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2012 training seminars

All events require pre-registration by the stated deadline or one week before the date. NO WALK-INS

          Employee Education & Development Techniques That Work  

            St. Mary's Medical Center, Amphitheatre

Audience: for local businesses and human resource employees

Speaker:  Fran Klene, Employee Development & Grants Coordinator, Clarian Health, Indianapolis

Synopsis:  Fran will be sharing what Clarian Health has learned in their quest to help educate and grow their employees who have experienced generational poverty.  Program components have improved first year retention, patient satisfaction and engagement.

For more information, contact Cris Stichler at  cstichler@stmarys.org

Audience: for local businesses and human resource employees

Objectives:

Speaker:   Ron Jimmerson, Senior Manager, Cascade Engineering, Grand Rapids, MI

Synopsis:   Ron presented a case study of the successful practices implemented at Cascade Engineering and an overview of other programs being implemented in Michigan and elsewhere based on the innovative Cascade model.

Cascade Engineering, which engineers and produces plastic systems and components, employs over 1,000 people.  "The idea of shaping growth lies deep within each organization.  It is our desire that we can share best practices and ideas to ignite your people and organization resulting in a positive impact on your bottom line." -- Quest Division of Cascade Engineering.

Read a summary of Cascade Engineering's story

or the full case study at Stanford Case Study of Work to Career at Cascade Engineering

Sponsors: Bridges Collaborative Group of Southern Indiana, Career Choices Evansville-Area Human Resources Association, and Southwest Indiana Network for Education (SINE)

Email Beth for information on future Business User Group meetings

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Bridges User Groups

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Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World and Circles campaign

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Poverty Simulation

The Community Action Poverty Simulation is facilitated by staff from United Way of Southwestern Indiana.  The Simulation allows group members to walk in the shoes of families and individuals in generational poverty as they struggle to make ends meet.

The Poverty Simulation is a learning tool created to help people understand the realities of poverty. During a simulation, participants role-play the lives of low-income families. Some are TANF recipients, some disabled, and some are senior citizens on Social Security. They have the stressful tasks of providing for basic necessities and shelter on a limited budget. They interact with human services agencies, grocers, pawnbrokers, bill collectors, job interviews, police officers, and others.

Although play money is used, the Poverty Simulation is not a game. It is a simulation that enables participants to look at poverty from a variety of angles and then to recognize and discuss the potential for change within their local communities. The simulation was designed to sensitize those who frequently deal with families with low income, as well as to create a broader awareness of the realities of poverty among policymakers, community leaders, and others.

(The Community Action Poverty Simulation was created by the Missouri Association for Community Action.)

For more information on attending a Poverty Simulation, email ebaxter@unitedwayswi.org or call 812.421.7472

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Past Day 1 Events - 722 attendance to date

2007 - 252 total attendance

2008 - 216 total attendance

2009 218 attendance to date

2010

Past Day 2 Events - 273 attendance to date

2007

            Guest Speaker: Phil DeVol, Consultant, aha! Process, Inc. and co-author of Bridges Out of Poverty:

            Strategies for Professionals and Communities and author of Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World

          Speakers: local Bridges Community Trainers: Mary Hess & Beth Pace

          Speakers: local Bridges Community Trainer: Beth Pace

For more information, email the registrar for Bridges events at bridges@destination-home.info or

Lynn Kyle, Chair of the Bridges Collaborative Group of Southern Indiana at lkyle@lampioncenter.com

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