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ACCOUNTING
- Assist the elderly with their personal finances and preparationof income tax forms.
- Work in municipal offices and with non-profit groups in theiraccounting departments.
BIOLOGY
- Tutor high school students.
- Help at hospitals and medical centers in physical therapy andradiology departments.
BUSINESS LAW
- Handle consumer complaints at the local consumer affairsoffice.
- Assist clients with legal service forms in tenancy and landlorddisputes and observe court cases.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Conduct classes for elementary school children and the elderlyon the use of different computer programs.
- Help the unemployed learn to access the Internet for employmentopportunities.
- Create data bases and word processing forms for communityagencies.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
- Train in police work with local police departments.
- Assist at court houses in bail bond tracking and criminal casemanagement departments.
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
- Design and prepare brochures for local non-profit groups andmuseums.
ECONOMICS
- Research the Internet for demographic information and maintaina data base for county statistics.
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
- Assist developmentally disabled adults with school to workactivities.
- Tutor communication handicapped children in local schools.
ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM
- Write newsletters for local municipal offices and localnon-profit groups.
- Develop and teach creative writing workshops at locallibraries.
- Tutor children at after school programs and in adult literacyclasses.
- Assist local museums with research and writing forexhibits.
FINE ARTS
- Teach nursing home residents to paint with watercolors.
- Photograph community events, and festivals for local non-profitgroups.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
- Use translation skills to help new immigrants completeprocessing forms.
- Offer bi-lingual story hours to pre-school children at locallibraries.
- Tutor English as a Second Language students at localschools.
HISTORY
- Document the history of a neighborhood using oral historytechniques.
- Research archives at local museums.
HIV/AIDS EDUCATION
- Provide information on HIV/AIDS education to local schools andpeers.
- Assist with legal research and fund-raising efforts on HIV/AIDSprevention.
LEGAL ASSISTING
- Participate in mediating municipal matters.
- Observe arbitration and small claim matters.
MARKETING
- Create needs assessment surveys for local communityorganizations and schools.
- Prepare promotional material for fundraising events
MATHEMATICS
- Tutor adult immigrants who are preparing for generalequivalency degrees.
- Design math games for pre-school and elementary schoolchildren.
NUTRITION
- Design and implement lesson plans for teaching children aboutbasic nutrition.
- Help prepare food and serve the homeless at soup kitchens.
NURSING
- Help with immunizations at local clinics.
- Assist with patient care at local hospitals and clinics.
- Provide home health care to the elderly or disabled.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
- Teach basic exercise classes to the elderly at nursinghomes.
- Assist with youth programs at local YMCA's.
PSYCHOLOGY
- Work with crisis hotline on community outreach.
- Assist with programs that provide counseling for victims ofdomestic violence.
- Provide companionship and help with recreational activities forthe mentally disabled.
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
- Assist health centers at blood drives.
- Assist with outreach programs in schools on substance abuse andHIV/AIDS prevention.
SOCIOLOGY
- Mentor at-risk youth at youth shelters and drop-incenters.
- Work with youth groups to involve the members in communityservice projects.
- Assist with life skills training for homeless families.
STATISTICS
- Compile statistics on HIV/AIDS cases for local socialagencies.
- Observe and compile results of DWI court hearings for nationaldistribution reports.
WOMEN'S LITERATURE
- Advocate for the equal treatment of men and women at home andin the workplace.
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For more information on theaward-winning Service Learning program,
call or e-mail Lori Moog,(908) 526-1200 ext. 8284. |
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