Trading Spaces: Increasing Employees Understanding of Limited Income Employees

Success Story

Have any of your local employers wondered if their employees have:

• Transportation challenges?
• Food security issues?
• Childcare concerns?
• Financial problems?

Participants of this session will discover how Columbia County's Labor Forum, facilitated by UW-Extension, provided information (using role play, small group discussion circles, lecture and team collaboration) to area employer's about:

• what challenges some limited income families experience and how does "poverty" impact Columbia County's labor force;
• how their company can examine its policies and procedures to better accommodate people who live in poverty;
• give them an opportunity to network with area service-providers who are serving limited income families in their community.