Poverty Simulation
MVAC has a trained CAPS team to facilitate a simulation. Participants needed to host a simulation range from 40-80 participants and a minimum of 20 volunteers and a minimum of 3,000sqft needed. Contact Laura Wenzel with MVAC for more information – Laura Wenzel – Phone: 507-835-8240 Ext. 2 Email: lwenzel@mnvac.org Don’t know what a Poverty Simulation is? Check out more here: https://www.povertysimulation.net/about/
Why a Simulation?
Poverty is a reality for many individuals and families. But unless you’ve experienced poverty, it’s difficult to truly understand. The Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) bridges that gap from misconception to understanding. CAPS is an interactive immersion experience. It sensitizes community participants to the realities of poverty.
CAPS is not a game. It is based on real Community Action clients and their lives. CAPS exists to:
Promote Poverty Awareness
During the simulation, role-play a month in poverty and experience low-income families’ lives.
Increase Understanding
After the simulation, you will unpack your learning and brainstorm community change.
Inspire Local Change
Together, you can be a voice to end poverty in your family, friends and community.
Transform Perspectives
The goal of CAPS is to shift the paradigm about poverty away from being seen as a personal failure and toward the understanding of poverty as structural, a failure of society.