This is by far the most challenging part of our mission. How can we know if we are effective? In truth, we cannot be sure. However, SYM has developed four criteria which can be subjectively evaluated for every client each month to help determine if we are on the right track. If the client has all four criteria, we deem that the client is well on the path to achieving these two awesome goals. The four criteria are stability, sobriety, a God fearing nature, and connection with a church. Stability includes managing the situations of their life circumstances: psychological, medical, relationship, employment, and housing. They will still have problems and issues, but stability means they are balancing the needs of their life circumstances. Sobriety means not having trouble with substance abuse, not necessarily abstinence. A God fearing nature means showing fruits of the Holy Spirit. And connection with a church means participation in a Christian church or house church. Please do not think that we are judging our clients. We do not. Nor do we claim any credit whatsoever for their success. They individually earn that with their hard work, submission, and sacrifice. We are merely privileged to know these youth who have strength enough to muster these success factors and are blessed on some occasions to be a link in the chain of events that has helped put them in place. To help us with strategy, we also list clients who have three of the four factors in place as "nearly."