Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” ~ Mark Twain

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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:
  • 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.
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Get Involved

Are you tired of just getting by? Ready to start getting ahead? Applications are now being accepted. Click here to fill out the brief application.

If you’d like to support the Investigators work, donations of incentive gift cards in increments of $25 and home-cooked or take-out meals for evening meetings are needed.

For more information, to express interest in participating or providing a meal, call Sister Roberta Treppa at 301-447-6102, ext. 20 or email her at rtreppa@setoncenter.org.