Project Description

Project Description: Students will interact with the residents at the retirement community to apply the care management model taught in class.

Community Partners:The Chateau at Rivers Edge 

Project Description: Students will conduct in-depth interviews with recipients of the Sacramento County In Home Support Services program. Students will analyze resulting data and conduct mini-needs assessment for class and for community partner.

Community Partners:Senior and Adult Services 

Project Description: Students spend time in elementary school classrooms and work with schools to learn about the teaching profession and provide service to the community.

Community Partners:Sequoia Elementary 

Project Description: The service learning project consists of advocating for children and their families by increasing the quality of the elementary school. The cooperating teacher may guide the nature of this project. An oral and written report about the completed project is presented at the end of the semester.

Community Partners:Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Ethel I. Baker Elementary School 

Project Description: 1. Understanding roles and functions performed by social workers. 2. Understanding one’s motivation for being interested in the field of social work. 3. Understanding how to integrate the “use of self” in serving clients/client systems while working as professional social worker. 4. Understanding one’s personal belief system and its potential to impact on one’s work as a professional social worker.

Community Partners:Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, Twin Rivers Unified School District  

Project Description: Letter exchange between fifth graders and first year Sacramento State students to role model leadership and academic skills.

Community Partners:David Reese Elementary 

Project Description: Project Description: 1. Understanding roles and functions performed by social workers. 2. Understanding one’s motivation for being interested in the field of social work. 3. Understanding how to integrate the “use of self” in serving clients/client systems while working as professional social worker. 4. Understanding one’s personal belief system and its potential to impact on one’s work as a professional social worker.

Community Partners:Hart Senior Center, Navigator's, NCAAD 

Project Description: 1.Examines domestic issues confronting/dividing Americans today. 2. Develops an understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of the human community. 3. Students will research and discuss contemporary and sociopolitical issues relevant to Chicano/Mexican Americans identity, language, culture, education, and immigration.

Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School Healthy Start Will C. Wood Middle School 

Project Description: 1. Students will understand how historical, political, socioeconomic and culture shapes the life, identity, experiences and responses of these different groups along racial/ethnic lines. 2.Students will gain knowledge of the current and ethno-historical experience of Latinos in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and the United States. 3. Develops an understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of the human community.

Community Partners:Healthy Start Hiram Johnson High School Will C. Wood Middle School 

Project Description: 1. Promotes critical self-understanding, and accordingly will involve consideration of such topics as individual behavior, the relation of the person to the social and natural environment, human sexuality, nutrition, health, stress, family, aging and death. 2. Students will be able to gain an interdisciplinary understanding and identify mediating factors that relate to the experiences of being Chicana. 3. Enhances the student's understanding of the development of the individual as an integrated physiological, psychological, and social being.

Community Partners:Healthy Start Hiram Johnson High School Will C. Wood Middle School 

Project Description: Freshman Seminar courses write to elementary students in fourth through sixth grades to help strengthen their writing skills and reach out to encourage elementary students to attend college in the future. Young students see through writing that college is a possibility that they can become connected to the college culture in more than one way. Students learn the format and function of letter genre as well as help to build and maintain relationships, and move relationships forward through writing. Students learn that writing has the power to help them make connections between communities, connecting with others within their community, and how this is an important responsibility or steps toward higher education.

Community Partners:Kit Carson Middle School 

Project Description: Students will learn about Genetics Disorders firsthand and gain a better understanding of the characteristics of these disorders. Students will maintain a journal reflecting on their experiences and give a brief presentation after completing their service learning placement.

Community Partners:Project R.I.D.E. 

Project Description: Students will learn about Genetics Disorders firsthand and gain a better understanding of the characteristics of these disorders. Students will maintain a journal reflecting on their experiences and give a brief presentation after completing their service learning placement.

Community Partners:Project R.I.D.E. 

Project Description: Students will be engaged in understanding policy development in urban political settings including activities working with city and county staff members who work directly with citizens on issues that affect their lives. These activities will meet the goal in the course of students gaining greater understanding of the dynamics of urban politics.

Community Partners:City of Sacramento - Office of the Mayor, City of Sacramento - Neighborhood Services Department, County of Sacramento - Neighborhood Services Department, Kevin Johnson Mayoral Campaign  

Project Description: Prior to Sacramento State students field-experience course includes: Hands on class sessions with primary focus on the comprehensive framework for learning how to read and instructional methods for tutoring elementary students in reading.(Co requisite EDTE 103 B) EDTE 103 B. The tutoring process includes: Teaching word analysis skills, sight words and comprehension through multi-cultural literature, folktales-fairytales, Readers Theater and poetry. Students will learn to adapt tutoring for learning styles, motivation, learning disabilities, and ESL students.

Community Partners:Cordova Meadows Elementary, Woodlake Elementary, James Marshall Elementary