NOTE: The following impact
statement represents the impact of two different service-learning projects
completed by two different classes within the same school.
Project Facts:
Community-Based Organization
Partner: CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
Education Partner: Roncalli
Junior High
Class/Organization:
1. Language Arts
2. Health & Religion
Project Contacts:
Gayla Martens, Language Arts Instructor, Roncalli
Junior High
Terry Dosch, Health & Religion Instructor, Roncalli
Junior High
Shirley Schwab, Court Appointed Special Advocates
Director
Project Snapshot:
Type of Service: Advocacy
Needs Met/Impact Made:
CASA is new to Aberdeen. There are 675 agencies and 38,000 volunteers nationwide. At this time the organization is funded through grants and other fundraising efforts. The job of the CASA representative is to be an advocate for children involved in court cases.
The service-learning project involved a fundraiser for the organization called "Casas for CASA: A Playhouse Project." The idea was to build a full-sized child's playhouse that would be raffled off at a fundraiser culminating Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Week in April 1998. Approximately 570 raffle tickets were sold. Schwab hopes to improve on this next year by securing more students, adults and volunteers to promote and sell the tickets. Schwab believes there will definitely be a strong community connection to the project next year because of the service-learning project link. "There was lots of good P.R. because of the youth connection," said Schwab. "We wouldn't have had the same effect on the public without the students," she said.
(Information received from phone conversation and project
evaluation)
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