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  1. Hello. Hello
  2. and thank you for joining me on my little podcast of explaining.
  3. I'm understanding, generational poverty within school age populations.
  4. I am Andrea Rollins and I am presenting this to you
  5. so that you can get a little more understanding
  6. um about generational poverty,
  7. right?
  8. What is poverty? First of all, we need to know what it exactly is.
  9. Poverty is defined,
  10. defined as a state or circumstance in which an individual and individuals have a
  11. deficiency or lack of access to the simple needs of life such as food,
  12. clothing, shelter, what have you?
  13. They, this has happened over several generations.
  14. But first of all, that's generational.
  15. First, understanding poverty can be difficult when you have never been around it.
  16. Um It can be viewed within a broader spectrum as well
  17. in the community.
  18. If the community lacks financial resources, essential needs and services,
  19. it can also be a form of poverty.
  20. All right. So what is generational poverty?
  21. How do we come about describing what generational poverty is?
  22. So generational poverty happens and affects millions of family across the world.
  23. Um When poverty has been
  24. um within a family for at least
  25. two generations that's considered generational poverty.
  26. A lot of people don't like to talk about it,
  27. but it is a situation that has to be handled.
  28. Ok.
  29. All right. Next,
  30. what are, what are the generational poverty overall effects? How does it affect us?
  31. Generational poverty can affect the physical,
  32. the social, the emotional and the mental state of being.
  33. Although there are several factors that
  34. contribute to generational poverty existence.
  35. The main reason that generational poverty persists is because of the
  36. internal psychological factors that are formed that CRE that it creates
  37. barriers that have not been dealt with within the families.
  38. So a lot of times families have to talk about these situations
  39. and they have to come to grass of what is going on.
  40. The reason that it keeps going on is because a
  41. lot of times they don't like to talk about it,
  42. which is kind of natural knowing that it happens over several generations.
  43. All right. So let's look at it what other factors contribute to this. So,
  44. um one of the things is we, the hopelessness,
  45. they don't feel like they'll ever come out of this situation.
  46. This is a situation
  47. like I said, it happens over and over and over again.
  48. Not only do we want to try to solve this situation,
  49. we want to try to make the situation better but they feel hopeless.
  50. They don't feel like there's a way to come out of the situation that they're in.
  51. So what they seek is to find ways to stay in it. OK.
  52. Um Another thing,
  53. um
  54. planning, a
  55. lot of people cannot plan for the future
  56. because they're stuck right there where they are.
  57. But so what usually happens is when you're stuck,
  58. you're more concerned about the things that are occurring right now.
  59. You can't see really the future. You can't see what's behind you.
  60. You have to kind of focus on what's going on right now. So the other thing, um
  61. making sure
  62. that
  63. we understand the community, the community plays an important role in this,
  64. making sure that the community knows that this is a actual problem.
  65. OK.
  66. All right. So what causes, what actually causes generational poverty?
  67. A lot of times inadequate education. That's the number one rule.
  68. A lot of people that have stuck in
  69. generational poverty do not have an adequate education
  70. for some reason, they may have dropped out of school to get a job.
  71. For some reason, their families may not have any help to help them with education.
  72. They may not have anyone that can actually
  73. talk to them about what's actually going on.
  74. So when you have things of that nature,
  75. they can't focus basically on school because their main focus
  76. is on working and taking care of the family.
  77. So a lot of times we have to take the time out to see what is available.
  78. Again, resources are not available.
  79. They don't have the means to get the things that they need.
  80. They don't have the help to get the things that they need.
  81. So most importantly, they're trying to just survive um lack of determination.
  82. People that's usually stuck into generational poverty,
  83. they don't have a motivation to go on.
  84. They don't have a reason to go on.
  85. They don't see a future they don't see coming beyond what they can see right now.
  86. So effects of generational poverty with, with actual school age Children,
  87. the emotional status Children that usually have are generational poverty.
  88. They don't really connect like other students.
  89. They don't see a wheel to go, come to school.
  90. They come to school because they're forced to come to school.
  91. They come to school because their parents tell them they have to come to school,
  92. their cognitive status.
  93. They're not focused on learning,
  94. they're not focused on making sure they're doing what they need to do.
  95. Their focus is getting out of the house. A mom can go to work.
  96. OK, behavioral development.
  97. A lot of Children that are stuck in generational,
  98. they have a lot of behavioral issues and because of
  99. educators such as myself and uh and you guys,
  100. because it's
  101. of you,
  102. we have to set standards for them so that they
  103. can know there is ways beyond what they're used to.
  104. We have to give them motivation all the time.
  105. All right.
  106. Breaking the cycle, let's break the cycle, change the mindset,
  107. let's change their mindset of education.
  108. Let's give them a way to see education beyond what they can see. Right now.
  109. Right now, they can only see a certain part.
  110. Let's give them a means of seeing past that part.
  111. Let's give them a means of seeing what they cannot see.
  112. That's something that we have to work on
  113. as educators um helping them focus on school,
  114. helping them focus on their education.
  115. That's something that's very important
  116. are other solutions, helping them accept that their families are stuck in.
  117. This situation is not anything that, that they can do about it,
  118. but it is something as a child they can do focus on their education.
  119. Make sure they're doing what they need to do.
  120. Self compassion, be easy on them. Don't give Children a means of thinking.
  121. There's no way out, ok, finding their strength, find out how the what,
  122. what areas they're strong in.
  123. They
  124. may be strong in math and science,
  125. good jobs are connected to math and science degrees,
  126. give them things to look at journaling, help them write out their thoughts.
  127. A lot of times Children do not voice where they are because they,
  128. they don't have a voice, they're just going within the role of whatever is going on.
  129. Give them time to let their feelings out, give them time to,
  130. to just release everything that's in, within, within them,
  131. right? Making education a priority.
  132. The number one thing that we can do as educators make education a priority.
  133. We want to make sure that they know education is the top tier.
  134. If you finish school, you finish your education. Ok.
  135. Um, financial literacy programs. We can actually give parents weekend classes.
  136. They can come up to the school.
  137. We can have things for them to do so that
  138. they know there is something more that can be done.
  139. We don't want them to just think they're stuck in that situation
  140. being that voice to help them bring come out of that situation.
  141. All right. How can school counselors in the program address these issues,
  142. making sure you have an open door policy,
  143. um, ensure that the child understands the importance of having good grades,
  144. um connecting them to different people on the
  145. side that can help them D hr um food services,
  146. anything that they need that they can help,
  147. make sure you're being there for them and make sure that every
  148. stakeholder knows that they can be an access to this point.
  149. Ok.
  150. Ethical and legal standards. We wanna be careful. We're not breaking any rules.
  151. We wanna make sure we're staying in the boundaries,
  152. we're doing what we're supposed to do,
  153. but also setting standards for everyone else.
  154. Ok.
  155. We have federal state laws, local laws making sure we don't break those,
  156. but also giving the parents an opportunity to divorce
  157. themselves and do what they need to do.
  158. Ok.
  159. All right. How will educators benefit from this?
  160. It can help you love on your students,
  161. turn it into something fun so that the students know that you're there for them.
  162. Give them plenty of praise when they do good,
  163. expose the students to different experiences,
  164. set their expectations so that they know there is something on the other side.
  165. All right. And these are some resources that I use to compose this.
  166. There are several other resources that's um throughout the internet.
  167. I hope that you guys have enjoyed my presentation. Thank you so much for tuning in.
  168. This is just a resource tool to help you
  169. understand a little bit more about generational poverty.
  170. Thank you.