Posted in Community, Strategies & Techniques, Terie Dreussi-Smith on Jun 9th, 2009 No Comments »
A colleague (call him William) shared with me all of the resources he brought to the Individual Education Plan (IEP) meeting for his son at a middle school. Although everyone at the table had his son’s best interests as their focus, William told me he almost unconsciously brought the following resources to the IEP meeting:
His [...]
Posted in Health Care, Terie Dreussi-Smith on Mar 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Who would have thought that there would be a strong correlation between health and home ownership?
Public health researchers are reporting amazing correlations between growing up and living in poverty and your overall health. Studies by psychologist Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University found a strong and graded correlation between the numbers of years that your [...]
Posted in Community, Diversity, Health Care, Terie Dreussi-Smith on Nov 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
I was working with some colleagues in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina to design a flier to attract potential Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World participants from poverty— called “investigators” — for an upcoming Getting Ahead workgroup series. The flier had been developed by one of the Bridges Coordination Team members, and I thought [...]
Posted in Community, Terie Dreussi-Smith on Aug 29th, 2008 No Comments »
As I finished setting up my PowerPoint at a national convention near Washington, DC, a man passed in the hall, and paused. When he came into the room, I saw he wore the name of the hotel/conference center on his shirt. He worked for the banquet facilities.
He smiled. ”Good mornin’ Ma’am. What is it [...]
Posted in Community, Diversity, Terie Dreussi-Smith on Aug 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
You can make a “D” list of all the factors that disrupt lives and may cause an individual, family, or group to end up in poverty relatively quickly. Divorce, disaster, domestic violence, depression, drugs—the list goes on. Let’s look at a “D” word that has caused widespread poverty throughout the world: discrimination. Do past discriminatory [...]
Posted in Teacher Observations, Terie Dreussi-Smith, aha! Moments on Feb 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
I was presenting in a beautiful town. On my journey I saw only the well-maintained houses of the wealthy; however, the demographics told a different story, reminding me that poverty often gets hidden. The professionals in my workshop told me of the poverty in the beautiful town. I was packing up, and suddenly there was [...]
Posted in Community, Teacher Observations, Terie Dreussi-Smith, aha! Moments on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Thinking of holidays past in the few calm moments I glean during this season, I am impressed by how little social status can really mean—if you have economic stability. Things don’t make us happy, but resources (not just financial) are beyond priceless.
This time of year, I think of my working class home growing up. Paul [...]
Posted in Community, In the News, Question/Answer, Terie Dreussi-Smith on Dec 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Bridges Out of Poverty participants continually ask if anyone has helped Tammy Crabtree and her son, who were featured in the People Like Us documentary from The Center for New American Media. The documentary is a series of interviews with and stories about people from a diverse sampling of class systems in the United States. [...]
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