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Philip DeVol, CCDC (6/81-6/03) of Marengo, Ohio, has been training and consulting on poverty issues since 1997 and is co-author of Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities. In 2004 he wrote Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World: Building Your Resources for a Better Life that helps people in poverty investigate the impact of poverty on their community and themselves. Getting Ahead investigations result in concrete plans and prepare people to participate in solving community problems.

Philip works with many communities that apply Bridges Out of Poverty constructs. Bridges communities bring together people from all classes, political persuasions, and sectors to address all causes of poverty in a systemic way. Philip holds quarterly phone conferences with Bridges communities on a variety of topics to assist knowledge transfer between the many individuals, organizations, and communites that are adopting Bridges principles to their settings and developing new levels of expertise.

Philip has written a number of papers for aha! including "Using the Hidden Rules of Class to Build Sustainable Communities" and "Additive Model: the aha! Process Approach to Building Sustainable Communities." He also provides e-trainings and Web-based sessions on a number of topics.

In addition, Philip coordinates aha! Process’s work with other organizations to effect innovative, high impact strategies for ending poverty and building communities where everyone can do well.

Philip builds on his 19 years as director of an out-patient, substance-abuse treatment facility where he designed treatment programs and collaborative systems for school-based prevention, community-based intervention, and Ohio's first alternative school for recovering young people. The agency also developed specific treatment programs for women and adolescents, plus a substance abuse treatment program for a correctional facility. Philip also co-authored The Complete Guide to Elementary Student Assistance Programs.

He served his community as the coordinator of the Family and Children First Council where the directors of all the organizations that service families and children met to develop collaborative approaches to their work.
Philip DeVol, CCDC and OCPC
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