The aim of our advocacy trips is to learn about injustice in its' various forms, explore their root causes and then take action.  Students who participate in one of our advocacy trips will be challenged to not only learn about the injustice but to become an advocate for justice. Trips offered include: the Birmingham/SOA Protest/Ignatian Family Teach-in, the March for Life Trip, Washington, D.C., the Ignatian Family Spring Teach-In on Environmental Justice and Sustainability, and a visit to  the Ignatius Jesuit Centre of Guelph, Canada.

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.

• 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.

focuses on education and action to promote trade practices that support human dignity, economic justice and international solidarity. Here on campus the club works to encourage the use of fair trade coffee and other products.

The social ministries are active year-round and open to all parishioners to join in making the social mission of the church the essential and central mission of the parish.  Examples of ministries include: parish twinning with St Jude's parish in Haiti, ongoing social justice eduation programs, and fair trade coffee sales.

Gesu Social Concerns Committee oversees a number of programs to the homeless including a regular Saturday meal program, Sunday breakfast bags. Gesu parishioners also partner with downtown congregations offering shelter and day programs to the homeless individuals and families and Gesu parishioners were instrumental in the establishment of a Milwaukee Housing Trust Fund

The Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education is dedicated to preserve and extend the Catholic identity and Jesuit mission of Santa Clara University. Competence, conscience, and compassion these critical qualities are built into the foundations of a Santa Clara University education. The Center's work provides students, faculty and staff with opportunities to examine Jesuit and Catholic ideals, promote social justice through community-based learning, and encourage solidarity through immersion.

Bellarmine currently supports a number of different Immersion experiences for students and faculty members. In June of each year, Bellarmine sends a delegation of approximately 10 students and 4 faculty members to El Salvador to spend two weeks with the people there, learning about their lives, and the important connection that the Jesuits have with El Salvador

Campus Ministry has had a tradition of offering students the opportunity to spend time in other countries to learn about the realities, hopes, and struggles of those living in situations of economic, political, or social marginalization.

• Sharing in the lives of those living in poverty through short-term service projects and living experiences
• Reflecting critically on issues of faith and justice
• Being exposed to the wonderful diversity of God's creations through an encounter with those living in a culture different from their own
• Offering their skills, resources and gifts for the purpose of creating a more just and loving world

Each summer six to eight Regis students who are reasonably proficient in Spanish spend a month at the Working Boys’ Center in Quito, Ecuador. The Center was founded by Father John Halligan, S.J. to help street children and has now become a holistic family development center with a clinic and school attached. The Regis students work side by side with the Center’s full time volunteers tutoring, supervising recreation, and accompanying the Center’s clients at meals and mass.

This program is being expanded to include Haiti and possibly other locations.

Immersion trips aim to introduce students to new cultures, allowing them to assimilate unfamiliar perspectives into their own worldview with the intention of creating more globally minded citizens. These trips do not necessarily incorporate homestays, but they do allow for cultural experiences and plenty of time for getting to know the locals.

Direct service trips focus on placing students in a position to directly aid communities through hands-on experiences (ie trail maintenance, basic construction, teaching English, childcare, etc). While there is usually some time built in for education and getting to know the culture, the main goal of these trips is to directly be in service to others.

Issue specific trips are theme based, aimed at educating students about particular socioeconomic and environmental issues that affect our world. In Juarez, for example, students learn about the myriad of issues that are contributing to the recent femicide. There is usually some related direct service and cultural experiences that are built in to these trips.

*While trips usually contain all three of these components in some respect, we have categorized trips in order to highlight the main focus of each Alternative Break.

Parish Social Ministry promotes the social mission of the parish. 
Its emphasis is two-fold: 
           1) education and formation of the parish community and
           2) organization of parishioners into four complementary ministries:
                      charity and direct service
                       legislative advocacy
                       global solidarity
                       community organizing/empowerment.
 

Pax Christi, a chapter of Pax Christi International, meets Wednesday nights in Campion House from 9:00-10:00 pm. All students are welcome.

The group has a threefold focus:

• to educate its members on issues of justice, war and peace;
• to foster a strong sense of community among it members through prayer, reflection and discussion;
• and to decide on specific actions to promote justice.

Students spend three weeks working with the International Rescue Committee exploring issues affecting refugees from the Great Lakes region, East Africa. Students learn about child protection, repatriation, and child/ maternal health clinics.

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.

The Human Rights Coalition (HRC) strives to strengthen the LMU community’s commitment to live out the school’s own mission statement of “encouraging learning, the education of the whole person, and the service of faith and the promotion of justice.” The HRC does not take this often confusing and misunderstood LMU mission statement lightly. Rather, the Human Rights Coalition is committed to discovering and living out this vision to its fullest by becoming people of and for others, especially for the poor, voiceless, marginalized, and those most in need in our midst.  

Students involved in the HRC earn to understand and integrate justice and faith. The Human Rights Coalition becomes a community where LMU students can express their passion for social justice and peace through conversations, reflections, social analysis, prayer services, questions, action, and by engaging a diversity of speakers on social justice and faith issues. The Human Rights Coalition continually seeks to build relationships and collaborate more closely with others on justice and peace activities. The HRC “Unite” is an effort to bring together student groups, clubs, service organizations, the Greek communities, departments, and professors to coordinate concretely on acts of justice and activism here at LMU.