Benefits of Community Service Essay

their own block. Their objective is to renew parks, trails and recreation areas; clean shorelines and waterways; remove litter and debris; reduce waste and increase recycling; and plant trees, flowers, and community gardens. Doing my time of community services I felt advantageous serving my community without excepting anything back from anyone. As a Christian having a gratitude keeps my focus on the good in life and bring more good in…

I felt really good to have made a contribution to the community. Just walking in to the office made me feel good. The people inside were welcoming. They didn’t hesitate and they came right away to take my donation. It felt even better that I chose a great and big organization like Island Harvest because they are the largest hunger relief organization on Long Island. Between 2013 and 2014, Island Harvest collected and distributed approximately 22 million pounds of food and products, which…

Working at academic support services in York University, I once came across a family who was distressed about their child’s education. The student had experienced adversity during first year, which led to poor grades and as a result, unable to continue his studies, and jeopardized his student visa. The family vented their frustration, confusion and was overwhelmed by the situation. As I spoke to the student in private, he demonstrated signs of isolation, guilt, shame, and felt pressured to…

perspective, combining a focus on client strengths and self-direction with three other principles: promoting the use of informal helping networks, offering assertive community involvement by case managers, and to emphasis the relationship between client and case manager. In the early 1980’s, strength-base case management was implement in community mental health center and eventually in a statewide system of psychiatric institution, beginning a systematic new approach to working with clients…

What benefits/skills will you learn (or take with you) from being a Resident Assistant? I strongly feel this position will help be develop better as a leader, professional, and person. This position will exercise my communication skills, make me more confident…

Community service is one of the things a society needs in order to function well. It not only helps the community but also benefits an individual volunteer in a lot of ways. Although community service benefits all age groups, I think young people will benefit the most. Since it is voluntary to do community service, many young people choose not to do it and therefore loss the benefits of being a volunteer and the community will loss the benefits it would have gained if those people volunteered.…

school students have taken the community service requirement to court. Recent years have found to bring about the requirement of community service for high school graduation. Responses this has been a mixed bag. Sarah Sparks arguing in the article, Community Service Requirements Seen to Reduce Volunteering, that community service reduces long term volunteering. Whereas Robert Grimm and Suzanne Goldsmith, in the articles, The Health Benefits of Volunteering, and, The Community Is Their Textbook:…

organization. A not-for-profit organization functions similar to a standard business but provides products and/or services to better a community without making a profit. These organizations do generate revenue, but through means of funding the organization. The profit that is generated within the organization is not used for personal gain or for a single individual, it is used to benefit the community and the cause being supported. Therefore, the revenue a not-for-profit organization…

Why Do Service Learning? Service is a great way for a student to learn and experience good in communities. Service learning is a great way for a student to enhance their education and personal growth. What is service learning? Service learning is often used in our school system in certain classes to help students gain more than just the classroom knowledge. There is a balance in service learning. That balance is between the service done in the community outside of the classroom and the…

high school’s Key Club, a community service international group, we pride ourselves in community service and our ability to enjoy the service projects we commit ourselves to. The benefits we reap from taking a part in community service goes beyond the mere hours for a sheet; we gain the morale and communication skills that the “real world” expects us to live up to. However, making community service a graduation requirement would make students dread the act, viewing service more as a chore rather…