Webinars are now available to the public!
Come and play Gettin’ By, the game that puts your brain into poverty. You will see how your own thinking and decision-making respond to scarcity. In this workshop, you will learn how to listen and respond effectively, improving your work with low-income clients and families.
Welcome to Gettin’ By Games and Training
If you have been looking for engaging and effective training on equity, cultural competency, or social determinants of health, welcome!
“You will never see poverty the same way again”
Well-intentioned help misses the mark when it assumes that a person can receive it and act upon it in a certain way.
That's why epidemiologist Linda K. Riddell created Gettin' By, a training for teachers, doctors, case managers, and other professionals to work more effectively with students, patients and clients who are experiencing poverty.
Many poverty simulation trainings focus on the hassle of coping with poverty and they generally overlook how poverty affects thinking and decision-making.
Gettin’ By uses real-world scenarios and brain science to simulate how poverty changes a person's ability to process information and make logical decisions, impairing certain functions while enhancing others.
Whether in person or online, we give professionals tools to work more effectively with people living in poverty. Gettin’ By is a poverty education training that helps the helpers. The Gettin’ By Experience shows people the hidden side of poverty – the mental burden and how it reshapes decision-making and affects health.
We are accredited!
Gettin’ By is accredited to provide continuing education credits to social workers, case managers, and teachers.
We are accredited through the Association of Social Work Boards, Commission for Case Manager Certification, The University of Maine Hutchinson Center. Read more here.