You are invited to attend our next Poverty Simulation Workshop on Thursday, August 13 at 2:00pm. The simulation is hosted by Touchstone Innovare at LaGrave CRC. If you have never attended a Poverty Simulation workshop, now is the time to experience this compelling workshop. If you are interested in attending or have questions please contact [...]
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Poverty Simulation Offers Perspective on Living in Need
June 16, 2009 – 2:15 pm
ACCESS recently had a Poverty Simulation at Wedgwood Christian Services. Check out the link and click on the video to the right to watch the footage. WZZM13 and ACCESS Poverty Simulation
Poverty Simulation June 10th at GRCC
May 18, 2009 – 11:14 am
Join us June 10th at 6:30pm for our next Poverty Simulation! The poverty simulation experience is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month. It is a simulation, not a game. The object is to sensitize participants [...]
County Wide Food Drive
May 18, 2009 – 10:58 am
This year’s County Wide Food Drive will be held October 10, 2009. This is a concentrated effort to collect non-perishable food and non-food items from porches in the Greater Grand Rapids area for distribution to neighborhood food pantries. Over 7,000 families visit Kent County food pantries each month–half of these served are children. Hunger does [...]
Poverty Simulation is Going to Lansing
March 4, 2009 – 11:19 am
The Poverty Simulation is Going to Lansing! On April 28th ACCESS will bring the Poverty Simulation to Lansing. We have been invited by Senator Jansen and Senator Hardiman to go to Lansing and facilitate the Poverty Simulation workshop for our legislators. We are excited about the opportunity to provide this experience to the decision makers [...]