Poverty: Understanding Through Experience
Fri, Oct 19
|North Inland Live Well Center


Time & Location
Oct 19, 2018, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
North Inland Live Well Center, 649 W Mission Ave, Escondido, CA 92025, USA
About The Event
The Poverty Simulation called Poverty: Understanding Through Experience is a signature program of the Alliance for Regional Solutions. This program is designed to provide participants with an experience in which they better understand what it means to be living in a low income family, struggling to survive from month-to-month. The objective is to sensitize participants to the realities of life faced by individuals living in poverty.
The Poverty Simulation Experience is an eye-opening event for those who attend; individuals experience, first-hand, the realities of living in extreme hardship. Simulations model real-life situations of persons who are in positions of influence and how they impact community members experiencing poverty such as public aid workers; educators; social service workers; attorneys, etc.
Here are some of the comments from our last event:
"It was eye-opening to walk in the shoes of my clients for one day and taught me to be more empathetic…