IN THIS ISSUE:*Events
*Volunteer Opportunities
*Internships, Jobs, and Beyond...
*In the Spotlight: CSRSO's
Photo credit: Partnership for the Advancement of Refugee Rights
Brooke Fallon, Chairperson of PARR's Committee on Community Service speaks to students during an information session.
EVENTS
Healthcare Info Session
Wednesday, October 15
6:00 PM-7:00PM
UCSC Conference Room
5525 S. Ellis Ave. (Across from Ratner, south side of Ellis Parking Garage)
Come hear presentations by coordinators of volunteer programs at local healthcare organizations.
Tutoring Info Session
Thursday, October 16
6:00PM-7:00PM
UCSC Conference Room
5525 S. Ellis Ave. (Across from Ratner, south side of Ellis Parking Garage)
Come hear presentations by Directors of tutoring programs at local organizations.
African Women in America Conference
“The Voice of African Children: The Mission of Women”
October 17 – 18, 2008 @ Loyola University Chicago
EVENTS
Healthcare Info Session
Wednesday, October 15
6:00 PM-7:00PM
UCSC Conference Room
5525 S. Ellis Ave. (Across from Ratner, south side of Ellis Parking Garage)
Come hear presentations by coordinators of volunteer programs at local healthcare organizations.
Tutoring Info Session
Thursday, October 16
6:00PM-7:00PM
UCSC Conference Room
5525 S. Ellis Ave. (Across from Ratner, south side of Ellis Parking Garage)
Come hear presentations by Directors of tutoring programs at local organizations.
African Women in America Conference
“The Voice of African Children: The Mission of Women”
October 17 – 18, 2008 @ Loyola University Chicago
All women and men who are interested in learning more about human rights and quality of life issues related to women and children in Africa are invited to attend, including: women’s professional and service organization leaders, business executives, ministers and religious groups, foundation directors, NGO board members, education administrators, medical professionals, politicians, lawyers, social workers, researchers, student service leaders, human rights advocates and community leaders.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
The Hyde Park Used Book Sale is October 11-13, and volunteers are needed to sort through donations before the sale setup on Friday, October 10. If you don't want to sort, volunteers are also needed to pack boxes with sorted books, and some muscle power to move those boxes to the staging area. Contact Jane Ciacci or Jane Comiskey at 773.324.0750.
Comer Children's Hospital
Comer Kids' Classic 5K Run/Walk and Kids' Dash needs volunteers for Saturday, Oct. 18th from 8 am to 1 pm. Volunteer opportunities include: *Registration *Information and Directional Greeters *Packet Pick up *Water Stations *Course Marshals *Gear Check *Finish Line *Post Event Refreshments *Clean up. Please email Dawn Brown or call 773.702.7529.
Blue Gargoyle Community Services
On October 26, 2008 Blue Gargoyle Community Services is holding the 26th Running of the Gargoyle Gallop 8k race and looking for volunteers to help with registration, course management and other assignments as needed. If you are interested in volunteering please email Kathy Barrett or call 773-955-4108 ext. 320.
On October 26, 2008 Blue Gargoyle Community Services is holding the 26th Running of the Gargoyle Gallop 8k race and looking for volunteers to help with registration, course management and other assignments as needed. If you are interested in volunteering please email Kathy Barrett or call 773-955-4108 ext. 320.
Inspiration Corporation
Inspiration Corporation helps people who are affected by homelessness and poverty to improve their lives and increase self-sufficiency through the provision of social services, employment training and placement, and housing. General Volunteer Orientations are required for all new volunteers. They are scheduled twice a month at Inspiration Cafe, 4554 N. Broadway Suite 305 and once a month at The Living Room Cafe, 806 E. 64th Street. The next available volunteer orientations are:
October 9 Inspiration Cafe 6-7pm
October 25 Inspiration Cafe 10-11am
October 25 Living Room Cafe 1-2pm
November 6 Inspiration Cafe 6-7pm
November 15 Inspiration Cafe 10-11am
November 15 Living Room Cafe 1-2pm
October 9 Inspiration Cafe 6-7pm
October 25 Inspiration Cafe 10-11am
October 25 Living Room Cafe 1-2pm
November 6 Inspiration Cafe 6-7pm
November 15 Inspiration Cafe 10-11am
November 15 Living Room Cafe 1-2pm
INTERNSHIPS, JOBS, AND BEYOND...
Public and Social Service Immersion Camp (PASS)
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Ida Noyes Hall
Interested in a career in public or social service? UCSC partners with Career Advising & Planning Services (CAPS) to offer PASS. Attend panel discussions on topics including Community Organizing, Policy and Advocacy and Non-Profit Consulting. Learn more about opportunities available in the public service field and networking with non-profit professionals. Come have your questions answered and learn more about internship, career or graduate school options relating to the fields of public and social service in this all day immersion camp. Students are required to sign up for this event before it occurs. For questions, contact Max Brooks.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
CSRSO's Hit the Ground Running
Rachel Cromidas, Staff Writer
When first-year Tiera Johnson attended the RSO Fair on Oct. 3, she was overwhelmed by the number of diverse community service organizations to chose from.
“I knew I wanted to do a volunteer program that had to with kids,” Johnson said.
In the end, she joined Friends of Washington Park, an after-school tutoring group that works with children in kindergarten through ninth grade at the School of Social Service Administration (SSA).
UCSC advises nearly 50 community service-related Registered Student Organizations (known as CSRSOs), and more than a dozen of them involve tutoring students from around Chicago. Johnson said she chose to join Friends of Washington Park because the program allows volunteers to work with students of many different ages.
Friends of Washington Park is run by Chicago Youth Programs, a non-profit organization serving at-risk youth in Cabrini Green, Washington Park and Uptown. The program pairs each tutor with one student for the entire year to foster a one-on-one learning environment and create lasting bonds between the programs participants. The program meets every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5 to 6:30 p.m., and often schedules weekend activities, such as a trip to the Midway ice skating rink, for tutors and their students.
For Andrew Seeder, a fourth-year and co-president of Friends of Washington Park Tutoring , the program has helped him stay in touch with the “real world” during his time at the college.
“There’s more to being 18 to 22 years old than studying for your next midterm,” Seeder said. “Even though this might not relate to my class on Nietszche, I still get an education here.”
Seeder, a Tutorial Studies major, joined the program as a first year and immediately developed a rapport with his tutee, Marquis. “He became a part of my life.”
Malika Krishna, also co-president, shares Seeder’s sentiment about the co-curricular value of their CSRSO.
“I’m an economics major, so a lot of stuff I do is quantitative. It’s nice to come here and get in touch with why we’re doing all that.”
Other mentoring CSRSOs include WYSE, a curriculum-based program that pairs female college students with girls in middle school from Little Village; South Side Scribblers, an organization that teaches creative writing to elementary school students in Hyde Park; Peer Health Exchange and Project Health—both of which are branches of national non-profits and mobilize Uchicago students to educate Chicago’s underserved populations about the health resources available to them.
UChicago students with an interest in policy-making and prevention also have a panoply of options, from environmental groups like Green Awareness in Action (GAIA), to the UChicago branch of Colleges against Cancer, which is planning to host the college’s first 24-hour Relay for Life fundraiser for cancer research this Spring.
One such CSRSO is the Partnership for the Advancement of Refugee Rights (PARR). This new student group, formed in winter of 2008, is engaging human rights issues by connecting UChicago students with Chicago’s refugee community.
According to Aruj Chaudhry, the founding chair and president, PARR is a great organization for students in “all facets of refugee rights work.” This is because PARR is organized into three committees: a Committee on Global Vigilance, a Committee on Community Service, and a Committee on Advocacy and Activism, all of which will work on different projects, Chaudhry, a fourth-year, said.
The Committee on Community Service, for example, is planning to partner students with World Relief, a refugee center offering resettlement aid and legal services, and lead visits to refugees’ homes.
“We will also go up north to do some ESL tutoring,” Chaudhry said. “We want to involve the University community in global and local issues.”
One important aspect of the program, she added, is shared leadership. “Everyone has a chance to lead the meetings. Our mission is mutual education.”
“I knew I wanted to do a volunteer program that had to with kids,” Johnson said.
In the end, she joined Friends of Washington Park, an after-school tutoring group that works with children in kindergarten through ninth grade at the School of Social Service Administration (SSA).
UCSC advises nearly 50 community service-related Registered Student Organizations (known as CSRSOs), and more than a dozen of them involve tutoring students from around Chicago. Johnson said she chose to join Friends of Washington Park because the program allows volunteers to work with students of many different ages.
Friends of Washington Park is run by Chicago Youth Programs, a non-profit organization serving at-risk youth in Cabrini Green, Washington Park and Uptown. The program pairs each tutor with one student for the entire year to foster a one-on-one learning environment and create lasting bonds between the programs participants. The program meets every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5 to 6:30 p.m., and often schedules weekend activities, such as a trip to the Midway ice skating rink, for tutors and their students.
For Andrew Seeder, a fourth-year and co-president of Friends of Washington Park Tutoring , the program has helped him stay in touch with the “real world” during his time at the college.
“There’s more to being 18 to 22 years old than studying for your next midterm,” Seeder said. “Even though this might not relate to my class on Nietszche, I still get an education here.”
Seeder, a Tutorial Studies major, joined the program as a first year and immediately developed a rapport with his tutee, Marquis. “He became a part of my life.”
Malika Krishna, also co-president, shares Seeder’s sentiment about the co-curricular value of their CSRSO.
“I’m an economics major, so a lot of stuff I do is quantitative. It’s nice to come here and get in touch with why we’re doing all that.”
Other mentoring CSRSOs include WYSE, a curriculum-based program that pairs female college students with girls in middle school from Little Village; South Side Scribblers, an organization that teaches creative writing to elementary school students in Hyde Park; Peer Health Exchange and Project Health—both of which are branches of national non-profits and mobilize Uchicago students to educate Chicago’s underserved populations about the health resources available to them.
UChicago students with an interest in policy-making and prevention also have a panoply of options, from environmental groups like Green Awareness in Action (GAIA), to the UChicago branch of Colleges against Cancer, which is planning to host the college’s first 24-hour Relay for Life fundraiser for cancer research this Spring.
One such CSRSO is the Partnership for the Advancement of Refugee Rights (PARR). This new student group, formed in winter of 2008, is engaging human rights issues by connecting UChicago students with Chicago’s refugee community.
According to Aruj Chaudhry, the founding chair and president, PARR is a great organization for students in “all facets of refugee rights work.” This is because PARR is organized into three committees: a Committee on Global Vigilance, a Committee on Community Service, and a Committee on Advocacy and Activism, all of which will work on different projects, Chaudhry, a fourth-year, said.
The Committee on Community Service, for example, is planning to partner students with World Relief, a refugee center offering resettlement aid and legal services, and lead visits to refugees’ homes.
“We will also go up north to do some ESL tutoring,” Chaudhry said. “We want to involve the University community in global and local issues.”
One important aspect of the program, she added, is shared leadership. “Everyone has a chance to lead the meetings. Our mission is mutual education.”
The University Community Service Center (UCSC) fosters the development of civic-minded students by providing substantive community service opportunities through community partnerships based on mutual trust and respect. If you have questions - how to get involved as a student or how to connect to students as a community organization - please contact us.
University Community Service Center
University Community Service Center
5525 S. Ellis Ave., Suite 160
Chicago IL, 60637
Tel: 773.753.4483
Fax: 773.834.1160
ucsc.uchicago.edu
