Capstone Project Statement of Intent:
The intent of my Capstone Project is to gradually reduce the population of homeless people by making most of them self sustainable, which in given case is defined my having a permanent housing and a reliable source of income (from job or pension)
Goal:
The goal:
How will it work?
For example a homeless person comes to a social workers, and takes a survey. The information provided by the homeless is entered in a database, and based on the provided parameters database will give a step by step plan of recovery fora given person. For example if person is a drug addict and misses a basic education, the program will guide them though getting a treatment and will help enrolling in getting GED. Keep in mind that there is one thing required for a successful recovery using the database, and that is the persons will to work hard on making a change in their life.
Why should we care?
Homelessness is an ongoing and rapidly growing issue, which charities were proven ho have little to no effect on reducing, therefore my project, which is targeted on elimination of the homelessness itself is unique and very important.
How do this goals fit with my career objectives?
Restating my Capstone Project goal- I will design an efficient way to design an efficient way to guide a homeless person through a step by step recovery to a socially acceptable lifestyle based on a detailed surveying of an individual. My intended career is an international management. Most of the time I will be working on utilizing human resources as efficient as possible, often in various remote locations, for example managing a cooperation of group of engineers from Middle East and Asia working on a same project. Both my project and future carer involve managing many people in a smart way, therefore they are very similar, and I will be able to use skills I gain during creating the project further on in life.
Giving back to society:
If my project works as I expect it to, a lot of homeless people will be returning to becoming valuable members of society, they will no longer beg bystanders for money, they will not do drugs (a mandatory requirement in my project is for participants to go through a treatment from drug or alcohol addiction),as well as they will be far less likely to commit crimes. Most of those who are going through the program designed by my project will also get jobs, thus boosting economy by paying taxes, and adding to a purchasing power of the nation.
Richland triple bottom line ( Environment, People, and Economics):
Environment:
Homeless people do not do much harm to environment, they are far more environmentally friendly then an average person; they don't drive cars, don't create much trash (rather recycle by wearing used clothes or utilizing old gadgets, therefore this part of triple bottom line is irrelevant to my project.
People:
My Capstone Project is for the most part all about people, underprivileged people who are forced to survive on day to day basis, not knowing where their next meal will come from or where they will wake up tomorrow morning. By providing this people with housing and a source of income, my project will give them confidence in life and an ability to reach their full potential.
Economics:
A person that is taken from the street and put to work can be viewed far more then just a tax payer in the economical sense. Person with an income and a place to live is not only directly contributing to government revenue, and increasing the purchasing power of people in general, such individual can be also useful in many other ways; they can come up with ideas and strategies that will be useful to economy, the ideas that a same person being homeless would have never came up with.
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