Sites listed in this section have demonstrated a deep understanding of service-learning and a capacity to host high quality service-learning projects. Organized by county tabs, this section can help you find a great community partner interested in working with students, teachers and schools.
This 8 minute video shows the services provided by Abode Service and examines the roots of homelessness and poverty in our communities and what can be done to solve the problem.
Abode Services provides transitional housing and support to families and individuals in the East Bay. Abode works with teachers and students to develop high quality service-learning experiences that benefit both the agency and the student. In one example, Abode worked with a photography class from a local high school to commission family portraits. Students were able to demonstrate mastery of portraiture while providing free family portraits to clients. In another example, students studying science planted bay friendly landscaping as part of their study of ecosystems and habitats. Abode also hosts individual volunteers and can provide information about poverty and advocacy to teachers and schools.
The Alameda County Community Food Bank is the county’s central clearinghouse for donated food. Through our 270 agencies the food bank gives food to 40,000 people a week. The Food Bank also recognizes, however, that handing out food is a small -- but not insignificant -- approach to working on more systemic inequalities; thus, they are dedicated to advocacy and educational programs. They work with students of all ages in schools and in classrooms, leading educational programs while the school promotes a food drive. Also, for students 10 and older, there is an opportunity to sort donated food and taking a tour of their 75,000 square foot warehouse. This hands-on activity is enhanced by a facilitated discussion about the perpetual myths of hunger and poverty in our nation and our community.
3081 Teagarden Street
San Leandro, CA 94577
510.347.4620
510.483.4486 fax www.davisstreet.org
This 10 minute video describes the programs and services of Davis St. Family Resource center. The wide range of services provided by the agency makes it an unique site for service-learning projects from many disciplines.
Earthteam hosts a wide variety of environmental service-learning programs including restoration projects, student produced green news and media, the Something's in the Air Athsma Project and the Cool School's Global Warming Campaign. EarthTeam staff has completed the Service-Learning for Leaders Course and strives to create meaningful, standards-based environmental service-learning projects.
Earthteam hosts a wide variety of environmental service-learning programs including restoration projects, student produced green news and media, the Something's in the Air Athsma Project and the Cool School's Global Warming Campaign. EarthTeam staff has completed the Service-Learning for Leaders Course and strives to create meaningful, standards-based environmental service-learning projects.
STAND! Against Domestic Violence
1410 Danzig Plaza, 2nd floor
Concord, CA 94520
Tel: 925.676.2845
Fax: 925.676.0532
Crisis line: 1.888.215.5555 www.standagainstdv.org
STAND! was founded in 1977. Services include intervention, treatment, and prevention services for people affected by domestic violence. The prevention team has been giving presentations in local schools for over 20 years in Contra Costa County. The presentation focuses on healthy teen relationships and the dynamics of teen dating violence. Service learning opportunities for youth:
Video Diary
Enhancing Media Literacy Project
Resource Fair for Your School
Volunteering at STAND!
Men of Merit volunteer
Healthy Relationship / Teen Dating Violence Presentation
The Watershed Project offers environmental stewardship projects that satisfy service-learning requirements for students and teachers. Join us in improving the health and beauty of the San Francisco Bay through hands-on education and community service events! Projects include two to three in-class visits and one or two field trips. Bus scholarships are available.
Habitat Garden along the Richmond Greenway
Creek and Shoreline Trash Assessments and Reduction Program
Native Oyster Restoration Monitoring
Art Projects for Litter Reduction Education and Outreach
Sites listed in this section are typically community partners, government agencies and non-profit organizations with a deep understanding of service-learning and a demonstrated capacity for involving students in high-quality service-learning experiences.
To search for a site in your area, use the advanced search tool at California Volunteers.
Sites listed in this section are typically community partners, government agencies and non-profit organizations with a deep understanding of service-learning and a demonstrated capacity for involving students in high-quality service-learning experiences.
To search for a site in your area, use the advanced search tool at California Volunteers.
A school garden can give students a point of reference for understanding the larger ecosystem and provide an excellent springboard for the study of the local environment. School gardens support academic study and foster environmental stewardship, creativity, and community building. Assistance is available for schoolyard design, implementation, and curricular connections. A web-based resource guide and biweekly resource bulletin are also available.
Presidio and the Golden Gate National Parks
1539 Pershing Drive
City
San Francisco
94129
(415) 561-3034 X3445
The Presidio of San Francisco serves as one of the nation's largest and most inspiring urban outdoor classrooms. From fragile indigenous habitats to historic landmarks, the park's value as an urban educational resource is unsurpassed. Deeply committed to young people, National Park Service, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and Presidio Trust staff partner with educators to design programs linked to school curriculum and education standards. Park staff are actively engaged in restoring indigenous habitats and increasing biodiversity. Our programs challenge students to explore complex land management issues as they work along side park staff to propagate plants, remove invasive species, and plant seedlings into a restoration site. In addition to 15 natural areas in the park, facilities include a native plant nursery and an environmental center at Crissy Field.
Literacy for Environmental Justice offers free programs in Heron’s Head Park (in southeast San Francisco) to public school and youth groups. Park programs are designed to promote a sense of place and, ultimately, community stewardship in young participants through both in-class and outdoor activities that focus on the themes of wetland ecology and restoration.
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118 http://www.calacademy.org/
Wild City! Wild City! is a five-week program that examines the concepts of biodiversity as they are related to local wetland and oak woodland ecosystems. The program is offered at no charge to fourth- and fifth-grade SFUSD classrooms where at least half of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Wild City! consists of four classroom visits and a field trip to one of San Francisco’s natural areas, where students participate in a restoration project.
Citizen Science
"There are dozens (possibly hundreds) of active citizen science projects out there. This short list provides a small sample of the diversity of projects available for you to involve your students in. Many of these projects also make the collected data available on their website so that anyone (including your students) can study it." Calacademy blog entry about Citizen Science
San Francisco Recreation and Parks
McLaren Lodge & Annex
501 Stanyan Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
The Youth Stewardship Program (YSP) engages youth, 4th - 12th grade, in environmental education and service-learning projects in parks citywide. Our mission is to foster in youth an understanding of their important role in helping to build healthy social and natural communities. The program is free of cost and available to any youth group in San Francisco. YSP exposes urban students to an outdoor learning environment that proves to be engaging & challenging; mentally and physically. Students are taught science, environmental education, local natural & cultural history and fundamental life skills.
Kids in Parks takes middle school grade science classes on bi-weekly field trips to McLaren Park, providing students and teachers with a year-long sequential program that includes:
Mapping geographical features and landmarks of the park
Hands-on participation in park and neighborhood restoration projects
Identifying plants, trees, mushrooms, birds, insects, amphibians, reptiles, and butteflies and theri larva food plants
Studying the history of the native Ohlone people
Learning about the watershed, the water cycle and the impact of erosion
Recording observations and findings in a nature journal
Sites listed in this section are typically community partners, government agencies and non-profit organizations with a deep understanding of service-learning and a demonstrated capacity for involving students in high-quality service-learning experiences.
To search for a site in your area, use the advanced search tool at California Volunteers.
Earthteam hosts a wide variety of environmental service-learning programs including restoration projects, student produced green news and media, the Something's in the Air Athsma Project and the Cool School's Global Warming Campaign. EarthTeam staff has completed the Service-Learning for Leaders Course and strives to create meaningful, standards-based environmental service-learning projects.
Literacy for Environmental Justice offers free programs in Heron’s Head Park (in southeast San Francisco) to public school and youth groups. Park programs are designed to promote a sense of place and, ultimately, community stewardship in young participants through both in-class and outdoor activities that focus on the themes of wetland ecology and restoration.
