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Service Learning At Dean Petersen Elementary School, Fayth Dean
Service Learning At Dean Petersen Elementary School, Fayth Dean
First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)
Their purpose is to not only educate their students, but to also teach them in a way that allows them to let their guard down. These students come from environments that are filled with violence, abuse, yelling, etc. For these students to be taught, the teachers use a “traumainformed” approach where they are calm and patient with their students, which allow them to be teachable
Project Focus And Wcta, David Islas
Project Focus And Wcta, David Islas
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Project FOCUS is a program designed to encourage students on the autism spectrum with educational programs suited for their wants and needs in life. WCTA is a Magnet school that has been existent for 10 years.
Service Learning Project, Sheila Mae Agonoy-Pascua
Service Learning Project, Sheila Mae Agonoy-Pascua
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UNLV CSUN Preschool has been accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) since 1994. The preschool’s mission is to “Provide a model inclusive early childhood program that serves children of students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding campus community. As the field of early childhood care and education evolves to meet the growing needs of today’s young children and their families, our preschool will continue to play a leadership role in teaching, training, and research at UNLV.” (unlv.edu/preschool/about).
Dean Petersen Elementary School, Alexa Ching
Dean Petersen Elementary School, Alexa Ching
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To educate their students by using a trauma-informed approach that allows students to be vulnerable to learning new information and provide a safe space
Project 150, Natalie Datastanyan
Project 150, Natalie Datastanyan
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Project 150 began when its two co founders learned about the increased number of homeless youth attending just Rancho High School. Patrick Spargur and Don Purdue worked together to form Project 150 to decrease and eventually end homelessness in the youth of Las Vegas. The purpose of Project 150 is to end high school homelessness through the support of a community.
Project 150, Dorian Laganière
Project 150, Dorian Laganière
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Offer support and services to homeless, displaced, and disadvantaged high school students. so they can be successful during their high school journey and ultimately graduate.
Three Square: The Fight Against Hunger, Courtney Lee
Three Square: The Fight Against Hunger, Courtney Lee
First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)
Three Square is a food bank for Southern Nevada, whose aim is to “provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger-free community.”
Signature Productions: Quality Family Entertainment, Tyler Lambert
Signature Productions: Quality Family Entertainment, Tyler Lambert
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Signature Productions is a nonprofit community theater company. It was created in 1989, by both Dr. Karl M. Larsen, a local Optometrist, and Victor J. Austin, an attorney. They believed that Las Vegas Valley needed quality family entertainment. The Board of Signature Productions is made up of 16 talented and dedicated people from Las Vegas consisting of an Optometrist, several Attorneys, a General Contractor, multiple small business owners, a photographer, music and dance instructors, office professionals and homemakers. We are housed in the Summerlin Library and Preforming Arts Center, where we rent space for each production.
Project Focus, Marc Angelo Non
Project Focus, Marc Angelo Non
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Forming Occupational and Community Understanding for Success Created in 2015 Has grown ever since Provides access to resources for students with intellectual disabilities
The Nevada Blind Children’S Foundation, Mara Ono
The Nevada Blind Children’S Foundation, Mara Ono
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It was created to provide the essential blocks including expanded core curriculum, extracurricular activities, social opportunities, and transitional skills to children who are visually impaired Three main goals: ○ Increase graduation rates and postsecondary education enrollment and/or vocation ○ Increase employment rates for blind adults ○ Increase the quality of life (independence, socialization, life skills) for blind or visually impaired children Community Service Paradigm The community service paradigm this service site best fits is social change The Nevada Blind Children’s Foundation wants every child with a visual impairment to reach their full potential
Project Focus, Edrielle Ramirez
Project Focus, Edrielle Ramirez
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History and Purpose Started with 1 student in 2015 1 to 25 students in 4 years Purpose: "give an opportunity for this population to have the opportunity to go to college" Community Service Paradigm Project Defines a problem, implements, achieve goal
E W Griffith Elementary School, Leilah Torres
E W Griffith Elementary School, Leilah Torres
First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)
Their vision is to keep their students, “...honest, safe, respectful, engaged, and own their learning and choices,” (“Griffith ES”).
What Does A Good Life Look Like To You?, Mackenzie Zelensky
What Does A Good Life Look Like To You?, Mackenzie Zelensky
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History and Purpose of Heaven Can Wait Animal Society Heaven Can Wait Animal Society is an organization that helps rescue dogs and cats from homelessness, starvation, and death. The founding principle of this organization is to save these animals lives, specifically be means of not euthanizing the animals that they rescue. The founders of Heaven Can Wait created this organization to “stop the senseless killing of dogs and cats,” according to hcws.org. This objective is achieved every day by HCWS. Based on the organization’s website, the people I’ve interreacted with, and my personal experience, it is blatantly clear that animals …