Minnesota FCCLA is a Lead State Agency FOR GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY! We are challenging All members to Do Service Projects.
Following best practices for engaging students with Service Learning projects, we adhere to the IPARD Framework:
Investigation
Through research and inquiry, students and partners identify a genuine community need and its root causes.
Planning & Preparation
Based on initial research, students identify a realistic and meaningful service project with clear goals, timeline, roles, and follow-up.
Action
Project participants implement the plan through direct, indirect, or advocacy-based service. Throughout the act, participants collect evidence of their project and impact.
Refection
Through a variety of cognitively challenging activities, refection takes place at every stage of the cycle to assist in understanding the connection between what is being learned and the action taken.
Demonstration
Students showcase learning and community impact to stakeholders and supporters while making recommendations for sustainability and expansion.
MLK Day of Service
MLK Day of Service encourages service projects throughout the month of January, ideally with something on MLK Day. Projects can vary depending on what your chapter is passionate about but a focus on poverty alleviation or diversity, equity and inclusion is encouraged.
We are fortunate to be a lead agency for Youth Service America, and as a grant recipient, we need to follow their reporting guidelines (please count the number of student volunteers and collect their names). Each project will need to either:
- Option 1 – complete and return this MLK Day of Service Report along with a photo of the project
- Option 2 – complete and attach this MLK Day of Service – list of volunteers along with a google form submission and photo
Examples of service projects:
- Serving a meal
- Baking goodies and gifting them to community service leaders
- Tutoring young students
- Reading to children
- Training elders
- Collecting items for those in need
- Food Drive
- Hygiene Drive
- Winter Coat Drive
- Collect stuffed animals / toys
- Blood or immunization drive
- Recycling drive – old shoes, phones, eyeglasses etc.
- Creating Tie Blankets and gifting them to people who could use your warmth (homeless shelter, children’s hospital, nursing home, etc.)
- Honoring your community’s First Responders with appreciation letters, sidewalk chalk messages, or baked goods
- Writing appreciation letters to Military persons through Operation Gratitude for distribution
- Interacting with animals at a rescue shelter
- Raising awareness of an issue and educating peers, school board, city council or local government
- See more on Youth Service America’s website
Review the Service Project Guidelines and for more details resources below
- Design Thinking and the Service Learning process
- Equity in Service Learning – a Self-Assessment Tool for Quality Engagement
- IPARD framework – brief handout
- IPARD framework
- Service Project Planning Document
- Civic Education and Service Learning
- Social Emotional Learning and service projects
- Student focused project planning
- TakingAction – service learning steps
- Teaching Tool.4 Stages of SL.png
- Additional Service-learning resources
911 Day of Service
MN-FCCLA-PARTICIPANT-SIGN-IN-SHEET
911 MN FCCLA-STEPS FOR ENGAGEMENT pdf
MN FCCLA-Operation Gratitude mailing instructions for 911 Day
Chapter ideas:
Post cards/ Letters to Veterans, Active Military, First Responders
Resources from Operation Gratitude: Sort and label letters by Deployed Troop, Veteran, New Recruit, and First Responder. Place all sorted letters and artwork in a large envelope or box. (Please, NO INDIVIDUAL ENVELOPES.)
SEND TO:
Operation Gratitude
21100 Lassen Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311
*Please download, fill out, and include a Donation Form in each
box you send to us. The form can be found on our website at
OperationGratitude.com/product-donation.”
https://www.operationgratitude.com/product-donation/
Operation-Gratitude-Letter-Writing
LETTER DETAILS- 9 11 service project
Chapters can use custom postcards to write messages to military, veterans, military families and send to Operation Gratitude.
Develop a 9/11 message for your school announcements.
Invite military or veterans to your school or chapter to speak.
MN FCCLA is a Lead Agency for Global Youth Service with Youth Service America.
What Do People Do FOR SERVICE PROJECTS?
Every year on Global Youth Service Day, youth organizations, schools and individuals around the world partake in thousands of projects. They focus on voluntary community service and range from learning sessions about current social and environmental challenges to clean-up actions, nursing home visits, and concerts. In previous years, the total number of projects on all five continents was 4,467.
Background
Global Youth Service Day was launched as National Youth Service Day in 1988. It is coordinated by Youth Service America, and most of the projects are based in the United States. However, a growing number of volunteers from other parts of the world take part in the activities each year.
Global Youth Service Day –State Officers are planning service events and celebrations for the State Conference.
MN Family, Career and Community Leaders of America ( FCCLA) will develop youth-organized workshops, conferences, and projects. Youth will lead peer education efforts to influence their peers to develop service efforts. We will partner with other programs to bring information and inspiration to their peers in workshops and assemblies and develop service-learning programs around these issues for children, near-peers or their peers. Members will demonstrate “what they know” in MN FCCLA STAR Events (Students Taking Action with Recognition) presentations before an evaluation team.
