The Cost of Poverty Experience is an interactive simulation that highlights the lived realities and human impact of poverty. Florida 1.27 is available to facilitate a COPE session at local churches, agencies, and other groups.
There are many benefits of participating in a Cost of Poverty Experience:
Increased understanding of the complexities, decisions and expectations of children, single adults, parents, and the elderly living in poverty
Gained insight into the primary driver of the Foster Care system (unintentional neglect due to poverty) and the ability to see how families are impacted and learn from their lived experience
Challenge assumptions, preconceived notions, and judgements
Increased understanding of how to meaningfully connect with families in poverty in a way that can lead to life transformation