CELTS Community Service Labor Meetings

For CELTS student workers and Bonner Scholars

Spring 2011

Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:00

1-13-2011Welcome back and mini retreat for Spring Term

1-20-2011Volunteer Extravaganza (Volunteer Recruitment event for all Community Service Programs for the Spring Term)

1-17-2011One-on-One Tutoring student staff led a program on how to train volunteers and how to do additional volunteer recruitment, if needed.

2-3-2011CELTS Director, Chad Berry, led the session on how to be a professional in the workplace and in the community. He also talked about ways in which CELTS was becoming a more professional workplace. Topics discussed where a new logo, new letterhead, new signs and posters. He also talked about a new system to get approvals for emails/letters before they are sent to an external audience.

2-10-2011Students rotated through each of the following sessions:

  1. A guest speaker from the Peace Corps came to talk about the ways students could get involved after they graduate from Berea College
  2. Chad and Ashley led a discussion with the student staff about many new policies and procedures being implemented at CELTS
  3. Betty and the First Year Bonner Coordinators led a discussion about the meaning of service and how to connect service to your personal beliefs

2-17-2011Habitat for Humanity student staff members led a session on ways to use social networking to connect with volunteers. The training gave a brief overview of twitter, you tube, facebook, etc. and then the team showed how they use them for their program.

2-24-2011Habitat for Humanity student staff members and members of the Service-Learning student staff team led sessions about their programs and community partners.

3-2-2011Students attended one of the following skill sessions:

  1. Ashley led a session about grant writing
  2. Heather led a session about resume writing and job searching

3-10-2011Appalachian author and Visiting Professor at Berea College, Silas House, spoke to the group about growing up in Appalachia and how class, gender and poverty were and still are themes in the lives of so many Appalachians.

3-17-2011Spring Break!!

3-24-2011One-on-One Tutoring student staff led a session with their community partner, Save the Children. They shared the many ways in which they work together and provided the students with some hands-on activities for helping children learn to read.

3-31-2011Berea Teen Mentoring and Hispanic Outreach Project student staff teams led sessions about their programs and their community partners, which include: the local school systems and the Foreign Language Department

4-7-2011Adopt-a-Grandparent and Berea Buddiesstudent staff teams led sessions about their programs and their community partners, which include: the two local Nursing Homes and the local school systems. Students selected one session to attend out of the two presentations.

4-14-2011Convocation speaker, Gyude Moore, spoke to the students about the work he is doing for the President of Liberia. Gyude is a graduate of Berea College and was a Bonner Scholar and CELTS student worker while he was a student.

4-21-2011Reflection on the year and Labor Meeting Evaluation

4-28-2011End of Year Celebration and Senior Recognition