The occupational therapy and social work program at Indiana State University want to create an opportunity for their students to participate in a poverty simulation. This interactive immersional experience will help our students better understand the population and sensitize them to the realities of poverty. As the students graduate and become professionals in their fields, this experience will help them be empathetic and become advocates for those with limited resources and accessibility to health and wellness.
We need twenty volunteers from the community who will role play at different resource stations that form the community in which the participants (the students) will live as families. The resource stations include the bank, money lenders, grocery store, pawn shop, child protection services, the jail, social security office....
Volunteers will be briefed the morning of the event with a light breakfast and will then take their places at the resource stations where they will be approximately for two hours. Volunteers are encouraged to make the interactions authentic as possible.
Thank you for considering to volunteer for this event.
