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The Poverty Education Project was an action-research and social advocacy program conducted by the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) from 1974 to 1981. Based in Fitzroy, Victoria, the project addressed poverty as a structural issue. It was led by Concetta Benn supported by Joan Benjamin.

The project implemented the "Developmental Approach," or the 4 Power Model, introduced by Concetta Benn in 1976 which analyses social disadvantage as a lack of power over:

1. Resources: Access to material and social goods.
2. Decision-making: Participation in administrative and political processes.
3. Information: Access to technical and legal knowledge.
4. Relationships: The ability to negotiate with and influence social institutions.

• Benn, C. (1976). "A new developmental model for social work". In P. J. Boas & J. Crawley (Eds.), Social work in Australia: Responses to a changing context (pp. 71–81). Australia International Press and Publications. ISBN 0909103100
• Benjamin, J. (1979). Poverty Education Resource Centre: progress report. Brotherhood of St Laurence.
• Benjamin, J. (1981). The Poverty Education Project: final report. Brotherhood of St Laurence. ISBN 0-909571-88-0
• Benn, C. (1981). The developmental approach : demonstration programs in the Brotherhood of St Laurence. SWRC Reports and Proceedings No. 10, Social Welfare Research Centre, University of New South Wales. ISBN 0-85823-208-1

Category:Social history of Australia Category:Poverty in Australia Category:Education in Melbourne

Bowman, D. (2015). Brotherhood of st. laurence. In The sage encyclopedia of world poverty (Second Edition ed., Vol. 5, pp. 142-143). SAGE Publications, Inc, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483345727.n77 https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-world-poverty-second-edition/chpt/brotherhood-st-laurence#_

"the Brotherhood sponsors a poverty education project, funds researchers to prepare material on social issues and assists in the development of self-help organizations through direct grants, accounting and consultancy services. " p83 WHARF, BRIAN, and MARILYN CALLAHAN. 1982

"Public Policy is a Voluntary Affair." https://web.archive.org/web/20130527040136id_/http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/viewFile/1134/1178

39 BENJAMIN, Joan (1981), The Poverty Education Project, Final Report, Melbourne, The Brotherhood of S1. Laurence, 24 pp. 'The Poverty Education Project (pEP) was established by the Brotherhood of StLaurence in 1979 to develop and extend the agency's involvement in community education. The Brotherhood believed that ifthe current of public opinion was to be turned away from opposition to increased welfare spending 8;Ild blaming the poor for their poverty, more systematic attempts had to be made to influence public opinion and attitudes.' This report discusses the assumptions, values, goals and practical objectives of the project and describes the work carried out during the three years of its existence.

Poverty and Aspects of Inequality in Australia: An Annotated Bibliography,1963-1987 Encel, Diana 1988

"one cannot pass over the special contribution of the Brotherhood of StLaurence whose concern goes beyond research and calls for action. Some of the works cited here are descriptions of projects they have undertaken to alleviate poverty and to return to the poor the dignity they have lost."

http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/44987 https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/publication/06810e7c-052f-47c0-8fee-b3b8b51c6480