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Three Square Food Bank, Priscilla K. Soto May 2018

Three Square Food Bank, Priscilla K. Soto

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Three Square provides food assistance to residents that suffer from food insecurity.

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Boys & Girls Club Of Southern Nevada: John D. "Jackie" Gaughan Clubhouse, Alex Ahia May 2018

Boys & Girls Club Of Southern Nevada: John D. "Jackie" Gaughan Clubhouse, Alex Ahia

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The community service paradigm that the Boys and Girls Club best fits is the social change paradigm. The social change paradigm “transforms” individuals by building relationships and continually works at the cause of the social issue. The organization exemplifies change for juvenile delinquency and education through positive mentorship. The program directly works with the children to “transform” them into respectable adults with resources they would otherwise not be privy to.

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E-Soccer Lv, Austin Anderson May 2018

E-Soccer Lv, Austin Anderson

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

E-Sports LV was established in the Las Vegas area in 2011 and provided children who have exceptional needs an opportunity to play soccer and interact with other children with both exceptional and typical needs.

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Project 150: Youth Homelessness, Tiffany Chen May 2018

Project 150: Youth Homelessness, Tiffany Chen

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150 hopes to address the problem of youth homelessness. They hope to be able to motivate and support teens to be able to continue through high school.

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Volunteering At Atria Sunlake, Kevin Loiselle May 2018

Volunteering At Atria Sunlake, Kevin Loiselle

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Atria Sunlake provides the elderly with a very nice retirement home. They have staff readily available at all times that can help the elderly who liver there with whatever they need assistance with. Ex: Taking pills, Changing cloths, Eating.

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Three Square, Sarah Martinez May 2018

Three Square, Sarah Martinez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Three Square is an organization that helps people who are food insecure.

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Project 150, Melissa Neese May 2018

Project 150, Melissa Neese

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The purpose of Project 150 is to serve homeless students with support and services to continue school throughout graduation.

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Boys And Girls Club, Perla Orduno May 2018

Boys And Girls Club, Perla Orduno

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

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Goodwill Of Southern Nevada, Jacina Stone-Alapai May 2018

Goodwill Of Southern Nevada, Jacina Stone-Alapai

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Goodwill’s mission is to “enhance the dignity and quality of life of individuals and families by helping people reach their full potential through education, skills training and the power of work” (Goodwill Industries International). Goodwill achieves this by providing training and support services for people who need them. They have assisted people with training in industries such as banking, IT and even health care. Goodwill also provides services for people who need help learning the English language, who need additional education, and even for people who need access to transportation and child care. Goodwill strongly believes in enhancing the quality …

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Service Learning Project: Three Square, Kylie Tavakoli May 2018

Service Learning Project: Three Square, Kylie Tavakoli

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that Three Square addresses is food insecurity. Currently, more than 279,000 men, women, children, and seniors don’t always know where their next meal is coming from. Three Square works to help reduce and put an end to this. They do this by accepting donations and letting the public volunteer by coming in and putting together meals.

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The Boys And Girls Club Of Southern Nevada, Jackeline Villasenor May 2018

The Boys And Girls Club Of Southern Nevada, Jackeline Villasenor

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The Boys and Girls Club of Southern Nevada seeks to enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

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George E. Harris Elementary, Nikita Wilde May 2018

George E. Harris Elementary, Nikita Wilde

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Harris Elementary is located in the southeast part of Las Vegas and currently has around 700 enrolled students, 83.3% of which are on the free or reduced lunch program. This school is Title 1 and receives assistance from the district due to the high number of low-income students that attend.

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Boys And Girls Club, Ines Rojas May 2018

Boys And Girls Club, Ines Rojas

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The mission of the Boys and Girls Club is to enable young adult to reach their full potential. They do this by providing them with the tools necessary to become successful citizen, classmates, and leaders. The facility recognizes that most of their members come from low-income families and that is why they support the young adults with food and a social emotional connection; as these things are vital when growing up. The Boys and Girls Club’s vision is that young adults all around America who roamed the streets with no positive guidance would get off the streets and get on …

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Project 150: High School Is Tough Enough, Jessica Okawa May 2018

Project 150: High School Is Tough Enough, Jessica Okawa

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The purpose of Project 150 is to offer support and services to homeless high school students through graduation, to learn the life skills to be successful, and to provide opportunities for their futures.

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Hill & Dale Child Development Center, Alyssa Carle Apr 2018

Hill & Dale Child Development Center, Alyssa Carle

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

At Hill & Dale, the teachers want to create a classroom environment that celebrates diversity. However, this can be challenging with a lack of resources and teachers. The preschool does not receive funds from the state, so it can be difficult to obtain the proper resources needed for a diverse classroom.

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The Shade Tree, Siyan Cen Apr 2018

The Shade Tree, Siyan Cen

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

To provide safe shelter to homeless and abused women and children in crisis and to offer life-changing services promoting stability, dignity, and self-reliance.

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Twin Lakes Elementary School, Gavin Dean Apr 2018

Twin Lakes Elementary School, Gavin Dean

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that is addressed at Twin Lakes Elementary School is the educating and providing opportunities to children who mostly are English Language Learners.

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Assisting School Teacher Veterans Tribute Career & Technical Academy, Bryan De La Cruz Apr 2018

Assisting School Teacher Veterans Tribute Career & Technical Academy, Bryan De La Cruz

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

High schools in the US are not educating student the correct way in which they can first learn to succeed in high school, and they are not preparing and motivating students with there education system to go on to college.

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Project 150, Efren Del Real Apr 2018

Project 150, Efren Del Real

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150’s main focus is addressing the teenage population suffering from poverty & hunger within the confines of Nevada.

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The Shade Tree, Jody Chu Apr 2018

The Shade Tree, Jody Chu

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

To provide safe shelter to homeless and abused women and children in crisis and to offer life-changing services promoting stability, dignity, and selfreliance

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Project 150, Gonzalo Morian Gutierrez-Desantiago Apr 2018

Project 150, Gonzalo Morian Gutierrez-Desantiago

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150 addresses the issue of homelessness amongst the local youth.

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Verve Student Program, Methos A. Liau-Chrones Apr 2018

Verve Student Program, Methos A. Liau-Chrones

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The Verve Student Program's purpose is to aid students in the problems they may face, such as bullying, depression, and lack of responsibility.

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Book And Buddies Mentorship, Nichole Peterson Apr 2018

Book And Buddies Mentorship, Nichole Peterson

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Books and Buddies offer one-on-one mentorship to struggling readers, with the goals of increasing reading comprehension, oral reading skills, and overall reading proficiency.

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Volunteering At Catholic Charities Of Southern Nevada, Thu Pham Apr 2018

Volunteering At Catholic Charities Of Southern Nevada, Thu Pham

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Catholic Charities provides services for the homeless and needy, family programs, and adoption services.

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Project 150, Melanie Romero Apr 2018

Project 150, Melanie Romero

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150 is designed to provide for homeless high school students. It was established in December of 2011 they provide teens with meal bags and school supplies.

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The Transition, Jason Rosser Apr 2018

The Transition, Jason Rosser

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Students are currently not being prepared well enough to make the transition from high school to college.

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Arbor View High School Bands, Jason Vazquez Apr 2018

Arbor View High School Bands, Jason Vazquez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The purpose of Arbor View High School Bands is to educate high school students about the subject of music.

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Nevada Partnership For Homeless Youth, Nathalie Juarez Apr 2018

Nevada Partnership For Homeless Youth, Nathalie Juarez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

NPHY is a service provider for Homeless Youth

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The Shade Tree, Xin Zhong Cassie Apr 2018

The Shade Tree, Xin Zhong Cassie

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The Shade Tree is a non-profit organization for providing a shelter and food for abused women and children for free.

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Community Lutheran Church, Justin Gelabert Apr 2018

Community Lutheran Church, Justin Gelabert

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Community Lutheran battled food insecurities by holding weekly afterschool programs to pass out food to underprivileged children, held festivals with free food and community outreach to bring those in need towards the church, and a monthly “Feel Good Fridays” to give back to the community and those in need.

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