Getting Ahead Self-Sufficiency Program
People who are living in poverty have many challenging decisions to make on a daily basis that effect their very existence. Perhaps they need to decide how to feed their children at the end of the month when they are out of money and food stamps. Perhaps the car will not start and they need to get to work so they can hold on to their job. Or, their childcare arrangements have broken down threatening their livelihood. These types of decisions and many more are very real for persons in poverty. This situation is called the “tyranny of the moment”. This keeps many people from planning for their future because they cannot control today let alone tomorrow.
The Getting Ahead program helps low income families move from dependency to self‐sufficiency through education, self‐assessment and a mentoring experience.