num_pages: 293
description: Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals. Based in part on Dr. Ruby K. Payne's myth shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to the millions of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty. In a highly readable format you'll find case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific solutions you and your organization can implement right now to: Redesign programs to better serve people you work with; build skill sets for management to help guide employees; upgrade training for front-line staff like receptionists, case workers, and managers; improve treatment outcomes in health care and behavioral health care; increase the liklihood of moving from welfare to work. If your business, agency, or organization works with people from poverty, only a deeper understanding of their challenges--and strengths--will help you partner with them to create opportunities for success.
language: English
title: Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
titlecomplete: Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Social Justice, Education, Economics, Poverty, Social Work, Personal Development, Sociology, Business
ratings_count: 949
publisher: aha! Process, Inc.