Adoption Agency Case Study

For direct action on Wayne State’s campus, the Honors Students can help by volunteering at LGBTQ friendly adoption agencies. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) would not be able to help, because the actions would not take place on Wayne State’s campus. Also, the plan would not advocate for student protections on campus, but rather would encourage adoption agencies to become LGBTQ friendly as to receive support from the community. In contrast, SDS’s goal is to create safe spaces on campus. The adoption agencies would benefit from this, because they would receive free labor from students who attend a reliable university in their area. These students would be able to interact with the children, provide them with dreams, and instill an open mindset onto them. As seen by volunteers who worked with underprivileged students in Detroit, having positive role models amongst children provides a more positive outlook on life and encourages children to dream. To help create this project, a base number of people from the adoption agency would be required. From the adoption agency, only one or two people would be required to perform background checks on the students and provide times and dates for when the students can come in. Two workers would be best, because then the work could be divided evenly amongst the two, …show more content…
Although this outcome is expected, it is also expected that the outcome would not have that great of a scale. Agencies in the area would feel slight pressure, but those far from Wayne State’s campus, or those that view Wayne State students negatively would be influenced not at all. Overall, the largest impact would likely be a social one on social networking websites, and a private one for the children who were directly