Bridges out of Proverty
Bridges out of Poverty
June 17, 2011
(Registration deadline – June 10
PennDot,
1st Floor Conference Room
255 Elm Street
Oil City, PA 16301
Cost: $25 (includes lunch and workbook)
“Now I understand the
people I’m serving.”
If you are looking to counter poverty in your community or its impact on people and businesses, explore the innovative concepts and training found in this workshop. This workshop will help your whole community build sustainable success.
Bridges Out of Poverty represents a powerful tool for change. Based in part on Dr. Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to the millions of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty.
Bridges training contains case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific solutions you and your organization can implement right now to:
- Redesign programs to better serve people in poverty
- Build skill sets for management to help guide employees
- Upgrade training for front-line staff such as receptionists, case workers, and
managers - Improve treatment outcomes in healthcare and behavioral healthcare
- Increase the likelihood of moving individuals from welfare to work
Bridges Out of Poverty represents a powerful tool for change and utilizes the Bridges Out of Poverty training manual which includes chapters on relationship building, mentoring, redesigning programs, and community collaboration.
Presenter for the program is Ray Benedict, who is passionate about working with troubled youth, adults and their families. Before retiring, Benedict, was Clinical Director in a residential Drug and Alcohol treatment facility. His resume includes work in residential care, probation, mental health, child welfare,, community based treatment and other settings.
Ray Benedict is a Certified Trainer for “Bridges Out of Poverty”. He also has his Certification for “Getting Ahead in a Just getting by World”. He is on the “Guiding Coalition for Circles in Mercer County”.
His qualifications also include undergraduate training in Psychology, Sociology and Criminology, Graduate
training in Counseling Psychology, and he is experienced as a private Counselor and he is a Consultant as well as a state and nationally certified counselor and trainer. In his private life, Mr. Benedict continues being active in his community and church.
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