Community Service Hours

Siren High School Community Service Overview

We encourage students to arrange their own Community Service. Students are expected to earn 10 hours of community service per year for an equivalent of 40 or more prior to May 1 of their graduating year. The work must be for non-profit organizations.

All work must be done under direct adult supervision.

• You will not receive payment for your services.

• Work done for family members does not count. Projects helping individuals are limited to the elderly and the handicapped, on a case by case basis.

• Students are not allowed to use any type of power equipment.

• Students are not allowed to work unsupervised.

• Community members who have the ability to pay or who are able to do their own work do not qualify for Community Service.

• Students may work outside of the Siren community.

All groups and organizations must be non-profit.

Examples of eligible activities include, but are not limited to:

• Reading to children in elementary grades outside regular school hours

• Tutoring a fellow student or younger students under the supervision of a teacher outside regular school hours

• Mentoring younger children under the supervision of a teacher or similar adult

• Service outside of regular school hours as a student aide to school staff

• Volunteering at a hospital, nursing home, etc.

• Serving others in a manner not associated with a community service organization (e.g., helping an elderly neighbor not related to the student do grocery shopping, rake leaves, wash windows, shovel snow, etc.)

• Working with a church or church group as a volunteer babysitter for meetings outside of regular worship hours, to raise money for the church or another charity. To aid others in need through activities such as helping collect or distribute food for families in need to building shelter for someone in need. No door to door.

• To help the organization raise money that will be used to render aid to others in need

• Planning and participating in a bake sale, car wash or similar activity with fellow students or adults to raise money for a local charity

• Sports: Coaching or assisting

• School Service (Custodial etc.)

• Feed My Sheep

• Adopt-a-Landing/Adopt-a-Hwy/Habitat for Humanity

• American Legion/Auxilliary

• Area Churches/Bible Camp/Mission

• Area Fair Associations

• DNR/Crex Meadows

• 4-H

• Blood Mobile

• Resource Centers-Not for profit

• School Events ie. Family Fun Night

Questionable or ineligible activities include, but are not limited to:

• Any work for which monetary compensation is received

• Simply belonging to a religious or worship-based organization and attending meetings

• Service Learning—community service for which academic credit is earned

• Community service to their own employers

• Community service to relatives

• Working for a commercial establishment where volunteer services are not commonly provided

All Community Service paperwork MUST be completed (Steps 1-3) prior to starting the service project or your hours will not count.

(Hours earned through Moms for Kids, Restorative Justice and/or the Lion’s Clubs do NOT need to be preapproved)