Macro Social Work on February Thesis

To empower the project to not let these students down, the team has reached out to Webb County employers through a cooperative agreement with local workforce providers. This ensures a reliable and continual source for employment, through the professional monitoring of open and available jobs in the area. For those students who wish to continue pursuing their education, the team has also reached out to Ladero Community College to create a strategic relationship which would help students gain access to further schooling. By creating these relationships ahead of time, the team allows for much smoother transition of students after the project into real professional and academic life.

Part of ensuring the success of this project, and a major advocacy resource, is that of ensuring the projects success. This can be done by giving a voice to those who stem to benefit from the goal of the project itself -- the students. By constantly evaluating where the students stand during the eight-month tenure of the project, we are giving the students a voice which will then help us alter or change certain aspects of the project which prove most unfavorable to the success of the student.The key is to get as many participants to succeed in their goals as possible, which means keeping a fluid agenda ready for change as necessary to get them their G.E.D. And prepare for life after high school. The pretest will give us an established-based with which to work, while the middle evaluation will help give clues on any potential alterations to keep students on track. Finally, the posttest will give real results which can then be uses to sustain the positive impact of the project on the lives of the participants involved. It is this ability to fluidly adapt to the students needs which ensures the future success of the project itself......