Burlington USD 244
The mission of the Bobcat Learn and Serve Project is to provide a positive after-school and year round environment which would afford opportunities in service learning for students of Coffey County .  The goals of the project are: 1) to initiate a five-step problem-solving method centered around service learning; 2) to make a positive impact on students’ knowledge, attitudes and skills in the areas of history and civic; 3) to develop teamwork and leadership skills necessary to carry out the goals of each project; and 4) to make volunteerism a life-ling commitment in the community.

Flint Hills Special Education Cooperative
Goals of the Toy Shoppe community service learning program are 1) to provide opportunities for students to participate in community service activities which include collecting, refinishing and distributing toys and bicycles to needy children and families in the FHSEC area; and 2) Student volunteers will demonstrate improvement in their academic, social and problem-solving skills.  The Toy Shoppe involves approximately 50 students with disabilities (moderate to severe) who contribute their time and skills.

J.C. Harmon USD 500
J.C. Harmon’s service learning program will involve 240 high school students working with six elementary schools, community service agencies, senior citizen facilities, ESL parents, small businesses in the community and a transition facility for special needs adults.  Participants will conduct needs assessments at the sites, design programs to fill needs and spend time evaluating progress throughout the year.  Our goals include (1) improving reading skills in elementary students (2) recruitment of high school students into teaching (3) building positive school to community relations (4) improved transition of special needs adults to employment and independent living and (5) improving school to work transitions via service learning as a career exploration and work place skills builder.

Manhattan High School USD 383
The Interpersonal Skills Class is an innovative, elective social skills class for twenty high school students in special and regular education.  This non-traditional class is designed to meet the developmental and social needs of students with disabilities.  The Interpersonal Skills Class trains students in regular education to be mentors to students with special needs and leaders in their community.  Through service learning, students embrace the opportunity to make positive contributions to the community while developing essential social skills that are generalized outside the classroom.

Northeast Kansas Education Service Center USD 608
Through this service learning partnership all students will be involved in strengthening their intellectual development, academic learning, and personal and social skills while involved in designing and establishing a 190-acre outdoor environmental education classroom at Lake Perry that is handicapped accessible.  The overarching goal of the partnership is to educate children, youth, and adults about the protection and enhancement of wildlife populations in Kansas through habitat improvement, land management, education, and public awareness.  This outdoor environmental education classroom will be the first of its kind in Kansas to be designed and developed by high school students, especially those that are labeled “at-risk.”

Ottawa USD 290
This program will meet the needs of youth and older adults in the community through five different intergenerational service learning projects: History? I Lived !t!, Storyweaving, The Leadership Teams, Grand Pals, and Brainteasers.  During the school year, each of the four elementary schools, middle school and high school will participate in service learning by planning at least one service learning project.

Spring Hill USD 230
The purpose of the program is to create and foster a greater sense of civic responsibility through student volunteerism.  It aims to develop the individual by increasing their level of commitment to themselves and their community and to help the less fortunate and/or people needing assistance via personal volunteering.  The Spring Hill High School Helping Hands Service Learning Program will include approximately 20 juniors and seniors with the goal of including the entire school as a base for interpersonal skills and passing these new skills to other students through the presentation of what they have learned.  The community will be rewarded by having better young citizens as leaders in altruism and will also share in a cleaner, safer and better city.

Ulysses USD 214
The purpose of the Ulysses Learn and Serve Project is to provide opportunities for youth to determine, evaluate, and solve critical needs in the community by creating community service projects.  The aspirations of the project are to enhance the efforts of the youth to give back to their community and to promote service as a valued, lifelong priority.  The thrust of the project will entail 7-10 mini-grants to be awarded to school attendance centers, faculty members, community organizations, businesses, or community agencies to promote service learning activities.