Senior Service Projects
Throughout the service experience at Blanchet Catholic, students are exposed to themes of Catholic Social Teaching: Call to Family Community Participation, Care for the Environment, Option for the Poor and Vulnerable, Rights and Responsibilities, and Life and Dignity of the Human Person. During a students' senior year, their culminating service project encompasses the lessons and experiences from the previous themes to design, create, and deliver a unique service project. Students combine an inspiration for a particular topic with an identified need in the community and reach out to an organization to form a connection.
2021 Senior Service Projects
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We are volunteering our time to clean community gardens and participating in community events that clean up public space. Additionally, a bench will be built in the gardens.
Building and painting the ticket booth for the football field.
Creating baskets to emulate a library experience for the children at St. Francis Shelter.
Creating a video and presentation focused on positivity that is a part of an outreach to inspire during these troubling times. The video will be presented to elementary schools in conjunction with a program that initiates a conversation about what it means to connect with joy in our lives.
Create and share a newsletter filled with uplifting news and good causes.
Overseeing a book drive that through religion classes to support East Salem Rotary and Little Libraries for Kids in the East Salem Neighborhood.
Make a plan for international students. This plan can help them know how to apply for University, how to get good grades and how to improve their background.
Making purple hats for babies and preventing infant abuse.
Volunteering at the food bank in Olympia, Wa and interviewing homeless people and formerly homeless people.
Partnered with Liberty House, creating a slideshow presentation on self worth for the Middle school.
I will be working with elementary students at Queen of Peace and High School Students at Blanchet to introduce them to sign language, as well as promoting the Blanchet ASL program. In addition, each grade I work with will color in an “I love you” sign. These will then be cut out and placed on a poster to be hung up both at Queen of Peace, and Blanchet. Queen of peace students will have a diverse curriculum to fit different ages and levels of understanding.
Spent time to teach a handful of kids about the sacraments of Reconciliation and Communion before they receive them for the first time.
Edging all ground-level headstones at Lee Mission Cemetery, and removing excess debris.
Labeling and organizing books for the East Salem Community Center, also helping out with the Book Drive.
Helping develop St. Vincent’s Church social media. Also helped students and teachers in the classroom.
Building two benches to create a sitting and garden area at St. Paul Parochial school in remembrance of two teachers who passed away from cancer.
After volunteering at the Marion County Polk food share I’ll be designing a pamphlet to help others see how and why they too should get involved, along with the impact the service creates
Creating a watercolor painting that illustrates a favorite quote of Jim Seymour, as a tribute to his legacy at CCS as President. The watercolor painting will be hung on display in the on-site classroom for children with developmental disabilities.