Cost of Poverty Experience

COPE is a 2.5-hour, interactive poverty simulation that challenges participants to navigate a month in the life of a family living with limited resources.

Participants consistently leave with:

• A deeper understanding of how systems impact families

• Greater empathy for the decisions made under the strain of poverty

• A clearer picture of why relationships and stability matter so much

This is not a presentation.
This is not a panel.
This is an experience.

COPE invites you to move beyond statistics and good intentions and into a deeper understanding of the communities we serve.

For those who give, serve, lead, and walk alongside others, COPE offers perspective that sharpens compassion and grounds outreach in empathy rather than assumption. Many participants leave with renewed clarity about how faith, generosity, and presence can come together in more thoughtful and effective ways.

This experience often becomes a turning point—not just in understanding poverty, but in how we choose to respond to it as a community.