Helping Impoverished JET Participants Find and Keep a Job (workshop)
March, 14 2012
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This workshop highlights the norms, behaviors, and survival skills common to poverty culture and addresses the influence of generational poverty and its impacts on behavior and thinking.
Learn how to:
- Help job seekers find / keep jobs that will help them rise above poverty
- Cultivate middle class living skills necessary for working with middle class employers / customers
- Capitalize on poverty culture norms to help customers find and retain living wage jobs
Location:
DoubleTree by Hilton
5801 Southfield Expressway
Detroit, MI 48228
Registration Details:
Registration Fees: Member - $95 / Non-Member - $130
Registration - 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Training - 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
How You Will Benefit:
- Examine the “hidden rules of the middle class” to assure impoverished job seekers integrate on a behavioral level during job search classes for lasting job retention
- Look at the privacy needs, relationship rules, time considerations, and survival orientation of those in the poverty culture to support them in looking at employment opportunities that fall within poverty culture skill sets
Who Should Attend: All staff and agencies that work with individuals in poverty
Presented By:
Rita Rizzo has nearly 30 years of experience designing, developing and facilitating training for the public sector. Dynamic, and entertaining, Rizzo offers a wealth of experience training workforce development and human services staff with a critical perspective from the culture of poverty.
NAWDP Competency Rating: 2,4,5,9