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Homelessness and Hunger - St Marys College of CA

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Service  |  Academic Work  |  Education & Training  |  Capacity Building  |  Deliberative Democracy 


 

 

Types of Service


Short Term Service Opportunities

 

  • Saturdays of Service at Alameda Point Collaborative (APC)

    Saturdays of Service are opportunities to work on large-scale projects with up to 100 fellow students. Students have moved mountains of mulch, planted gardens and orchards, harvested gardens, built green houses, and raised chicken coops. Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) is a housing community for formerly homeless families on the former Alameda Naval Air Station. One of the main projects at APC has been educating its residents about proper nutrition and its importance.

  • St. Mary’s Center Dinner Program

    The St. Mary’s Center provides services for low-income seniors, families and preschoolers in Downtown and West Oakland. Small groups of students (5-7) can prepare and serve a meal on a Saturday evening. 

  • Service Immersions

    Weekend service immersions provide opportunities to explore social, cultural and environmental issues affecting the San Francisco Bay Area. Each immersion experience provides a different focus for serving and learning. This past fall, two Bonner Leaders, Kristy Wayne and Courtney Neal, led 10 students in spending 24 hours in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco where they explored poverty and homelessness.  Students spent time in conversation with Bill Hart, the Executive Director of G.A.A.P. Students also engaged in conversations that explored charity and justice within the framework of Catholic Social Thought.  Students prepared meals at a Glide Memorial Church and shared a meal with members of the Tenderloin community at St. Anthony Foundation.

 

Student Leadership Opportunities (School Year Committment)

 

There are also Campus-based Bonner Leader positions involved in planning group service projects, social action and education, and service immersion trips that address Homelessness and Hunger on various levels.

 

Summer Service Opportunities

 

  • St. Mary's partners with the General Assistance Advocacy Project for a summer internship program working in San Francisco's Tenderloin with homeless and marginally housed clients who receive public benefits.  Students learn about the Welfare and Food Stamps progams in San Francisco County while working directly with clients in need of assistance obtaining or maintaining public benefits.  G.A.A.P. also provides phone, computer/internet, and referral services for clients.

 

Academic Work   courses  |  service-learning  |  CBR and policy research   |  departments and institutes


Courses

 

  • JAN 047: Food, Shelter, Water, and Energy Systems for the Future: An Introduction to Permaculture  Instructor: Kristen Sbrogna

    This course will explore sustainable ideas related to food, shelter, water and energy, including home and community gardens, family farms, farmer’s markets, community supported agriculture, and natural green building. Students will spend one day a week in the field, touring local farms and gardens and participating in hands-on gardening and building projects.

  •  JAN 076: Doing Faithjustice: Living Against the Grain in a Complex World

    Instructor: Jennifer Pigza

    In this course students will explore what issues of justice matter to them and how they can put their passions into action. Readings will focus on Catholic Social thought, liberation theology, human development, and the life stories of activists. Students will participate in a day of service in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood and a week of immersion in a Franciscan Worker Community in Salinas. 

  • JAN 165: Christian Service Internship  Instructors: Brother Michael Avila and Randy Farris

    Students will engage reflectively in an experience of direct service to the disadvantaged and relate this experience to Christian tradition. Students will live in a community at or near the places of their service and will work with many types of disadvantaged people, such as the abused, the economically poor, or mentally or physically challenged.

  • JAN 023: Economic Justice and Catholic Social Thought Instructor: Jack Cassidy

    This course will engage Catholic social thought with current economic issues such as globalization, affirmative action, sweatshops and corporate downsizing. Students will volunteer one day of community service at a “Street Retreat” in the Tenderloin of San Francisco to bring the principles of social justice discussed in the course to life.

  • JAN 035: Against the Grain: Food Activism & Social Justice Instructor: Cathy Glenn

    Through reading and discussions, guest food activists, student participation in food activism, and written assignments, students will gain an understanding of food activism and its relationship to social justice. Students will lunch at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, the restaurant credited with starting the organic, locally-grown food movement in the Bay Area.

 

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities


Feast or Famine Banquet

 

  • A Campus Bonner Leader EJ Youngblood planned the 1st annual Feast or Famine Banquet in November of 2008, which sought to raise the awareness of the global food crisis.  This event was sponsored by CILSA, and other programs including Sodexo, SMC Center for International Programs, and Oxfam America.  The week before Thanksgiving, over 175 students, staff, and faculty gathered to actively learn about and reflect on global poverty and hunger.  Attendees donated money which went directly to Oxfam America and food which went directly to the Contra Costa and Solano County Food Bank.

 

Michael Pollan Visit

 

  •  Author of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals came to the St. Mary's campus on October 22, 2008  to discuss issues of social, ethical and environmental ramifications beyond the dinner table when it comes to choosing food.

 

Raj Patel Visit

 

  • St. Mary's welcomed the author to speak on campus March 10, 2009 about his provocative book Stuffed and Starved, which asks a simple question: Why is half the world stuffed while the other half is starved? It is a story about the global food system, about why there are one billion overweight people and nearly a billion going hungry, and about the millions of people who are fighting back.

 

 

 

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building   training  |  fundraising  |  resource development


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Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy   evaluations  |  policy research  | issue forums  |  advocacy


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Contacts   staff  |  faculty  |  students  |  community partners (local, regional, national)


Staff

 

          Community Engagement Coordinator

          Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action

          (925) 631-4015

        

 

          Community Partnerships Coordinator

          Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action

          (925) 631-8543

         

 

Faculty

 

 

Students

 

          Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action

  

          Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action       

 

Community Partners

          121 Golgen Gate Ave.

          San Francisco, CA 94102

          (415) 592-2728

      

 

          Bill Hart

          Executive Director

          276 Golden Gate Ave.

          San Francisco, CA 94102

          (415) 928-8191 ext. 301

         

          

          Melissa Simpson

          Volunteer Coordinator

          2218 Acton St.

          Berkeley, CA 94702

          (510) 548-2884

         

 

          Kate Nauer

          Volunteer Coordinator

          2260 San Pablo

          Oakland, CA 94612

          (510) 877-9238

         

 

          Sister Marilyn Medau

          925 Brockhurst St.

          Oakland, CA 94608

          (925) 923-9600 X 220

 

          Doug Biggs

          Executive Director

          677 West Ranger Ave.

          Alameda, CA 94501

          (510) 898-7849

         

 

          Sandra Scherer

          Executive Director

          2350 Monument Blvd. Ste. B

          Concord, CA94520

          (925) 825-7751 ext. 105

 

          Sharon Hawkins Leyden

          Executive Director

          1744 University Ave

          Berkeley, CA 94703

          (510) 704-9867

 

          Director  

          6423 Colby Street

          Oakland, CA 94618

          (510) 658-1380

 

          Larry Sly

          Executive Director

          4010 Nelson Avenue

          Concord, CA

          (925) 676-7543

 

 

          Boston, MA 02114

          (800) 597-3278

          fast@oxfamamerica.org

 

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