Getting ahead in a just getting by world

Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World is a 16-session curriculum that helps individuals in poverty build stability and their resources for a more prosperous life for themselves and their families. Getting Ahead provides people in poverty with the same information found in Bridges Out of Poverty, which was developed for professionals and others working to end poverty in the community. Together the books form a common language for people from all classes. 

Women will learn to: 

•  Take charge of their lives  

• Complete self-assessments of their stability 

• resources and make plans to build them Develop a series of mental models to examine their own lives and create new future stories. 

•  Investigate the impact that poverty has had on themselves and their community. 

•  Use this information to build relationships across class lines.