Welcome to U-M Poverty Solutions - formerly #UMPovertySolutions! If you’re interested in action-based research on ways to prevent and alleviate #poverty and how you and your community can get involved, give us a follow! https://poverty.umich.edu/ University of Michigan
University of Michigan Poverty Solutions
高等教育
Ann Arbor，MI 993 位关注者
We partner with communities & policymakers to find new ways to prevent & alleviate poverty through action-based research
关于我们
Poverty Solutions is a university-wide presidential initiative at the University of Michigan that partners with communities and policymakers to find new ways to prevent and alleviate poverty through action-based research. In confronting the challenges of poverty, we know scholars don’t have all the answers. Yet we have an important role to play. We can bring data, evidence, and analysis to identify critical issues and evidence-based solutions. Working in partnership, we can inform concrete action that empowers families to live healthy and productive lives. We view poverty as the result of interlinked systems — housing, education, criminal justice, labor markets — that fail to function as they should for people with low incomes. Such a systems approach puts the emphasis on structural, rather than individual, causes of poverty. We recognize that many of these systems failures are the result of long-term racial and socioeconomic inequalities. Addressing poverty means confronting these disparities and seeking out just, equitable solutions.
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https://poverty.umich.edu/
University of Michigan Poverty Solutions的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 高等教育
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- Ann Arbor，MI
- 领域
- public policy、poverty alleviation、research、data analysis、community engagement、Child Tax Credit、child allowance、guaranteed income、eviction prevention和housing instability
动态
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Join us for a free documentary screening and panel discussion on homelessness and housing issues in Ann Arbor. Poverty Solutions' Director of Housing Stability Programs and Policy Initiatives Jennifer Erb-Downward will be sharing her student homelessness research prior to the screening in the lobby. Event details: March 11, 6-9pm at the Michigan Theater: https://myumi.ch/JPknV
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?? LISTEN: This episode of Michigan Public Stateside features Luke Shaefer and Zoe Kennedy, director of FORCE Detroit. They discuss the key elements contributing to the success of ShotStoppers, a community violence intervention program. Those elements include: close partnerships between community groups, city officials, and police; defined areas of responsibility for community-based violence intervention groups; and the city’s financial investment in the program. https://lnkd.in/g8_ZaAgf #CommunityViolenceIntervention #Detroit University of Michigan - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Michigan Public
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University of Michigan Poverty Solutions转发了
Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor at University of Michigan - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Got to speak on Michigan Public Radio’s Stateside, with Zoe Kennedy, director of Force Detroit. He and his colleagues have seen violent crime fall 47% in their part of Detroit, outpacing the rest of Detroit and most cities. Reducing violence is fundamental to raising kiddos to live healthy lives: https://forcedetroit.org
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?? WATCH: This mini-documentary from Poverty Solutions & Detroit Phoenix Center highlights the role youth played in designing Detroit's new youth rapid rehousing program, which takes a housing first approach to providing wraparound support to young adults who need a stable place to live. To develop housing programs and other homelessness services that are truly responsive to the needs of youth experiencing housing instability, we need to meaningfully engage youth in deciding what those programs look like. See the trailer: https://lnkd.in/gbkYXrWY Video by Moon Reflections Photography & Videography of Detroit, with support from McGregor Fund
TRAILER: Detroit's Rapid Rehousing Program Designed By Youth, For Youth
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Poverty Solutions Student Engagement and Outreach Manager Trevor Bechtel works with students to plan events that offer interdisicplinary learning opportunities and help students hone their problem-solving skills to address complex real-world issues. Learn more about the innovation workshop on debt that Malcolm Phelan organized with Poverty Solutions: https://lnkd.in/ek9_qVP2
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The Poverty Solutions team kept the winter blues at bay with a visit from Bree the therapy dog and her owner Jared Wadley, plus a service project packing meal bags for Hope Clinic. What have you been doing lately to connect with your community?
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?? LISTEN: Poverty Solutions Special Advisor William Lopez speaks with the No Jargon podcast about the emotional, health, and financial toll of immigration raids—not just on those directly affected, but on entire communities.
What happens to the people at the heart of #immigration raids? In this No Jargon podcast episode, William Lopez (University of Michigan School of Public Health) shares the story of one family’s experience to illustrate the far-reaching consequences of deportation. He discusses the emotional, health, & financial toll of these enforcement actions—not just on those directly affected, but on entire communities. ?? Listen now: https://lnkd.in/edVJxibD
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Last week in the State of the State, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer celebrated the success of the Rx Kids program, which has expanded from Flint to Kalamazoo and now the Eastern U.P. Poverty Solutions is a proud collaborator of the program. University of Michigan - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
From Governor Gretchen Whitmer's State of the State: “The good news is that we have a lot going for us. There are a lot of "firsts" and new beginnings worth celebrating... We expanded?Rx Kids, the nation's first-ever program that puts money directly in the pockets of new moms and babies to improve their finances and health.” ?? #RxKids #StateOfTheState MSU Public Health University of Michigan Poverty Solutions GiveDirectly University of Michigan - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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Next week: Explore actionable solutions to one of the most pressing issues of our time — homelessness — by joining us for a special screening and panel discussion of “Beyond the Bridge: A Solution to Homelessness" at the Michigan Theater, March 11, 6-9pm: https://myumi.ch/nyMqV City of Ann Arbor, University of Michigan School of Social Work, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Avalon Housing, ANN ARBOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION #Homelessness #HomelessnessSolutions #AnnArbor