Joyce Hillman and Julius Witherspoon lead a discussion on poverty at TCSW, 4-5-11.

Just released “The Recession and Poverty” from a breakout session  conducted by Joyce Hillman and Julius Witherspoon of Metropolitan Social Services – Nashville, Tennessee during the TCSW conference in Franklin, Tennessee on 4/5/11. Ms. Hillman and Mr. Witherspoon both expertly suggest that the recession has forced us all to rethink our previous assumptions about poverty and the poor. In the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare Video Blog 5, I mentioned that they reported that the recession was over. You will hear that part of the discussion in this video. (I was close to naming this video, “It’s not Your Father’s Poverty”. I just couldn’t do that – but I was close. I decided that such a flippant title would make light of  the hardship of poverty I wanted to display).

The presentation discusses just a small amount of the information that has been developed as part of the Nashville Poverty Reductiion Initiative. Metropolitan Social Services -Nashville is the lead agency in that effort.  Their website  is at www.nashville.gov/sservices.