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:People Reaching Out Center for Multi-cultural Cooperation National Association of Social Workers - California  

Project Description: Students serve as tutors/mentors at one of two schools, Will C. Wood Middle School and Hiram Johnson High School; or conduct research as part of a larger community mobilization program focused on addressing violence and academic issues at the same two schools.

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

Project Description: Reflective learning journals of all times at agency, community service learning project begun in 195 A and completed in 195B - depends on agency need/student interest; posted on the Gerontology website after completion; monthly seminar discussion of experiences and answers to service learning guidance question.

Community Partners:Chateau at Rivers Edge Eskaton Administrative Office Eskaton Education Eskaton Lodge Gold River Eskaton Senior Connection Ethel MacLeod Hart Senior Center Health for All Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) CenterIn Home Supportive Services Public Authority Mental Health Association, Senior Peer Counseling Program San Juan Unified (SJUSD) Senior and Adult Services Triple R Adult Day Care Program  

Project Description: Reflective learning journals of all times at agency, community service learning project begun in 195 A and completed in 195B - depends on agency need/student interest; posted on the Gerontology website after completion; monthly seminar discussion of experiences and answers to service learning guidance question.

Community Partners:Chateau at Rivers Edge Eskaton Administrative Office Eskaton Education Eskaton Lodge Gold River Eskaton Senior Connection Ethel MacLeod Hart Senior Center Health for All Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) CenterIn Home Supportive Services Public Authority Mental Health Association, Senior Peer Counseling Program San Juan Unified (SJUSD) Senior and Adult Services Triple R Adult Day Care Program  

Project Description: This class requires 40 hours of field experience/service learning at an assigned public elementary school. Students in this course will work closely with classroom teachers and their students to examine how theory and research in human development can apply to public school teaching.

Community Partners:Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Ethel I. Baker Elementary School Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Sequoia Elementary School Washington Elementary School Anna Kirchgater Elementary School 

Project Description: This class requires 40 hours of field experience/service learning at an assigned public elementary school. Students in this course will work closely with classroom teachers and their students to examine how theory and research in human development can apply to public school teaching.

Community Partners:Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Ethel I. Baker Elementary School Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Sequoia Elementary School Washington Elementary School Anna Kirchgater Elementary School 

Project Description: This class requires 40 hours of field experience/service learning at an assigned public elementary school. Students in this course will work closely with classroom teachers and their students to examine how theory and research in human development can apply to public school teaching.

Community Partners:Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Ethel I. Baker Elementary School Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Sequoia Elementary School Washington Elementary School Anna Kirchgater Elementary School 

Project Description: This class requires 40 hours of field experience/service learning at an assigned public elementary school. Students in this course will work closely with classroom teachers and their students to examine how theory and research in human development can apply to public school teaching.

Community Partners:Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Ethel I. Baker Elementary School Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Sequoia Elementary School Washington Elementary School Anna Kirchgater Elementary School 

Project Description: Students will investigate and critique local, national, and global human-environmental processes and issues through socio¬cultural, economic, political, and ethical constructions. Working with local community agencies, students will actively participate and reflect on current environmental issues.

Community Partners:Sacramento Tree Foundation Soil Born Farm American River Parkway Foundation 

Project Description: Service learning enables students to provide meaningful community service while allowing them to develop academically through structured reflections on their service experience and on academic course content. The best way to gain an understanding of people with disabilities is through exposure and proximity. This experience will total 15 hours of service in community-based recreation for individuals with disabilities.

Community Partners:Milieu Center, Project P.L.A.Y. 

Project Description: In this course, students will have access to a variety of environments that both influence and are influenced directly and indirectly by family. It offers students an opportunity to see how family is connected to a number of different institutions, as well as to engage with diverse families and family structures. Students then bring these experiences back into the classroom to share with others.

Community Partners:A.M. Winn Elementary School Homes with Heart Foster Family Agency Navigators People Reaching Out Sacramento Habitat for Humanity Sierra Nueva Continuation High School Sunburst Projects Westfield Village Elementary 

Project Description: 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, students should feel themselves becoming more comfortable with the genetically disabled population, a particularly important skill for students who are planning a career as a biology teacher, physician, pharmacist, dentist, or other service-oriented occupation related to the students degree. As a member of such a profession, students are likely to encounter genetically disabled individuals on a frequent basis and will be serving them as part of his/her job.

Community Partners:Project R.I.D.E. 

Project Description: Service learning is to facilitate the students learning and understanding of academic content in an applied, experiential and reflective manner as well as to promote awareness of community needs and the rewards of civic engagement.

Community Partners:Anna Kirchgater Elementary School ASI Children's Center Folsom Cordova Community Partnership Greer Elementary School Irene B. West Elementary School Jonas Salk High Tech Academy Middle School Kaiser Permanente-Child Life Specialist Program NCADD Sacramento National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency People Reaching Out Project R.I.D.E. RAFT* Sacramento *Resource Area for Teaching Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services St. John's Shelter for Women & Children Sutter Memorial Hospital-Child Life Specialist Program U.C. Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Wellspring Women's Center 

Project Description: Service learning is to facilitate the students learning and understanding of academic content in an applied, experiential and reflective manner as well as to promote awareness of community needs and the rewards of civic engagement.

Community Partners:Anna Kirchgater Elementary School ASI Children's Center Folsom Cordova Community Partnership Greer Elementary School Irene B. West Elementary School Jonas Salk High Tech Academy Middle School Kaiser Permanente-Child Life Specialist Program NCADD Sacramento National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency People Reaching Out Project R.I.D.E. RAFT* Sacramento *Resource Area for Teaching Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services St. John's Shelter for Women & Children Sutter Memorial Hospital-Child Life Specialist Program U.C. Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Wellspring Women's Center 

Project Description: Service learning is to facilitate the students learning and understanding of academic content in an applied, experiential and reflective manner as well as to promote awareness of community needs and the rewards of civic engagement.

Community Partners:Anna Kirchgater Elementary School ASI Children's Center Folsom Cordova Community Partnership Greer Elementary School Irene B. West Elementary School Jonas Salk High Tech Academy Middle School Kaiser Permanente-Child Life Specialist Program NCADD Sacramento National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency People Reaching Out Project R.I.D.E. RAFT* Sacramento *Resource Area for Teaching Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services St. John's Shelter for Women & Children Sutter Memorial Hospital-Child Life Specialist Program U.C. Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Wellspring Women's Center