Ministries: Immersion / Service-Learning, Housing and Homelessness
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Center for Community Service and Justice (Baltimore, MD)
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.
Christian Outreach to Appalachian People (Wilmette, IL)
This program conducts community based construction and repair projects in Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia.
Detroit Collaborative Design Center (Detroit, MI)
The Detroit Collaborative Design Center is a center for applied research in architectural design and neighborhood development. The Center is committed to design as a means for uplifting and dignifying the human person. Located in the School of Architecture, the Design Center is a unique, multi-disciplinary, non-profit organization which is dedicated to renewing the city by revitalizing its neighborhoods. The Design Center seeks to promote collaboration among community organizations, local governments and private developers to confront the social, economic and political realities which have for years contributed to the physical deterioration of urban Detroit.The Design Center works with students, local design professionals and community-based development organizations to enhance local leadership capacity and to promote quality design. Utilizing broad-based community participation in conjunction with advanced design technologies, the Design Center produces excellent projects that respond to local concerns. The center’s work has won numerous awards for design excellence and has been published in several publications.
Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice (Bronx, NY)
The Center for Service and Justice (CSJ) offers a variety of opportunities for students to learn from, engage in and reflect on service and social justice.
Volunteer Opportunities- CSJ works with community partners near the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses to place students in a variety of service environments:
Volunteer Opportunities -Rose Hill
Volunteer Opportunities - Lincoln Center
Service Learning- CSJ helps students connect academics to volunteers experiences in the community through the Service Learning Program.
Service Learning Program
Internship Opportunities- Students can obtain paid and unpaid internship opportunities through CSJ, working in a variety of social service environments.
Internship Opportunities
Post-Graduate Vocational Discernment- CSJ helps connect students to long-term volunteer opportunities after graduation, as well as nonprofit careers in the New York area.
Post Graduate Opportunities
Integrated Service-learning Community- CSJ has developed an Integrated Serivce-Learning Community located in the Belmont neighborhood in the Bronx where students committ to ongoing volunteering during the year and participate in weekly reflection and community building activities.
Integrated Service-Learning Community
Matthew 25 (Worcester, MA)
Fr. Fred Enman established Matthew 25 in the early 90s with the mission of providing affordable housing to families in need. Matthew 25 refurbishes old houses and rents them to low income families at 25 percent of their yearly income. Matthew 25 works closely with the Worcester Vocational School for assistance with skilled labor, such as carpentry, electricity, and plumbing. College students, including members of Crusader Council help with painting, landscaping, and other odd jobs.
Parish Apostolic Outreach at St Ignatius Loyola Parish, Colorado (Denver , CO)
- Bereavement, Charity Begins at Home, & Fellowship Committees: They meet the needs of parishioners and of special groups within the parish at special times. Births, deaths, illnesses, and refugee family needs are examples of issues that these committees seek to support. They also coordinate parish social activities and serve the needs of those not affiliated with the parish: Christmas baskets, Giving Tree, and Lenten Lecture series.
- Preservation and Seniors: Seeks to preserve the memory of the past, integrating it into the needs of the present of those who have born the burden of the day. Senior Support dinners.
- Religious Education: Religious education for youth and adults as well as adult and youth educational programs and activities. Religious education includes: Children’s Church for three and four year olds, instruction for grades Kindergarten through Eight, Sacramental preparation for the parish and the school, and the Rite of Christian Instruction for Children (RCIC).
- Liturgy: Involve in planning special liturgies and the liturgical Seasons. This committee provides training for Eucharistic ministers, lectors, servers, ushers and the choirs.
Service Immersion(Spring) (San Jose, CA)
During the first spring break in February, we offer a trip to Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos, an orphanage in Miacatlan, Mexico. The students would spend time at the orphanage, working with the children in various capacities from helping them with their chores to challenging them in games of soccer or softball to spending a day with them at a water park. Each Brophy student forms a close bond with his student, acting as a friend and mentor to the child. Students will spend time in prayer and reflecting, looking at the reasons why these children grow up in such poverty.
Service Learning Trips (Scranton, PA)
The Community Outreach Office sponsors service trips over January, Spring and Summer breaks. Past experiences have been: St. Michael's Arizona working with children with disabilities on a Navajo Reservation; Working in shelters in Cincinnati, OH; Habitat for Humanity work in North Carolina; Los Angeles CA working with community outreach. The experiences are advertised through The Community Outreach Office and are usually limited in numbers. The students involved do fund-raising to cover transportation, housing and food costs for the week.
Service Learning with the Catholic Worker Farm (Wilmette, IL)
Students perform repairs and chores at homeless shelters.
Student Development (Milwaukee, WI)
Service is a significant part of most students’ Marquette experience through New Student Orientation, in student organizations, as part of residence floor activities, in classes, and as part of leadership development programs and athletic teams' activities. The Office of Student Development at Marquette University coordinates community service programs like Best Buddies, Habitat for Humanity, literacy training, jail visitations and Hunger Clean Up. The OSD invites Marquette student to strive to “Be the Difference!”
