The Arrupe Neighborhood Partnership (Arrupe), a unique service and community-based program, is central to Saint Ignatius High School's focus on developing "Men for Others."  We offer students and their parents an opportunity to become involved, serve others, build friendships, strengthen their faith, and ultimately to make a difference in the lives of neighborhood children and families in need.  Arrupe sponsors a variety of afterschool service programs and events throughout the school year and summer.

Students are paired with disadvantaged, fatherless boys from area boys/girls clubs and participate in various recreational activities, usually on Saturday afternoons. Carpools are arranged.

Junior Big Brothers is open only to juniors and seniors who have access to a car. Students are paired with boys ages 5-10 and participate in various recreational activities, usually on Saturday afternoons.

The Center for Service and Social Action believes that, through service, we can deepen our understanding of and be a conduit for positive change within our local, national, and international community.

The Center for Service and Social Action seeks to develop service opportunities which build relationships, enhance learning, encourage active citizenship, and support the John Carroll University mission to "inspire individuals to excel in learning, leadership, and service in the region and in the world." We offer a variety of programs to meet the needs of our community partners and the interests of our service participants, including Service Learning, Voluntary Service, Service Projects and Events, and service-based Immersion Experiences.

J.U.S.T.I.C.E. (Jesuit University Students Together in Concerned Empowerment), is a student organization concerned with promoting social justice and the ideals of St. Ignatius on campus and throughout the world. Following the Ignatian values of Magis and Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, JUSTICE strives to achieve sustaining social change through its experiences with and for others.

The LIFE Club of St. Xavier High School is a group of young men who have a deep-rooted concern for a consistent ethic of life. The Club plans, organizes, and participates in events to support life from conception to natural death via Death Penalty Prayer Vigils, the Fast for Life, the March of Life in Washington, D.C., the School of Americas protest in Georgia, among others. Meeting times are during lunch periods of school days and the club meets on an as needed basis.

The program works with about 30 different agencies in the Toledo area, most of which serve the most marginalized people of the community. Students may serve after school, on weekends, or may be released from school. Students sign up for a semester at a time and may sign up for all four semesters during their junior and senior years.

A mandatory part of the Christian Service program is that each student servant takes part in two group reflection sessions, which include a written component, during the semester he serves. The Christian Service program affords St. John's Jesuit students the opportunity to take what they have learned in their required service and put it into action in a truly voluntary sense.

Peace and Justice Programs aims to promote personal and social transformation. Towards the end of achieving these two objectives our work begins through the promotion of relationships. Through facilitating service, education and immersion experiences, we aim to actively engage the Xavier community in the lives of local, national and international communities. As students, faculty and staff get caught up in the lives of our local and global neighbors, in particular the lives of those individuals and communities who reside on our world’s social, economic and political margins, our programs foment and inform the desire and imperative to respond. In order to promote effective responses (and responders) we promote social analysis.

Students help refugees move-in and help with household set-up for new arrivals. Students also tutor refugees in English.
 

The St. Xavier Community Action Program (After School C.A.P.) was started in 1965 when Peter Cassady, as Sodality Prefect, said that his goal was to have every student become socially involved. Since that time we have had the pleasure of working with thousands of children and adults in our surrounding communities.  Students who choose to become involved in C.A.P. volunteer in a variety of activities, including tutoring, serving at a soup kitchen, working with the elderly, visiting hospital patients, mentoring children, and other options.  The St. Xavier Community Service Program has placed a special emphasis on our relationship with the Winton Hills community, so many of our C.A.P. activities are held in this neighborhood.

These programs are instrumental in providing the type of transformative experience that is the hallmark of Jesuit education.  In developing relationships with people different from themselves, students begin to appreciate the struggles of the poor and the disenfranchised.  These experiences call students from their comfort zones and challenge them to examine their lives in terms of Christian justice.  As a result, students begin to acknowledge their many blessings.

Students are encouraged and supported in their efforts to meaningfully contribute to society and to make a difference by helping others through on-campus and community-based service.  There are many different forms of service opportunities available to students including one-time service, weekly service, and immersion-based service.  The Office of Student Involvement is a central location providing support for student service engagement and service resource materials.

Service Justice Clubs include:  Alternative Breaks Club, Earthbread, Proponents for Parents, Pro-life, STAND XU.

Following a consistent ethic of life, the club seeks to engage the community in dialogue and action concerning those society deems less valuable. Students for Life speaks out on behalf of the unborn, poor, handicapped, elderly, and the condemned through service, education, and an engaging Life Week.

Student groups learn about the immigration system and issues surrounding migrant farm workers leading up to an action packed week in an undisclosed location.
 

Focusing on peace issues in Latin America, VOS commits itself to be a voice for the unheard. By uniting in solidarity with the many victims of injustice, VOS offers educational, cultural, and service experiences celebrating and supporting the people of this region.