In the mind frame of social work and interning at United Way, success on a community scale is very hard to reach. The community always needs more, there is never enough money and more and more demographics of people are being missed. The big picture is the focus. Success cannot be measured in short terms. Change is a very hard thing to initiate. In my involvement with social work, i think success is any program, plan or start up that benefits some aspect of the community. It may not change statistical data on homelessness, the poverty index or battered women's shelters intake numbers, but it helps and it always is done with the best intentions.
I think the planning portion of the leadership event judges the success the most harshly since they planned it. I think overall most things have some sort of success value. There are always things to be learned, ways to change for the future and areas for improvement.
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