Fortress is currently accepting applications for our Spring 2024 Getting Ahead cohort. This 16-week workshop is open to Fortress parents who are striving to build stability and break cycles of poverty for the children. Utilizing Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By-World curriculum, this 16-session workshop helps individuals in poverty build their resources for a more prosperous life for themselves, their families, and their communities.
The Getting Ahead curriculum:
Involves rigorous work done in a safe learning environment with the support of an experienced facilitator (Chris Martin) and co-facilitator.
Enables participants, called “investigators,” to examine their own experience of poverty as well as explore issues in the community that impact poverty − banking, housing, jobs, transportation − providing critical information the community can use to take action to end poverty.
Guides investigators through an assessment of their own resources and how to build those resources as part of their move to 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.
The goal of this 16-week program is to build confidence, increase opportunities to develop and expand resources, and to gain support from others who are on a similar path. Investigators will be paid a stipend of $25 at each session for their valuable work. Childcare and dinner is provided at each session. The sessions will take place on Wednesdays from 600-8:30 at our location: Fortress, 1007 E Terrell Ave, Fort Worth, 76104.
Enrollment is limited to 12 participants. Participants must be willing to commit to the entire 16-week course.
