Service in CAS 

Please find all Service Learning opportunities for CAS @ LGB on this page HERE

Please find all Service Learning opportunities for SI @ LGB on this document HERE 

If you are interested in volunteering to tutor another student in a subject you are passoinate about HERE

What is Service?

Service is collaborative and reciprocal community engagement in response to an authentic need.

By investigating and identifying a community need, then determining a plan of action that respects the rights, dignity and autonomy of all involved (for example, reading to the aged or advocating for a cause), you are performing service.

The various options for service choices are almost limitless- a realisation that can be simultaneously beneficial and inspirational.  You can provide service to the school community, the local community, or the international community. 

Ideas for Service

Direct Service

• Coach children in sports

• Deliver meals to people living with a medical condition

• Prepare the soil and beds for an elementary school garden and plant with the children

• Establish a recycling program at city hall

• Help at an animal shelter with data entry and dog walking

Indirect Service

• Assemble a photo exhibit about poverty for a gallery

• Write brochures for organizations

• Create a newsletter for a retirement community

• Record audio books for people who are visually impaired

• Initiate a school compost to reduce food waste in landfills

• Collect needed supplies for a wildlife rescue centre

• Make colouring books with protection tips on local endangered animals for elementary schools and tourists

Advocacy

• Organize a letter-writing campaign for a cause

• Create comic strips or comic books to teach about emergency safety and readiness

• Provide reusable water bottles to replace single-use water bottles

• Promote a “just use less” campaign to reduce quantities of what is put in rubbish and recycling bins

• Create posters, videos and public service announcements to promote animal adoption for a shelter

Research

• Learn about the history of people buried in a cemetery from the 1800s to support a local museum

• Interview administrators at local landfills to learn about community habits that support collections of trash to recycle and food waste for composting

• Conduct a behaviour study of zoo animals or shelter animals

Not CAS Service:

• Any service or community activitiy that is already part of your program

• Any activity for which you are paid

• Doing simple, repetitive work such as putting books back on shelves

• Work that is not providing a service to those in need

• Informally helping a friend with homework

• Asking for donations without doing something

Going further 

https://www.signupgenius.com/nonprofit/community-service-ideas.cfm  

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a34305706/community-service-ideas/ 

https://www.dosomething.org/us/articles/community-service-project-ideas 

https://blog.prepscholar.com/129-examples-of-community-service-projects  

Service Learning/Social Impact