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University Employees and Students Supporting Hurricane Relief Efforts in Haiti
Barry University employees and students are supporting hurricane relief efforts in Haiti.
“Monetary donations are expected to go mainly to the communities of northwest Haiti through Barry’s long-term partnership with Amor En Acción,” said Courtney Berrien, associate director of the Center for Community Service Initiatives. “The money collected will directly benefit families in the Diocese of Port-de-Paix through provisions of basic food staples, rebuilding supplies, sanitation materials, and replanting and agricultural supplies.”
According to Berrien, Amor En Acción has fostered the Archdiocese of Miami’s 40-year sister-diocese relationship with the Diocese of Port-de-Paix.
Joan Martin, a lay missionary who works with Amor en Accion and lives in Haiti’s Northwest Department, coordinated with local priests and nuns the distribution of sacks of food and water to residents who lost their homes and had taken shelter in village churches in the wake of the hurricane.
Martin said more than 150 people, mainly women, had assembled in the Digicel School in Mole Saint Nicolas, a village on the westernmost tip of Haiti’s northwest peninsula. She was able to provide relief supplies to another 400 people who sought shelter in a church in the town of Bombardopolis.
“Trees were down, houses are without roofs, and many people lost their gardens and their goats,” Martin said. She reported that many schools, churches, and homes in the region were destroyed. The death toll in Haiti was estimated at 1,000, Reuters (news agency) reported. Barry is supporting communities in Haiti's southwest by contributing items to a local drive sponsored by Notre Dame D'Haiti Catholic Church. The church has been collecting goods to ship to hurricane victims in that region of the Caribbean country.
The following items can be deposited in marked boxes in Campus Ministry, the CCSI (Adrian 208), the R. Kirk Landon Student Union, and Thompson Hall: New batteries, flashlights, canned food, sealed and packaged dry goods, and medical supplies (basic first aid).
The CCSI, with the support of Campus Ministry, has been coordinating Barry’s support of relief efforts in Haiti. For additional information, contact the CCSI at service@barry.edu or 305-899-3696.
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Nominations Open for Community Engagement Awards
Nominations are open for Barry University’s fourth annual Community Engagement Awards. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators are invited to submit nominationsby January 27.
The award categories are Community Impact (for students), Community Partnership, Community-Based Research, Engaged Scholarship, Community Engagement Educator, Service-Learning Faculty, and Engaged Department.
The nomination forms are available in CEMS – the Community Engagement Management System, accessed from theCCSI homepage.
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Registration for American Government Quiz Competition Extended to Friday
Registration for the Quiz Competition on American Government and Elections has been extended to this Friday (Oct. 21). Student clubs and other organizations interested in participating in the competition are asked to register by midnight.
Registration for the competition is via email to service@barry.edu, with “Quiz Competition” in the subject line.
On October 28, four-member teams of students representing campus clubs and other student organizations will compete for a championship cup and various prizes. Coordinated by the CCSI, the competition is part of Barry’s Campus Democracy Project.
For additional information, contact the CCSI at service@barry.edu or 305-899-3696.
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Presidential Debate Watch Parties Continue this Wednesday
Students on Barry’s main campus will gather in the Multipurpose Room of Dominican Hall this Wednesday (Oct. 19) to watch and discuss a 90-minute, primetime presidential debate between Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Party nominee Donald Trump.
This will be the third and final presidential debate, and it will be held at the University of
The Debate Watch Parties have been organized as part of Barry’s Campus Democracy Project, or CDP.
The first presidential debate took place on Sept. 26, and the second, which took the form of a town meeting, on Oct. 9. The format for the final debate will be identical to that of the first debate. It will be divided into six segments of 15 minutes each, with each segment beginning with a question. One candidate will have two minutes to respond, and then the other candidate will have two minutes to respond. That will be followed by 10 minutes of open debate and discussion.
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Community Partners Present Engagement Opportunities at Recent Fair
Twenty-two organizations participated in Barry University’s Community Engagement Fair in the R. Kirk Landon Student Union recently. The fair included a workshop and an opportunity for community partners to promote their organizations’ work to students, faculty, and staff.
Social Work instructor Fabio Naranjo led the workshop on “Building Collaborative Relationships Between Campus and Community.” The workshop allowed participants to consider multiple ways in which local organizations can take advantage of university resources while also providing meaningful opportunities for student learning.
During the workshop, community partners worked in small groups with students, faculty, and staff to generate a list of innovative ideas for mutually beneficial partnerships. These included opportunities for students to serve as “(social) issue ambassadors”; professional mentoring of college students; tutoring and mentoring of youth and children of incarcerated parents; partnership-driven industry change and redevelopment; and contributions to community-led social justice campaigns.
In the showcase portion of the event, community partners outlined engagement opportunities to students, faculty, and staff interested in volunteer work, service-learning, community-based research, and internships.
Participating organizations included All Ages Tutoring of South Florida, Inc.; Breakthrough Miami; Easter Seals of South Florida; Feeding South Florida; Food for the Poor; Gang Alternative; Hope for Miami; HOPE, Inc.; Miami-Dade County Elections Department; Miami Jewish Health Systems; Orange Bowl Committee; Refresh Live; the Women’s Breast and Heart Initiative; The Women’s Fund, Miami-Dade; Urban Paradise Guild; and Volunteers of America, Florida.
The Center for Community Service Initiatives organizes the fair as an annual community engagement event on Barry’s main campus in Miami
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CCSI 2016 Annual Report Available in CEMS
The 2016 Annual Report of the Center for Community Service Initiatives is available in CEMS – the Community Engagement Management System.
Highlights of the report include the celebration of the CCSI’s fifth anniversary.
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CCSI Offering Incentive for Community-Based Research
The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) is offering an incentive (formerly “mini-grants”) for community-based research (CBR). Full-time faculty who teach undergraduate and/or graduate courses may apply for a $500 incentive.
CBR proposals may be submitted at any time this semester. For further information and the application form, contact the CCSI at service@barry.edu or 305-899-3696.
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Sheridan Hills Elementary School to Benefit from Box Tops Drive
Sheridan Hills
For the Title I school located in
The Box Tops Collection Drive also benefits
The full list of products with the Box Tops for Education labels is available at www.boxtops4education.com/downloads/participatingproducts_pdf. Each school receives 10 cents for every label, with the proceeds going toward much-needed educational supplies.
Donation boxes are at several locations, including the CCSI office, Adrian 208.
For further information about Box Tops for Education, contact MAPS at BarryMAPS@gmail.com or Dr. Stephanie Bingham, the association’s advisor, at sbingham@barry.edu.
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CCSI Newsletter
Posted On : October 17, 2016
