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Poverty Simulation

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The CESA 6 Poverty Simulation is a half day immersive experience. Participants are assigned to “families” with an accompanying “family story.” Families will be challenged to navigate work, school, and community and social systems with the resources they have been given while managing unexpected events along the way. The experience provides participants with the opportunity to live one month in the life of a human experiencing poverty. Facilitated opportunities to process the experience and consider the implications in your school community will follow.

The Benefits

• Immersive Experience

Step into the life of a family navigating poverty,
managing resources, and facing real-life challenges.

• Collaborative Role-Play

Engage in interactive scenarios as family
members or agency workers to explore systemic
barriers firsthand.

• Reflection and Action Planning

Process the experience and identify practical
strategies to reduce barriers and promote
equity in schools and communities.

Outcomes & Deliverables

• Increase knowledge of structures, policies, processes, and practices that contribute to system barriers
• Build empathy, understanding, and responsibility that individuals can take to remove barriers
• Encourage participants to be agents of change personally, and professionally, within systems, and communities

Structure & Schedule

• Schools and other groups can host a poverty simulation in their community.
• Attendees are assigned to participate as either a member of a family or a worker at agency with an accompanying story and role. Participants will be challenged to navigate work, school, community, and social systems with the resources they have been given while managing unexpected events along the way. This experience provides the opportunity to interactively role play one month in the life of a human experiencing poverty. Facilitated opportunities to process the experience and consider the implications in your school community will follow.
• Host will provide space that will support the simulation and access to presentation technology.

Who Would Benefit

• Schools
• Community Members

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