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"Bridges Out of Poverty:
Strategies for Professionals and Communities"
The Geauga County Board of Mental Health and Recovery Services
was pleased to provide scholarships for Geauga County human
service professionals to attend an educational workshop on
April 30, 2008.
The Mental Health Association in Geauga County, CASA for
Kids and Ravenwood Mental Health Center presented the workshop
at St. Mary's in Chardon, Ohio. Philip DeVol, who co-authored
the book "Bridges Out of Poverty:Strategies for Professionals
and Communities" with Ruby Payne, PhD and Terie Dreussi
Smith, presented a model of the "cultures" of poverty,
the middle class, and the upper class. Mr. DeVol focused on
increasing participants' awareness of the differences in economic
culturese and showed how these differences affect opportunities
for success. Participants developed an action plan to improve
retention rates for new hires from poverty and how to motivate
individuals from poverty.
The workshop series is part of the continuing mission of
the Mental Health Association in Geauga County to provide
quality mental health education at an affordable cost to Geauga
County mental health professionals. Over 100 participants
earned CEUs for attending the 6 hour workshop. The Geauga
County Board of Mental Health and Recovery Services sponsored
scholarships for 31 Geauga County human service professionals
to attend the workshop.
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