Community Service Semester 1 Options

For the first semester, student teams will work together in groups to work in the community. You must select options from the following community service volunteer list to work for during the entire semester. The list includes the name of the place, an address, a contact person, and a brief job description.

*Almaden Care and Rehabilitation Center: 2065 Los Gatos Almaden Road, San Jose, CA 95124 Contact: Yvette (408) 377-9275: Help out in activities such as card games, Yahtzee, provide manicures to the female patients, reading/reviewing current events or just spending some time one on one with some residents who enjoy having someone to talk to. There is also potential projects to manage if you ask the community service manager (last year this included the renovation of the courtyard for the residents and development of a website).

Children’s Recovery Center 3777 S. Bascom Avenue. Campbell, CA 95008 Contact Mary Lou @ (408) 558-3676 http://www.pedisubacute.com/index.htm Provides services for medically fragile and technology dependent children. Volunteers are needed to be cuddlers, spend time with the children, and create seasonal decorations for the children. Volunteer times are 9am-noon, 2:30-4pm, 5-7pm everyday, but this can be somewhat flexible. Group members can schedule different times but must stay consistent..

Emergency Housing Consortium P.O. Box 2346 San Jose Ca 95109-2346, 294-2100 x204. (Little Orchard Street) http://www.homelessness.org/ Students may choose to tutor a child, serve a meal, work on a special project, or participate in one of the many other volunteer opportunities at EHC, you will make a difference in the community, ending homelessness one life at a time.

Deer Hollow Farm: Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve Los Altos, CA 94024 contact Bridget Brown (650) 903-6430 [email protected] Volunteers will assist staff and volunteers in the orchard, an acre of fruit trees. Duties will include pruning trees, thinning fruit trees, watering, weeding, and non- commercial fertilizing. This option is available only in the second semester.

Family Living Center P.O. Box 4555, Santa Clara, CA 95056 Judy Benner 748-8623 http://www.homelessness.org/sobrato.html Opportunities for students include tutoring a child, filling in at the reception desk, organizing the kitchen stockroom, providing office assistance, and participating in special events. Group opportunities include preparing and serving a meal, conducting a donation/fundraising drive, participating in special events, and refreshing current facilities with paint, cleaning, landscaping, etc.

Foothill School 867-4036 13919 Lynde Ave. 408-867-4036 Opportunities for students include helping out with lunch duty (watching the kids, helping with rules for the games etc.) and working in the classroom with teachers to help grading or individually help kids.

*Louise's Pantry Volunteers contact Jim or Rebecca at (408) 278-2171 http://www.sacredheartcommunityservice.org/nflash.html Volunteers will sort, pack and distribute food, help make sandwiches, bag rice & beans, and sort produce.

Martha’s Kitchen 311 Willow Street San Jose, CA 95110 (408) 293-6111 Jobs for groups here include helping prepare and serve meals to needy families and survey them on the positive and negative aspects of the aid.

Our Lady of Fatima Our Lady of Fatima Villa 20400 Saratoga-Los Gatos Rd. Saratoga CA 95070 Phone: 408-741-2950 Help out in activities such as card games, reading/reviewing current events or just spending some time one on one with some residents who enjoy having someone to talk to. There is also potential projects such as helping in the business office.

Saratoga High School 20300 Herriman Avenue Saratoga CA 95070 Room X02 [email protected] (contact Holly Wade). Students will be involved in helping out and participating with the Special Day Classes. The teacher of this class envisions “students to be able to get to know the kids in my class, not as learners, but as KIDS. Students could "hang out" rather than jus "help" them. Some of my students in mind would really benefit from this type of interaction. “

Sacred Heart Community Service 1381 South First St. San Jose, CA 95110 [email protected] contact Sowmya or Jim @(408) 278-2171 (12:20-2:15) This is an umbrella organization which provides many different opportunities for service to the community. They run Louise’s Food Pantry (see above), have opportunities in the Welcome Center, the Homework Club, and the Clothes Closet, Duties in the Welcome Center include introducing customers, giving info & referrals, help on phones, & assisting with data entry. Bilingual volunteers are especially needed. Duties in the Homework Center include: helping children Grades 1st-10th with academic work, computers, and arts & crafts. Duties in the clothes closet include helping ensure our customers receive free clothing by hanging & sorting clothes, waiting on customers, greeting donors & accepting clothing donations. There are spots for one group here on both Monday and Thursday and another group on Monday only (perhaps the group could work at Hidden Village on Thursday)

Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department 298 Garden Hill Drive Los Gatos, CA 95032 Contact Beeny Sander Phone: (408) 355-2254 Email: [email protected] http://www.parkhere.org/content/0,4745,sid%253D12761%2526chid%253D16568%2526ccid %253D50662,00.html#Ongoing_opportunities Volunteers can help in providing visitor services, and in protecting and enhancing parklands at Stevens Creek, Vasona, or Sanborn Park. Second Harvest Food Bank 750 Curtner Avenue, San Jose CA. 95125 Lynn Lovely (408) 266- 8866 www.secondharvestsjca.org (or) http://www.2ndharvest.net/a_help/vol_01.html Volunteers are needed to help with food collection, sorting, and distribution of food for the needy.

Services for Brain Injury 2731 N. First Street Suite 100 San Jose, CA 95134 contact Karen at (408) 434-2277 x101 http://www.sbicares.org/ Volunteers will assist brain injured people to reach their highest level of independent living through accessible, affordable services, and to provide support for their caregivers. They can also choose to work on projects such as computer work, website construction etc. Students must be willing to show some initiative and find ways to help when not directly assigned things to do.