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Getting Ahead OKC - Bridges Collaborative Creating Partnerships for Stability & Increased Resilience written by Adrienne Elder, MPH, CHES [email protected] (updated 5/7/2018) *Note: Community partners can use this grant template to apply for any applicable funding source in order to fund their portion plus contributing towards the shared costs of a Full-time Training Manager and a contract Trainer to increase organizational, community, and policy change. Thank you for your commitment to this collaborative effort! Shared Vision: Systemic Approach to Address Daily Instability Using a systemic framework, the Getting Ahead OKC – Bridges Collaborative and Oklahoma’s statewide effort, Bridge The Gap, have a shared vision to increase stability and build resilience in our communities by removing barriers and building personal, workplace, and community resources. By engaging each sector in our community, we aim to increase understanding of shared goals. We invite you to join our efforts. 1) Individual Level a. Partner with community organizations to coordinate training of facilitators and offer Getting Ahead Classes to participants to identify barriers & increase personal resources (update: proud to have 41 diverse GA Graduates who have participated in over 2214 hours of investigation to increase their daily stability) b. Connect GA Graduates to community resources & positive support systems to increase hope and stability for themselves & their children. Page 1 | 25

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Getting Ahead OKC - Bridges CollaborativeCreating Partnerships for Stability & Increased Resilience

written by Adrienne Elder, MPH, [email protected]

(updated 5/7/2018)

*Note: Community partners can use this grant template to apply for any applicable funding source in order to fund their portion plus contributing towards the shared costs of a Full-time Training Manager and a contract Trainer to increase organizational, community, and policy change. Thank you for your commitment to this collaborative effort!

Shared Vision: Systemic Approach to Address Daily Instability

Using a systemic framework, the Getting Ahead OKC – Bridges Collaborative and Oklahoma’s statewide effort, Bridge The Gap, have a shared vision to increase stability and build resilience in our communities by removing barriers and building personal, workplace, and community resources. By engaging each sector in our community, we aim to increase understanding of shared goals. We invite you to join our efforts.

1) Individual Levela. Partner with community organizations to coordinate training of facilitators and

offer Getting Ahead Classes to participants to identify barriers & increase personal resources (update: proud to have 41 diverse GA Graduates who have participated in over 2214 hours of investigation to increase their daily stability)

b. Connect GA Graduates to community resources & positive support systems to increase hope and stability for themselves & their children.

c. Offer quarterly Staying Ahead meetings to GA Graduates & their families to increase positive support systems and support their journey to long-term stability.

d. Increase training for facilitators and ongoing technical assistance via quarterly meetings and connect with best-practices & resources https://npotogether.net/

2) Workplace or Institutional Levela. Partner with SNAP, Child Welfare, schools experiencing high levels of unexcused

absenteeism, higher education with low retention, low-wage employers with high turnover, hospitals with high ER visits, criminal justice and second-chance employers to reduce recidivism.

b. Partner with employers to provide stable employment opportunities to GA Graduates

c. Partner with second-chance employers to sponsor and refer employees experiencing daily instability to the “Getting Ahead in the Workplace” by using

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available funding streams, such as: https://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/wotcCommunityPartners.cfm

d. Provide Workplace Stability and trauma-informed training to leadership teams to increase awareness of policies and procedures that increase stability, productivity & bottom line.

e. Refine policies and procedures with organizational committees through consultation with a GA Graduate & Bridges Trainer

i. Improve absenteeism policy & proceduresii. Connect at-risk employees with community resources; Resource

Coordinatoriii. Referral to Getting Ahead in the Workplace class to reduce turnoveriv. Provide opt-out savings plan to low-wage employees and access to micro-

loans3) Community Level

a. Provide monthly Lunch & Learns to build community awarenessb. Recruit diverse volunteers, increase collaboration & coordination of community

servicesc. Coordinate Steering Committee meetingsd. Update Community “Getting Ahead Resources” Sheet to increase awareness of

servicese. Create leadership pathways for Getting Ahead graduatesf. GA Graduates share stories and request change with community leaders and

legislators4) Policy Level

a. GA Graduates, Trainers, Steering Committee, community partners advocate and vote for fair and just policies, laws and regulations;

b. Encourage community leaders and legislators to consult with an individual who has experienced daily instability (ex. GA Graduate) before passing policy or laws.

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Statement of Need:

With growing research revealing the long-term effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences1 (ACEs), we know that trauma without stable positive protective factors during recovery, can lead directly to daily instability with decreased circulation to the prefrontal cortex, distortion of healthy boundaries, increased use of negative coping skills, increased risky behaviors, poor health outcomes, chronic diseases, and ultimately a decreased life-span.2 Fortunately the latest brain research shows the plasticity of the brain and when positive protective factors are present through support by family, friends, institutions and their community, the road to recovery is smoother, faster and can ultimately propel them into better opportunities and situations.

With this new understanding of brain plasticity and the importance of positive protective factors at the individual, institutional and community levels, we can re-examine societal problems that have causes rooted in a widening drain of chaos, exploitation, discrimination and addiction. Through this new lens, we can address social determinants of health such as unsafe neighborhoods, unaffordable housing, lack of basic needs, toxic stress, family violence, lack of access to a quality education, lack of access to health and mental health care, reduced addiction treatment centers, high rates of incarceration, unplanned pregnancies, limited skills, and limited jobs with self-sufficient wages, in order to positively influence our lifelong well-being3 and increase the viability of our communities. As complicated and intertwined as this may seem, there is significant evidence that the simple action of communities who work proactively with individuals in chaos using trauma-informed practices can make faster progress by working together to create fair and just policies to increase stability and decrease barriers for all.4

With this awareness, how can we address this systemically and increase engagement? How can we examine the intertwined layers with individuals, neighborhoods, institutions, and policies when many of us are dealing with various levels of instability in our own lives? Each community has the opportunity to work together to offer the key missing ingredients of positive support systems and stabilizing resources with families to build a positive future. Individuals in our community who heal from past trauma have a renewed passion for life and can have great capacity to create positive change within each of our communities.

Specific efforts include investing in individuals who lack positive protective factors, offering opportunities to strengthen personal and community resources, creating diverse leadership systems, and creating communities and policies built on mutual respect and understanding. These approaches will not only address trauma but decrease future reoccurrence.

1 Building a Framework for Global Surveillance of the Public Health Implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences. Anda, Robert F. et al., American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 39, Issue 1, 93 – 98; http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(10)00277-1/abstract 2 https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/ 3 http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/site/misc/socialdeterminants.xhtml 4 http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/anti-poverty-program-takes-community-approach/article_53778354-0bab-5e6d-913c-ac9 5b6c919fe.html

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This effort requires coordination, so it is important to look at frameworks that can provide structure for various community partners to work together effectively. Over the past twenty years, Ruby Payne, Phil DeVol and other cross-sector innovative researchers have created a Bridges Framework with complimenting resources that can help address systemic poverty/chaos. This framework increases awareness and understanding that we ALL experience some level of instability in different parts of our lives and that if we want to create stability we must ALL work together to address it. In Exhibit A, “Stability Scale Indicators,” you will find important resource areas that we each experience on a fluid continuum of extremely unstable to very stable.

Exhibit A: Stability Scale Indicators

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Getting Ahead OKC: Creating Partnerships for Stability

Getting Ahead OKC – Bridges Collaborative is an initiative to strengthen and coordinate community partnerships to increase systemic stability at the individual, organizational, community and policy levels. Specifically, we provide opportunities for community leaders and businesses grappling with high foster care, high rates of school dropout, high incarceration rates and a low-skilled workforce to engage with their neighbors who are experiencing situational or generational poverty/chaos.

Getting Ahead OKC breaks this cycle of widespread chaos by using strategies from “Bridges to Sustainable Communities” and other complementing evidence-based resources. We are ALL part of the problem and we must ALL be part of the solution.

Getting Ahead OKC recognizes that individuals who have first-hand experience with community barriers, can offer important perspectives and innovative methods to solve our community problems. However, many individuals who are experiencing chaos are unable to take additional time to engage at the organizational or community level.

Exhibit B: The curriculum workbook series of Getting Ahead Classes

Description of Getting Ahead Class

To increase engagement and communication with community leaders, Getting Ahead’s unique approach removes barriers for 8-12 “investigators” by providing transportation, free childcare, a warm family meal and a $25 stipend upon completion of each of the 18 classes. Participants are viewed as experts in identifying organizational and community barriers and therefore paid a stipend for their time and valuable input on creating solutions. To encourage stability across all sectors, classes can be held in the community, schools, in the workplace and in prisons. Through the workbook curriculum and respectful dialogue, two Class Facilitators promote trust among diverse participants, while increasing opportunities for reflection and thoughtful planning. Over the 18 weeks, participants create a positive support system which is essential to developing positive coping skills to address past trauma and strategies to decrease high-stress environments.

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“Getting Ahead” is an evidence-based Pathways to Hope Class5 that addresses social isolation, helps people reduce chaos and increase stability by connecting positive support systems, strengthening problem-solving skills and using stabilizing resources. Classmates help each other while helping themselves and their community. The Getting Ahead Class helps low-income adults and parents transition into self-sufficiency by facilitating a process for people to investigate economic barriers, examine their own lives, complete a self-assessment of resources and make plans to build on them. Through this process, participants feel empowered to take action to improve their lives. Getting Ahead does not provide answers or demands for change; instead it generates motivation, insight and plans from the participants themselves. Upon completion of the program, participants have a renewed sense of hope, positive support systems, knowledge of stabilizing community resources, and a plan to build a positive future. To build upon this mutual respect and understanding, Community Leaders invite Getting Ahead Graduates to be at the “decision-making tables” to increase positive social action to address community barriers.

In summary, community investment into this program acts as an authentic catalyst to increase stability by not only increasing personal and community resources, but also improving fair and just practices through intentional changes to laws, policies, and procedures at the organizational, community and state levels. Your participation will provide an opportunity for all members of our society to thrive, no matter where they live, work or play.

Goals of the Getting Ahead Classes are geared to:

- Discover what poverty/chaos looks like personally and in the community- Identify and strengthen personal, organizational and community resources- Learn the importance of and how to build social capital and increase social action- Develop a personal plan to move from poverty to prosperity to philanthropy

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Getting Ahead Outcomes:

Exhibit C: Individual Outcomes Achieved with over 40 Getting Ahead Graduates in Oklahoma City with double-digit returns in 11 core areas.

Initial Impact Outcomes6 : Increased poverty-related knowledge; Decreased perceived stress; Increased mental health and well-being; Increased social support; Increased hope; Increased goal-directed behavior; Increased planning

Intermediate Impact Outcomes7:

- Increased communication skills (42%); Increased positive relationships (33%); Increased enrollment in higher education/training (30%); Increased employment attainment or retention (36%); Increase use of budget (39%); Increased monthly income (54%); Decreased monthly debts (47%); Decreased total debts (50%); Increased Assets (40%)

6 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305486861_A_Group-Based_Intervention_for_Persons_Living_in_Poverty_Psychosocial_Improvements_Noted_among_Participants_of_Getting_Ahead_in_a_Just-Gettin%27-by_World 7 http://33igt8427g0w69zms33dqm48-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/GA_National_Report_June_2017.pdf

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Long-term Impact Outcomes:

- Increase involvement in social action; Increased self-sufficiency/ Decreased reliance on government benefits (37%); Increase family stability

Post-Graduation of Getting Ahead: “Staying Ahead”

Upon graduation, participants have a clear roadmap and feel empowered to take action to increase stability in their lives, their relationships, at work and in their community. To build on this motivation for change, Getting Ahead OKC – Bridges Collaborative provides quarterly “Staying Ahead” meetings for all Getting Ahead Graduates and assesses status of stability at 6, 12, 18, and 24-month follow-up. At these meetings we connect with community leaders and refer graduates to the following evidence-based programs:

1) Employment opportunities (Community Health Workers at OCCHD and Variety Health Care, Parent Liaisons at OKCPS)

a. Graduates paid as consultants to work with a Bridges Trainer to improve policies and procedures with Quality Improvement Committees (United Way)

2) Strengthening Families Program8 for Children and Parentsa. SmartStart of Central Oklahomab. Latino Community Development Agency9

c. Family Builders3) Financial Literacy – Empowerment and Education

a. Credit Unions in Oklahoma City – Tinker Federal Credit Union10

4) Continuing Education and Training: Rose State College5) Workforce Readiness programs11 (Center for Employment Opportunities)6) Small Business Association (Better Business Bureau)7) Community Leadership Opportunities

a. Board Leadership Training – BoardServe at United Way of Central Oklahomab. Parent-Teacher Association with local schools (OKCPS)c. Neighborhood Associations – Neighborhood Alliance of Central Oklahoma

8) Community leaders and employers start the journey of learning how organizations and communities are contributing to chaos and methods to increase stability by requesting a brief overview of “Bridges to Sustainable Communities” and “Workplace Stability”.

8 http://www.strengtheningfamiliesprogram.org/ 9 http://lcdaok.com/programs/strengthening-families/ 10 https://www.tinkerfcu.org/education-empowerment/ 11 http://workreadyoklahoma.com/

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Current Oklahoma City Partnerships:

GA Coordination, Training and Tech. Assistance: aha process, Salvation Army and ReMerge, E.B. Consulting, and Oklahoma City-County Health Department (OCCHD)

GA Facilitators: ReMerge, OCCHD, OKCPS, Variety, E.B. Consulting

Locations for GA Classes: YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City, Churches, Schools, Workplace

Services for Children: YMCA, Smart Start Central Oklahoma, WhizKids, LCDA, Early Head Start, Head Start

In-Kind and Direct Funding: Oklahoma City Community Foundation, Communities Foundation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Champions for Early Opportunities (OKCEOs), Oklahoma City-County Health Department, YMCA free family memberships, Walmart gift cards, local banks (Community Reinvestment Act)

Organizations referring individuals to Getting Ahead Classes: Oklahoma City Public Schools (Parent Liaisons and Truancy Department), SNAP offices and caseworkers, low-wage employers, second-chance employers, criminal justice; 30+ local nonprofits

Data: OK 25 by 25 Coalition; DHS; Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Businesses: several are interested in offering Getting Ahead in the Workplace to their staff - OCCHD, Variety, OKCPS

Criminal Justice: deputy sheriff is interested in referring individuals completing Community Sentencing and Getting Ahead Classes to second-chance employers

Refine Policies & Procedures: several are interested Sunbeam Family Services, Variety, OCCHD, Upward Transitions; United Way of Central Oklahoma is interested in working with all of their partner agencies and provide Bridges training to private businesses and second-chance employers.

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Getting Ahead OKC – Bridges Collaborative Model

Creating Partnerships for Stability (a Two-generational Anti-Poverty Systemic Approach

in Oklahoma City)

Minimum Shared Positions needed to support the collaborative approach:

- FT Training Manager: Blanca Richard- Contract Trainer for Facilitators, Organizations, Community

Trainings: Adrienne Elder

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Getting Ahead OKCSteering Commitee

Collaborative Donors for

coordination, training and

class sponsors(60% sustainable funding streams)

Businesses (offer

Workplace Stability &

Getting Ahead in the

Workplace Classes)

Nonprofits and Schools recruit participants for

the Getting Ahead Classes

Research group or University

(data collection & analysis)

Community & Organizations

improve policies with

input from GA Graduates

Continuing Education & Leadership

Opportunities for Getting

Ahead Graduates

Volunteers/Faith

Groups/Nonprofits

(provide meals and location)

Health Org. Community

Health Workers as Facilitators for GA and

Strengthening Families Program

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Getting Ahead Class – Sample Class Budget: (goal is to have 51% In-Kind from Community Partners)

Description Unit Cost # of Participants

Cost per GA Class

TBD Cost-sharing or In-Kind

Potential Source for Cost-Sharing or In-Kind

Workbooks – Getting Ahead

$18 each 12 $216 OCCHD (2 classes) need funding for 4 classes

Participant Class Supplies

$15 each (notebook folder, paper)

12 $180 OCCHD (2 classes) need funding

Class Supplies Markers, flip chart, pens, etc

$50 OCCHD orneed funding

Stipend for each class $30 x 18 weeks 12 $3980 $2500 Potential Walmart grant; Community Reinvestment Act banks; need funding

Facilitators $30 x 5hrs x 20 weeksPlus $30 per 30 min. interview x 20 interviews

2 $3,300 $3300 2 OCCHD/1 Variety Care OKCPS: Parent Liaisons; Volunteers

Location $50 x 20 weeks $1000 Church/YMCA/SchoolChildcare & 1 Smart Start Contractor

$15 x 3hr x 20 weeks 3 $900 $2100 Church/YMCA/School

Meals & Food bags $8/participant & 10 children x 18 weeks

22 $3168 $600 Church/ Regional Food Bank

Transportation – Uber Codes or Send-A-Ride

$15 per ride 50 $750 Send-A-Ride

Marketing & Communication

$1000 for printing, applications, flyers

$1000 need funding

Graduation Ceremony $25/Diploma, gift bag, freebies, refreshments

12 $600 OCCHD and sponsors

Per Class Total

$14,144 $9,500

Annual Cost for Program: (Goal >25% of annual funding is for Getting Ahead Classes)Getting Ahead Classes $14,144/class 4/year $56,576 $38,000 need fundingTraining Manager Caseload 6 GA Classes $43,000 need fundingContract Trainers (Community, Org., Facilitator)

$75/hr x 60 hrs/month $40,000 $14,000 DHS, E.B. Consulting OKC and need funding

Contract GA Graduate Consultants & Staying Ahead Assistant

$15 x 60 hrs/month $10,800 need funding

Contract Resource Coordinator

$30 x 3 hrs. x 5 days x 48 weeks

$21,600 need fundingAmeriCorps VISTA

Program Evaluation - Charity Tracker

$20/month 12 $240 OK25by25 CoalitionOUChildStudyCenter

Books for Trainings $18 each 300 $5400 Or OrganizationsRefreshments for Trainings

$3 300 $1000 Or Host organization

Incentives for trainings $30 x 4 meetings 2 $240 Or Host organizationWebsite $100/month 12 $1200 OK25by25 Coalition11% Admin/oversight $21,144 $25,000 United Way

Program TOTAL

$200,000 $53,200

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Training per facilitator:

1) Online pre-requisite Bridges Out of Poverty or Free one-day training in Norman https://events.oucpm.org/bridges/events/

2) Online Getting Ahead Class Facilitator Training = $299/personhttps://www.ahaprocess.com/events/

3) Quarterly Continuing Education and Technical Assistance for GA Facilitators – Backbone agency

Potential Community Cost-Sharing/Leveraging Available Resources:

Free local Community Training: https://events.oucpm.org/bridges/events/ Title I Funding for Public Schools Facilitator Training – Title II Funding for Public Schools Safe & Drug Free Schools Funding 21st Century Community Learning Center Grants for high-risk schools Families First Act Churches/Community Centers for meeting rooms, childcare, meals Churches/Organizations/Companies/Individual Donors to sponsor Getting Ahead participants

to help with weekly stipends and supplies ($750/individual) or use Tax Credits:https://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/wotcCommunityPartners.cfm

Helpful Info:

Interview participants to screen for mental illness and substance abuse (screening tools available). Eligibility requires individuals to be sober for the previous 90 days, mental illnesses addressed with physician, and stable housing.

Based on 12 participants per class (at least 6, but no more than 14 participants) Based on 18 sessions (1 session per week for 2.5 hours scheduled around a mealtime) Class space, meals and childcare are donated (historically classes have been held at various

churches, but can also be held at a community center, YMCA or school); Transportation Waivers are highly recommended (bus vouchers or Uber code) Participation stipends (cash or gift card) $25 at end of each class Provide warm family meal before each class (breakfast, lunch or dinner); In the classroom, one large table is needed so all participants can sit around the table and wall

space to post all work on walls Class supplies include: large flip chart paper with self-adhesive; calculators, markers (many

colors), hole puncher; dictionaries; paper; pens/pencils; tent cards for names Participant supplies: personalized notebook/folder, plastic folder; paper; pencils; calculator Last class includes a Graduation; presentation of certificate by a significant community

leader or government official GA Graduates are paired with allies/community members who act as a resource in a specific

area of need.

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Exhibit D: Creating Systemic Stability Within the “Triple Lens”

Creating Systemic Stability (Building Resilience)Within the “Triple Lens”

Individual Institutional CommunityFinancial

Have the money to purchase goods and services, save for emergencies and to invest. Understanding the rules of money and wealth creation.

Employment opportunities include many well-paying, full time jobs with benefits and opportunities for advancement.

Collaboratives exist that offer fair loans. Transportation childcare, and health services that reduce the time and trouble it takes to get to work and services. Offer wealth creating opportunities.

Emotional

Able to choose and control emotional responses even in negative situations. Emotional competence to work with people from many backgrounds.

Institutions provide the environment, staff, programs, and processes that are safe, healthy, positive, and supportive for all people.

The community is a safe place where diverse people and groups are included. Where there is a free exchange of ideas and access to programs that develop emotional resiliency.

Mental

Have the mental abilities and skills to deal with daily life. Education and training to compete in the workplace for well-paying jobs.

Educational opportunities are equally available for people of all ages, classes, races, ethnicities, genders, and political persuasions.

Communities provide affordable access to pre-kindergarten through post-secondary educational opportunities.

Spiritual

Have purpose and guidance and/or culture that provides purpose and guidance

Institutions consistently adhere to ethical standards, policies of tolerance, inclusion, and a cultural environment that is supportive of high purposes.

Communities are a safe-haven for people of all faiths as well as those who espouse no religion; where relationships of mutual respect flourish so that true collaboratives can take place.

Physical

Have physical health and mobility

Institutions adhere to policies and practices that support prevention, early intervention, and treatment for their employees and clients and customers.

Communities where everyone has access to a medical home and where water, air, soil, plants, other natural resources and animals are managed in sustainable ways.

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Social Support Capital

Have rich bonding and bridging social capital

Institutions design the environment, procedures, and policies that promote and support the development of bonding and bridging social capital.

Communities bring diverse people together in ways that are inclusive and empowering socially and politically.

Language/Communication

Having the vocabulary, language ability, and negotiation skills to succeed a school, work and in the community.

Institutions offer access to people with different languages, registers of language, and communication needs.

Communities offer people with different languages, language skills and communication capabilities all access to planning and decision-making tables and encourage inclusion in all aspects of society. .

Relationships and Role Models

Having frequent access to others who are appropriate, nurturing in positive ways

Institutions promote supportive relationship-based learning, problem solving, and decision- making pathways for employees, clients, and customers

Communities engage people from all classes, races, sectors, and political persuasions in problem solving roles.

Integrity and Trust

Consistently honest, have strong principles and ethical standards.

Institutions adopt and adhere to policies that require the highest standards of behavior.

Community leaders set the high-test standards for ethical behavior and adhere to them.

Motivation and Persistence

Having the energy and drive to prepare act and to follow through

Institutions develop and adhere to clear statements of purpose that identify the motivation of the whole enterprise.

Communities encourage institutions to use data, establish best practices, and encourage innovation in order to create and sustain a high quality of life.

Knowledge of Hidden Rules

Knowing the unspoken cues and habits of all economic classes; able to navigate class systems.

Institutions will design their practices and environments from the client point of view to help people from all classes and races succeed.

Communities promote understanding and reduce discord between people from different classes, races, backgrounds, and political persuasions to promote relationships of mutual respect.

Developed by Jodi Pfarr and Philip DeVol, 2017 (adapted by Adrienne Elder)

Upcoming Training Opportunities:

Monthly Community Trainings 90 min. (Free): [email protected]

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- Oklahoma City-County Health Department – Board Room2600 N.E. 63rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73111Lunch N’ Learns: (bring your own lunch) second Tuesday of each month 11:30am -1:00pm

Full Day Training (Free): https://events.oucpm.org/bridges/

May 9, 2018 June 13, 2018 More dates will be posted soon!

Online Getting Ahead Facilitator Trainings: https://www.ahaprocess.com/events/

Annual Conference: September 23-25, 2018 in Atlanta https://www.ahaprocess.com/event/addressing-challenges-poverty/

Oklahoma City contact information to request FREE on-site trainings to board or staff leadership teams:

- Bridges to Sustainable Communities- Workplace Stability- Bridges to Health and Healthcare- Getting Ahead in the Workplace

Blanca Richard, Program CoordinatorBridges – Getting Ahead OKC Steering [email protected]

Adrienne B. Elder, Consultant & [email protected] 405-426-5431

Statewide Contact: Bridge The Gap

Deborah Price Divisional Director of Poverty Initiatives, Bridge The Gap Oklahoma Coordinator The Salvation Army Arkansas/Oklahoma Division Post Office Box 12600, Oklahoma City, OK 73157 Voice:  405-254-1177   FAX:  405-254-9877 

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