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Center for Community-Based Learning and Action annual report, 2012-13
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Center for CommunityBased Learning and Action
Seminar II E 2125, Olympia Campus
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW; Olympia, WA 98505
www.evergreen.edu/communitybasedlearning
ANNUAL REPORT 2012-13
“A Place for the Community to Engage”
~Jacinta McKoy, Center Visionary
“Community Based Learning enables students to apply their
knowledge in concrete situations, to solve problems in partnership
with the community...and gives faculty and staff the opportunity to
build long-term community relationships which continually inform
and strengthen the curriculum...and places the college as a progressive force deeply involved in community work.”
~ Evergreen DTF report (1997-1999)
Message from Michael Zimmerman
Academic Provost, The Evergreen State College
Meaningful education is both about personal growth and helping to create an environment in which all may thrive. The mission of the Center for Community-Based Learning and Action
and, even more importantly, its actions, are all about ensuring
that meaningful education takes place. And, as you can see from
the Center’s annual report, they have done a wonderful job doing exactly that. The Center’s students, faculty and staff have
had another fabulous year integrating learning and service, embodying Evergreen’s commitment to infuse theory with practice,
and working to solve meaningful problems while providing
much needed services to the Center’s constituents. All of this
happens as well as it does because the Center works in partnership with great community organizations. As you read through
this year’s annual report, I’m certain that you’ll be as impressed
as I am by the accomplishments of all involved.
Director’s Report
Ellen Shortt Sanchez
CCBLA involves students in varied and deep ways.
Students engage as interns, work study participants, through
their academic programs and in internships at organizations.
Student leadership begins in the student experience and
continues through the AmeriCorps positions available to
graduates. These positions carry forward the importance of
applied learning and incorporate training, supervision and
support. CCBLA invests in people. Programs are run
through the power of the people involved. CCBLA offers
initial consultations to plan community involvement, connections through service, and workshops through programs.
The most rewarding connections with students
build on these interactions and lead to consistent connection through their time at Evergreen. This year we celebrated a graduate who had come to work with CCBLA as a first
year student, became engaged in a local organization, the
next year participated in Students in Service then transitioned to staff support for the program. As a senior she interned with a local non profit through SOS: Sustainability
and Justice program and coordinated our Community Service Work Study program. We celebrate student pathways
and their passion for community engagement.
2012 New Student Orientation: Community to Community
Photo: Shauna Bittle
CCBLA and Gateways Staff 2012-13
Director: Ellen Shortt Sanchez
VISTA Community Partnership Catalyst: Laurel Smith
CYS AmeriCorps Tutor Coordinator: Jamie Alwine
Retention Project Gateways AMP Program:
Naomi Tajchman-Kaplan
Retention Project Gateways Transition Mentor Program:
Miguel Rodriguez
Gateways Work Study Intern: Marcenia Milligan
Gateways Faculty: Savvina Chowdhury
SOS: Sustainability and Justice CCBLA Faculty: Karen Gaul
Evergreen Work Study Community Service Coordinator:
Adriana Herrera
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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY-
88 PARTICIPATING
ORGANIZATIONS!
“I coordinated an activity between freshman from North Thurston High
School’s AVID class and seniors at the Olympia Senior Center. At the event the
seniors and students made incredible connections that they shared back to the
larger group during the closing of the activity. This project built important connections between two target groups of people in the community. Together, they
challenged stereotypes and formed bonds over shared interests and the desire to
be actively involved in their communities.”
- Jamie Alwine, CCBLA Youth in Service AmeriCorps member
Community Partners 12-13
AVID Olympia High School
Books to Prisoners
Be the One Mentor Coalition
Bread and Roses
Camp Quixote/PANZA Board
Capitol Recovery Center
Central for Natural Lands Management
CHOICE High School
C.I.E.L.O. Project
Circle Hawk Farm
Coffee Strong
Community to Community Development
Community Youth Services
Crisis Clinic (Thurston/Mason)
Emergency Food Network of Pierce County
Evergreen Elementary Dual Language
Evergreen Villages
Evergreen Vista
Family Support Center
Fertile Ground Community Center &
Commons
First People’s Advising
Garfield Elementary School
GI Voice Coffee Strong
Green Hill School JRA
GRuB (Garden Raised Bounty)
Hands on Children Museum
Hansen Elementary School
Harmony Hill Retreat Center
JRA Mentoring
Kiwanis Food Bank Garden
Komachin Middle School Gardens
Kokua—LEAD
Left Foot Organics
Lincoln School Garden
Madison Elementary School
Madison Welcome Room
Native Plant Salvage
Nisqually Land Trust
North Thurston High School AVID
Northwest Eco-Buildering Guild
Northwest Indian Applied Research NIARI
Oakland Bay Jr High School
Olympia City Council
Olympia Downtown Business Association
Olympia Film Society
Olympia Free Clinic
Olympia Free Herbal Clinic
Olympia Seed Exchange
Olympic Middle School
Partners continued on page 3….
Action Days
Action Days connect students to
community to learn about current
problems and help meet the needs
of our partners. An AmeriCorps
VISTA member coordinated action
with a focus on Food Justice.
CCBLA brought 125 students to
10 community organizations.
Community to Community (C2C)
Community to Community -Day of Caring
New Student Orientation was our
Evergreen Students at Books to Prisoners
biggest Action Day organized with United
Photo: Shauna Bittle
Way and the Volunteer Center on Day of Caring. Students got to know local organizations and each other at this event.
133 students served at 11 organization sites for C2C Day of Caring 2012.
Evergreen/Olympia Tutoring Collaboration
Coordinated by CCBLA Youth in Service AmeriCorps member
through Community Youth Services.
Evergreen students and faculty respond to needs of Title 1 public schools and
after-school programs in low-income communities in Thurston and Mason
counties supporting students through tutoring and mentoring.
175 Evergreen Students engaged in local public schools. Local Knowledge
Academic Program deeply served the Shelton Schools this year. Through direct service a YIS AmeriCorps member mentored 26 youth through the AVID
college access program at North Thurston High School and coordinated a service project bringing students to the Senior Center.
Community Service Work Study: Evergreen Work Study
Coordinated by a Work Study Student provided by Academics
Evergreen Work Study Community Service is a new collaboration with Student
Employment. This program helps compensate for the closure of 3 state projects,
that placed 30 work-study students at off campus sites.
9 Evergreen students supported 7 local grass roots non profits to impact real
community needs to fight poverty, provide education to immigrant learners,
confront homelessness with innovative solutions, and offer crisis social services.
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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING AND ACTION
ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011
“Not only is Gateways helping me graduate but they are also giving me
a picture of how things are in a real college class. This program also
gives some of us hope for a better future and that college IS possible”
-Incarcerated Youth Participant
Gateways for Incarcerated Youth
WA Campus Compact Retention AmeriCorps
members report 51Evergreen students served a
total of 902 hours as academic mentors to 62
incarcerated youth at Green Hill schools. After
participating in Gateways, 80% of youth reported more interest in continuing education beyond
high school AND 86% stated they inGateways Youth Graduates from High School
Photo: Reggie Parker
creased their overall positive outlook
about their future education. (46
youth surveyed). Gateways volunteers served 200 additional hours during
special events .
Special Thanks to the now closed Retention AmeriCorps Project.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced its support of
The Evergreen State College “Gateways for Incarcerated Youth” program
through Forward Promise, the Foundation’s $9.5 million initiative to improve
the health and success of boys and young men of color. Gateways will receive
approximately $500,000 over 30 months to support its programs that bring
college students to juvenile institutions to work as peer mentors, tutors, and co
-learners with incarcerated youth. Gateways for Incarcerated Youth, based at
Evergreen’s CCBLA, was one of 10 organizations selected for their innovative Community-Based programs that strengthen health, education, and employment outcomes for middle school- and high school-aged boys and young
men of color. “Young men of color are the future of our communities. Gateways works to support college access for incarcerated youth and provide peer
learning for campus-based student mentors in a community setting,” said Evergreen faculty member Chico Herbison.
Community Partners continued …
Out of the Woods Shelter
People for Puget Sound
Pierce County AIDS Foundation
Planned Parenthood
POWER (Parents Organizing for Welfare and
Economic Rights)
Puget Sound Restoration Fund
Rachel Corrie Foundation
River Ridge High School
ROOF
SafePlace
SeaTrust Institute
South Sound Beach Naturalist
Sound Experience
Sound Learning
South of the Sound Community Farm Land Trust
South Sound High School
South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement
South Sound Seniors
Stonewall Youth
Sunbreak Farm
Squaxin Island Canoe Journey
Thurston County Bookends
Thurston Community TV (TCTV)
Thurston County Volunteer Legal Services
Thurston Conservation District
Thurston Co. Food Bank-Gleaners
Thurston County Syringe Exchange
United Communities AIDS Network
United Way of Thurston County
USDA
Wa He Lut Indian School
Washington Middle School
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic
Violence Crossing Borders Program
WashPirg
Works In Progress
Yes! Community Technology Center
YouthBuild
Yoyo Recordings
YWCA Women’s Resource Center
WA Campus Compact College Access Success Grant
105 youth from CHOICE HS, Shelton HS, North Mason HS, Oakland Bay
Jr HS and N Thurston HS AVID program visited Evergreen Campus .
Gateways Academic Mentors served 48 youth with college transition support at Green Hill School
In collaboration with Youth in Service AmeriCorps team members, Native
Student Alliance and the Evergreen Longhouse the MLK Campus visit included 44 middle and high school youth from Wa He Lut Indian School.
College access mentoring by 15 Evergreen students included workshops
about the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. and campus tours.
Supporting Thurston County Food Bank
Photo: Shauna Bittle
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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING AND ACTION
ANNUAL REPORT 2012-13
2012-13 Total Budget $103,299 (% 20 of budget are funds for students)
2011-12 CCBLA Budget
Evergreen Instuonal Funds
Grants to the CCBLA
Grants to Students
College Access
Salaries
$44,446.00
Challenge (CACG)
$9,774
Evergreen Work
Study Community
Service Par cipants
and Coordinator
$21,324.69
TESC Mentor
Benefits
Goods and Services,
Travel
$1,500
$17,154.56
$9,100
Council AmeriCorps
Match
Gateways for Incarcerated Youth Programs 2012-13 $ 17,344.97
CCBLA SUPPORTED
Over 790 Evergreen Students in
18 Academic Programs
Gateways Income
Green Hill
Contract
Gateways Fundraising
$4,000
What’s Next for CCBLA?
CCBLA expands Food Justice through VISTA
support for the campus food bank, gleaning, school garden, Food Coalition and Flaming Eggplant. A new
VISTA position will also develop the Gateways Transition Mentoring Program.
We continue capacity support for community
organizations hosting students earning work study as
financial aid to attend Evergreen.
We celebrate a new AmeriCorps partnership
with WA Service Corps and Pacific Mountain Workforce Development to host the Gateways Academic Mentor Coordinator position.
The passionate CCBLA Advisory faculty and
the TESC Foundation launch the Jacinta McKoy Community Based Learning and Action Scholarship a new
stream of funding for students engaged in the community and a tribute to an inspirational founder of our center.
Thank you to
AmeriCorps &
WA Campus Compact
BAMI Funds through JRA $,6000
Publica ons
Dona ons
Total
$5,184.93.
$2,160.04
$7,344.97
Center for Community Based Learning and Action
Advisory Committee 2012-13
Community Partners:
Monica Peabody (POWER), Stefanie Gottschalk Huerta (CIELO), Jenny
Blumenstein (Sound Learning), Cindy Meyer, Rachel Scharber and Natalie Moran (Family Support Center), Randi Miller (Kokua), Miriam
Lorch (Camp Quixote Panza), Justin Marger and Jennifer Martinez
(Rachel Corrie Foundation), Emily Pieper (Stonewall Youth),
Evergreen Faculty:
Alice Nelson, Zoltan Grossman, Doug Schuler, Mukti Khanna, Toska
Olson, Lori Blewett, Anthony Zaragoza, Sunshine Campbell, Anne
Fischel, Trevor Griffey, Lin Nelson, Lori Blewett, Savvina Chowdhury,
Chico Herbison
Students:
Adriana Herrera, Adam Selon, Zachary Fleig
Evergreen Staff
Emily Sladek and CCBLA Staff
Evergreen, CCBLA and Student Engagement:
Campus Wide, Evergreen registered
864 Internships
with 540 organizations
615 were Independent Internships
40% of internships were in Academic Programs with
Curricular Service Learning Requirements
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OVER 500 EVERGREEN STUDENTS VOLUNTEERED IN CCBLA ACTION DAYS.
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CCBLA AMERICORPS SERVED OVER 130 YOUTH
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OVER 184 EVERGREEN STUDENTS CONTACTED
CCBLA FOR COMMUNITY BASED LEARNING.
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