Poverty Simulation
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Poverty Simulation

This simulation increases participants' understanding of hardships and the emotional toll experienced living at or below the poverty level.

Date and time

Thursday, April 3 · 9:30 - 11:30am CDT

Location

Gardendale's First Baptist Church - South Campus

940 Main Street Gardendale, AL 35071

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Poverty Simulation

The Children's Policy Cooperative of Jefferson County is partnering with Alabama Possible to host a Poverty Simulation for child serving organizations in Jefferson County.

Alabama Possible utilizes the Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) kit developed by Missouri Community Action Network (MCAN). This simulation is a hands-on exercise that allows participants to immerse themselves in the day-to-day life of a person living in poverty. It provides participants with an in-depth preview of the systemic barriers individuals living in poverty face and the impact it has on them emotionally and personally leading them to majority of times making disastrous decisions. As per CAPS, “It is a simulation, not a game. The objective is to shift our paradigm about poverty away from being seen as a personal failure and toward the understanding of poverty as a structured, failure of society.”

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