North Fulton Community Charities (NFCC) supports community action to address the health, food, housing and transportation challenges of those we serve.
A Poverty Simulation is an exploration of the challenges that families in poverty (like NFCC clients) face every day. Participants are divided into family units reflecting pre-assigned skills, income, housing and a variety of stumbling blocks. They are given tasks to complete in a two-hour role-play. Volunteers run the community tables like Employment Office, Transportation, Jail, School, Charity, etc. During the simulation, challenges arise and participants must decide what to do. There are laughs and frustrations along the way. At the end, the group will discuss what they experienced and learned. Missouri Community Action Network is the copyright owner of the Community Action Poverty Simulation.
Poverty Simulations across the County
To maximize our influence, NFCC collaborates with the Atlanta Community Food Bank on shared priorities, including protecting tax provisions that encourage charitable donations; supporting summer meal programs for children; preventing access barriers to public assistance programs for qualified individuals and families; increasing access to healthy food and promoting economic security and opportunity for all Georgians.
We encourage our political and community leaders to support a wide range of housing options including incentives and opportunities for mixed use and mixed income housing to ensure teachers, police, firefighters, municipal employees, young families, millennials and empty nesters can live in the community where they work.
DACA was created in 2012 to help young undocumented immigrants, who arrived into the U.S. as minors and lived continuously in the country since June 15, 2007, obtain a renewable two-year deferral of deportation proceedings along with a work permit.
This may be accomplished by the expansion of Medicaid or an alternative state waiver program such as those being implemented in Arkansas, Indiana and a number of other states.
Bus links are needed to connect the East and West sections of North Fulton.
Over 13,500 individuals volunteer with NFCC each year plus over 900 groups.
11270 Elkins Rd, Roswell, GA 30076
(770) 640-0399
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