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The WSU Athletic Training Faculty invites you to join us in a poverty simulation experience. The Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) experience will help educators, social service providers, and healthcare professionals truly understand and sensitize to real-world situations that families living in poverty experience every day.
Could you survive a month in poverty? Approximately 39.7 million (12.3%) Americans, 12.8 million of whom are children under the age of 18, live in poverty every day. Many more have incomes above the poverty line, but their incomes are still low enough to qualify for programs like Food Stamps, and Medicaid.
It is difficult for those of us who have enough to truly understand the situations that families living in poverty experience every day – the decisions they must make, and the fears and frustrations they feel. That is why we are inviting you to walk a mile in the shoes of those facing poverty by participating in the CAPS.
The CAPS provides participants with the opportunity to assume the role of a low-income family member living on a limited budget. The experience is divided into four 15-minute sessions, each of which represent 1 week in which you must provide for your family and maintain your home. You will interact with human service agencies, grocers, pawnbrokers, bill collectors, job interviewers, police officers, and others.
The simulation will be 1:00-4:00 on March 31st at WSU in Smith (main) gym. Please arrive early enough so that we can start promptly at 1:00.
We look forward to your participation. Contact Scott Landis scott.landis@wsu.edu for more information.
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Age Limit
18 and up
Requirement Details
Wondering if you should register to volunteer? Based on the CDC guidelines, we are asking you the following questions:
- Have you been exposed to someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19? See the CDC’s risk assessment guidance.
- Do you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19? Symptoms can include a cough or shortness of breath or at least two of the following: Fever, Chills, Repeated shaking with chills, Muscle pain, Headache, Sore throat, New loss of taste or smell. See the CDC’s symptom information.
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