
Getting Ahead
Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World (GA) is an internationally recognized, 16-20 week program known for its interactive small group format. No one “teaches” you what you want to learn – you discover what’s best for you. GA helps low-income individuals build their resources needed for a better life.
The Getting Ahead curriculum:
The Getting Ahead curriculum:
- Involves rigorous work done in a safe, kitchen-table style learning environment with the support of an experienced facilitators.
- Enables participants, called “Investigators,” to examine their own experience of inadequate resources as well as explore issues in the community that impact success − banking, housing, jobs, transportation − providing critical information the community can use to take action to end the cycles of poverty.
- Compensates Investigators for their time when they attend a weekly three-hour meeting.
- Guides Investigators through an assessment of their own resources and how to build those resources as part of their move toward self-sufficiency.
- Puts the concepts, tools and relationships in the hands of people in poverty to make a difference in their own lives and in the life of their community.