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Anti-Poverty Service Learning Resources

 
The UNO Service Learning Academy (SLA), in partnership with AmeriCorps and the Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA Program, has had the opportunity to collaborate with AmeriCorps members to recognize the community’s most pressing challenges and advance local solutions to work towards eradicating poverty. Out of this partnership, the SLA is able to provide a space for project materials and resources specifically curated for anti-poverty service learning. The resources found here are just the beginning, and we hope to continue to grow the inventory with anti-poverty research, class projects, and resources contributed by our service learning partners. Have your own anti-poverty materials you wish to share? Send us your materials via email at unosla@unomaha.edu and include “Anti-Poverty Service Learning Resources” as your email subject line. For more information on the SLA’s anti-poverty initiative, visit our website at https://www.unomaha.edu/service-learning-academy/priority-areas/anti-poverty-initiative.php
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  • 5 Factors That Promote Resilience by Alison Block

    5 Factors That Promote Resilience

    Alison Block

    This website includes a handout and information developed by psychologist Dr. Alison Block about five factors that promote resilience.

  • Talk Poverty by Center for American Progress

    Talk Poverty

    Center for American Progress

    Talk Poverty is a website that provides current events related to poverty, breaks down poverty data, and explains the effects of poverty in our everyday lives.

  • Social & Emotional Learning Strengths Builder Method by Forum for Youth Investment

    Social & Emotional Learning Strengths Builder Method

    Forum for Youth Investment

    This website explains how the Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) Strengths Builder Method can be used to assess how service learning projects support the development of students' SEL. The website includes free resources that guide educators through the SEL Strengths Builder Method and explains how each step can be incorporated in your project.

  • Service Learning Mindset: Cultural Humility And Asset-Based Community Engagement by Allegra Hardin and UNO Service Learning Academy

    Service Learning Mindset: Cultural Humility And Asset-Based Community Engagement

    Allegra Hardin and UNO Service Learning Academy

    This video explores what it means to have a service learning mindset by defining cultural humility and asset-based community engagement. (Video length: less than 5 minutes)

  • Learning To Give by Learning To Give

    Learning To Give

    Learning To Give

    Learning To Give is a website that hosts K-12 service learning lesson plans and activities that educators can use in their own classrooms. This website allows educators to search by service learning topic, class subject, or other keywords to find materials to support their service learning projects.

  • Power Flower by Natalie A. Mello and The Forum on Education Abroad

    Power Flower

    Natalie A. Mello and The Forum on Education Abroad

    The Power Flower activity helps students recognize their intersectional identities and their proximity to social identities that hold power and privilege.

  • Homelessness Learning Hub by Canadian Observatory on Homelessness

    Homelessness Learning Hub

    Canadian Observatory on Homelessness

    The Homelessness Learning Hub is a website that hosts free toolkits, self-paced lessons, and classroom activities related to homelessness and oppression. This website also includes a search tool to look for specific keywords and topics related to homelessness.

  • Surviving An Unlivable Wage by CBS News

    Surviving An Unlivable Wage

    CBS News

    This documentary from CBS News explores the reality of living as a tipped worker in the restaurant industry. In spite of working with food every day, tipped workers struggle with food insecurity in their personal lives. (Video length: less than 30 minutes)

  • Introduction To Understanding Poverty by Allegra Hardin

    Introduction To Understanding Poverty

    Allegra Hardin

    These brief handouts provide background and context to understanding poverty for different key audiences. The main handout (which can be downloaded by selecting the main title) is tailored toward P-12 Teachers and Administrators, while the supplemental handouts indicate their specific intended audiences in their titles. All together there are five handouts, one for each target audience listed below.

    • P-12 Teachers & Administrators
    • Elementary Teachers & Students
    • High School/Middle School Teachers & Students
    • UNO Faculty & Students
    • Community Partners

  • Examining the Black-white Wealth Gap by Kriston McIntosh, Emily Moss, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh

    Examining the Black-white Wealth Gap

    Kriston McIntosh, Emily Moss, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh

    This Brookings Institute article explores the racial wealth gap in the United States.

  • Working Woman Testifies About Reality of Poverty In The U.S. by NowThis News

    Working Woman Testifies About Reality of Poverty In The U.S.

    NowThis News

    This video from NowThis News features organizer Amy Jo Hutchinson testifying to Congress about her lived experiences with poverty in the U.S. Through her testimony, she explains just how expensive poverty is in the U.S. (Video length: less than 5 minutes)

  • Opportunity Index by The Forum For Youth Investment, Child Trends, and Opportunity Nation

    Opportunity Index

    The Forum For Youth Investment, Child Trends, and Opportunity Nation

    This website provides an interactive map with data about local economies, education, community health, and civic life to show what opportunity looks like in different parts of the United States.

  • WE Schools by WE Schools

    WE Schools

    WE Schools

    WE Schools is a program that offers K-12 educators free service learning resources focused on hunger, poverty, and education inequality. By registering on the website for free, educators can search through resources by service learning topic, classroom subject, and grade level.

  • Service-Learning Series: Toolkit For Preparing Students by Carolina Center for Public Service

    Service-Learning Series: Toolkit For Preparing Students

    Carolina Center for Public Service

    This toolkit is for educators about preparing both themselves and their students for service learning projects. From social justice to community-based teaching to power and privilege, this toolkit includes contextual information and practical considerations when planning service learning projects.

  • How America Created Its Shameful Wealth Gap | Inequality Media by Solana Rice, Robert Reich, and Inequality Media

    How America Created Its Shameful Wealth Gap | Inequality Media

    Solana Rice, Robert Reich, and Inequality Media

    In this Inequality Media video, Co-Founder of Liberation in a Generation Solana Rice explains how a combination of institutional racism & white supremacy created America's racial wealth gap. (Video length: less than 7 minutes)

  • Disrupting Food Insecurity by Urban Institute

    Disrupting Food Insecurity

    Urban Institute

    This interactive dashboard created by the Urban Institute provides information about food insecurity levels, related risk factors, and local challenges faced by counties across the United States.

  • Youth Service America Knowledge Center by Youth Service America

    Youth Service America Knowledge Center

    Youth Service America

    The Youth Service America Knowledge Center is a website focused on engaging children in meaningful service learning. This website hosts free tools and guides for educators to use in their own service learning projects.

  • Disability & Poverty in America by Kathleen Brannigan and National Disability Institute

    Disability & Poverty in America

    Kathleen Brannigan and National Disability Institute

    This video from the National Disability Institute explains how disability and poverty create barriers to employment, education, and economic stability. (Video length: less than 3 minutes)

  • Social Determinants of Health - An Introduction by Let's Learn Public Health and Ranil Appuhamy

    Social Determinants of Health - An Introduction

    Let's Learn Public Health and Ranil Appuhamy

    This video from Let's Learn Public Health provides introductory information about the social determinants of health model and how it relates to socioeconomic status. (Video length: less than 7 minutes)

  • Enhancing Cultural Humility Through Critical Service-Learning in Teacher Preparation by Alan S. Tinkler and Barri Tinkler

    Enhancing Cultural Humility Through Critical Service-Learning in Teacher Preparation

    Alan S. Tinkler and Barri Tinkler

    Most of the teaching population is white. Additionally, many pre-service teachers grow up in increasingly segregated schools. This study analyzes the impact of exposing pre-service teachers to students who are racially different from themselves while also addressing their biases and prejudices. They found that the pre-service teachers developed cultural humility by connecting to students through stories, understanding and accommodating students' strengths, and catering their teaching through reciprocal relationships.

  • 13 Lessons About Poverty by AmeriCorps and Stephen Pimpare

    13 Lessons About Poverty

    AmeriCorps and Stephen Pimpare

    In this video, author Stephen Pimpare explains 13 lessons about poverty, ranging from the commonality of poverty to policies that address it. (Video length: 15 minutes)

  • The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn't True by Mia Birdsong and TED Conferences

    The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn't True

    Mia Birdsong and TED Conferences

    This TED Talk dispels many ill-conceived notions about people in poverty. Using an asset-based lens, Mia Birdsong uses anecdotes about different individuals who have used their strengths in spite of their poverty. She asks people to change their narrative about marginalized communities and individuals in poverty.

  • Why Disability And Poverty Still Go Hand In Hand 25 Years After Landmark Law by Pam Fessler and National Public Radio

    Why Disability And Poverty Still Go Hand In Hand 25 Years After Landmark Law

    Pam Fessler and National Public Radio

    This NPR article and radio clip explores why disability and poverty are commonly connected even after 25 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

  • How Poverty Is Measured In The United States by AmeriCorps

    How Poverty Is Measured In The United States

    AmeriCorps

    This AmeriCorps video explores how poverty is measured in the United States and how the measurement can fall short of providing resources for people who need it. (Video length: less than 3 minutes)

  • CBK Associates Resources by CBK Associates and Cathryn Berger Kaye

    CBK Associates Resources

    CBK Associates and Cathryn Berger Kaye

    CBK Associates is a website featuring free service learning curriculum, student guides, and resources to assist in developing your own service learning project.

 
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