Your family has $1,000 to make it through the month. Would you choose groceries or paying rent? What do you do if your car breaks down? Engage in a brief immersive poverty simulation together with other child and family serving professionals to learn about the decisions you might personally make, or have made, in this situation – your choices may surprise you. Co-presented by CalTrin and Strategies TA, this simulation will be paired with an opportunity to dialogue with people who have experienced poverty to connect the experiences in the simulation with their own stories and their perspectives on the difficulty of the daily decisions required for families living in poverty.

Your interactions with families are often limited and it can sometimes be difficult to acknowledge the experiences and challenges that families are experiencing. Walk away from this workshop with a deeper, more wholistic understanding of how poverty shapes how families access programs and services. Finally, we will look at strategies that professionals and organizations can use to improve the quality of both service and outcomes.

 

Participants will:

• Reflect on their own and others’ decision-making frameworks
• Connect the simulation w/lived experiences of poverty
• Discuss strategies and concrete changes in practice to improve access and outcomes

 

Who should attend: All staff of family resource centers (FRCs), child abuse prevention councils (CAPCs), and other child and family-serving organizations.

 

IMPORTANT TRAINING INFORMATION:

• This is an interactive training. Please be prepared to participate in activities such as group discussion, break out rooms, and/or demonstration. Your training experience will be best with the use of a web cam, audio, and a training environment conducive to active participation.
• This training will not be recorded.
• This is a small-group training. Spaces are limited, and there may be a waiting list. Preference will be given to applicants from California. All applicants will be contacted by the week of March 13, 2023.
• By registering for a CalTrin training, you consent to be added to the CalTrin mailing list.

TRAINING MATERIALS & RESOURCES:

• Presentation Deck (full-size slides)
• Note-taking slides (3/page)
• SPENT Simulation
• PBS Frontline Documentary: “Poor Kids”
• A Key Connection: Economic Stability and Family Well-Being (Chapin Hall)
• Community Opportunity Map (Casey Family Programs)
• CalTrin Blog: Poverty-Informed Leadership
• Strengthening Families Program Self-Assessments (Center for the Study of Social Policy)
• Protective Factors Infographics (English and Spanish) (Children’s Trust Fund Alliance)
• CalTrin Blog: Understanding and Integrating the Protective Factors Framework into Everyday Practice
• CalTrin Protective Factor of the Month Training Series
  

Training certificates are only available following live trainings or completion of self-paced courses. A certificate will not be provided for review of these materials.