Service Hours

Remember, each student is required to complete a minimum of 40 service hours by senior year.

DCR uses MobileServe to record service opportunities. Click here for direction on logging hours though MobileServe:

Service

Love and charity, are service, helping others, serving others...

When you forget yourself and think of others, this is love!

~ Pope Francis

Help elderly neighbors with yard work, painting, chores.
Reach out to your grade school and volunteer to help with tutoring or reading to students.
Make cards for elderly persons in convalescent homes - we can deliver.
Visit a convalescent home and sing or play games or just engage in conversation.
Check out neighborhood organizations and garden projects. Offer to help out.
Check out local food pantries and soup kitchens. See the Service Opportunity Slide Show for links to places where you can volunteer.
Organize a food drive to support the Food Pantry at Holy Redeemer.
Collect and pack personal hygiene projects in freezer bags for people living on the streets - we can deliver to local soup kitchens.
Ask you church if there are ways for you to volunteer.
Organize a drive in the winter to collect socks, gloves, and handwarmers for people on the streets.

Write advocacy letters to public officials on issues that matter to you (make copies).
Research a cause you are passionate about and start a petition for change.org and then get people to sign the petition.
Join the weekly We Stand with Our Neighbors Vigil at 4 PM in Clark Park each Friday.
Create events through DCR's Youth in Action for Immigration Circle of Support
Make and post signs around the school to educate students about environmental issues.
Volunteer in the cafeteria to encourage recycling lunch products.
Make short public service announcements to share with the school on social justice issues.
Use art, music, spoken word to advocate for justice issues that matter to you.
Organize and promote a prayer service or vigil for peace and nonviolence.
Organize a student-led discussion on topics that affect students such as mental health, racism, and relationships.

Any work that you receive money for (ex. neighbor pays you to mow their lawn)
Chores/acts of service that you do for the benefit of your house/family (ex. mowing your own lawn)/ serving at mass/volunteering as a shadow for prospective students.

DCR Service is Rooted in the Two Feet of Catholic Social Teaching

Wolves in Action . . .