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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.
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