Opportunities From: Florida State College at Jacksonville

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Fall 2021 Service Leaning LibGuide

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This option includes providing or recieving tutoring. 

You may also choose one of the virtual options from the Service-Learning LibGuide. https://guides.fscj.edu/servicelearning

Document 1 hour at a time. 

ENGin is looking for volunteers to serve as speaking buddies for international students. This is a super-flexible and unique opportunity to make a difference without leaving your room. Plus, you'll get to know peers across the world!

We will pair you up with a Ukrainian student to video chat each week at times that are convenient for you. We match students and volunteers based on age, gender preference, and schedules. We will provide you with training and suggested session activities. The commitment starts at just 1 hour/week.

To join our team, please fill out this short form: https://forms.gle/QSXn8jN8uUPoMrK26. Once we receive it, we will reach out to schedule a 15-minute video call to provide more details and answer any questions. You can learn more about ENGin at www.enginprogram.org. If you have any questions before signing up, please contact us at info@enginprogram.org.

Make an impact without leaving your room: ENGin offers a unique opportunity to make a personal connection and a tangible difference in another student's life, all from your laptop or phone. 

Create your own schedule: It can be tough to fit volunteer hours into a busy schedule! ENGin offers volunteers maximum flexibility: you decide when to schedule speaking sessions with your student. If something comes up, you can reschedule a session. 

Connect with peers across the globe: The opportunity for intercultural exchange is one of the best aspects of our program. Our volunteers love getting to know their speaking buddies, learning about a different culture, and sharing stories about their own lives. 

Get valuable one-on-one tutoring experience: Armed with resources and support from our team, you'll gain valuable skills such as preparing for a session, asking good questions, and forming a strong working relationship with a peer. 

ENGin has 3 main criteria for volunteers:

Age: You should be 14-22 years old.

English fluency: Volunteers should be native English speakers or fluent in English (English level of C1-C2).

Commitment: Volunteers should be ready to dedicate 1-2 hours a week to ENGin. If you're looking for more hours, we can accommodate that too!

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You don't need teaching experience to volunteer with ENGin. Our learners have all studied English grammar and vocabulary and can carry on a conversation. Volunteers are not expected to prepare or deliver formal lessons - rather, they chat informally with their buddies to help them practice and improve their spoken English. 

https://floridashine.org/Join-the-Team.aspx  (Must complete application first )

As a volunteer, you will help us meet our mission by performing one or all of a variety of functions, including:

2021 Summer Monthly Service-Learning GuideThis guide will outline several virtual service-learning options in detail. 

When you finish, come back to this site AND choose "Summer 2021 Virtual Service-Learning Guide"  to UPLOAD your completed service hours.

Email servicelearning@fscj.edu if you have any questions.

Click here  to obatin full details of the service -earning options  Celebrate Arbor Day 2021

Share your pictures on the  our  Center For Civic Engagement FACEBOOK Page!  Like and share! 

https://www.facebook.com/fscjcenterforcivicengagement

Virtual Volunteer Opportunities (While Social Distancing)

Volunteering not only allows you the unique opportunity to give your time and talents to your community but also to learn more about the world in which you live.  Even if you just take a few hours out of your week to volunteer, it can make an impact not only in your life but also in the lives of others.  Plus it feels good and looks great on a resume! 

You can always find more volunteer opportunities and track your service at FSCJ Serves, but here is a list of virtual volunteer opportunities you can take advantage of while social distancing.  For more information, please contact FSCJVolunteers@fscj.edu.

Virtual Volunteer Opportunities:

Amnesty Decoders
Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information, and documents. Join a global network of digital volunteers helping us research and expose human rights violations.

Be My Eyes
Be My Eyes  is a free mobile app with one main goal: to make the world more accessible for blind and low-vision people. The app connects blind and low-vision individuals with sighted volunteers from all over the world through a live video call.

BookShare.Org
Book Share (Links to an external site.) offers thousands of books to people with reading disabilities. As an online volunteer, you can either scan books to be added to the collection or edit books that have been scanned.

Career Village
Career Village (Links to an external site.) is an online platform where students ask career questions that are answered by people working, or that have worked, in that field. All you need is a LinkedIn account to start helping students become better informed about the career decisions they are facing.

Catchafire
Catchafire (Links to an external site.) uses its website to match professionals with nonprofits based on their skills, cause interest and time availability. You’ll find tons of skills-based volunteering opportunities, many of which can be completed virtually.

Community In Schools

https://cisjax.org/virtual-volunteering/ (Links to an external site.)

Try this book reading virtual volunteer opportunity! Help build literacy and engagement by picking up a children's book. Read to the camera as if you're reading to a child in the classroom!

Sit and face the camera as you introduce the book, share the author, and read page by page. Check out the link below for more information and instructions!

Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line (Links to an external site.) is a free 24/7 national crisis-intervention and counseling service conducted exclusively through SMS text. Volunteers use the nonprofit’s web-based platform to provide emotional support to texters who are dealing with a wide range of issues– bullying, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and more. Prospective volunteers go through a screening and lengthy self-paced training. Once completed, volunteers sign-up to take one four-hour shift each week for a year.

Hope at Hand 

https://uwnefl.galaxydigital.com/agency/detail/?agency_id=95153 (Links to an external site.)

Don't recycle those newspapers and magazines just yet!

Hope at Hand instructors need words and images cut out for upcoming lessons...and it's an indoor activity that's fun for the whole family!

Please use regular-edge scissors and sort images and words in their respective categories. Keep images and words flat, no folds or creases. Please see the examples below.

Mail your handiwork to:

Hope at Hand

3886 Atlantic Blvd.

Jacksonville, FL 32207

Or drop them off in our mail slot.

*Within 2-3 days following your registration you will receive a welcome email from a Hope At Hand staff person; please check your Spam mailbox.  If an email is not received please contact Hope At Hand office. 

Contact Hope At Hand Office if you have any questions.  (904) 619-3778

Send a virtual card or letter (Links to an external site.) to those in quarantine and isolation to brighten their day. 

Provide positive encouragement to children 

Support children by joining the Granny Cloud (Links to an external site.), an online learning environment that helps children living below the poverty line in India learn basic English. You are there to help develop the student’s skills in English and give them the opportunity to grow and collaborate with their peers. Meet with the students via Skype and moderate their lessons by providing positive encouragement. 

Smithsonian Digital Volunteer program
The Smithsonian Digital Volunteer program (Links to an external site.) engages the public in making its collections more accessible. Digital volunteers transcribe historic documents and collection records to facilitate research and preserve these valuable assets for future generations.

Translators Without Borders
Translators Without Borders (Links to an external site.) recruits volunteers who want to translate texts into different languages for NGOs and nonprofits.

Tutor.com (Links to an external site.)

If you have experience as a teacher or a professor or industry professional, use your expertise to teach young students. It can be very rewarding to see a student you helped succeed and achieve their goals.

Again, you can always find volunteer opportunities and track your service at FSCJ Serves.For more information, please contact FSCJVolunteers@fscj.edu.

One event per month.  May  event is still available.

See Professor Hall's Instrctions if you are in her class. 

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If you are a student in another class, please refer to the instructions below.

CRIME CHARACTERS ACADEMIC SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT – 10 service hours

Crime has been central in shaping the history and society of Australia. This project will make a significant contribution to family, local, social and criminal justice history by revealing untold stories about the lives of people who committed crimes in Australia across time. It aims to discover new perspectives on the types of factors that led to individuals ending up in the prison system. In particular, it is hoped that the research will challenge existing ideas about what the label of 'criminal' has historically meant by revealing the diverse nature of the people who spent time in prison.

Why?

Transcription of these prison records offers unprecedented opportunities to discover how criminal offending fitted into the wider lives of offenders, as well as illuminating the involvement of individuals in a range of criminal activity from the end of the convict period through to the start of the Second World War. The creation of this dataset will thus bridge gaps between historical knowledge of crime and contemporary criminological research by providing insights into the contexts and patterns of offending across a period that saw significant legal and social developments, including mass migrations, changing technologies, war, economic depressions, the emergence of the narcotics traffic, and the evolution of new forms of punishment.

Virtual Learning

Read the Background research, FAQ’s and other pertinent information from project website.

Virtual Service

Pick 3 crime characters and read their backgrounds.

Transcribe 3 full records of crime characters following the directions provided by the site. https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ajpiper/criminal-characters/classify

Virtual Reflection

Write a 1-2 page reflection of your learning.

What did you learn about Criminal Characters through this experience?   

What did you find most intriguing about transcribing the criminal profiles? 

Given what you learned about the project, describe how you saw the importance of this work?

As a result of this assignment, how can you use this experience to help others?

Our screening team is instrumental in making sure everyone has a safe visit for their appointment, for patients and staff alike. Everyone on the screening team is provided the appropriate PPE, including face shields/goggles, surgical masks, and gloves. In addition, the majority of temperatures taken are using an infrared, no-contact thermometer. Everyone is also provided position specific training before they start.

Our screening team provides the following services:

·       Takes temperatures using an infrared thermometer

·       Asks the provided COVID-19 screening questions

·       Acts as a “masking expert” ensuring that all visitors are wearing the appropriate face coverings correctly

·       Greets our visitors and helps them find their way

All volunteer positions require at least a six month commitment and 50 service hours per year. We are open Monday through Friday, with shifts for the Screener position available from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. All volunteers 18 and older must consent to a background check and medical screening, complete mandatory training, and agree to receive a flu vaccine every year.

This is great experience for anyone interested in the healthcare or medical field. Feel free to forward this information to anyone deemed appropriate. Should anyone be interested, they may contact me at JaxVolunteers@nemours.org.

Students can use this space to upload service-leaarning hours of their own choosing from service-learning projects.

Each upload is worth 2 hours.  Students should upload as many times as needed to match hours served.

 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Holiday E-cards to Hospitalized Children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8PYbFlm4Jw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8PYbFlm4Jw

https://together.stjude.org/en-us/

 https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/other-ways/online-card-message-patients.html?sc_icid=get-involved-lz-card

 Follow instructions to create and submit e-card.

Girls Inc. of Jacksonville hosts multiple unique events on a yearly basis. Our Women of Vision Honoree Reception, Women of Vision Celebration Luncheon, and the annual Daddy Daughter Dance are all staples in the Girls Inc. of Jacksonville culture. These events get larger every year and volunteer help is needed and appreciated.

Some events have multiple shifts of volunteers that will be assigned beforehand.

*EDIT: DUE TO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY OFFERING DIRECT-SERVICE VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES*

Throughout the school year, girls participate in our research based programming focused on our core values of strong, smart and bold. Girls also receive structured programming to increase reading literacy and daily homework assistance.

Volunteers should commit at least one hour at a time at any of our after school locations. Keep time under 10 hours a month in order to stay at a level 1 background screening. You can “adopt” one class or rotate sites/classes at one site. We ask that if you are teaching a skill or speaking on a topic that you rotate sites quarterly.

Needs:

*EDIT: DUE TO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY OFFERING DIRECT-SERVICE VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES*

(In-person sessions tentative start in mid-Oct due to COVID)

Build a relationship with one of our students by meeting with them once a week, Monday- Thursday, for one hour. This program has a duel focus on academic achievement and social development. Spend sessions getting to know your student and assisting them with their homework. After a portion of academic work is completed, you and your mentee can enjoy educational games and activities that help affirm the importance of academic achievement and build positive relationship skills. Full school year commitment required. 

See Professor Hall's Instrctions if you are in her class. 

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If you are a student in another class, please refer to the instructions below.

SCOTUS NOTES ACADEMIC SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT – 10 service hours

Title: SCOTUS  NOTES ACADEMIC SERVICE-LEARNING PROJECT  10 service hours

Transcribe the handwritten conference notes left by Supreme Court justices. Your transcriptions will provide unprecedented access to the justices' conversations in thousands of Court decisions.

The transcription will contribute to key research about law and politics as each participant will become a citizen archivist and transcriber, creating materials that will be of use and openly available to scholars interested in law, policy, and decision making in the nation's highest court. Perhaps the most meaningful outcome is that the collaborative will provide public access to documents that will open up the Court in ways not possible to those who cannot access the Library of Congress or travel to law schools around the country. In so doing, they will also provide these insights in a format that will lead to a better understanding of the justices' decision making process on a wide variety of important cases over the past half century.

The purpose of the project is three-fold:

Unlock Who Said What and When! Our goal is to generate a searchable archive of everything written in hundreds of meetings where the Supreme Court decided thousands of cases.            Identify A Line of Notes Use your cursor to underline a full line of text. Then you will be prompted to transcribe the text you have underlined

Transcribing Tips: Transcribe the handwritten words exactly as they appear. This includes abbreviations, shortened words, symbols, etc.  Sometimes you will come across notations that are very difficult to decipher. In fact, some words (or letters) may not be legible. This is completely normal so do not fret! If there are letters you cannot transcribe, please replace each unclear letter with an asterisk (*).   Read Background information, About section, and FAQ sections.   https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/scotus-notes-behind-the-scenes-at-supreme-court-conferenc

Click the  “transcribe full record”  button and follow tutorial and directions on the page.                  Underline a piece of text. A piece of text is defined as one line of text within the conference notation sections.   To learn more about the document, click the information icon below the image

Submit a reflection to capture what you learned in this project.                                                  

What did you learn about SCOTUS through this experience?   

What did you find most intriguing about transcribing SCOTUS NOTES?   

Describe how you saw the importance of this work to the work of the Supreme Court?   

As a result of this assignment, how can you use this experience to help others?

“Night Without a Bed”

 National Awareness Campaign Highlighting

Family Homelessness

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Family-Promise-of-Jacksonville-84460106251/videos/?ref=page_internal

Interns needed for part-time student contact tracers with the Florida Department of Health. Students will be provided with real life public health experience during a pandemic performing contact tracing while providing valuable assistance to the Department.

Students will act exclusively as contact tracers for FSCJ under the guidance of the Department of Health epidemiologists and staff. Students will receive the training and resources needed to learn the skills needed to perform contact visits.

The Department will also offer 1 or 2 paid contact tracing positions for a 6-month period. Students must be available to work a minimum of 30-40 hours/week, including nights and weekends.

Students must be highly motivated with excellent customer service skills.

Interested students should apply through https://peoplefirst.myflorida.com/peoplefirst

To see specific opportunities for assignments, please refer to the LibGuide to access the following 2 guides from:  https://guides.fscj.edu/FYE/service

1. Alternative Forms of Service-Learning During Challenging Times

2. Fall 2020 Monthly Themed Academic Service Learning Guide

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact Dr. Jametoria Burton servicelearning@fscj.edu or jburton@fscj.edu

1. Register as an American Red Cross volunteer. You can sign up online by visiting RedCross.org/Volunteer/.

2. Pick your Opportunity! During intake, you will have the opportunity to search for a position or complete the interactive role finder to find other opportunities you may find to be a good fit.

3. Take training. Once you are approved into a volunteer position, you will have access to EDGE to take this and additional training (which will vary according to regional needs and current skillset). Take the Social Basics course found in the EDGE learning hub.

Thank you for your interest in becoming a Digital Volunteer for the American Red Cross! Please read through the description and requirements carefully before applying for this volunteer role.

When disaster strikes, Digital Volunteers assist the Social Engagement team by:

Digital Volunteers sign up to monitor, engage, and report in four-hour shifts. While this work is done remotely, our Digital Volunteers report directly to the National Headquarters Social Engagement team in coordination with their local chapter communicators.

Due to the time commitment and technical tools involved in this role, there are a few requirements that you must meet before you can get trained to be a Digital Volunteer.

We are looking for volunteers that would like to assist with transporting patients / visitors via wheelchair. If you are looking for a volunteer opportunity in a hospital setting and would like to have patient / visitor interactions then this is a great fit for you! We require 4 hours/week and training is provided. Please submit your application through our quick link. ( http:www.ascension.org/RiversideVolunteer )