Page 6 - Vulnerable Populations

1. What do I believe to be true about being poor?

2. What do I personally know about poverty?

3. How have family and friends influenced my ideas
Questions to and beliefs about being poor?

tap into your 4. Have I personally been poor

own beliefs, 5. What do I feel when I see a hungry child? A

values, and hungry adult?

knowledge of 6. How has the media shaped my images of

poverty poverty?

7. Do I think that people are poor because they just

don't try to find work? Or does society have a

significant influence on one's becoming poor?

8. What causes poverty?

• What would I do if one of my homeless clients

asks for change to get bus fare?

• What would I do in the home of an elderly

client whose kitchen is covered in roaches?

• Where would I sit if he offers me a chair?

While making a home visit in an especially

unclean home, what do I do if the client asks

me to eat something?