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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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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.


Volunteering With Project F.O.C.U.S., Chasen Billon Apr 2018

Volunteering With Project F.O.C.U.S., Chasen Billon

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project F.O.C.U.S. is addressing the issue of education for those with developmental disabilities. This is an important ‘focus’—especially here in Nevada.


Working At Goodwill And What It Has Taught Me, Joseph Cheney Apr 2018

Working At Goodwill And What It Has Taught Me, Joseph Cheney

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Goodwill works to provide clothing at reasonable prices, and provide places to recycle and reuse clothing.


Three Square, Michael Gallardo Apr 2018

Three Square, Michael Gallardo

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Three Square works to provide food services to those experiencing food insecurity in the Las Vegas area.


Child Development, Theresa Harris Apr 2018

Child Development, Theresa Harris

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The history and purpose of the Nellis Air Force Base Child Care Center is to provide a safe learning environment for developing children of military families.


Youth Activism: How A Country Wide High School Competition Can Lead To The Change Of Tomorrow, Carlos Mejia Castillo Apr 2018

Youth Activism: How A Country Wide High School Competition Can Lead To The Change Of Tomorrow, Carlos Mejia Castillo

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

An increase in youth activism is important in order to establish the laws and economic stability that will be beneficial for us in the long term.


F.O.C.U.S.: Forming Occupational And Community Understanding For Success, Stephen Phillips Apr 2018

F.O.C.U.S.: Forming Occupational And Community Understanding For Success, Stephen Phillips

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issues our program address revolve around equality and inclusion.


Project 150: High School Is Tough Enough, Jesus Ramirez Apr 2018

Project 150: High School Is Tough Enough, Jesus Ramirez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150’s social issue is homelessness, mainly focused on youth Homelessness


Project Focus, Sean Rogers Apr 2018

Project Focus, Sean Rogers

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project FOCUS is an inclusive, accessible, and productive career education program for college-aged students with intellectual disabilities in the Las Vegas area.


The Latino Youth Leadership Alumni, Maria Sanchez Apr 2018

The Latino Youth Leadership Alumni, Maria Sanchez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue the LYLA addresses is young minorities, specifically undocumented youth immigrants.


Project 150, Shawn Shoshani Apr 2018

Project 150, Shawn Shoshani

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project 150 assists homeless students in high schools within Nevada who don't have access to basic necessities.


Innovations International Charter School, Rachel Ugarte Apr 2018

Innovations International Charter School, Rachel Ugarte

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Innovations International Charter School was built to be a school where students have the resources necessary to academically succeed.


Project 150, Christina Perez Apr 2018

Project 150, Christina Perez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The goals of Project 150 include helping disadvantaged teens receive the basic necessities they need to survive, to influence them to graduate high school, and to bring the community together.


Project Focus, Glen-Marie Quintanilla Apr 2018

Project Focus, Glen-Marie Quintanilla

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Project FOCUS addresses the lack of inclusion within the higher education environment.


Lighthouse Charities, Minwhee Jin Apr 2018

Lighthouse Charities, Minwhee Jin

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that LightHouseCharities address is the issues of refugees' and at-risk families’ resettlement.


John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys And Girls Club, Morgan Small Apr 2018

John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys And Girls Club, Morgan Small

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The John D. Jackie Gaughan Boys and Girls Club addresses at risk youth and juvenile deliquency by providing programs and activities geared towards the positive development of at-risk youth.


The Unheard Stories Of Service-Learners: An Exploratory Study Of The Assumptions Of Race, Identity, And Privilege Within The Service-Learning Experience, J. Faith Krefft Apr 2018

The Unheard Stories Of Service-Learners: An Exploratory Study Of The Assumptions Of Race, Identity, And Privilege Within The Service-Learning Experience, J. Faith Krefft

Community Engagement Student Work

Service-learning has become a powerful pedagogical practice in Higher Education. Yet many of its practices have been premised on the idea that participants are white and serving a community unlike their own. Research suggests that the perspectives and identities of students of a diverse background participating in service-learning experiences may be unheard and/or misunderstood. Through a qualitative exploratory study, this study examined the perspective of nonwhite students. Four students from two higher education institutions selected to participate in a set of longitudinal, semi-structured, in-depth interviews in order to better understand their perspectives and experiences in their service-learning field site. Service-learning …


“I Can’T Believe I’M In Charge”: How Zlotkoswki’S “Students As Colleagues” Model Prepares Bentley University Service-Learning Students For Civic Leadership, Brian Shea Apr 2018

“I Can’T Believe I’M In Charge”: How Zlotkoswki’S “Students As Colleagues” Model Prepares Bentley University Service-Learning Students For Civic Leadership, Brian Shea

Community Engagement Student Work

Business schools exhibit a remarkable ability to produce graduates who are exceptionally analytical; however, these students have been shown to lack sensitivity to the impact of actions taken in the workplace, in communities, and in society. Service-learning is a method that has been proven to instill stronger ethics in business students. Bentley University, a business school in Waltham, Massachusetts, models its Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center after the “Students as Colleagues” framework championed by its founding Director, Dr. Edward Zlotkowski (2006). By employing this approach, Bentley positions its undergraduate students as leaders in social impact initiatives, thereby preparing these students …


Bonner Scholars Sophomore Exchange And Senior Capstone Exhibit 2018, Bonner Scholars Program Mar 2018

Bonner Scholars Sophomore Exchange And Senior Capstone Exhibit 2018, Bonner Scholars Program

Wofford Bonner Scholar Senior Capstone Projects

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Community Engagement E-News - March 2018, Parkland College Mar 2018

Community Engagement E-News - March 2018, Parkland College

Service Learning Newsletter

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