Getting Ahead in a Just -Getting'-By World Facilitator Training

This 8-hour certification training takes place over a two day period and prepares you to set up and facilitate the 16-week/45-hour Getting Ahead workshop. It is designed to help individuals in poverty – called investigators – take a serious look at their lives, make decisions about how they choose to build their resources for a more prosperous life for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Getting Ahead (GA) is the practical application of the Bridges Out of Poverty Model, designed to help people who are in poverty develop future stories of their choosing rather than centered on an organization’s outcome plan.

The GA Facilitator Training gives you the chance to prepare and co-facilitate a specific aspect of the Getting Ahead curriculum and find out how this workshop differs from other programs designed to help people move out of poverty by shifting the focus from facilitator expertise to investigator experience and expertise. It puts the concepts, tools and relationships in the hands of the people in poverty to make a difference in their own lives and affect their own communities as contributors. And you, as the co-facilitator, “set the stage” that allows the transformations to occur.