Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World is a book and a 16-session curriculum that helps individuals in poverty build stability and their resources for a more prosperous life for themselves and their families. Getting Ahead provides people in poverty with the same information found in Bridges Out of Poverty, which was developed for professionals and others working to end poverty in the community. The curriculum involves rigorous work done in a safe learning environment with the support of a certified Getting Ahead facilitator. Participants, called “investigators,” are viewed as the experts on poverty in their communities. Their first task is to investigate and define what poverty is like where they live. In the following modules they investigate the research on the causes of poverty, class structures and hidden rules of class, language issues, and the eleven resources that define poverty. Investigators do three self-assessments on stability factors, resources, and negotiating skills, which allows them to track their progress over time. Getting Ahead puts the concepts, tools, and relationships in the hands of people in poverty to make a difference in their own lives and in the life of the community