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Learn & Serve Kansas Community Based Programs |
Shelby Hoytal 120 SE 10th Avenue Topeka, KS 66612
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785/368-6207 |
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Learn & Serve Kansas Community Based Programs |
Shelby Hoytal 120 SE 10th Avenue Topeka, KS 66612
Phone:
785/368-6207 |
Accessible Arts, Inc
Eleanor Craig
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The goal of Accessible Arts, Inc (AAI) is to advocate access to the arts for children with disabilities, promote arts programming that incorporates participation of children with disabilities, educate professionals and families about the benefits of the arts, and the means to ensure access for children with disabilities, and foster collaboration among people and organizations in the arts. The Discovery Trails Trips & Arts Projects is an exploration of the historic Westward movement. AAI collaborates with the Kansas State School for the Blind (KSSB) to immerse visually impaired students in a pioneer experience through arts-based learning activities. A two-week Trail Trip in June will provide the impetus for follow-up arts projects during the 2005-2006 school year. In the fall of 2005, visually impaired teens will create tactile landscape boxes of Trail sites they experienced on the summer trip. They will use these creations to teach Trail history and create art with 4th graders in Kansas City metropolitan area elementary schools. |
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Big Brothers Big Sisters
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Topeka will establish a mentoring program in rural Jefferson County that gives high school students in six school districts the opportunity to volunteer in their home community and serve as mentors to younger students. In collaboration with the Clement Stone Nature Center, the program will provide participating high school volunteers with an opportunity to build additional leadership and civic knowledge. High school mentors work with K-5 grade students, one-on-one, promoting academic enrichment, personal attention, and friendship. |
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Bonner Springs
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YouthFriends Corps provides eligible high school students who want to make a difference in the life of a younger student the opportunity to do so. YouthFriends Corps connects elementary students with caring, qualified high school volunteers to encourage healthy behaviors, promote successful outcomes, and build stronger communities. YouthFriends Corps activities take place on school grounds, during school hours. YouthFriends Corps members work with students on a regular basis, assuming roles as listeners and positive role models. They share positive school experiences, helping students to see that learning is fun. In addition, YouthFriends Corps seeks to promote community service among young people in the hope of making volunteerism a lifelong commitment. |
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Boys and Girls Clubs
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The Boys and Girls Clubs of Lawrence proposes to continue Torch Club at each of the seven Boys and Girls Club sites to meet the special needs of nearly 400 adolescent youth. Torch Clubs promote interest in volunteerism, community service and leadership in young adolescents, regular contact with an adult role model who cares about and respects the members, constructive peer support and positive alternatives to gang membership, and violence. Torch Club members will develop civic attachment to their community as well as skills in service such as teamwork, leadership and setting and achieving goals. |
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Class LTD
Michele McColm
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The Equine Assisted Mentor/Pet Assisted Mentor program is designed to provide skill development in community service learning for 60 middle and high school students from USD 493, Life and Career Skills students from Cherokee County, Crawford County 4-H, Elm Acres Youth Home, and members of area youth service clubs to meet the unserved needs of 120 acquirers, Class LTD clients with developmental disabilities and area nursing home residents. T.E.A.M./P.A.M. youth participants, while providing 3600 hours of service, will: … Learn about their diverse community by working with a variety of youth participants and providing needed services to the identified service acquirers with developmental and age-related disabilities; … Communicate a positive attitude toward community and national service of all types, by representing T.E.A.M./P.A.M. in many community events and the local and national print media; … Integrate community service and service learning into their lifestyle, as seen by the many non-participant youth who T.E.A.M./P.A.M. members have recruited to volunteer. The service acquired Class LTD clients and area nursing home residents will benefit from previously unavailable, therapeutic horseback riding and pet-assisted therapy services to enhance their cognitive, physical, emotional, and social well-being. |
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Communities in Schools of Wichita/Sedgwick Co., Inc.
Nancy Hinten |
Communities in Schools will implement a service learning class as part of the curriculum at Wichita North and Wichita West High Schools. CIS will work with community partners in project planning and implementation to help the students develop the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively address critical needs and build sustained civic involvement. Participants will demonstrate a commitment to community and school through increased attendance, changes in attitude and behavior, and prolonged service involvement. |
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East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging
Marcia Mitchell |
The Ottawa HEART by HEART program promotes intergenerational interaction by promoting community service to older adults by youth in the USD 290 school district. Heart by Heart has also spread to the communities of Garnett, with a pilot program at lunchtime. Heart by Heart is working with the Richmond Care Center and Central Heights students to involve students going one day a week after school and interacting with residents at Richmond Care Center by incorporating intergenerational projects. The goal is that Heart by Heart Youth will learn to serve their community freely and without reservation or fear of those who are aging. |
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East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation, Inc
Virginia Rigney |
ECKAN will partner with Osawatomieís Promise to develop a Youth In Government (YIG) program. Osawatomieís YIG will develop an alliance among youth, youth-serving agencies, city government, schools, and the community to identify problems and solutions concerning youth issues in the community. YIG members will also plan and implement service learning projects aimed at decreasing the number of local youth who engage in risky behavior. |
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Hutchinson USD #308
Diane Caton |
YouthFriends Corps provides eligible high school students who want to make a difference in the life of a younger student the opportunity to do so. YouthFriends Corps connects elementary students with caring, qualified high school volunteers to encourage healthy behaviors, promote successful outcomes, and build stronger communities. YouthFriends Corps activities take place on school grounds, during school hours. YouthFriends Corps members work with students on a regular basis, assuming roles as listeners and positive role models. They share positive school experiences, helping students to see that learning is fun. In addition, YouthFriends Corps seeks to promote community service among young people in the hope of making volunteerism a lifelong commitment. |
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Shawnee County Family Resource Center, Inc
Mary Miller |
The Shawnee County Family Resource Centerís Community Service Program will engage 30 at-risk students in meaningful and positive service learning activities that will provide them with opportunities to develop a connection to their community, gain additional knowledge about civic responsibility and opportunities to serve their community and cultivate a sense of civic responsibility that leads to a desire to serve their community. The service learning projects will be designed by the Community Service Program students and staff. |
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Ulysses USD 214
Bill Roberts |
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. |
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Unified Support Agency, Inc
Marsha Oursler |
Unified Support Agency, Inc is seeking funding to provide the USA, Inc Learn and Serve Project for area youth. Partnering organizations include USD 210 as well as a wide variety of businesses and nonprofit organizations that are concerned about local youth. USA, Inc will build on the success of their Community Service Program for Suspended and Expelled Students by providing an alternative for expelled and suspended students that will assist them in gaining community service hours while teaching them the value of giving to their community. Along with this innovative program for at-risk students, USA, Inc will partner with USD 210 to develop a service learning program that will be adopted by the school district requiring all high school students to complete a project prior to graduation. Participants will work with adult volunteer supervisors to complete a variety of community needs-based projects. |
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United Way Volunteer Center
Melissa Marinelli |
United Way Volunteer Center will enhance current youth service programs to build a foundation of service for Sedgwick County and surrounding area students, inspiring them to serve others and instilling a philanthropic ethic of community responsibility for today and the future. Through the YOUnited Teens program, service learning projects will be developed to engage more than 2,000 youth, ages 11 to 18. The YOUnited Teens program will offer 40 members the opportunity to develop intense leadership skills to plan and implement four large service learning projects and eight smaller projects impacting the community and engaging diverse groups of teens. |
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Youth Volunteer Corps
Jennifer Beard |
The Youth Volunteer Corps of America (YVCA) proposes to continue the operation of its community-based service learning program in the metropolitan Kansas City area called the Youth Volunteer Corps of Greater Kansas City. YVCA will recruit, train and place more than 300 youth in volunteer projects in around Kansas City. These youth volunteers will serve more than 5,000 hours on diverse, team-based volunteer projects. All projects will include all elements of a successful service learning program so that youth will make a difference in the Kansas City area and will begin developing a lifetime ethic of service. |
