Trainings and Workshops
Beans and Rice provides a variety of trainings for groups working with low to moderate-income families. These include:

• Life in the State of Poverty
  This workshop is a simulation in which participants spend three hours learning about and coping with poverty.
• ¿Entiendes?
  During this simulation participants spend three hours learning about and coping with living in a world in which they do not speak the language.
• Strategies for Teaching Children Coping with the Stress of Poverty
  During this workshop participants explore how stress affects them and how they cope with stress. These insights are used to help participants develop strategies for teaching children.
• Strategies for Supporting Adult Learners Coping with the Stress of Poverty
  This workshop places special emphasis on how poverty creates crises and stress, institutional barriers, and the subsequent life disruption. Strategies for preventing, alleviating and coping with these crises and the stress they create are explored. This workshop is particularly effective in conjunction with Life in the State of Poverty as a daylong event.

For more information on trainings contact:
Nelda Pearson
npearson@beansandrice.org
540-633-2037