The Teens Who Care (TWC) program aims to create changes on a number of levels. First, this program was designed to foster leadership skills in individual students. Secondly, by implementing a service project, the TWC school group hopes to impact the population targeted by that project. Finally, the TWC students' involvement may also significantly impact the larger school or neighborhood community. The individual student goals are curcial to the TWC program and involve teaching and modelling good leadership skills It is also hoped that students will maintain or improve their grades and attendance at school, and reduce any behavior problems that they may have. Another very important goal of the TWC program is to give these individual students numerous oppportunities to network with other middle school students and utilize these new associations both in their adolescent years and in the future. The group goals are somewhat dependent on what individual project the school group has chosen to work on. For example, several projects include tutoring and mentoring younger students. Another related goal is that the TWC students will gain further knowledge about the issue that they are working on and its impact on them as well as their community. The final goal of TWC is to impact the school that it is operating in. This sort of goal is harder to assess but the expectations for TWC are to have a positive impact not only on the climate of the school it exists in, but also on the student attitudes and culture at that school through positive role models. These TWC members are inspirational because they are empowering and encouraging other children to actively make a difference in their school or outside environment.