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Consortium News
SHECP Closing Conference Offers Students Opportunity to Report on Lessons Learned
Nearly 120 college students, from more than two dozen institutions, convened at Marymount University recently for the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty’s (SHECP) 2019 Frueauff Closing Conference. The two-day event was the culmination [...]
Harlan R. Beckley Award Presented to Notre Dame’s Jennifer Warlick
The 2019 Harlan R. Beckley Award was presented to Notre Dame's Jennifer Warlick by Brett Morash, SHECP executive director, and Louwanda Evans, SHECP board chair. The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty [...]
SHECP to Hold Closing Conference for 2019 Interns at Marymount University
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) will hold its 2019 Frueauff Closing Conference, Aug. 3-4, at Marymount University. SHECP is a collaboration among over two-dozen colleges and universities that integrates classroom study [...]
Surdna Foundation Invests in SHECP
The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $27,500 grant from the Surdna Foundation. “We are truly honored to receive the Surdna Foundation’s support [...]
Videos
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Intern Testimonial
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Shepherd Internship Experience
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"Poverty and Antipoverty Policies Before and After the Great Recession"- Sheldon Danzinger
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2012 Shepherd Consortium Symposium Panel Discussion
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2015 SHECP Symposium - “Building the Foundations for Child Health"
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2015 SHECP Symposium, "The Evolution of Food Insecurity as a Public Health Issue"
Student Testimonials
This opportunity truly changed my outlook on addiction and poverty in society. I have seen poverty abroad and I have seen poverty in America, but this internship really helped me look at the reasons for how people could become entrenched in a cycle of poverty.
During my time at Youth Force, I truly understood the impacts of grassroots campaigns. In a room of teenagers, I was standing around those who are effectively pressuring state government to change their stances on many vital issues.
My summer as a Shepherd Intern was a great opportunity for me to live out Notre Dame’s poverty studies minor; I learned so much about health insurance and health access in low-income communities and how I hope to practice medicine in the future.
Working with LIFT-Philadelphia personalized the issues of poverty and inequality for me. I couldn’t have fully learned the facts of these issues without having met some of the people who live them every day. Knowing their stories has made me determined to make a difference.