On Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 staff from the Middle School and the Learning Center engaged in a Poverty Simulation conducted by the Greater Cleveland Foodbank. A Poverty Simulation is a unique group exercise that enables participants to learn about the day to day realities of life with a shortage of money and an abundance of stress.
The poverty simulation experience is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month. It is not a game. It is an exercise that sensitizes participants to the realities faced by low-income people.
During the simulation, teachers and staff assumed the roles of the different families facing poverty while the Building Leadership Team acted as community resources and agencies available to assist those families. Some of the services included a bank, super center, Community Action Agency, employer, utility company, pawn broker, grocery, social service agency, faith-based agency, payday and title loan facility, mortgage company, school, and child care center.
Click here for pictures from the simulation.