Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen, City Of Champaign | City Of Champaign website
Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen, City Of Champaign | City Of Champaign website
On August 9, 2024, April Faulkner from the Equity and Engagement Department volunteered with the School of Social Work to participate in an Immersive Simulation Experience for professional staff at the University. The goal of the simulation was to promote poverty awareness, increase understanding, and inspire local change by sensitizing participants to the realities of poverty.
Volunteers served as “community vendors” in the roleplay where attendees learned how one might experience poverty in real life. Each participant was given a specific background and had to navigate the barriers that might exist for a family in different degrees of poverty.
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