Thayne Center for Service & Learning
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Thayne Center for Service & Learning Redwood Campus 4600 South Redwood Road 1575 South State Street Fax E-mail Web Are you on Facebook? Become a fan of the Thayne Center! Follow us on Twitter @thaynecenter.
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ON-CAMPUS OPPORTUNITIES & SLCC ANNOUNCEMENTS Salt Lake Homeless Youth Center Donation Drive Currently, there is a dire need for non-perishable food items for the Salt Lake Homeless Youth Center. The food bank and many food pantries throughout the city are low on supplies. As a result, there has been a shortage of adequate, nourishing food for the center. With the temperatures getting colder, the center could also use warm clothing, gloves, blankets, and sleeping bags. Last year, over 800 homeless youth and dependent children of homeless youth were served. There are donation bins distributed at several SLCC campuses: South City Campus-near East entrance, Library Square Campus -at the front desk, Meadowbrook Campus-student lounge, Taylorsville Campus-student building near the information desk. By the end of the week there should also be bins at Sandy, Jordan and Miller campuses. The donation drive will end October 9, 2009, at which time we will collect the donation bins and their contents. Your donations will go directly to the Salt Lake Homeless Youth Center. For those interested in making financial donations or donations directly, the center is located at 655 South State Street in Salt Lake or call 801-364-0744. Thank you for your support, together we can make a difference. Diversity Exploration Student Life and Leadership, and the Diversity and Multicultural Programming Committee invite you to a Diversity Exploration on Thursday, October 8 at noon in the Student Event Center on the Taylorsville Redwood campus. Refreshments will be provided. The purpose of this event is to explore, learn and share diversity in our community. Many people have misunderstood the concept and definition of diversity and relate it only to race, stereotyping, and gender differences. At this event, Doctor Abio Ayeliya, SLCC Leadership and Diversity Coordinator, will give a presentation on the concept of diversity, the demographics of diversity at Salt Lake Community College and in the broader community. This event will serve as an opportunity for students to participate and experience the concepts related to diversity that they have learned in their classrooms. For more information call (801) 957-3170. The public is welcome! Profiles in Leadership “Profiles in Leadership” is on October 21, 2009 at 6:00 pm in the Student Event Center. The speaker is Aaron Newman, Assistants Director of Student Involvement & Leadership and Director of Leadership Programs from Weber State University. Open to the public! For more information call (801) 957-3170. Utah Commission on Volunteers Community Needs Assessment Survey The Utah Commission on Volunteers is developing a 3-year State Service Plan. This plan will be a strategy for coordinating national volunteer service activities across all streams of service in the state. This will help us ensure that volunteer service organizations are aware of each other and are coordinating activities as we work to meet our community’s most critical needs by using service as a strategy. Your input on our state's needs would be very much appreciated. Just follow the link and complete the survey by clicking here. Please send inquiries to pdavidson@utah.gov or call 801-538-8785. Feel free to forward this information on to any individual or organization that would like to have their opinion heard. Red Cross African American HIV/AIDS Instructor Course The course will take place from October 5th to the 9th from 8 am to 5 pm Refreshments will be available every day of the course. This is a nationally recognized and in many cases internationally recognized certification since it is Red Cross curriculum. Individuals must be African American or work with the African American community to be eligible. Scholarships available. For more information or to register please contact Ulysses Ramirez at 801-323-7011 or URamirez@utahredcross.org. Please register by October 1st. SLCC Student Writing Center Seeking Volunteer Receptionists Want to provide service on campus for your fellow students? The SLCC Student Writing Center in need of volunteer receptionists. Your service will include maintaining order in the Student Writing Center by helping students to make appointments and to meet with writing tutors. Since the Student Writing Center is a heavily-used on-campus resource, the receptionist position is extremely important to the function of the Center. For more information about this exciting service opportunity, contact Clint Gardner at 801-957-4842. You can also drop by the Student Writing Center on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus in the Administration Building room 218. Service Opportunities for Students at the SLCC Community Writing Center The SLCC Community Writing Center supports, motivates and educates people of all abilities and educational backgrounds who want to use writing for practical needs, civic engagement and personal expression. In addition to an open space available for writing, the CWC provides opportunities to enhance writing abilities through such programs as writing coaching, writing workshops, partnerships with local organizations, writing events around the city and the DiverseCity Writing Series (DWS). To get involved, call Ken at 801-957-4992 or email cwc@slcc.edu. Global Awareness Lecture Series “Global Camps Africa: South African Camps for Youth Affected by HIV/AIDS” is the next lecture in this series sponsored by the Peace Corps Volunteer Association of Utah and the Thayne Center for Service & Learning. It will be presented by Genevieve Greeley, Founder/President of Humanity from Creative Global Camps Africa, Regular Global Camps Africa Volunteer, on October 22, 7:00 pm at the Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 East 400 South, Room B. For more information contact Vicky Wason at vlwason@hotmail.com. SLCC’s Host Family Program Have you ever thought of opening your home to a student from another country? SLCC’s Host Family Program, coordinated by International Student Services, gives both students and families an intercultural experience. During the fall 2009 semester, SLCC will serve more than 300 international students from 70 countries around the world. For more information about the SLCC Host Family Program and how to get involved, contact International Student Services at 801-957-4528 or international.services@slcc.edu or visit us at www.slcc.edu/hostfamily. OFF-CAMPUS OPPORTUNITIES S.L.I.C.E. (Student Leaders in Civic Engagement) WORKSHOPS FROM CIVILITY TO A NEW SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENT These workshops, led by John Kessler and the Center for Civic Engagement of Westminster College, give students tools to become effective societal transformation agents. Each workshop is from 3 pm to 5 pm, at Westminster College Gore 107. October 23, 2009 LEARNING LEADERSHIP IN COMMUNITY How You Can Really Make a Difference if You Really Want to November 13, 2009 LEARNING FIVE LEVELS OF CIVIL DISCOURSE AND BEHAVIOR Learn Five Increasingly Superior Levels of Civility, Reciprocity, Dispute Resolution, and Policy Development Youth DiverseCity Writing Series The SLCC Community Writing Center needs two service-learning students or student volunteers to work with 13-18-year-old teens at the Sorenson Center for the Youth DiverseCity Writing Series. Students do not have to be excellent writers. Instead, they are trained to work as writing group mentors two evenings a month. The Sorenson center prefers college mentors as positive role models and requires a background check. The CWC asks that volunteers agree to at least six months. For more information contact Andrea Malouf at 801-957-4992 or 801-957-4713. Taylorsville Elementary Tutoring Volunteers Taylorsville Elementary 6th grade classes are in great need of volunteers that would be willing to work with students in reading, writing, and math, or help out teachers in the classroom. If you are interested contact Tracy Jensen at tdjensen@graniteschools.org. Guadalupe Schools Tutoring Volunteers The VIP (Voluntary Improvement Program) utilizes volunteer tutors to teach English as a Second Language to low-income, immigrant adults. Instruction takes place in small groups (2-4 people per group). Lessons are mainly competency-based, with a focus on life-skills rather than grammar rules. The volunteer will be assigned a regular group, with whom s/he will meet one evening each week, from 7 to 9 pm. Upon arriving at the school, the tutor finds a lesson plan and all necessary materials prepared. The volunteer and his/her students work through the lesson plan; the professional staff is present to assist in any way needed. If you are interested or for more information please contact Kate Diggins at 801-531-6100 ext. 1107 or Mark Wolf at 801-531-6100 ext. 1105. YouthLINC If you are willing to serve locally, you can earn a sponsorship that pays almost half the cost of an international service trip next summer to Kenya, Mexico, Peru, or Thailand. YouthLINC is a Utah not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating life-time humanitarians through a school year program of local and international service. Applications are open to all Utah secondary and college students, and the deadline is October 10, 2009. Please visit http://www.youthlinc.org for complete information. The Exchange |
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