• Cost of Poverty Experience Simulation

This half-day interactive workshop is sponsored by the Mount Vernon Seventh Day Adventist Church and is presented by Community Action of Skagit County and the Skagit Volunteer Center. Participants will be divided into small “family” teams and experience real challenges faced by people in situational or generational poverty. Past participants have reported gaining a deeper understanding of the complexity of poverty and have gone on to create changes in their own agencies, schools and public policy to address needs and opportunities. A facilitated debrief leads to concrete next steps for learning, volunteering, giving and advocating for change.