These community discussions played an integral role in shaping the coverage in Moment of Truth. In each section, we invited guest columnists to write about their view on issues and possible solutions. We opened the floodgates, and in many stories in the series, community members spoke openly and frankly about problems, some for the very first time. Moment of Truth motivated Indiana Wesleyan University, the fastest-growing private Christian university in the country and located in Marion, to propose a new curriculum that would make volunteerism a graduation requirement. Its students will be taught experience-based learning and will spend more time working in the community, combating social problems.
Grant County is the only rural county under consideration.
The project inspired the local YWCA to expand its Mentor Mothers program by purchasing a historic home in Central Marion to be a home for teen-age mothers, a place of refuge for single mothers to get counseling and prenatal care.