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Find Someone Who

Gain insights into how life circumstances shape personal paradigms, examine myths about poverty, and learn how to measure poverty. Reflect on personal experiences and explore ways to take action at personal, professional, and community levels.

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Find Someone Who

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  1. Find Someone Who

  2. Poverty Awareness Paula M. Hella, Family Living Educator, UW Extension, Calumet County Pierson Kohrell, Community Educator, UW-Extension and AmeriCorps, Calumet and Outagamie Counties

  3. Workshop Objectives • Gain insight into how life circumstances shape personal paradigms. • Examine myths about poverty. • Examine personal access to power and privilege. • Learn how poverty is measured. • Gain knowledge of poverty data. • Commit to personal, workplace and/or community action steps.

  4. Personal Reflection Recall the first experience you can remember regarding poverty. • What emotion do you recall feeling at that time? • What impact did that event have on you then? • What do you think of that situation now? Have your feelings or perspectives changed? 

  5. Poverty Defined • “Having an income below a federally determined poverty threshold.” • “Represents the Federal Government’s estimate of the point below which a family of a given size has a cash income insufficient to meet basic needs.” • “Any family/individual with total income less than an amount deemed to be sufficient to purchase food, shelter, clothing and other essential goods and services is classified as poor.” • “The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.”

  6. Poverty Defined • Insufficient means to provide, in a socially acceptable manner, the basic necessities of daily life in order to live healthfully. • The difference between what will we eat for dinner and will we eat dinner.

  7. What’s Class Got to Do With It?

  8. Federal Poverty Guidelines: 2015 aspe.hhs.gov/2015-poverty-guideline

  9. Poverty in Wisconsin the poverty rate in Wisconsin increased by more than 50% over the past decade

  10. Poverty in Wisconsin

  11. Wisconsin Poverty Rates, 1970-2010 Who is in Poverty? children are more than twice as likely to live in poverty as are the elderly from 2005 to 2010, child poverty increased 3 times as fast in Wisconsin as nationwide

  12. Living Wage in Wisconsin aspe.hhs.gov/2015-poverty-guideline http://livingwage.mit.edu/states/55

  13. Making Ends Meet in Wisconsin1 Adult and 2 Children, 2014 $23.44/hr $12.50/hr $7.50/hr

  14. What Makes Poverty so Harmful • Few financial resources • Lack of nutrition • Decrease in mental health • Home environment • Neighborhoods struggling • Stress

  15. What Makes Poverty so Harmful • Brain on Poverty • “Responding to constant, urgent, immediate needs prevents us from getting out of crisis mode to be able to make clear, long term decisions or implement a plan.” Paulo Freire

  16. Iceberg

  17. Poverty Call to Action How can you address poverty: • At a personal level? • At a professional level? • At a community level?

  18. Thank you!!

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