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General Service Guidelines
General Direct Service Descriptions/Activities:All service must be with well known organizations and all organizations must be non-profit, except hospitals and those facilities that support the care of the elderly. Retreats or service that require travel are over an extended period of time will only count for time spent actively involved, not traveling or sleeping.
Hungry/Homeless/Armed Service:
- Help cook/serve a meal
- Help with repairs at a shelter/clean-up and maintenance
- Collect, assemble and handout hygiene kits
- Pack and hand out groceries at a food bank
- Participating in activities with children whose parents are serving in the military/participating in activities that put the student into direct contact with service families or service personnel at a base.
Working with Children:
- Reading to children at an after school program at the library
- Coaching/Tutoring at Big Brothers &Sisters/Boys & Girls Clubs
- Games and Crafts at a Soup Kitchen
- Working with abandoned/abused children (Tilly's House)
- Caring for the children at domestic violence centers
- Coaching/tutoring developmentally delayed children
- Coaching physically handicapped children {VIP Soccer or Challenger Little League}
- Ronald MacDonald Houses
Working with the Sick/Elderly:
- Working with patients at a free clinic
- Teaching health care to the elderly/sick
- Direct involvement in the care of patients at a hospital
- Caring for the elderly at a supervised living home/hospitals
Working with the Environment/Animals:
- Working at (no-kill) animal shelters as a animal care-taker
- Working at a recycling center
- Teaching groups about environmental issues (ex. marine life)
- Assisting in up keep and maintenance of fragile ecosystems at enviromental> centers
- Beach and creek clean-ups
- Working to teach sustainable living practices to the public
Teaching Faith/Justice:
- Assisting, in a teaching capacity, at VBS or any after school/weekend/summer faith based classroom activity
- Assisting in the leadership of a faith based retreat (see limit of hours) - no more than one per year is allowed for consideration for hours
- Doing direct advocacy for the rights of the poor, sick, elderly, imprisoned,or immigrants with a faith based group to a recognized government representative
- Being directly responsible for creating, organizing, implementing and supervising a club whose activities include raising awareness of injustice. There must be clear goals and tangible outcomes for this to be considered direct service.
- Peer Court
Indirect Service Description:
- Any form of fund-raising activity in which the student did not create, organize, implement and supervise the fund-raiser and directly interact with the organization receiving the funds.
- Any material contribution to the collecting of goods for any of the above organizations that does not include distribution of the goods to those for whom they were intended.
- Any faith based activity that is not involved in teaching in a class or retreat setting.
- Letter-writing as advocacy
- Membership and participation in a club in which you are not responsible for its creation/organization/supervision.
- Activities that support the school community (working at the bookstore; assist coaching, etc)
- Clerical work - filing, data entry, returning books to a book shelf, folding flyers for a mailing
Activities that are NEVER considered for direct or indirect service hours:
- Working at for-profit businesses, except hospitals
- Attendance at a conference in which there are no implementation of skills/knowledge accrued in some sort of community-based project with a non profit organization.
- Baby-sitting
- Activities in which there was some sort of trade off or payment
- Activities in which a parent, relative or student is the only supervisor
- All forms of duty within a family and/or extended family
- Volunteering for a political campaign
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