Project Description

Project Description: Students may work directly with children, parents, both children and parents; or they may work more at the organizational level working on a project, such as a health fair, that will be of benefit to families. Objectives include: display skills in family needs identification and assessment of family strengths among diverse families; demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of client issues and social problems and an awareness of socio-political factors that affect the community and region; and demonstrate cultural competence in both knowledge and skills and an understanding of values and ethics that affect Family Support Services.

Community Partners:Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, Folsom Cordova Community Partnership, Elk Grove Unified School District - Even Start Family Literacy Program 

Project Description: 1) Students will have ten Service-Learning Journal Entries and 2) a service learning project and presentation. The service learning project will be to identify something that would enhance the experience of the disabled children and to complete a project that addresses this objective. The purpose of the experience is to help students gain a substantially more sophisticated understanding of how genetic abnormalities manifest in real life. In addition, they should become more comfortable with the genetically disabled population, a particularly important skill in careers such as a biology teacher, physician, pharmacist, dentist, and other service-oriented occupations related to the Biology degree.

Community Partners:Project R.I.D.E. 

Project Description: Writing Partners Project- Students in Child Development Learning Community writing class will write and receive letters from local elementary students. Students will work on their writing to an external audience and will reflect on their experience as first year college students.

Community Partners:Florin Elementary David Lubin Greer  

Project Description: Students design a database for a non-profit to gain professional skills while providing service to the community.

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Project Description: Students design a database for a non-profit to gain professional skills while providing service to the community.

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Project Description: Students participate in campus and community outreach activities and presentations to reduce the harm associated with high risk drinking, tobacco and drug use. The learning goals and objectives of the course include the application of public health education and promotion theories in community settings.

Community Partners:Project Help Sac State Student Health Center 

Project Description: To gain personal experience working with individuals who have genetic or developmental disorders.

Community Partners:Project R.I.D.E. 

Project Description: Writing Partners -- Throughout the semester English 1A students will be exchanging letters with sixth graders at Florin Elementary. Writing Partners is designed to enhance social awareness and educational interconnectedness. This correspondence program supports the course goals to understand and be a part of various discourse communities.

Community Partners:Florin Elementary 

Project Description: This course allows students the opportunity to conduct in-depth interviews with the IHSS consumer population in order to determine whether their needs for in home support services are being met. The interviews will be transcribed and analyzed and the findings will be submitted to the Department of Health and Human Servieces.

Community Partners:In-Home Supportive Services with the County of Sacramento 

Project Description: This course allows students the opportunity to conduct in-depth interviews with the IHSS consumer population in order to determine whether their needs for in home support services are being met. The interviews will be transcribed and analyzed and the findings will be submitted to the Department of Health and Human Servieces.

Community Partners:In-Home Supportive Services with the County of Sacramento 

Project Description: This experience is intended to introduce students to the field of social welfare and social work. I would like the students to have at least some client interaction. I would the students to be able to come back to class and discuss not only their experiences, but how they see this agency fitting within the whole social services network.

Community Partners:People Reaching Out, Hart Senior Center, Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services 

Project Description: Our readings and discussions in class focus on positive and negative conditions for teaching and learning in urban schools. CSUS students will complement their studies by working in a teaching-learning situation where they can both observe schooling and contribute to helping someone learn.

Community Partners:David Reese Elementary Westfield Village Elementary School 

Project Description: Our readings and discussions in class focus on positive and negative conditions for teaching and learning in urban schools. CSUS students will complement their studies by working in a teaching-learning situation where they can both observe schooling and contribute to helping someone learn.

Community Partners:David Reese Elementary Westfield Village Elementary School 

Project Description: Students will participate in an Intergenerational Celebration at Hart Senior Center and do cross-cultural activities with International Students in the Office of Global Education. Through both exchanges, students will gain an understanding of the ideas and values of education posed by different generations, thinkers, and cultures.

Community Partners:Ethel MacLeod Hart Senior Center and Office of Global Education 

Project Description: Students will participate in an Intergenerational Celebration at Hart Senior Center and do cross-cultural activities with International Students in the Office of Global Education. Through both exchanges, students will gain an understanding of the ideas and values of education posed by different generations, thinkers, and cultures.

Community Partners:Ethel MacLeod Hart Senior Center and Office of Global Education