Getting Ahead Program
Experience Hope in Action
Thinking about making a change?
Getting Ahead is a 16 session workshop for families of students in APS Title-1 Schools who wish to improve their economic stability. Each session lasts 2 hours. Two sessions per week.
Upcoming GETTING AHEAD Programs
Workshops Beginning September 2024!
SE Quadrant Location
at Highland Highschool
Days & Times are TBD
SW Quadrant Location
at Sandia Church of the Nazarene
Days & Times are TBD
Earn up to $25 in Grocery Gift Cards per Session, up to $400!
- 10 Week Workshop -
SE Quadrant Location
at Highland High School
Graduated Fall 2023
SW Quadrant Location
at Sandia Valley Nazarene Church
Graduated Fall 2023
NE Quadrant Location
at Del Norte Baptist Church
Graduated Spring 2023
NE Quadrant Location
at New City Church
Graduated Fall 2022
More about getting ahead
Imagine 12 people gathered around a kitchen table. One is a Guide; the others are Investigators. The guide helps the process along, but the Investigators do the work of exploring, examining, and processing information. The Guide’s job is not to make suggestions, offer solutions, or argue for change. Instead, the Guide encourages and supports the Investigators as they develop tools to deal critically and creatively with reality and solve community problems.
Getting Ahead provides a way to investigate the impact that poverty has had on you, your family, and your communities. It provides a safe, agenda-free learning environment where adults can reflect on their lives, examine where they are at, assess their own strengths and resources, investigate new possibilities, make plans for their own future stories, offer ideas for building a prosperous community, and choose a team to help them fulfill their goals and dreams.
Become an “Investigator”
Explore and analyze themes in your life
Assess your resources
Build your future story
Make your own choices
Solve problems and control your own life.
Discover the hidden rules of class that empower you to think and act differently.
Make concrete plans for economic stability and begin to build wealth.
Participants Receive
A workbook and supplies
Family meals at each session
Childcare and homework help
Earn $25 in Smith’s Gift Cards each session, up to $400!