*Note: Participants are responsible for their own transportation to off-site experiences. Four-hour experience includes travel time to and from the experience. (Saturday – 2:15 – 6:15 PM) 

Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS)

Location: Kearney Public Library (Please arrive by 2:30 PM)

Why a Simulation?

Poverty is a reality for many individuals and families. But unless you’ve experienced poverty, it isn’t easy to truly understand. The Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) bridges that gap from misconception to understanding. CAPS is an interactive immersion experience. It sensitizes community participants to the realities of poverty.

CAPS is not a game. It is based on real Community Action clients and their lives. CAPS exists to:

Promote Poverty Awareness: During the simulation, role-play a month in poverty and experience the lives of low-income families.

Increase Understanding: After the simulation, you will unpack your learning and brainstorm community change.

Inspire Local Change: Together, you can be a voice to end poverty in your family, friends and community.

Transform Perspectives: The goal of CAPS is to shift the paradigm about poverty away from being seen as a personal failure and toward the understanding of poverty as structural, a failure of society.

Participants in this workshop will be invited to participate in a year long cohort exploring poverty in their own communities and how they can work for change. Special attention will be given to the intersections and correlations between race and poverty. Participants in the cohort will receive one on one coaching through out they year as they work to understand poverty in their own communities. In addition, participants will learn how they can take the Poverty Simulation into their own communities.

Learn more about the simulation here

This workshop is provided by a grant from the ELCA Strategy Towards Authentic Diversity


A Firsthand Look at Mosaic

Location: Mosaic, Axtell (Please arrive by 2:45 PM)

Spend the afternoon on the Mosaic campus at Axtell. You’ll have the opportunity to help with a project on the campus, but there will also be time for a tour and conversation and a chance to learn about Mosaic in your community as well as Mosaic’s international programs.

 

Baking Bread and Building Community

Location: Campus Lutheran Center, UNK, Kearney (Please arrive by 2:30 PM)

Learn how to bake artisan breads, including gluten-free options for communion. While bread is baking, you’ll talk about how you can engage in hunger ministries in your communities and hear more about campus ministry at UNK, including their “dinner church.”