Alternative Spring Break (ASB) is a program sponsored by University Ministry that seeks to educate student volunteers about specific social issues by immersing them in diverse cultures and environments across the country to engage in service-oriented learning. Participating offers a chance to put into action the charisms of the Religious Sisters of Mercy and the Society of Jesus, the sponsors of the University. The participants travel together and live in a community atmosphere, sharing chores, meals and reflection opportunities. As everyone has a different persepctive, studnts learn to respect the dignity of each other and of those they serve Over the past 13 years, students have helped in many parts of the USA: Michigan, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, and even South Dakota.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (“To the Greater Glory of God”): Alternative Means of Discovering Grace.

Our service immersion program offers rising seniors an opportunity to put their faith into action in a very challenging and real way. They are about responding to the Gospel call to serve those in need, while questioning the reasons behind why people are in need. While each immersion has its own unique slant, they all encourage participants to learn about living in solidarity with people and experiencing a different way of living, often without many material possessions.

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.

Community service sites include clinics, hospitals, schools, youth centers, service centers and homes for the physically and developmentally disabled, retirement facilities, therapeutic riding and youth sports programs, nursing home, and homes for unwed mothers. By the end of any semester, Brebeuf Jesuit students will have give more than 900 hours of service to the community.

Campus Ministry is dedicated to educating and challenging the Canisius community on a variety of justice issues. We offer a variety of ways to become engaged in the pursuit of justice: social justice movie nights, justice newsletter, Ignatian Family Teach-ins, the annual Sleep-out in the Quad, For Your Consideration weekly emails, tabling on various peace and justice issues, and various speakers and trips.

Our Mission

Composed of and directed by student volunteers, the Loyola University Community Action Program (LUCAP) is a campus organization having three primary goals, the first being to provide and direct volunteers in service-oriented activity within the community and the university, the second being to inform and promote involvement in the area of social justice, and the third being to aid in the volunteers' social and spiritual growth through their involvement in service and care-giving activities.

Who We Are

LUCAP offers over a dozen great ways to become actively involved in advocacy and service projects which help the Loyola, New Orleans, and Global communities. This active community is student-directed, and LUCAP volunteers work with a variety of issues in different ways, including feeding the homeless, tutoring learners of all ages, spending time with the elderly, attending protests, rebuilding the Gulf Coast, and sponsoring speakers and events for social justice. Participation in our programs provides a chance to make a real difference while attending Loyola.

The Center for Community Service and Justice specializes in developing and offering service programs which are also educational.organizes and implements social justice and service programs on campus. Offerings include adult literacy courses, youth tutoring, AIDS work, Beans and Bread, Garden Harvest, health care and hospital programs, housing/homeless/food programs, immersion experiences, care for senior citizens, and summer service opportunities.

The mission of the Center for Service & Action is to educate and form men and women with and for others, especially with and for the disadvantaged and the oppressed. Through direct personal contact between students and the marginalized in service experiences, we foster a solidarity with the poor that will lead to intellectual inquiry, moral reflection and social action.

The Center for Service and Community Engagement  serves as the main entry point for students, faculty, and staff who want to serve and learn in the community. The Center also acts as the focal point for community-based organizations and government institutions seeking University support to address unmet community needs. The Center encourages all forms of community engagement including direct service, philanthropy, activism, political participation, social entrepreneurship, community-based research, and advocacy.

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.

The Christian Service Program at McQuaid Jesuit seeks to cultivate in its students a passion for social justice and a vocation to serve those in need. Through service, reflection, education, and advocacy we promote the formation that Fr. Arrupe challenged us to bring forth in our students. The activities, programs, projects, and service trips that the Christian Service Program coordinates all work towards the goal that our students will be "Men for Others."

	Program Philosophy Why are there community service requirements?
	Service Requirements Service themes and minimum hour requirements for each year.
	Service / Immersion Trips Photos from past trips and information about upcoming opportunities.
	Volunteer Opportunities Upcoming projects and links to service databases.
	Senior Capstone Project Overview presentation, placement suggestions, proposal worksheet, and more.
	Online Submission Form Submit your hours directly to Mrs. Stark for review.

Christian Service is required of all students at Jesuit, and opportunities to reflect on the Christian dimension of service are part of the curriculum at all four levels. The theme of Freshman Christian Service is "Family." Students collect food on their overnight retreat and for the Christmas Food Drive and continue by completing 16 hours of service with and/or for their own families while enrolled in Global Studies. The Sophomore theme is "Friends." Sophomores work with one another to complete 16 hours of service while enrolled in Morality A. Juniors and Seniors complete their service hours at sites in the Sacramento community that serve people with "special needs." Juniors complete 16 hours of service while enrolled in Social Justice, and Seniors take a one-semester course entitled "Christian Service" which includes 50 hours of service in the community and 10 hours of class time.

We help mentally handicapped / developmentally challenged young adults to lead meaningful and happy lives with dignity and respect. In association with the Ray Graham Training Center, our members contribute as friends to such events as sporting games, dances, holiday parties, a clothing drive, a concert, etc. The members benefit from ongoing education and training in the areas of mental and physical disabilities. The group is about social inclusion and making real friends.

• Amnesty International
• Music For Others
• Social Justice
• Frosh/Soph Social Justice
• Environmental Club
• Pro-Life Club
• United Students Against Sweatshops
• S.M.A.S.H.

Throughout the year, Regis students are asked to give their support to the needy, both in New York City and abroad. Support may be given in the form of money, goods (food and clothing), or labor (ranging from asking for donations to working in a soup kitchen and delivering food). Some appeals are made on an ad hoc basis; for instance, Regis students have worked to raise money for a parish in Chinatown, and for a grammar school in Harlem. With other organizations, the school has had a long-term relationship; for several years now, Regis students have raised funds and offered services to Part of the Solution (P.O.T.S.), a shelter for the homeless in the Bronx, and for the Yorkville Common Pantry, which serves the poor and hungry of the Upper East Side.

Service Learning

Service Opportunities

Are you a person that believes that having faith means more than simply attending religious services?

In cooperation with the Office of Community Service and Service Learning, Campus Ministry organizes Global Outreach service projects, domestic and abroad. Past trips have included Mexico , Appalachia , Washington D.C. and Haiti .

Since 2002, Saint Peter's College Global Outreach (GO) teams have traveled to Honduras for two weeks of service and immersion. Students, faculty, staff and alumni serve in the communities of El Progreso and Guaymas.

GOT experiences the warm hospitality of Guaymas’ families who welcome us into their homes. In 2002 the team began by pitching in to build homes in town with victims of Hurricane Mitch and now spends a week teaching in Guaymas’ new elementary school. Team members also visit village residents in an effort to understand the culture and history of the local region. Another week is spent in El Progreso visiting and working in the various ministries supported through the Jesuit mission.

Check out the Office of Community Service and Service Learning  for local service opportunities. It is an excellent resource for all types of volunteer efforts from one-day events like walk-a-thons or soup kitchen service to tutoring kids all year long. Many of the students involved in Campus Ministry are active volunteers.

We consider justice education as central to service. The Offices of Campus Ministry and Community Service and Service Learning collaborate with Saint Peter's College’s chapter of Pax Christi and the Social Justice Program to encourage reflection on ways of achieving basic human rights and peace for all people.

Justice education can take many forms: a student organized academic forum on solutions to world debt; presentation of reflections on the Stations of the Cross which speak of suffering of God’s people; Mass in celebration of the love of Jesuit and El Salvadoran martyrs; Global Outreach prayer book on the team’s experience of service; Hunger Banquet to highlight root causes of and sustainable solutions to poverty; Ignatian Family Teach-in and witness at the School of the Americas, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Each senior at Strake Jesuit is required to complete 100 hours of community service in order to graduate. Senior projects have taken students to soup kitchens, Native-American missions, summer camps for special-needs children, and many places locally, nationally and abroad. Senior Service Project must involve service to the poor.