See poverty-- be the difference! : discovering the missing pieces for helping people move out of poverty / Donna Marie Beegle, with Debbie Ellis, Rima Akkary.
520 Donated through a generous gift from the City of Dubuque Human Rights Department, March 2014. A foundation for understanding poverty -- Serving people from poverty -- Laying the foundation for institutional and systemic change.
Summary:
This resource provides an authentic opportunity for gaining a foundation, rooted in lived experience and research, for understanding poverty and addressing its impacts. It is designed to shatter stereotypes with facts about poverty and provide ideas for creating programs and systems that are reponsive to the needs of people from poverty background. It will provide some concrete tools for educating, communicating, and working more effectively with those you serve and hopefully inspire you to want to learn and do more!
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.