[Phipsi-l] Community Service Opportunity

[Ransom, Ronald]

This is a fun and exciting community service opportunity for you guys to take part in. Please respond to me with your name and PID tonight or tomorrow if you are interested. (You will receive 3 hours for this event)

Monday, April 25th
6-9pm
Baker Center Ballroom A

This time we have targeted our audience to include campus ‘change agents’ – YOU and your
organization!

Participants include: Greek Life, Res Life, Grad Students, Health Students, Student
Senate, Off Campus, Poli Sci, Business, Leadership and Service Students.

For those of you that do not know what  poverty simulation is:

As part of the Campus Involvement Center’s community service efforts,  The Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks has been invited to Ohio University to co-facilitate an exciting real-life event in Baker Center Ballroom A, Monday, April 25th   6:00– 9:00 p.m.  The event accommodates up to 70 participants.

This welfare simulation experience is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to be part of a typical low-income family trying to survive on assistance from month to month.  The object is to sensitize participants to the realities and obstacles faced daily by persons with low-to-no income. In the Simulation, participants are given a new identity and are role-playing a low income family member with various resources and barriers scripted for them. For example, they may play a single Mom with two kids, no cash and very few assets. The Simulation families move through a condensed “month” of poverty consisting of 4, 15-minute weeks. At the close of the event there is a group reflection for students to share their experience during the simulation.

The simulation is another example of the university’s continuing efforts to have a variety of campus community collaborations; which in turn, via community service, benefit the greater Athens community.  Program participants include students, staff & faculty and community members all gathered together to learn up close the often chaotic world of poverty that many Americans face.
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