsors and supporters:
- Western Nebraska Community College
- United Way of Western Nebraska
- CAPstone Child Advocacy Center
- Community Action of Nebraska
- Alliance Christian Ministerial Association
Save the dates to continue the conversation in the Bridges Out of Poverty series!
- Bridges Out of Poverty: Institutional Lens (Part 2) - October 14, 2021 in Scottsbluff/Gering
- Bridges Out of Poverty: Community Lens (Part 3) - June 9, 2022 in Alliance
