Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f5LF3Uf27403; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:03:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:03:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <LFEJKDKEPNGCBIGCPOJLGEKECAAA.haw6@psu.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "H. A. C. Watson" <haw6@psu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:210] xpost- WFPALL- Bridges out of Poverty Conference X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1519 Lines: 36 The following training opportunity is available to you: "Bridges Out of Poverty--Strategies for Professionals and Communities" to be held this September 19,20, and 21 in Wausau, Wisconsin. Complete information on the conference, registration and hotel information is available at http://cf.uwex.edu/ces/flp/bp/ If you are at all involved in welfare to work projects you will find the research by Ruby Payne and Associates a step toward increased success. According to Cascade Engineering, "before we learned about Ruby's work, we didn't understand how the rules of generational poverty conflict with middle class values of the typical workplace. Now our welfare-to-career program has an 83% retention rate and some 50 employees have advanced to higher levels of responsibility and pay." This trainer-the-trainer conference will provide: a solution-based approach to help educators working with employers, community organizations, policy makers and social service agencies to better understand and work with individuals in poverty. an understanding of generational poverty, the unspoken values to economic classes and how to bridge the gaps between them. Again the web site for the conference is http://cf.uwex.edu/ces/flp/bp/ More information on Ruby Payne and Associates is available at http://www.ahaprocess.com Heidi A. C. Watson NIFL-Workplace Co-moderator Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy 102 Rackley Building University Park, PA 16802 (814) 865-3777 or 865-6472 direct Fax (814) 863-6108
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