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Video: Introducing the new edition of Getting Ahead While Getting Out
A new edition of Getting Ahead While Getting Out has just been released. Listen to Phil DeVol provide information about the updates included [...]
A letter of gratitude from a newly minted scholar
I received this letter from a recent graduate of a Ph.D. program. It fills my heart with joy to know that the work we do at aha! Process res [...]
Napoleon Dynamite is not gang material
Divisions in my small Texas town grew into canyons following the shooting of a local African American teen by a middle aged White man in the [...]
Podcast: Getting Ahead and the experience of immigration
Phil DeVol, Tosin Adeyemo, and Lorraine Kelly talk about the experience of immigration and participating in Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’- [...]
New release: ‘Tactical Communication’ revised and expanded third edition
A Guide to More Effective Community Policing Understanding and positively interacting with people encountered on calls is the key to safe, s [...]
Video: What is Ruby reading? ‘It’s Not Your Money’ (Tosha Silver) and ‘Knowing God’ (J. I. Packer)
Listen in as Ruby Payne discusses books about spiritual resources. She reviews It’s Not Your Money by Tosha Silver and Knowing God by J. I. [...]
Funding sources for Getting Ahead: Community Reinvestment Act
In 2016, when I accepted the position as director of Muskogee Bridges Out of Poverty, we were at the beginning of a five-year grant from a l [...]
Ruby Payne on the Brave Men Podcast
Season 3, Episode 91: “Fighting Poverty—Setting Men Free” This will change your thinking. About poverty, about success, about generational l [...]
Video message: Choosing love in the midst of a meltdown
In this video blog post I discuss grief, love, and the things we have lost. I draw inspiration from Jordan Peterson, who says grieving is a [...]
Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World demographic data provided by CharityTracker
CharityTracker provides regular reports on Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World outcomes to participating sites related to improvements [...]
Emotional health on the half pipe
World-famous ethnologist and conservationist Jane Goodall’s contributions to science would not have been possible without her mother, who wa [...]
What is Ruby reading?
Evidence Ignored by Rita Gleason is about the Columbine school shooting. The title of the book is accurate. It is about the written evidence [...]
Bartering, relationships, and doing ‘the next right thing’
Alcoholics simplify the Alcoholics Anonymous program into the following minute-by-minute instructions for life: “Keep doing the next right t [...]
Muskogee, Oklahoma addresses generational poverty
Muskogee Bridges Out of Poverty is addressing generational poverty by investing in the children of Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World [...]
Cincinnati Works’ lifelong relationships help job seekers, families out of poverty
Over the course of 24 years, Cincinnati Works has assisted almost 9,000 families, most from generational poverty, who are working today, wit [...]
Podcast: How a county government champions Bridges Out of Poverty
Phil DeVol talks with aha! Process consultant Quinton Askew about how Bridges Out of Poverty partners with county government. aha! Pr [...]
Podcast: Representation in language arts and on state assessments
Ruby Payne and O. Raye Adkins discuss representation in language arts and on state education assessments. aha! Process Audio · Representati [...]
What is Ruby reading?
The Eldest Daughter Effect: How Firstborn Women—Like Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, J. K. Rowling, and Beyoncé—Harness Their Strengths Lise [...]
Freeze prep in poverty
Dr. Ruby Payne teaches about the hidden rules of social class, and according to her work, poverty is composed of some very solution-oriented [...]
Getting Ahead graduate report
Many thanks to the Getting Ahead sites who provided data for this report. We know it’s a lot of work that involves Getting Ahead investigato [...]
‘Emotional Poverty’ can get parents, students, and teachers through the spring
Ruby Payne’s work regarding emotional health in the classroom is a game changer in a traditional school setting where generational curses, [...]
What is Ruby reading?
In the media, there is more heat than light. How do I understand the issues without the heat, the accusations, the emotional noise of it all [...]
Ruby Payne on Food Dignity podcast
Ruby Payne is featured on the January 14, 2021 episode of the Food Dignity podcast. According to their website, “Food Dignity is a cultural [...]
A holiday visit to the breakout star of ‘People Like Us’
Tammy Crabtree’s name came to my mind the moment I, along with other full-time aha! Process consultants, was invited to record a happy holid [...]
What is Ruby reading?
I found The Madness of Crowds to be thought provoking. Author Douglas Murray has chapters titled “Gay,” “Women,” “Race,” and “Trans”. He exa [...]