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Service Learning
What is community service?
Services volunteered by individuals or
an organization to
benefit a community or its institutions.
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Goals
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EVEN the President helped November 16, 1990 !President George Bush signed the National Community Service Act. This encouraged the youth to help out in their communities and schools. Many High schools (private and public) make it a requirement to graduate . Get excited… even PASSIONATE !!!
Later, George W. Bush made a big push for of volunteering. In a letter dated August 24, 2002, he urged Americans to devote 2 years (4,000 hours) of their time to communities. In it, he also said:
“Millions of Americans volunteer each year… they help strengthen our country.”
This letter was a response to his setting up the USA Freedom Corps (www.usafreedomcorps.gov). The Freedom Corps were formed in reply to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Obama helps homeless teens
President Barack Obama paints a wall during a visit to Sasha Bruce House, a shelter for teens, in Washington , Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.
What is service learning?
A teaching method that combines meaningful
service to the community with
curriculum-based learning.
Service Learning Example
Service Learning Directly from the books Direct Action – Working with a group of
incarcerated adults or youth to provide them with vocational skills and job placement opportunities.
Indirect Action- Making clay dinnerware for low-income families, homeless shelters or victims of disaster
Advocacy Action- Creating brief Public Service Announcements addressing a local issue and advertising community solutions
Factors to consider when planning a service learning project
The service that students perform should have a strong connection to the curriculum they are studying or their after school activities
Service should strengthen ties to your community, what does your community need? This could be your immediate community, state, country, world
Create partnerships, set goals, plan, evaluate or reflect and celebrate your achievement!
Examples of service learning
DIRECT Service Examples Work with environmental groups on climate change
Teach English as Second Language to non- English speaking groups
INDIRECT Service Examples Make clay dinnerware for low-income families and shelters
Raise money and resource for disaster victims
ADVOCACY Service Examples
Design Information Campaign for a national or global issue
Benefits of Service Learning:
• We make a connection between learning in the classroom and the real world and reflect on our experience to reinforce the link between our service and our learning. • Standardized test scores are boosted• Form of “hands-on” learning• Learn responsibility, trustworthiness, and caring• Reinforce morals
• More exposure to different careers
• Gives elders a different, positive view of teenagers
• Make connections with and strengthen community groups
• Community groups could become beneficiaries
Benefits of Service Learning:
more
Who are we serving today?The homeless population in Northfield and
Atlantic CityAC Rescue MissionAtlantic County Women’s ShelterThis includes a large population of
homeless children.1/3 of homeless people are under the age
of 18
What Was Dr. King’s Dream?
Dr. Martin Luther King’s dreamed of the “Beloved Community”, a global vision, in which poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated.
As Dr. King often said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
This video was a campaign ad for Obama, but it still holds a powerful message
12 Years and Counting
For the last twelve years (during MLK Service Day) volunteers have joined together to create service learning projects that help reverse the global injustices of homelessness, poverty, sub-standard housing, illiteracy, environmental disregard and disparities in healthcare access and racism.
The Homeless In America In America, on any given night in October, 444,000 people
experienced homelessness - which translates to 6.3% of the population of people living in poverty.
On a given night in February, 842,000 experienced homelessness - which translates to almost 10% of the population of people living in poverty.
Converting these estimates into an annual projection: 2.3 million people (based on the October estimate) and 3.5 million people (based on the February estimate) or Approximately 1% of the U.S. population experiences
homelessness each year, 38% (October) to 39% (February) of them are children
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List of Community
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•Volunteer in a hospital•Volunteer in a nursing home•Builder’s Club•Key Club •Helping 100•and more…….
AND you can join in too
Seasons of Service
Feb. 11-17…Random Acts of Kindness Week
March 2009 …Red Cross Month
March 22 …World Water Day
April 22 … Earth Day
April 19-25 … National Volunteer week
April 24-26 … Global Youth service Day
May 2009
~National Foster Care Month
~ National Family Month
~ Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
May 2 … Join Hands Day
May 25 … National Missing Children’s Day
June 5 … World Environment Day
June 2 … National Hunger Awareness Day
June 11 … World Population Day
Service Learning
Rocks!!!!
Service Learning Organizations
Youth Service America: http://ysa.org/
Ashoka Youth Venture: http://www.ashoka.org/youthventure
Do Something: http://www.dosomething.org/
Learn and Serve America: http://www.learnandserve.org/
The National Service Learning Clearinghouse: http://www.servicelearning.org/
National Youth Leadership Council: http://www.nylc.org/
Taking it Global: http://www.takingitglobal.org/
USA Freedom Corps: http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/
Americorps: http://www.americorps.org