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Dr. Donna M. Beegle

Interrupting Generational Poverty. Dr. Donna M. Beegle. Key Terms. Perception: How our mind makes sense of our experiences Membership : Our description of the world Identification: Symbolic rebirth Motivation : The “why” behind our behavior Empathy: Understanding. Defining Poverty.

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Dr. Donna M. Beegle

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  1. Interrupting Generational Poverty Dr. Donna M. Beegle

  2. Key Terms Perception:How our mind makes sense of our experiences Membership:Our description of the world Identification:Symbolic rebirth Motivation:The “why” behind our behavior Empathy:Understanding

  3. Defining Poverty • Generational Poverty • Family has never owned land • Never knew anyone who benefited from education • Never knew anyone who moved up or was respected in a job • Highly mobile • High family Illiteracy • Focus is on making it through the day • Working Class Poverty • Working, but rarely have money for any extras • Most do not own property • Live paycheck to paycheck • Few have health care • Focus on making it two weeks or through the month • Poverty seen as personal deficiency

  4. Immigrant Poverty - Have little or no resources - Language & culture barriers - Seem to do better than those born into poverty in America - Poverty viewed as a system problem • Depression Era Poverty - A time when the societal message was, “We are all in this together.” - Poverty seen as society problem • Middle Class Temporary/Situational Poverty - Person grows up in stable environment - Surrounded by people who are educated or able to earn a living wage - Attends school regularly - Has health care - Has crisis (health, Divorce, etc.) and ncome drops - Generally is able to make it back to middle class - Has not internalized the poverty as their own fault

  5. Oral Culture • Print Culture • Mentors

  6. Oral Culture • Relationships:At the heart of everything. First priority. • Spontaneous: Desire for variety. Ability to “go with the flow.” Change subjects with ease. • Repetition: Storytelling and repeating stories are important for maintaining knowledge. • Holistic: Focus on the “BIG picture.” Tendency to take in everything going on around them. • Emotional: Comfort with emotions. Shows emotions readily in most any situation. Open to self-disclosing private details. • Present Oriented: Highly in-tune with the here and now. • Agonistic: More physical. • Interrupting: There are no periods in verbal communication. • Self Disclosure: Share intimate details for connections

  7. Print Culture • Linear: Organizes thoughts & actions by “first this, then this” thought process. • Time: At the heart of everything. High priority on daily activities. • Analytic/Abstract: Knowledge is outside of self. Ability to step back from a situation, separate & disconnect self from what is going on. • Self-Disciplined/Focus: Strong ability to shut out sensory data and focus on one idea at a time. • Delay Gratification: Strong understanding of relationships between parts. • Strategize: Ability to plan ahead, set goals, focus on future. Break things into parts, connect small efforts to reach end desires.

  8. Successful Mentors • 1. Believe in the person they are working with • 2. Believe there is a way out of poverty • 3. Are bi-cultural: • * Understand structural causes of poverty • * Are aware of the history of poverty in the U.S. • * Know poverty related facts about your community* • * Are able to suspend judgment • 4. Open your personal network to the people you are working with • 5. Teach those you are working with how to build a network

  9. Family Photos Auctioned Off

  10. Four of Five Brothers - 1999

  11. Met at 12 - Married at 15

  12. Future WIC Baby – Jennifer

  13. Danny - Born Healthy

  14. Daniel Today

  15. Jennifer goes to France - Twice

  16. My Family Today

  17. The wealthy Native American woman opened her purse. The purse contained money. The wealthy Native American woman had opened the door to her car. The middle-class African American man was a thief. The poor white parking garage attendant was the man at the car door. The middle-class African American man took the contents of the purse. There was a man inside the car. The middle-class African American took the money. The wealthy Native American woman owned the car. The middle-class African American man was a passenger in the car.

  18. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.-- Hyman Rickover

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