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Kevin Store, executive director of Portage Health Foundation in Hancock, Michigan, discuss the difference Getting Ahead has made in the lives of people in this Bridges community.
Poverty Series–Part IVCampuswide InterventionsThat ImproveStudent Achievementby Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.
Poverty Series–Part IIIWorking with Studentsfrom Poverty: Disciplineby Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.
Poverty Series–Part II Building Learning Structures Inside the Head by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.
Poverty Series–Part I Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.
Will teaching ever be worth it?
Bad news first: Teachers, especially new teachers, are often undervalued, underequipped, and unprepared for the reality of high-poverty classrooms. The result is frustration, fear, and a loss of idealism and enthusiasm, fatal flaws for someone facing 30 fourth-graders and a besieged principal every day. Hopelessness can set in fast.
But before you quit, realize this: Not only can you survive, you can experience the joy and satisfaction you expected when you first decided to teach. Besides, your students need you.
Bestselling author Ruby Payne, Ph.D. was once where you are now. Her insights and solutions are at once personal and professional, and they will help guide you to the knowledge, resources, and mindset you need to create a future story of success and satisfaction.
It takes more than financial resources to get out of poverty. An excerpt from Chapter 1 of the fifth edition of Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities by Ruby Payne, Phil DeVol, and Terie Dreussi-Smith, with Eugene Krebs.
Hear Tammie Heuck from Bridges of Sublette County in Wyoming discuss resource coaching in her community with aha! Process author and consultant Ruth Weirich.
Bridges Out of Poverty authors Ruby Payne, Phil DeVol, Terie Dreussi-Smith, and Gene Krebs discuss the fifth edition of the book. They are joined by aha! Process consultants Kate Daneker, Ruth Weirich, Nicole Baptiste, and Mike Saccocio, along with Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World facilitator Jesse Quintana.
Phil DeVol, Tosin Adeyemo, and Lorraine Kelly talk about the experience of immigration and participating in Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World groups.
Phil DeVol talks with aha! Process consultant Quinton Askew about how Bridges Out of Poverty partners with county government.
Ruby Payne and O. Raye Adkins discuss representation and diversity in language arts and on state education assessments.
Ruby Payne shares strategies for teachers to raise student achievement in the classroom and on standardized state assessments.
Ruby Payne shares strategies for teachers to raise student achievement in the classroom and on standardized state assessments.
Ruby Payne shares strategies for teachers to raise student achievement in the classroom and on standardized state assessments.
Ruby Payne shares strategies for teachers to raise student achievement in the classroom and on standardized state assessments.
Ruby Payne shares strategies for teachers to raise student achievement in the classroom and on standardized state assessments.
Ruby Payne shares strategies for teachers to raise student achievement in the classroom and on standardized state assessments.
Ruby Payne shares strategies for teachers to raise student achievement in the classroom and on standardized state assessments.
Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. conducts an interview with Dr. Leticia Vargas, a medical doctor, on the resources of Hispanics.
Ruby Payne gives an overview of the information in her book Emotional Poverty, Volume 2: Safer Students and Less-Stressed Teachers.
Ruby Payne reads the Introduction from her book Emotional Poverty, Volume 2. Purchase the entire audiobook at ahaprocess.com
Dr. Ruby K. Payne talks to aha! Process consultants Ruben Perez, Dr. Chestin Auzenne-Curl, and Michael Curl about addressing racial questions and issues at school.
Address Trauma. Strengthen Resilience.
Facilitators and participants in Getting Ahead initiatives share a common language. However, the steady rise in sources of unaddressed trauma in childhood—from parental substance abuse and domestic violence to systemic barriers experienced by marginalized groups and the heightened inequities of a global pandemic—creates a new urgency and imperative.
We must integrate trauma science and trauma-informed language into our Getting Ahead curricula to help participants heal from trauma and build resilience, both personally and in their communities.
Getting Ahead ACEs and PACEs Supplement: Addressing Trauma Through Building Trust and Resilience affirms the conclusions of international public health experts: Unaddressed trauma is a public health crisis, and peer support groups are fundamental to healing individuals and communities.
ACEs stands for adverse childhood experiences, referring to traumatic events that occur before age 18. Together with Getting Ahead and Bridges champions, local and state ACEs coalitions are building a leadership pipeline to bring trauma-informed voices to the table. With their transformational fuel, communities co-create tools and strategies that support healing and resilience for all.
This supplement makes the case for rising to this urgent challenge and lays the ground- work for Getting Ahead facilitators to: • Recognize and share the ever-growing body of trauma science • Incorporate trauma-informed language and practices into Getting Ahead • Help build trust, resilience, and positive social connections among participants • Identify resources, assets, and policies that support trauma awareness and response
Adrienne B. Elder holds a Master of Public Health degree with specific training as a Certified Health Education Specialist, a national Bridges Out of Poverty trainer, and a certified Getting Ahead program facilitator. She serves on the National Trauma Campaign Core Team and in the ACEs Connection Speakers & Trainers Bureau to help community coalitions become trauma-informed.
Philip E. DeVol is an international consultant, coauthor of Bridges Out of Poverty, and author of Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World, among many other publications. Bridges and Getting Ahead initiatives are in use in hundreds of U.S. communities and many others around the world.
This webinar provides an overview of the McKinney-Vento rights and ongoing struggles of homeless youth. Kim Ellis, an aha! consultant and career educator, talks about her work with the homeless in Waco, TX.
Ruby Payne interviews Gary Eagleton and Angelina Hudson about mental health during COVID-19.
Recorded April 2, 2020
A diverse group of young leaders in western Minnesota is working together to address food insecurity in their community through an innovative “one for one” initiative. Utilizing Bridges concepts, MNyou Youth Garden is creatively finding ways to dismantle barriers to living a healthy lifestyle by putting fresh food on the plates of those in need. In this webinar, participants will see the principles of Getting Ahead and Bridges Out of Poverty in action.
Christina Fulsom, Founder and Network Weaver, East Texas Human Needs Network
Mike Simon, Community Impact Specialist, Simon Solutions
Learn new and exciting ways to maximize the effectiveness of the Bridges movement in your community. Discover how innovative technology and collective impact strategies are advancing a more comprehensive and holistic approach to transforming people’s lives.
Financial literacy is a critical component of success in life. Learn how Money & ME was strategically written for people who are in survival mode and living paycheck to paycheck. This system includes workbooks and kits, technology, and training for organizations who are inspired to help low-income people take control of their money and their lives.
Use the Bridges to Healthcare and What Every Church Member Should Know About Poverty models to better equip faith based leaders by helping them understand and elevate the level of care for their members. Understanding socio-economic status from the pews can serve as a prevention strategy as well as a proactive approach for barrier elimination in the event that people have a hospital encounter.
Bridges Out of Poverty and the local church are a perfect match. The church represents the largest volunteer force on the planet, and Bridges Out of Poverty gives churches a practical tool that helps inform their understanding of poverty and ultimately reframe their volunteer work with the poor beyond simple charity and short-term fixes. Significant Matters and its Missions 3.0 Framework help churches rethink and reframe the way they do missions. Through workshops, peer learning communities, and SATtalks connecting churches to a network of peers, partners, and resources, Significant Matters is committed to more effective missions. Bridges Out of Poverty and Missions 3.0 are finding synergy as they begin to partner together.
Ruby Payne discusses how to address emotional poverty and build emotional wealth in your students.
Kelly Mays discusses implementing Getting Ahead in a Just -Gettin'-By-World in a rural, small-town setting.
Coauthor Ellen Williams discusses the book and workshop Removing the Mask: How to Identify and Develop Giftedness in Students from Poverty.
Authors Phil DeVol and Gene Krebs continue their talk on using their book Bridges Across Every Divide to make policy changes that reduce poverty.
Authors Phil DeVol and Gene Krebs talk about how to use their book Bridges Across Every Divide to make policy changes that reduce poverty.
Ruby Payne's foundational work, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, has been updated with three all-new chapters. This chapter on the parents of children in poverty and understanding where they're coming from contains helpful insights and strategies for teachers.
Treasure McKenzie and Sherry Sides discuss the impact of having a lawyer available to Getting Ahead participants and others in the Bridges Out of Poverty community of practice in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
A short excerpt from the Emotional Poverty audiobook, which is read by the author, Ruby Payne.
Carrie Arnold shares how an Employer Resource Network can alleviate many of the stresses outside of work that keep employees from achieving full productivity.
aha! Process consultant Mike Dames discusses how Bridges Out of Poverty and Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World dovetail with scriptural commandments to serve the poor.
Terry Brooks-Allen discusses how knowing the rules of proper etiquette can build bridges to funding sources and support for community initiatives.
Ruby Payne shares survival tips for principals. Check out her new book, Emotional Poverty.
The panel discusses ways in which Total Worker Health from CDC - NIOSH dovetails with the Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World program for adults in poverty.
Tammy Schoonover from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, discusses the "Morning Conversations" initiative to help people better work with those in poverty.
Bridges Across Every Divide Podcast 5: Oh Good, for a Moment There I Thought the Republic Was in Trouble
Phil DeVol and Gene Krebs, authors of the book Bridges Across Every Divide, discuss use of data and other topics.
aha! Process author and consultant Bethanie Tucker discusses her contributions to the new edition of Research-Based Strategies, coauthored with Ruby Payne.
Phil DeVol and Gene Krebs present the third episode of their podcast in which they discuss issue related to their book Bridges Across Every Divide.
This excerpt introduces readers to Ruby Payne's book, From Understanding Poverty to Developing Human Capacity.
Gene Krebs and Phil DeVol bring you episode two of their post-partisan, anti-poverty podcast.
Phil DeVol and Gene Krebs discuss the genesis of their book Bridges Across Every Divide, which seeks to bring people of opposing political views together to work on the issue of poverty in our communities.
Jay Stailey shares stories from his book Think Rather of Zebra: Dealing with Aspects of Poverty Through Story.
Angelina Hudson of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) joins aha! Process Consultant Gary Eagleton to discuss the impacts of poverty on mental health and healthcare.
Bridges to Health and Healthcare coauthor Terie Dreussi-Smith is joined by Marlana Dokken to talk about care plan case management and coordination with MPOWR.
Bridges to Health and Healthcare coauthors Terie Dreussi-Smith, Lucy Shaw, and Jan Young discuss the book and its strategies for increasing access to healthcare and the efficiency of care for people in under-resourced communities.
Collectively, the co-authors of this book represent some 120 years of experience in education and healthcare leadership and participation. Two of the authors of this book are healthcare careerists with vast exposure to changes dubbed as “reform” initiated by the government, by researchers, and by healthcare professionals over the past 30 years. Some have created positive change, and some have not. This book is not about addressing the rightness or wrongness of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. It is intended to add what we believe to be a necessary lens for effective change.
Lynn Blankenship discusses the successes experienced by the Bridges Out of Poverty 2017 Community of the Year.
A panel of expert users of Bridges Out of Poverty strategies discusses the ways in which Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World can take a Bridges Initiative to the next level. The panel is moderated by Bridges coauthor and Getting Ahead creator Phil DeVol.
Phil DeVol discusses how to get outside our organizational "silos" and collaborate to build communities where everyone can live well.
Ruby Payne lays out six basics of school improvement focused in particular on boosting outcomes for schools with large populations of low-SES students.
James Vander Hulst, Ruth Weirich, and Kelli Adams talk about how Employer Resource Networks create stability and boost the productivity of low-wage and entry-level employees.
Mike Saccocio describes using Bridges Out of Poverty concepts and strategies to change Schenectady, New York.
Dan Quigg of Public Insight discusses tools for data analysis communities can use when building sustainability.
Former New York state trooper Pedro Perez discusses changing Albany, New York, using the Bridges Out of Poverty model.
Bridges Out of Poverty coauthor Terie Dreussi-Smith gives an overview of core Bridges constructs and strategies. If you're considering Bridges Out of Poverty training for yourself, your organization, or your community, this is a great place to start.
Gina Elias and Phil Poston describe methods of data collection as a next step for Bridges communities that offer Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By-World.
aha! Process Consultant Ruben Perez talks about working with students who are reluctant to speak English in school.
Kay Balcer of Harbor Beach, Michigan, discusses building resources with people in poverty in rural areas.
This powerful book exposes the mindsets and attitudes that trigger conflict between people of different economic classes and provides solutions you can use immediately to improve your relationships, smooth your own transition between classes, increase opportunities for someone you care about, and move confidently in any social setting.
In this installment, Phil DeVol, creator of Getting Ahead, introduces Doug Farry. Farry, a former TurboTax executive, discusses how his new company’s employee loans can reduce dependence on predatory lenders.
Sarah Wright helped to implement Investigations into Economic Class in America at North Carolina State University. This webinar podcast discusses an effort to recycle unwanted household goods at NC State.
This collection of essays by Philip DeVol, author of Bridges Out of Poverty, lays the foundation for creating a sustainable Bridges community where everyone can live well.
In this installment, aha! Process author and consultant Lucy Shaw discusses solutions for churches that feel helpless in the face of poverty.
In this installment, Tim Rogers and Erik Orndorff discuss the essential leadership qualities of successful collaborators. Tim Rogers is lead pastor of Grace Point Church in Paradise, Pennsylvania, and Erik Orndorff, superintendent of Pequea Valley School District in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
In this episode, aha! Process founder Ruby Payne discusses her book A Framework for Understanding Poverty and 10 Actions to Educate Students.
This is an excerpt from Ruby Payne's book A Framework for Understanding Poverty, which has sold more than 1.8 million copies.
In this installment, Bonnie Bazata discusses ending poverty as an economic goal. Bazata is the program manager of Ending Poverty Now in Pima County, Arizona, and was formerly the executive director of St. Joseph County Bridges Out of Poverty based in South Bend, Indiana.
Joey Yarber and Kyle Minkler of Simon Solutions, the provider of the CharityTracker app, are joined by Quinn Schipper of Stillwater Cares in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
In this installment, aha! Process author and consultant Bethanie Tucker discusses ways that motivation can be enhanced.
In this installment, aha! Process consultant Jim Littlejohn unravels the mysteries of male emotion.
Emilia O’Neill-Baker’s podcast “How Much of Yourself Do You Own?” is based on her book of the same title coauthored with Ruby Payne.
Spanish-language podcast about the book How Much of Yourself Do You Own? (¿Qué partes de ti mismo realmente te pertenecen?).
Quinton Askew, manager of the Howard County Multiservice Center, presents this podcast with Sondra Price and Scott Sheldon. Howard County, Maryland, has offered Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World for more than two years. The group will discuss the supports they provide to Getting Ahead graduates as part of their “Staying Ahead” efforts.
In middle class, we don’t just have a J-O-B. What does middle class have? A career! Something we hope to have for a moment, build on top of for a while. Now, that career brings in many things. What does that career give a middle class person? Credit. What else? Health insurance, stability, retirement, mortgage, status, etc. Did you ever go to a middle class party? ... Get the full audio workshop at https://www.ahaprocess.com/store/bridges-out-of-poverty-audio-workshop-download/
In this installment, Bridges Out of Poverty coauthor Terie Dreussi-Smith talks about applying Bridges concepts in the healthcare sector. Terie is also coauthor of the book Bridges into Health and Healthcare: New Solutions for Improving Access and Services.
In this installment, Gary Rudick, the former police chief of Tulsa Public Schools, discusses how first responders can use strategies from Tactical Communication. Chief Rudick shows us that understanding the hidden rules of different economic classes can keep police and other first responders safer and make them more effective on the job.
In this installment, Nancy Varian talks about forming partnerships that matter in postsecondary education. Nancy is the director of the Center for Professional Development at Malone University, where she is also an assistant professor of education.
In this installment, Phil DeVol introduces the results of a national study of Getting Ahead in a Just Gettin-By-World. Phil, who created Getting Ahead, is joined in this discussion by Beth Wahler, author of the study and an assistant professor of social work at Indiana University.
In this installment, Workplace Stability author Ruth Weirich talks about applying the lens of economic class in the business world. Ruth shares low- and no-cost strategies employers can use to help entry-level and low-wage employees stabilize their lives.
In this installment, titled “Mindset, Motivation, and the Argument for Change,” Jim Ott discusses his experiences with the Bridges Out of Poverty initiative in Dubuque, Iowa. Jim is a school psychologist, and he has served as a national consultant with aha! Process since 2010.
In this installment, aha! Process founder Ruby Payne addresses the effects of high-poverty neighborhoods.