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Interpreter Services – CAP Services’ trained staff provides individuals and businesses in Central Wisconsin with interpreter and translation services in Hmong, Laotian or Spanish. Interpreter services are available in person or by phone to individuals or groups.
Poverty Simulations – CAP Services’ poverty simulations are an opportunity for individuals to obtain first-hand knowledge of many of the same situations and decisions experienced by low-income households.
The experience involves participants assuming a role in a family (grandparent raising grandchildren, single parent, unmarried adults living together, two-parent household). Family units are provided with background information regarding their income and expenses and are asked to achieve goals over the “4-week” simulation experience (pay bills, feed children, get them to school, go to work or get a job, access community resources).
It is a simulation, not a game. The object is to sensitize participants to the realities faced by low-income people. The choices participants make over the time period vary from one simulation to another.
Poverty simulations are a great opportunity for any group wishing to learn more about the challenges affecting low-income households.