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Service Learning Project
Sheila Mae Agonoy-Pascua
UNLV CSUN Preschool has been accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) since 1994. The preschool’s mission is to “Provide a model inclusive early childhood program that serves children of students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding campus community. As the field of early childhood care and education evolves to meet the growing needs of today’s young children and their families, our preschool will continue to play a leadership role in teaching, training, and research at UNLV.” (unlv.edu/preschool/about).
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Dean Petersen Elementary School
Alexa Ching
To educate their students by using a trauma-informed approach that allows students to be vulnerable to learning new information and provide a safe space
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Project 150
Natalie Datastanyan
Project 150 began when its two co founders learned about the increased number of homeless youth attending just Rancho High School. Patrick Spargur and Don Purdue worked together to form Project 150 to decrease and eventually end homelessness in the youth of Las Vegas. The purpose of Project 150 is to end high school homelessness through the support of a community.
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Service Learning at Dean Petersen Elementary School
Fayth Dean
Their purpose is to not only educate their students, but to also teach them in a way that allows them to let their guard down. These students come from environments that are filled with violence, abuse, yelling, etc. For these students to be taught, the teachers use a “traumainformed” approach where they are calm and patient with their students, which allow them to be teachable
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Project FOCUS and WCTA
David Islas
Project FOCUS is a program designed to encourage students on the autism spectrum with educational programs suited for their wants and needs in life. WCTA is a Magnet school that has been existent for 10 years.
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Project 150
Dorian Laganière
Offer support and services to homeless, displaced, and disadvantaged high school students. so they can be successful during their high school journey and ultimately graduate.
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Signature Productions: Quality Family Entertainment
Tyler Lambert
Signature Productions is a nonprofit community theater company. It was created in 1989, by both Dr. Karl M. Larsen, a local Optometrist, and Victor J. Austin, an attorney. They believed that Las Vegas Valley needed quality family entertainment. The Board of Signature Productions is made up of 16 talented and dedicated people from Las Vegas consisting of an Optometrist, several Attorneys, a General Contractor, multiple small business owners, a photographer, music and dance instructors, office professionals and homemakers. We are housed in the Summerlin Library and Preforming Arts Center, where we rent space for each production.
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Three Square: The Fight Against Hunger
Courtney Lee
Three Square is a food bank for Southern Nevada, whose aim is to “provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger-free community.”
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Project FOCUS
Marc Angelo Non
Forming Occupational and Community Understanding for Success Created in 2015 Has grown ever since Provides access to resources for students with intellectual disabilities
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The Nevada Blind Children’s Foundation
Mara Ono
It was created to provide the essential blocks including expanded core curriculum, extracurricular activities, social opportunities, and transitional skills to children who are visually impaired Three main goals: ○ Increase graduation rates and postsecondary education enrollment and/or vocation ○ Increase employment rates for blind adults ○ Increase the quality of life (independence, socialization, life skills) for blind or visually impaired children Community Service Paradigm The community service paradigm this service site best fits is social change The Nevada Blind Children’s Foundation wants every child with a visual impairment to reach their full potential
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Project FOCUS
Edrielle Ramirez
History and Purpose Started with 1 student in 2015 1 to 25 students in 4 years Purpose: "give an opportunity for this population to have the opportunity to go to college" Community Service Paradigm Project Defines a problem, implements, achieve goal
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E W Griffith Elementary School
Leilah Torres
Their vision is to keep their students, “...honest, safe, respectful, engaged, and own their learning and choices,” (“Griffith ES”).
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What Does a Good Life Look Like to You?
Mackenzie Zelensky
History and Purpose of Heaven Can Wait Animal Society Heaven Can Wait Animal Society is an organization that helps rescue dogs and cats from homelessness, starvation, and death. The founding principle of this organization is to save these animals lives, specifically be means of not euthanizing the animals that they rescue. The founders of Heaven Can Wait created this organization to “stop the senseless killing of dogs and cats,” according to hcws.org. This objective is achieved every day by HCWS. Based on the organization’s website, the people I’ve interreacted with, and my personal experience, it is blatantly clear that animals are being treated with the care and respect they deserve.
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Three Square
Cyrenz Garcia
I think that Three Square is an organization that truly aims to help the people of Southern Nevada. I believe that the work and the change that the people in this organization is just tremendous. They reach out to various organizations all over the county to be able to distribute the to as many people as they can.
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UNLV/CSUN Preschool
Emily Thompson
At this community engagement site, the UNLV/CSUN Preschool, they address the absence of child care facilities and schools effort to adapt to every child’s individual needs in terms of health, development, and academics.
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Delivering and Serving Hope
Haley Haring
DASH focuses on 2 social issues mainly that overlap each other, they provide for those who have food insecurities and the homeless population. Overall it is more about providing food for the homeless population.
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Diversity in Education
Natalie Gutierrez
Abriendo Caminos functions to mentor youth and direct them in a potential education career, helping them develop their understandings of the field and the issues that they have the potential to resolve.
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Alzheimer's Association
Kealuala Nahuina
The Alzheimer's Association addresses the lack of education, resources, and support necessary for the proper care for a person facing Alzheimer's.
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Three Square & Food Insecurity
Holly Slear
Three Square is dedicated to eradicating food insecurity through food rescue and food bank programs.
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Volunteering at Hyde Park Middle School
Justice Williams
The main social issue addressed at Hyde Park Middle School is education. The students attend school to get an education and learn, and the teachers went to college so they would be qualified to teach. However, when students other needs are not meet, they will not focus on their education. This is why the school does what they can to address other issues that the students may be experiencing. They provide free and reduced breakfast and lunches for students who cannot necessarily afford to eat otherwise. This makes it so they can focus on the lessons rather than their hunger. The school also is great about discussing issues going on in the community, and providing counselors to those who need them in time of distress. The schools main focus is education, and they are open and willing to address other issues in order to make sure that their goal of educating students is met.
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Don't Stop the Music
Ally Reid
As musical education is valued less and less, students receive a worse education in this area, limiting their futures and ability to be freely creative in all walks of life.
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The Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation
Brittany Hartog
Currently, sick children everywhere struggle to receive a proper education do to their unfortunate circumstances. Ideally, they will have resources available at all time to better their educations and lives in general.
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The Boys & Girls Club of America
Mickey Pleasanton
21% of all children in the US live below the federal poverty threshold and 43% live in low income families. The Boys and Girls Club exists as a place for children to go after-school.
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Chinese Center-Bridge: East and West Cultural and Education for Everyone
Xiaoling Hays
The Chinese Community Center is a multi-ethnic organization serving all resident Chinese Americans. The purpose is to bridge the East and West worlds by providing families with educational, cultural, and social service programs to help them achieve the language and cultural crossover.
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