Have participants’ educational striving, regardless of level attained, affected their children’s educational motivation and attainment? Have participants followed Maslow’s continuum (1971) from satisfying their individual basic needs to attaining transcendence, the desire to help others realize their potential? This chapter will examine participants’ present “existence” in terms of basic security acquisitions, “relatedness” in terms of family interactions and the consequences thereof, and “growth” in terms of productive efforts on behalf of their communities.

Chart 12

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Illustration by William G. Huitt
(http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html)

Home and Financial Security

What are the material rewards that accrue to successful ABLE participants and how are they valued? The impact survey recorded participants’ ownership of homes, cars and computers as seen in Table XXV.

Table XXV

Participants Current Ownership of Property