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Individuals, organizations, and communities use Bridges in many creative ways. Those best practices are made available to other
communities here. A tradition of sharing information has sprung up forming a community of practice that is improving towns and
cities as well as Bridges work across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Slovakia. Sharing best practices is done in many ways, through
annual Bridges Institutes, teleconferences on a variety of topics, and shared documents and websites. Please send your best practices to
communities@ahaprocess.com
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Training Dates
Book a Workshop
Consultants
Publications
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Listen to Community Discussions
Bridges communities hold conference calls on a variety of topics. These are recorded so that others can hear the
discussions, pick up ideas, and make connections with people on the call. Send conference call ideas to
communities@ahaprocess.com.
How to utilize VISTA volunteers in a Circles Campaign
Bridges communities in Ohio discuss how to utilize VISTA volunteers in a Circles Campaign. It's a good match,
Bridges, Circles, and VISTA all work to end poverty. Circles initiatives take a lot of ground work that VISTA
volunteers can do for your community.
Bridges out of Poverty constructs used by business sector
Listen in on a discussion about how Bridges constructs are being used by business. The business sector can
play a big part in building stable and prosperous communities. Discover how Bridges is being applied in light
manufacturing, health care, and utilities. Done right it can help businesses improve retention rates and customer
service and it can help people get on the path to a living wage. You'll hear from Bridges communities in Vermont,
Michigan, and Indiana. You'll come away with ideas on how to engage business in a way that works for them and the
community.
Battle Creek, Michigan discusses how the Circles Campaign is working in their community
This teleseminar conducted with several communities' discuses how the Circles campaign is being done in Bridges
Communities. Battle Creek describes how they have structured their steering committee/guiding coalition, where
they have found funding, how they attract people from outside of the service delivery system to the steering
committee/guiding coalition, what's worked well and what hasn't, and what the best thing their community has
done that you will want to know for your community. This is followed by general sharing of ideas and information.
Listen to their conversation
here.
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Getting Ahead Success Stories
Getting Ahead is being used in over one hundreds sites. Visit the
Getting Ahead Network for more information. Here
some samples of
what people are saying about Getting Ahead.
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Funding Opportunities and Grants
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Bridges and Getting Ahead Endorsements
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Anti-racism Links by Institution
Bridges communities that are seeking help to address poverty where it intersects with racism are encouraged to contact the following organizations for assistance.
Cascade Engineering
As a consulting-based business, Quest is a first-of-its-kind initiative within Cascade
Engineering. Quest's nationally and peer recognized, social capital programs (Welfare
to Career and Diversity Management) work to transform long-held beliefs about people
who may be different from ourselves into values that stimulate productive alliances
within peer groups and the workplace.
Read more about
Quest's sustainable solutions
and their
three-phased educational approach to diversity.
The Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI)
The Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI) provides substantial
anti-racism consultation and training to assist institutions develop the capacity to
deal with racism as a systemic issue. MCARI provides the tools and networking that puts
them in a position to utilize all the other resources the broader anti-racism community
provides—resources that organizations may not otherwise be in a position to utilize
effectively and consistently. www.mcari.org
Learn about
MCARI's three-phase process to develop an internal anti-racism leadership team.
Teaching and Leading as Social Justice Advocacy
A Program of Educational Equity Consultants, L.L.C.
Teaching and Leading as Social Justice Advocacy (TLSJA) is a multi-year, systemic professional
development program which assist teachers and administrators in developing the knowledge, skills,
and dispositions necessary to integrate social justice issues into the learning environment and
to implement culturally relevant teaching in their classrooms and schools. TLSJA is based on the
premise that there is an important correlation between student achievement and the capacity of
teachers and administrators to develop and sustain a consciousness about race, class and gender.
The program facilitates the growth of race consciousness through a series of activities and
discussions that focus on the intersection between the participant's individual racial identity
and the enactment of their role as teacher and/or leader of the district's curriculum and instruction
goals.
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American Bar Association Pro Bono Brochure: Assisting Clients in Poverty
Bridges communities that are seeking legal assistance for people in poverty are encouraged to contact the American Bar Association.
Many pro bono clients come from "generational poverty" and have inherited mindsets and
skills that differ from those of middle-class clients. Awareness of these differences can
improve an attorney's ability to provide effective representation. Here are some tips to help
attorneys understand and effectively serve their pro bono clients.
www.abaprobono.org
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Health and Poverty through the Lens of Economic Class
An invitation to healthcare providers to create new models for better serving people in poverty
By Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D., and Philip E. DeVol
Some of the complexities found at the intersection of poverty and healthcare can be understood, and addressed,
using the lens of economic class. In this paper, Payne and DeVol identify some of the complexities that exist at
the intersection of poverty and healthcare that aren't part of the standard lexicon but arise from the findings
of A Framework for Understanding Poverty (1996, 2005).
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