The ToolKit contains everything you need to lead a successful program. 

Facilitator’s Guide
 

The Facilitator’s Guide is divided into nine sessions, and the guide material for each session is divided into four sections: The Session at a Glance, which gives a general description of the session, its essential message, overall objectives, and timeline for presentation. Preparation, which includes background information, resources for further research, materials and supplies needed for effective presentation, setup procedures, and video summaries as appropriate. Presenting the Session, which gives you detailed instructions for presenting the session. Handouts, which you can reproduce for participants to use during the session and take with them when the session is over.

 
Original Videos

Several sessions include original videos that reviewers have called “eye-opening.”

In one, participants are introduced to three families living in poverty.  They see the obstacles that the families face each day.

In another, participants meet a family living in poverty before trying to balance the family’s budget, experiencing the nearly impossible financial decisions that low-income families must make on a daily basis.

Another video informs participants about ways in which communities are responding to the need for housing.

In a particularly moving video, children show photographs that they have taken of their lives and tell of the harsh realities of growing up poor. In an accompanying activity, participants identify the essential elements all children need to thrive.

Audio CD

Through an audio CD, participants meet Annie, a single mother struggling to care for her children. Then they must make the tough decisions that Annie faces, and feel the stresses and struggles of life below the poverty line.

And More . . .

character cards for an activity in which participants take on the roles of people of different economic status and grapple with the differing ways they are affected by economic trends reflected in the news of the day