Service Learning project where students labeled "at-risk" provided comfort
to children in Intensive Care. Through investigation, reading and hands-on
service, they not only learned academic content, but their personal
experiences connected them to real-life issues in and beyond their local
community.
Title: "Using service-learning to introduce at-risk students to a broader
community"
Abstract (summary)
A class of 16 at-risk students in Anaheim's Youth and Family Resource Center
(YFRC) undertook the design, making, and delivery of pillows and care
packages for young patients confined to the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive
Care Unit (NICU/PICU) at the University of California, Irvine Medical
Center. The project had two goals: to extend the students' concepts of
community and to aid young children in need. Service-Learning Coordinator
Jim Perez submitted this effective practice in July 2006 as part of a report
on the success of Alternative, Community, and Correctional Education Schools
and Services (ACCESS) in Orange County, California
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