Download a Service-learning/Volunteering LOG hour sheet turn in to Ms. Beadreau

December/January Service Opportunities

The Service Learning program at Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy encourages students to become active members in their local, national and global communities through service experiences related to classroom curriculum. Options include:

• Volunteering in activities at non-profit and community organizations
• Assisting with the varied needs of community members
• Participating in student/faculty initiated projects

High School Service Learning Expectations

High school students must participate in five service-learning hours per year connected with FALA courses and will be responsible for completing an additional 25 hours per year either through additional FALA service learning activities or doing community service, volunteer work, or service learning on their own. All students must complete a total of 30 hours per year (120 hours upon graduation, pro-rated per year of attendance). Any student who does not complete the service learning requirements by the date of graduation will be allowed to participate in the ceremony; however, he/she will not receive a diploma until verification of completion of hours is submitted to the Counselor.

Middle School Service Expectations

Middle school students are strongly encouraged (and sometimes required) to participate in service learning projects through their courses at FALA and through community service, volunteer work, or service learning on their own. Students should fill out logs for their work and submit them to the Counselor. The Counselor will track these hours throughout their time at FALA so that students have data to share about their dedication and work ethic on college and work applications. However, any hours logged in middle school will not count towards the high school requirements. We understand that many organizations have minimum age requirements and that middle schools students are less independently mobile than high school students and this is why we do not have a middle school service learning requirement.

Service Learning/Community Service/Volunteer Opportunities

Please contact Janeece Henes, Service Coordinator for any additional information.

Flagstaff Community Organizations & Non-Profits

Arts
       Theatrikos Theatre Company:

Looking for ushers for every performance. Approximately three hours of your time and you get to see the show for free. Next production runs every Fri/Sat/Sun Dec. 2 through Dec. 18. Looking for assistance with technical aspects of every production. No experience necessary. Call 928-774-1662 or see their website for additional information.

After School Art Program at Killip Elementary School

Students will assist other adults/educators in after school art program

The classes will run from 3:30 - 5:30 M - F

October 17-28, 2011 and March 19 –June 8, 2012 Contact Janeece Henes to get involved.

Mosaic Mural at Inn Transitions     2140 E. Route 66 (next to Autozone)

Come work on a mosaic mural either grouting or placing mosaic glass & tiles on a wall. Sunday October 16 12-3pm

Hunger & Homelessness

St. Mary’s Food Bank http://www.firstfoodbank.org/flagstaff.html

Flagstaff Family Food Center http://www.hotfood.org/

Flagstaff Shelter Services Homeless Shelter: Shelter Donations needed Wish List

INN Transitions website

Domestic Violence

Sharon Manor Sharon Manor

SM wish list

 

Northland Family Help Center website

Helping people and/or children:

 

The NAMES Project Quilt, part of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, is coming to Flagstaff December 1-3. The quilt panels are part of a 54-ton, handmade tapestry that stands as a memorial to more than 92,000 individuals lost to AIDS.

The public showing, comprised of 20 large panels, each with 8 individual quilts (160 quilts in total) will be on display from Thursday, Dec. 1 through Saturday, December 3 at the Field House and Kaibab Room on the campus of Northern Arizona University. This Quilt display is being presented as part of World AIDS Day – December 1, 2011 and will be hosted by the NAU LGBTQIA Task Force and NAU Future Teachers Club. It is open to the public at no charge from December 1-3.

If you are able to volunteer, please contact Vanessa.Delgado@nau.edu

PEACE PROJECT

P.E.A.C.E. Project (Prevention Education and Creative Expression), is a collaboration between Northland Family Help Center and Theatrikos Theatre Company. The project is designed to use theatre arts alongside peer education as a means to address teen relationship violence, acts of violence in our communities and other related issues that affect young people today. website

Girls on the Run website

Contact Gina Nabours to volunteer at FALA.

Habitat for Humanity http://flagstaffhabitat.org/habitat/ Want to build a house? Habitat for Humanity uses volunteer labor and donations of money and materials to build and rehabilitate simple, decent houses for low-income families. Thousands of students and young people worldwide are spending school breaks or weekends on Habitat construction sites. Habitat's Flagstaff ReStore--a retail store selling building supplies to benefit Habitat's work is also looking for volunteers. To cashier in the store, volunteers must be aged 18 or older; however, they can use volunteers 14 or older for working the ReStore with a chaperone, or 16 and older without chaperone, but parental permission for volunteering in the warehouse.

Free the Children http://www.freethechildren.org Want to wipe out child slavery? Want to help poor children in third world countries go to school instead of laboring every day in dangerous, inhumane jobs? Then join this international network of children helping children, founded by (then) 12 year old Craig Kielburger. You’ll be amazed at what you can do.

American Red Cross: They help people in emergencies every day. Whether its half a million disaster victims or one sick child who needs blood, our vital work is made possible by people like you, who learn how good it can feel to lend a helping hand.

Invisible Children: We are storytellers. We make documentaries about war-affected children in east Africa and tour them around the world. http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php

Goodwill: http://www.goodwillna.org/ Provider of education, training, and career services for people with disadvantages, such as welfare dependency, homelessness, and lack of education or work experience, as well as those with physical, mental and emotional disabilities.

Helping Animals:

Second Chance: http://www.secondchancecenter.org/ We envision a society that has progressed to place compassion and welfare for all animals at the forefront of the human-animal relationship while respecting cultural diversity and traditions.

Coconino Humane Association: http://www.coconinohumane.org/ It is the mission of the Coconino Humane Association to operate a humane and caring shelter that will give aid to unwanted, abandoned, and mistreated animals in Flagstaff and across northern Arizona.

Helping the Environment:

The Arboretum of Flagstaff 200-acre arboretum in a ponderosa pine forest. Guided tours, gift shop, nature trails, endangered plants and animals and cultivated garden website

Greenpeace: An independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment by catalyzing an energy revolution, defending our oceans, protecting forests, working for peace, creating a toxic free future, and campaigning for sustainable agriculture.

Arbor Day Foundation: As trees grow, they help stop global warming by removing carbon dioxide, storing carbon, and releasing oxygen. Become part of the support for this important cause

Friends of Flagstaff's Future: website

Preservation of Flagstaff’s Livability and Unique Character

Protection of Our Healthy Natural Environment

Building a Sustainable Economy

Other helpful sites:

www.volunteermatch.org A website that you can find out about volunteer work. This online database allows you to find opportunities by zip code, category, and date.

Do something http://www.dosomething.org these people take their name seriously. Their mission statement says: “We inspire young people to believe that change is possible, and we train, fund and mobilize them to be leaders who measurable strengthen their communities.” This is a very exciting website for anyone who wants to, well… do something