While working to become a certified nursing assistant (CNA) through the two-generation CareerAdvance anti-poverty program in Tulsa, Toneshia Forshee would meet up with fellow participants in the program twice a week for study sessions.
"We tutored ourselves," Forshee, now a phlebotomist, told me when I met her last fall in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "We would go to Starbucks and McDonald's and sit and actually study together. It was fun, it was really motivating."
Once a week, the CareerAdvance participants would also meet, as a group, with their academic coach, to talk about everything from academic challenges and balancing school with home life to sticking to a budget and preparing for job interviews. "We'd just sit there and talk about anything," Forshee said. "It's a little moment. We get an hour."
[For more on this story by DWYER GUNN, go to https://psmag.com/economics/th...nti-poverty-programs]
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