Agency focus is on low income, parenting families who are motivated to develop and implement a plan to achieve self-sufficiency. WORD's primary emphasis is providing the empowerment model for case management. Students can learn group facilitation skills and teach self development classes. There are opportunities to plan and evaluate programs, work collaboratively with other community agencies and learn grant writing skills. Students are viewed as staff members and are expected to be dependable, willing to learn, open to constructive feedback, able to identify their learning needs, function independently, contribute to team meetings and open to the challenge to grow and expand.
WORD welcomes the opportunity to mesh the academic with the field experience.
Students are encouraged to attend weekly program and organizational meetings.