Resources for our community partners

Community partner/ learning sites
Explore these methods for implementing service-learning for students who may not be able to participate on site in the community.
Indirect Service-Learning | Advocacy-based Service-Learning | Research-based Service-Learning |
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1. Identify the problem/issue that you are currently working to address (Example: Access to healthcare; Environmental Issues in communities; Child Abuse and Neglect; Citizen Engagement in Communities; Hunger, Homelessness, Pollution in the water due to incorrect disposal of medications; lack of cultural knowledge and language for first responders; etc., etc.) |
1. Work with your assigned community learning site partner to develop an advocacy campaign to address a topic important to that partner (Examples: Healthy Eating; Stop Smoking; Drunk Driving; Clean Water) |
1. Conduct research about a topic or problem/issue (Examples: Vision Deficiencies and Congestive Heart Failure – Is there a relationship or correlation?; Healthy Eating and Vision Deficiencies; Stroke Victims and Vision Deficiencies; Addressing how Medications are Disposed of – the Impact on Clean Water; etc., etc.) |
2. Review current literature on the issue in your community (Reading the Community Focus Report is a great place to start) |
2. Creating Educational Material to be used for Classroom Learning (lesson plans; activities; etc.) |
2. Conduct research to map areas of food insecurity, or drugs, or crimes, or lack of educational facilities, or afterschool programs, etc., for a community |
3. Identify at least two articles that discuss the issue or problem in a community that you have identified |
3. Writing a Grant or looking for/identifying potential grants for an organization/community learning site partner |
3. Impact of vision deficiencies on learning |
4. Critically think about how you would work to address this problem in a community |
4. Writing a business plan for a new program |
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5. Write a plan that discusses elements 1-4 and submit in a report form fashion that can be provided to your community learning-site partner |
5. Developing a new program |
Where the service-learning magic happens
Community Learning Sites are crucial to the success of the Service-Learning program. Our students need experiential opportunities in their learning.
We value any opportunity to collaborate with community organizations committed to addressing social issues and see our partnerships as win-win situations.
Sign up, then take a look through our resources in the dropdown below, including the Learning Site Handbook, where you'll find important information about working with Missouri State's service-learners: