Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World

Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World is a book and a 45-hour workshop that helps individuals in poverty build their resources for a more prosperous life for themselves, their families, and their communities.

The Getting Ahead curriculum:

• Involves rigorous work done in a safe learning environment with the support of an experienced facilitator and co-facilitator.
• Enables participants, called “investigators,” to examine their own experience of poverty as well as explore issues in the community that impact poverty − banking, housing, jobs, transportation − providing critical information the community can use to take action to end poverty.
• Guides investigators through an assessment of their own resources and how to build those resources as part of their move to self-sufficiency.
• Puts the concepts, tools, and relationships in the hands of people in poverty to make a difference in their own lives and in the life of their community.

SVDP Rhode Island is currently offering the 16-week Getting Ahead workshop to a group of men at Whitestone Life Center in North Providence. Registration for this program is closed, but our trained facilitators are available to present the program at other non-profits, church, and community groups.

If you have an interest in learning more about Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World, including becoming a facilitator or hosting a workshop, contact the Council office at 401-490-0822.

Learn more about Getting Ahead by watching this video: