Community Service Essay

What changes have you experienced in how you think about the people you served? For my service project, I was able to work one-on-one with children who are or have been abused or neglected in the county of Tulare. I was also able to work with the people who are involved in making CASA possible such as my supervisor and even the judge and others at the Juvenile Justice Center in Visalia. After completing my service project with CASA, the changes that I experienced in how I think about the people…

one of the most efficient and productive ways to produce positive change for the public is to commit time to community service. Individuals who partake in criminal activity take away from society, contributing negative feelings and often times physical destruction to the world around them. Today, a fair share of justice systems around…

assignment will focus on Case #2, which involves paraprofessionals doing mental health counseling with members of an Asian, Pacific Islander, and Central American communities based on similarities that the paraprofessionals have with the community members’ culture and language. The paraprofessionals do not have licenses to be providing services, which is a newly adopted policy. What do you see as the ethical dilemma here for the social worker? For the state department representative? The…

Mandatory service would indeed hurt America in the year we live today. In my eye's it would just start conflict with are people, being that some people might want to volunteer and some might want to.We america live in a land of freedom why would we force are people to do somthing that they might not to do? I feel like if we give them a choice, more people would volunteer then if we would force them to do volunteer work ,or other services, they may not want to do. Mandatory service's would…

Being and older student with an established carreer, I was a little unsure on where to conduct my service learning project. In the class syllabus it states that the pupose of the service learning project is: “To connect course materials to policies and practices implemented through agencies to serve victims and survivors of interpersonal and power based violence. It is designed to encourage critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches to serving victims of…

Service can have some of the greatest impacts on the world. Service can take many different forms, and it can help one person, or it can help many people. One issue where service can have an immense impact in with Youth Ministry, which is one of the main ways that I serve the community. Service is important in many aspects of Youth Ministry. Serving the youth, teaching the youth to service, and learning how to be served are three very important aspects of Youth Ministry, and they can help…

Wesley’s Community Service Founded in 1992, Wesley Community Services (WCS) fosters and supports seniors seeking to remain in their home for as long as possible through the provision of essential home-based services including Meals-On-Wheels (MOW), specialized transportation and home/personal care. Wesley also has a Pet Portions Program (PPP) which offers free pet food for client’s pets and PetKare program (PKP) which offers vouchers for veterinary services for clients' pets. WCS provided…

Service Over Self, also known as SOS, is the community service opportunity which has made the most significant impact on my life. Service Over Self’s mission is to give back to underserved communities through home repair while providing leadership development opportunities for the youth that attend the camp. The camp has 7-8 week long sessions during the summer and I have attended one session for the past two summers. While attending SOS, I become my best self and I feel empowered due to the…

Community service and volunteering is important to ensure events happen and so that they run smoothly. During the presentations in class, many of the presenters mentioned how important volunteering was for their success, for example the Easter Seals. For me, volunteering is a valuable and educational experience that is rewarding. The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon my volunteer experiences and to illustrate how the knowledge obtained throughout this course has impacted my way of…

Senior Community Service Employment Program The Senior Community Service Employment Program is designed to help low income senior citizens ages 55 and older. The program participants work an average of 20 hours per week and are paid at the very least, the federal minimum wage. Senior citizens participating in the SCSEP program are widely employed in areas of community service activities. The Senior Community Service Employment Program is a community service and work based program for older…