Measuring Success: Look Beyond the Numbers
A 37 percent success rate would get your program cut in big business.
But for graduates of an Alameda County (California) program that offers at-risk young people the chance to train as emergency medical technicians, it may be enough.
Since 2002, writes Scott Johnson of the Bay Area News Group, the Bay EMT program has offered “two five-month courses each year… to 30 students” at a time. “Nearly 200 students have gone on to successful medical and firefighting careers.”
Says one recent graduate:
I’d never been the guy in class who had the answer… I’d never felt like that before, like I had something to look forward to.
Can our society afford to live without this particular kind of success?
Source
Scott Johnson, Transforming Lives Through Emergency Medical Technician Program, Feb. 21, 2011; published in Contra Costa Times print edition as “A Lifesaving Program.”
