Innovations with Getting Ahead: Two models from Pima County, Arizona

Addressing the Challenges of Poverty national conference presentation spotlight

Learn about two innovative approaches, one working with youth and one with mothers, that incorporate and expand Getting Ahead to create additional impact. These approaches involve both government and community organizations in unique partnerships, and they integrate systems change components. Both Getting Ahead graduates and staff will present and describe their experiences.

Learning objectives include:

Learn about ways to incorporate Getting Ahead in a larger structure or program design to bring additional impact.
Review evaluation tools to measure impact along with current outcomes.
Consider strategies to connect Getting Ahead graduates to leadership opportunities and systems change processes.

Target audience: Advanced aha! Process users, Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World, Staying Ahead, Government

Presenters: Bonnie Bazata, Ending Poverty Now program manager, Maria Magana, Mothers in Arizona Moving Ahead project coordinator, Patty Short, Las Artes education coordinator, Pima County, Tucson, Arizona

Time/Location: Monday, September 24, Addressing the Challenges of Poverty national conference, Atlanta, Georgia

About the Author: aha! Process

aha! Process is an award-winning training and publishing company providing workshops, publications, and consulting services to help improve lives and build sustainable success in communities, schools, and higher education. We do this by creating an understanding of the dynamics that cause and maintain poverty from the individual to systems level.