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List of Community Partners Grows as CCSI Registers Nine Organizations Barry to be Represented at IMPACT Conference in Charlottesville Next Month Faculty and Staff Members Selected for Barry Urban Garden Advisory Committee Community Engagement Award Nominations Close Next Monday Community Engagement Symposium: Proposal Submission Deadline is Feb. 1 CCSI Accepting Applications for Service-Learning Course Designation Faculty Learning Community to Meet Next Monday Afternoon Faculty, Staff, and Students Urged to Support Box Tops for Education Drive
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List of Community Partners Grows as CCSI Registers Nine Organizations
Number of Registered Community Partners Increases to 167
The newly registered community partners include the
The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) has added nine names to its list of registered community partners, bringing the total number to 167.
The following organizations were recently registered as community partners: Affirming Youth Foundation, Inc.; American Diabetes Association; Bread for the World; Breakthrough Miami; Fanm Saj; Friends of the Children of Venezuela; the Haitian American Community Development Corporation (HACDC); the Jubilee Center of South Broward; and Pridelines.
Affirming Youth Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization whose vision is to create “safe spaces for youth to express their feelings and navigate life’s experiences.” The mission of the Miami-based nonprofit organization is “to provide services that meet the educational, emotional, physical, and mental health needs of youth and their families.”
The mission of the American Diabetes Association is “to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.” According to the association, “Stop Diabetes” is its “movement to end the devastating toll that diabetes takes on the lives of millions of individuals and families across our nation.”
Bread for the World is “a collective Christian voice urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad.” Working through churches, college campuses, and other organizations,Bread for the World engages people in organized advocacy, equipping them to write personal letters and emails, meet with their members of Congress, and work with others to end hunger.
“All motivated, under-resourced students of Miami-Dade County will have access to excellent educational opportunities, graduate from high school and attend college.” That is the vision of Breakthrough Miami. The organization “provides an academic enrichment program that uses a student-teaching-students model to ensure that motivated, under-resourced middle-school students have access to excellent high-school opportunities, graduate from high school on time, and attend college.”
The mission of Fanm Saj, Inc. is “to provide families with wellness, cultural tools and resources to build and nurture themselves and their communities.” As one of its services, Fanm Saj assists community members with exploring “their personal gifts and talents in order to reach their purpose, through workshops, training and consultation.” The Miami-area organization (whose name in Haitian Creole means “Midwife”) organizes storytelling and healing/community-building circles.
Friends of the Children of Venezuela is a nonprofit organization that “works for the health and life” of Venezuelan children. The South Florida organization is committed to identifying and responding to the most urgent health-related needs of children in Venezuela.
The Haitian American Community Development Corporation (HACDC) is a nonprofit organization “providing decent affordable housing, educational and business enterprise opportunities through programs that create and sustain economic advancement” in South Florida’s Haitian-American communities. Founded in 1987, HACDC (formerly known as Little Haiti Housing Association, Inc.) makes its services available to individuals “regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, lifestyle orientation, or religious beliefs.”
The Jubilee Center of South Broward is a nonprofit organization providing emergency resources and relief from hunger and despair. The Hollywood-based Jubilee Center runs a soup kitchen on weekdays and also offers social services to meet the needs of Broward County residents. Staffed by trained volunteers, Jubilee’s Office of Social Services provides referrals to government and other agencies, legal aid, emergency food, hygiene kits, clothing, assistance to veterans, and other services.
Pridelines is a grassroots, nonprofit organization established in South Florida. The mission of Pridelines is “To support, educate and empower South Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and the community at large in safe and diverse environments through affirming programs and services to promote dialogue, wellness and foster social change.”
The CCSI is charged with coordinating community partnerships as part of ongoing efforts to “ensure that Barry will be recognized as a responsive community leader – a reliable resource for expertise, knowledge dissemination and public service to the diverse communities we serve.”
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Barry to be Represented at IMPACT Conference in Charlottesville Next Month
Two Barry student leaders will be among the presenters at the 2019 IMPACT Conference.
Paola Lopez-Hernandez and Paris Razor, fellows in the Barry Service Corps, will lead a workshop titled “Promoting Social Justice through Student-Led University Clubs and Organizations while Building Mutually Beneficial Community Partnerships.”
Lopez-Hernandez, a junior, is the program coordinator of the Barry University Food Recovery Network. Razor, a senior, is the president of the Student/Farmworker Alliance chapter at Barry.
Each year, the IMPACT Conference brings together college students, nonprofit professionals, campus administrators, and year-of-service members to share best practices, experiences, stories, and resources related to their work for social change.
Paola Lopez-Hernandez and Paris Razor will lead a workshop during the IMPACT Conference in Charlottesville, Va., on February 21–24. Lopez-Hernandez (left) is engaged in the Food Recovery Network project and Rajor (right) in the Student/Farmworker
Dr. Glenn A. Bowen, executive director of the Center for Community Service Initiatives, will conduct a workshop at the conference as well. His workshop will engage participants in learning how to use exercises and games to build and reinforce skills in leadership for civic engagement.
IMPACT will be held at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, from February 21 to 24. Madison House, the UVA student volunteer center, will host the conference.
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Faculty and Staff Members Selected for Barry Urban Garden Advisory Committee
The Barry Urban Garden now has an advisory committee. The 10-member group will function as a subcommittee of Barry's Ecological Sustainability Team (BEST).
Asha Starks, a program coordinator in the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), and Dr. Ian Quamina, a faculty member in the Adrian Dominican School of Education, have been named co-chairs of the committee.
CCSI Program Coordinator Asha Starks speaking at the recent launch of the
Campus and community members will work together to implement projects within the framework of the initiative, which will provide experiential learning opportunities to students and engaged scholarship opportunities to faculty.
Creation of the garden is part of Barry’s Civic Action Plan, which calls for the development and enhancement of specific programs and projects to deepen and strengthen civic engagement for positive community impact. One of the commitments articulated in the plan is to “embrace our responsibility as a place-based institution to contribute to the health and strength of our communities.”
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Community Engagement Award Nominations Close Next Monday
Nicole Beltran, an associate professor of graphic design in the Department of Fine Arts, was last year’s winner of the Service-Learning Faculty Award. Provost Dr. John Murray presented the plaque; Dr. Karen Callaghan, dean of the
Nominations for this year’s Community Engagement Awards will close next Monday, January 28. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators are urged to submit nominations this week.
The nomination forms are available in the Community Engagement Management System <http://web.barry.edu/service/ProgramView.aspx?ID=1494> and via email from the CCSI.
The seven award categories are Community Impact, Community Partnership, Community-Based Research, Engaged Scholarship, Community Engagement Educator, Service-Learning Faculty, and Engaged Department.
Barry’s sixth annual Community Engagement Awards will be held on March 27.
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Community Engagement Symposium: Proposal Submission Deadline is Feb. 1
The proposal submission deadline for the Community Engagement Symposium is February 1. Students as well as faculty and staff members are invited to submit proposals for oral (podium) and poster presentations at the March 27 event.
The theme of the symposium is “Bringing Learning to Life through Community Engagement.”
Community engagement includes experiential learning practices such as service-learning, community-based research, fieldwork, study abroad, capstones, and internships.
Proposals should address the theme of the symposium and identify the experiential learning practice that was implemented. Successful proposals will specify the course or co-curricular project, the social or community issue addressed, the related activities undertaken, and the actual learning outcomes. Proposals should also emphasize how learning “came to life” – that is, how learning was enhanced or enriched and made meaningful for the student.
The sixth annual Community Engagement Symposium will highlight student learning outcomes of community engagement practices in the context of Barry’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) titled “Fostering Personal and Social Responsibility through Experiential Learning.”
For additional information on the symposium, contact the CCSI at service@barry.edu.
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CCSI Accepting Applications for Service-Learning Course Designation
Courses that meet specific criteria are labeled “service-learning” in the course schedule and are listed as such in the university catalogs.
The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) is inviting faculty members whose courses include a service-learning component to apply for the service-learning designation.
Sections of courses, internships, practicum assignments, field education, capstones, community-based research, and similar community-focused or community-based work also may be designated as service-learning.
Designated service-learning courses include BIO 308-L, an environmental science laboratory course in the Department of Biology. BIO 308-L was approved as a service-learning course in June 2013.
Dr. Silvia Maciá, professor of biology, developed the course and was the instructor until recently. Dr. Anita Závodská, associate professor of biology, is the new instructor.
“Designating courses as service-learning promotes deep integration of thoughtfully organized community service into the curriculum and high standards of service-learning practice,” according to a statement from the CCSI. “Service-learning courses demonstrate the value of applied learning, student engagement with the community, and critical reflection.”
The statement also says the service-learning notation in the course schedule “confirms that Barry University is using the curriculum to meet its commitment to collaborative service in community settings.”
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Faculty Learning Community to Meet Next Monday Afternoon
The semester’s first meeting of the Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship (FLC) will be held next Monday, January 28. The CCSI will host the meeting from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m., in Adrian 208.
FLC members as well as prospective members are invited to the meeting.
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Faculty, Staff, and Students Urged to Support Box Tops for Education Drive
Students as well as faculty and staff members are urged to support the Box Tops for Education Drive.
Proceeds of the project benefit two South Florida elementary schools – North Miami in Miami-Dade County and Sheridan Hills in Broward. The schools earn 10 cents for each Box Tops clip.
Box Tops clips from household products may be dropped in the labeled boxes found in the CCSI office (Adrian 208), the Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library, and Thompson Hall. Alternatively, donations may be sent to Dr. Stephanie Bingham in the Department of Biology, Siena 309.
Cereals, household-cleaning supplies, paper products, and school supplies are on the list of eligible products found at the following site: <http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/participating-products>.
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