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Welcome to to the Service Learning Web Page.
COMMUNITY RESOURCES...A FEW EXAMPLES
Poverty Organizations
Here is an opportunity for students to explore working with people of all ages, from children to older adults. Work with other volunteers to provide meals, distribute clothing and basic necessities, provide resources for utilities, health services, childcare, housing and develop fundraising events. Special poverty organization programs include art projects for women, Intel computer clubs for kids, mother/baby education and services, homeless services, and activity and lunch programs for older adults. Poverty organizations include Loaves and Fishes, Women's Empowerment, Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, Mutual Assistance Network, Salvation Army, and many others.
Organizations That Serve Children
Volunteer in a children's organization and help to support our future generations. Decide on careers with children? Be a mentor, tutor, teaching assistant, recreational supervisor, resource developer, event coordinator, fundraiser, and/or assist in special programs for children. Placements include after school programs such as START and Boys and Girl's Clubs, programs that focus on families such as Family Resource Centers, Sacramento Children's Crisis Nursery, Birth and Beyond, WEAVE and many others.
Advocacy, Immigration, Oral History Projects, Health and More
Students can make an impact when they volunteer in an advocacy organization by reaching out and sharing skills in creating policy. Acorn (a national advocacy organization with an office in Sacramento), Sacramento Child Abuse Prevention Council, First Five, Friends of the River are examples. Immigration organizations, such as the Sacramento Chinese Center and Asian Resources and Hmong Women's Heritage, offer the opportunity to help immigrants understand their rights, find resources for living, help with applications and be an advocate. Participating in Oral History projects at Senior Centers allow students to interview an older adult, young adult or any specific target group, to discover the connections between history and biography and other course concepts. If students are interested in health issues volunteers are needed at Ronald McDonald House, Shriner's Hospital, and school health clinics.
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3835 Freeport Blvd * Sacramento * CA * 95822
This page was last updated: Monday, March 5, 2007 at 10:30:41 AM
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