POVERTY COLLABORATIVE BLOG

Using this "Call to Action" 

The guide is separated into nine chapters, using the themes that were lifted up by participants during the convenings and focus groups. The chapters, explained in more detail below, are:

• Jobs and Working Conditions
• Social Services and Benefits
• Housing and Homelessness
• Schools and Education
• Health and Wellness
• Hunger and Food Security
• The Criminalization of Poverty
• Financial Inclusion and Exclusion
• Federal Economic Policy

In each of these chapters you’ll find an overview of the issue area, explaining how LGBTQ people are disproportionately impacted and differently impacted; promising practices and programs identified by participants in the convenings and focus groups; stories of people who have a lived experience related to the issue area; and concrete policy recommendations to help guide advocacy at federal, state, and local levels.

Each chapter is meant to be useful as a stand-alone document, but effective economic justice advocacy can’t be accomplished in silos. From a practical perspective, if a person living in poverty experiences food security but can’t access housing or work, economic justice has not been achieved.

Using this "Call to Action" 

The guide is separated into nine chapters, using the themes that were lifted up by participants during the convenings and focus groups. The chapters, explained in more detail below, are:

• Jobs and Working Conditions
• Social Services and Benefits
• Housing and Homelessness
• Schools and Education
• Health and Wellness
• Hunger and Food Security
• The Criminalization of Poverty
• Financial Inclusion and Exclusion
• Federal Economic Policy

In each of these chapters you’ll find an overview of the issue area, explaining how LGBTQ people are disproportionately impacted and differently impacted; promising practices and programs identified by participants in the convenings and focus groups; stories of people who have a lived experience related to the issue area; and concrete policy recommendations to help guide advocacy at federal, state, and local levels.

Each chapter is meant to be useful as a stand-alone document, but effective economic justice advocacy can’t be accomplished in silos. From a practical perspective, if a person living in poverty experiences food security but can’t access housing or work, economic justice has not been achieved.