Service-Learning Courses in and near Bend, Oregon

Oregon State University - Cascades Campus

  • Adolescent Development, Cameron Fisher: Students study the social, biological, and cognitive development of middle-school and high-school adolescents while volunteering with organizations serving youth.
  • Communications, Natalie Dollar: Students volunteer with groups of children and youth, observe communication patterns, and design interventions to address communication barriers.
  • Families in Poverty, Lura Reed: Students volunteer with agencies addressing poverty issues and reflect on solutions to poverty.

Central Oregon Community College

  • Early Childhood Education, Amy Howell: Service-learning infuses courses in literacy and curriculum development.
  • Health Information Technology, Beverlee Jackson: Students assist community agencies with HIT improvements.
  • Health Psychology, Kelly Davis-Martin: Students volunteer with agencies addressing health psychology from a variety of perspectives.
  • Medical Anthropology, Margaret Peterson: Students examine health, illness, and health care practices as they volunteer with a variety of community agencies.
  • Preventive Dental Hygiene, Deb Davies: Students give oral hygiene presentations to groups of children served by various community agencies.

Bend High School

  • Community 101, Lisa Nye: Students learn about community issues, select an issue to focus their volunteering in the community, and deliberate to choose an agency for a philanthropic donation.

Mountain View High School

  • Sociology, Monica Freeman: Students gain understanding of social issues by volunteering with a variety of community agencies, journaling, discussing, and giving presentations.

REALMS

  • Service Fridays, Amy Anderson: Middle-school students choose service-learning projects to engage in over the course of 1 trimester (approx. 10 weeks), working with 7 different community partners.

Cascade Middle School

  • Helping Hands, Ann Owings: Eighth graders are required to prepare for high school and for responsible citizenship, by giving 12 hours of community service over the last 12 weeks of school, documenting their experience in journals, and presenting to their classmates what kind of service they performed and what they gained from the experience.

Westside Village Magnet School

  • Service-learning curriculum, Teachers and parents: Service-learning is infused in the curriculum school-wide, including pioneer heritage projects, hunger alleviation, and environmental restoration.

J Bar J Learning Centers

  • History, Niki Redenius and Jessie Russell, Academy at Sisters in La Pine: Students connect their volunteering at Healing Reins with their studies of oral history and the role of the horse in western US history.

Seven Peaks School

  • Leadership and Service, Parent leaders: Students select a variety of service projects, including Habitat for Humanity.

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