quitting my job soon

I am quitting my job soon to start working in the schools of New Orleans East. I'll be working mainly with middle school students. What I get to do is lead "life skills groups" as well as "prevention groups."
As anyone who has ever lived in NOLA knows, many of the students here come from families that simply do not prepare them for life -- at least not life lived victoriously. Rather, too often, the students here are prepared to live life as a "victim." A victim of the system, of their socio-economic status, of violence, of substance abuse, of sub-par education, etc. In any case what I get the opportunity to do, through leading life skills groups and prevention programs, is prepare and enforce the reality to the students I teach that they can rise above what is "expected of them."
People have the amazing potential to be more than the world says they must be, to break free from the generational way of living that has subjugated them to a life without options, and to live a life rather than waste a life. All too often individuals do not rise above this way of living because of two main reasons -- 1) They do not know there is another way to live ("this is how it's always been") or 2) To rise above just takes too much work. Well, through being able to be a voice of motivational change to some of the students in New Orleans, I have the chance to tell them there is another way to live AND how to put into practical use the lessons learned.
I know I may be romanticizing the notion of making a positive impact, however, for the sake of one I really am looking forward to doing this. The program I am a part of has an 87% positive outcome rate. Meaning 87 out of 100 kids I interact with will not give in to alcohol or drug abuse, will not only get married but also have a higher chance of being STD free by the time they are married, will be able to socially interact assertively rather than aggressively, and basically have the ability to dictate their own life rather than have someone else or some system dictate their life for them.
Change is good.