DUBUQUE (KWWL) -
The Upper Mississippi Regional Bridges Out of Poverty Conference on June 9-10 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque still has openings for those looking
to attend.The event, based on the Bridges Out of Poverty constructs, is aimed at groups from across the Tri-States working to reduce poverty in their communities and to create opportunities for all, according to a news release.

The event is set to begin at 5 p.m. Monday, June 9, with dinner and a key reception by Dr. Ruby Payne, the founder and CEO of the Aha! Process, Inc.
and co-author of the book, Bridges Out of Poverty.

On Tuesday, June 10, Mike Saccocio, Executive Director of the City Mission in Schenectady, N.Y., will discuss how Schenectady has achieved amazing
results with the cross-sector Bridges initiative.

The conference is sponsored by Aha! Process, Inc. and other regional event sponsors including the Greater Dubuque Development Corporation, the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, Project Hope, and the City of Dubuque Circles Initiative.

Registration cost is $189 for the two-day event; $50 for Monday, June 9; or $159 for Tuesday, June 10. Attendee sponsorship is available for $250 and
includes one ticket to the keynote reception and dinner, a meet-and-greet with Dr. Payne, and funding for one low-income individual to attend the
conference.

poverty is 'created'. Just like affluence is 'created'.

Folks are poor because their wealth creating capacity was destroyed which is needed to survive in todays economy.

However.....People do not die for lack of incomes. They die for lack of access to resources.

Folks don't farm their land or raise livestock or sew their own clothes anymore. What use to take physical labor to produce their own needs is GONE!

They are TOTALLY dependent..........not independent............hence 'created'.

Quoted from rpforpres

Registration cost is $189 for the two-day event; $50 for Monday, June 9; or $159 for Tuesday, June 10. Attendee sponsorship is available for $250 and
includes one ticket to the keynote reception and dinner, a meet-and-greet with Dr. Payne, and funding for one low-income individual to attend the
conference.

so much for poverty...

Quoted from sanfordy2

so much for poverty...

It's relative poverty...$189 is enough to pay for the American poor's IPhone data plan and Cable TV/Internet for one month.

Almost everyone was 'poor' (according to today's standards) before the industrial age. They took care of themselves and their needs for survival...food, clothing etc. It was a family/community that stuck together and helped one another. Then came the industrial age!!!!

Society went from being self sufficient/independent to totally dependent on 'the new system'. Some gained great riches while others were left the privilege to go on welfare.

It was created....trying to fix this is becoming VERY VERY expensive!!!!

Quoted from bumblethru

Almost everyone was 'poor' (according to today's standards) before the industrial age. They took care of themselves and their needs for survival...food, clothing etc. It was a family/community that stuck together and helped one another. Then came the industrial age!!!!

Society went from being self sufficient/independent to totally dependent on 'the new system'. Some gained great riches while others were left the privilege to go on welfare.

It was created....trying to fix this is becoming VERY VERY expensive!!!!

YUP!

I would suggest that BEFORE anyone comments about the Bridges Out of Poverty "model" (it is really more a model and not a program per se) that they actually read the book and take the course.  It is non-partisan, non-sectarian .. it literally seeks to build bridges within the community to get at the root causes of poverty.   Oh -- and by the way -- it has had a great track record in the communities across the country as well as Canada and Europe where it has been introduced, taught and become embedded.   Oh -- and one more thing -- Schenectady Bridges Out of Poverty, while not the first in the country, is one of the leaders in the country.  It has become a positive role model for other communities who are just beginning to learn about the new model for working together (those in poverty, those in middle class and those in the wealthy class) to transition people out of poverty and help them get ahead --- and, just as importantly, making our communities better by using what is STRONG about our community to overcome/improve/turn around what is wrong about our community.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I would suggest that BEFORE anyone comments about the Bridges Out of Poverty "model" (it is really more a model and not a program per se) that they actually read the book and take the course.  It is non-partisan, non-sectarian .. it literally seeks to build bridges within the community to get at the root causes of poverty.   Oh -- and by the way -- it has had a great track record in the communities across the country as well as Canada and Europe where it has been introduced, taught and become embedded.   Oh -- and one more thing -- Schenectady Bridges Out of Poverty, while not the first in the country, is one of the leaders in the country.  It has become a positive role model for other communities who are just beginning to learn about the new model for working together (those in poverty, those in middle class and those in the wealthy class) to transition people out of poverty and help them get ahead --- and, just as importantly, making our communities better by using what is STRONG about our community to overcome/improve/turn around what is wrong about our community.

as you suggest we all take the course and read the book i can assume you will be paying for the course and reading materials next time its in town?

the root cause of poverty is civilization...remove the human from the land and self sufficiency and the human becomes
a resource of the state, which in turn makes a cast system and places value and calls them regulations........

Quoted from sanfordy2

as you suggest we all take the course and read the book i can assume you will be paying for the course and reading materials next time its in town?

First, one doesn't have to wait until "the next time it is in town."   IT IS IN TOWN ALL THE TIME!  I am not going to retype the rest of the information -- just scroll back and read what I wrote.
Then - look up Schenectady Bridges Out of Poverty online for more information.

Second, I wouldn't recommend a course if I didn't have experience with it or a book if I hadn't read it.

Finally,  No .. I will not be paying for you to read the book and take the course.  

The Upper Mississippi Regional Bridges Out of Poverty Conference on June 9-10 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque still has openings for those looking
to attend.......the event was not quite in town    sorry you missed the joke LMAO

Quoted from sanfordy2

The Upper Mississippi Regional Bridges Out of Poverty Conference on June 9-10 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque still has openings for those looking
to attend.......the event was not quite in town    sorry you missed the joke LMAO

Actually, we had people from other states and from a number of communities OUTSIDE Schenectady County taking the course HERE in Schenectady.  So, it is not as if it would be a strange thing to take the course out of town.  

Besides, Dubuque and the rest of Iowa is rather nice to visit this time of year.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I would suggest that BEFORE anyone comments about the Bridges Out of Poverty "model" (it is really more a model and not a program per se) that they actually read the book and take the course.  It is non-partisan, non-sectarian .. it literally seeks to build bridges within the community to get at the root causes of poverty.   Oh -- and by the way -- it has had a great track record in the communities across the country as well as Canada and Europe where it has been introduced, taught and become embedded.   Oh -- and one more thing -- Schenectady Bridges Out of Poverty, while not the first in the country, is one of the leaders in the country.  It has become a positive role model for other communities who are just beginning to learn about the new model for working together (those in poverty, those in middle class and those in the wealthy class) to transition people out of poverty and help them get ahead --- and, just as importantly, making our communities better by using what is STRONG about our community to overcome/improve/turn around what is wrong about our community.

DV, you know absolutely NOTGHING

Many people are in poverty in Schenectady because the dem leadership[ you cheer for, taxes the homeowners to give money to their millionaire cronies owning downtown businesses.

These downtown business that YOU claim is creating this grand renaissance in the city, and you claim oh so many jobs, well DV, you really need to learn the TRUTH.  These jobs are POVERY WAGE JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People CANNOT support themselves on these wages.  

And then YOUR BUDDY DEMS choose to exempt the super-wealthy GE from paying taxes even though they are NOT creating many decent paying jobs.   So then the homeowners have to pay higher taxes to make up for the lost revenue from GE

Want "....what is wrong with our community...."   Um, how the city leadership taxing people in order to build lavish new buildings for millionaires and then city leadership increasing taxes on the financially struggling homeowner of incomes less than $40,000 to pay for the property taxes of their cronies whose incomes are in the tens, hundreds of millions of dollars.

You really need to get out of your "job" in the uppity rich Nisky and start WALKING around the hill, MP, Eastern Ave, etc and see how homeowners are struggling, learn how people in the city are forced to choose between paying taxes or paying for medicine.  Maybe you could buy them paint and paint their homes, maybe you could do the costly repairs to their sidewalks when the city refuses to allow them to remove a tree whose roots are ruining the sidewalks.  Maybe you could buy them groceries  Maybe you could educate them that they are paying high taxes because their city leadership is exempting millionaires from paying taxes in return for hefty political contributions and kickbacks.

You know NOTHING about poverty!!!!   You have NEVER lived as a normal adult man, you have not had to support yourself and decide between rent and food, etc.  You've been taken care of 100% by two very rich "mommies" for all your adult life.  

Bridges Out of Poverty is neither a political or partisan approach/plan to address poverty.  A few short posts would not do it justice.  The only thing that I can suggest -- and I do strongly suggest it -- is that people take the 2 Day Bridges Training.  It is actually a lot less than $189 -- only $32.  (So I think the event in Iowa was something else besides a training conference.)

If you only learn one thing from the 2 days, I hope that it would be that: It is possible for people (of all backgrounds .. ethnic, socio-economic, theology, ideology, etc.) to use what is STRONG about our community to fix/turn around what is wrong with our community.