My point is, getting kids actively involved in the community is a good way to for them to experience the reality of poverty and what is required to overcome it.

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Taxes are key - in my view. Certainly, most feel they are almost violated with the amount they pay - but if they are spent to better one’s life, they should look at it as more of a forced investment, rather than a hardship.

While I am economically capitalistic, I am politically socialistic - and believe that ALL people need to be cared for - but they must contribute as well. Welfare and social assistance programs should not come at no cost. In order to receive a welfare cheque, people should be contributing to the community in any way they can. Assist the farmers so that they don’t need to shut down farms for lack of profitability - just as an example.

Before any policies can take hold - mind sets must change. And poverty has to be regarded as a shared hardship, rather than a disgrace.
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2. Abolishing the Federal Reserve. Somebody please explain to me how this works? We allow a small, secretive, unelected group of international bankers to print our currency and then RENT IT to us for interest. Again, unelected, un-regulated private bankers, given the most basic control over the central aspect of our economy–the printing of the currency. And they tie the value of that dollar, the interest we, the tax-payer will pay on it, to what? To absolutely nothing. To whatever they want. To whatever the Red Chinese will allow them to tie it to.

"A living wage" is a valuable concept, but it is actually meaningless as long as the FED exists, because the FED has the real power to determine what is or is not a living wage. They have been very opposed to raising the ridiculously low current minimum wage and could be counted on to monkey with interest rates or in some other way undermine any serious attempt that was ever made to bring the minimum wage up to a "living wage."

Until these two things are addressed, you can be very certain that we will have poverty in this nation.
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A US organization called "Wider Opportunities for Women", has some good ideas as well.
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Two years ago one of these minor victories for the homeless (in the country where I live) collapsed as result of lack of funding. It was transferred to a child poverty scheme(!). This is what happens: funding is scarce and gets transferred between groups.

The reliance on charity groups seems to be the only resort.

I see ‘programmes’ as stop-gap/temporary measures inbetween governing terms. No one wants to put economic changes into place because business doesn’t want them, sections of the public are convinced that it’s all a tax scam and want to carry on with a system that earns great wealth,but squanders it repeatedly or hoards it pointlessley.

edit - Rastagrappler’s points are key.
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I think it would also be plausible to have more adult education classes at community centers for those that want them. Low-income workers have double binds of lack of marketable skills and time constraints. I believe if we help people help themselves, there will be less examples of poverty.
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I have an outdated college education, need to upgrade.