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The WSU Athletic Training Faculty invite you to consider volunteering in our poverty simulation experience. The Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) experience helps students planning to be educators, social service providers, and healthcare professionals to truly understand and sensitize to real-world situations that families living in poverty experience every day.
The poverty simulation experience is designed to help participants begin to understand what it might be like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month. It is a simulation, not a game. In the simulation, up to 88 participants assume the roles of up to 26 families facing poverty.
Volunteers are recruited to staff and assume the roles of various services available to the participants (bank, super center, recruiter, social service agency, faith-based agency, Community Action Agency, employer, utility company, pawn broker, grocery, payday/title loan company, mortgage company, school, community health center, and childcare center). We encourage volunteers to fully engage and immerse themselves in the simulation experience. This will provide the participants with a more authentic real-world experience as they interact with the volunteers.Event includes 1 hour of training, a two-hour poverty simulation, followed by a 1 hour reflection session.
Contact Scott Landis scott.landis@wsu.edu for more information.
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Age Limit
18 and up
Requirement Details
Wondering if you should register to volunteer? Based on the CDC guidelines, we are asking you the following questions:
- Have you been exposed to someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19? See the CDC’s risk assessment guidance.
- Do you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19? Symptoms can include a cough or shortness of breath or at least two of the following: Fever, Chills, Repeated shaking with chills, Muscle pain, Headache, Sore throat, New loss of taste or smell. See the CDC’s symptom information.
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Civic Engagement Community Crisis Support Economic Development Employment Financial Assistance Food Insecurity, Hunger Gender General Advocacy Health Homeless & Housing Human Rights Immigrants & Refugees Incarcerated, Formerly Incarcerated LGBTQ+ Legal Services Marginalized Populations Mental Health Services Nutrition Persons with Disabilities Placemaking Poverty & Basic Needs Race & Ethnicity Social Justice Special Needs Sports & Recreation Tutor Victim Services Workforce Development
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