Poverty Simulation
Registrants now limited to resource roles.
During the simulation, participants will role-play the experience of low-income families’ lives or a community resource. Registration & lunch at 11.
Must register to attend. Limit 120 participants,
11:00 AM - 4:00 PMTue
Coldstream Ballroom
Case Managers
CSBG
Head Start
Program Managers
Poverty simulation is an experience designed to help participants understand what it is like to live in a typical low-income family trying to make ends meet. Participants encounter the real issues that low-income families deal with, the roadblocks that can be barriers to self-sufficiency, and how these factors shape behavior and beliefs.
Community Resources act as the roles that are visited through the simulation. These are service providers and other community resources (e.g., bank, employer, grocery, Department of Social Services, landlord, school, child care, and law enforcement, etc.) There will be a 30 minute orientation prior to the simulation start.
It is important to keep in mind that it is a simulation and not a game!