Getting Ahead Workshops

Getting Ahead is a sixteen-week class for hard-working, under-resourced people to help them to
expand their available options for the future story of their choosing.

During each class, participants, called Investigators

• Look at their current situation and the community issues affecting banking, housing, jobs and transportation.
  
• Build on their available resources.
• Begin to define their future story.
• Learn concepts and tools that help them and their community.

Getting Ahead Investigators

• Want to improve their current life circumstances.
• May have tried before on their own and have not yet been successful.
• Are willing to work with trained facilitators and organizations.
• Participate in all 16 workshops and make up work if a session is missed.

The Getting Ahead Workshop Experience

• A group of six to twelve investigators meet weekly with their facilitators.  Each workshop lasts for three hours, including a one-hour community meal and a two-hour investigation session.
• The Getting Ahead book and all necessary course materials are provided.
• The community meal is provided.
• A $25 gift card is awarded to investigators for their work at each session. 

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Together, there is hope for a better tomorrow.