service learning
CSI: Community Service Initiative
Junior year kicks off with CSI: Community Service Initiative. After learning about the work of our CSI partner organizations, the entire junior class has the opportunity to spend a number of school days volunteering throughout New York City. Students take action and gain greater understanding of multiple social justice issues through working with these diverse organizations and their projects.
Students in their junior year are required to fulfill 20 hours of community service. Students are encouraged to return to sites they felt most connected to. CSI Youth Leaders are selected to organize and lead these return trips. Fusing community service with youth activism, Youth Leaders are supported in organizing their peers and planning with site supervisors to facilitate
The Partners
The Momentum Project
Congregate meal and pantry service for HIV-afflicted individuals.
Animal Care & Control of NYC
Municipal shelter that rescues, cares for, and places homeless or abandoned animals.
Cobble Hill Health Center
Non-profit skilled nursing facility for elderly and disabled patients.
Hour Children
Offers support services for women in the criminal justice system and their children.
Sanctuary for Families
Provides emergency shelter, counseling, and legal services for victims of domestic violence.
Academy of Integrated Learning
Our neighbor, a small and supportive high school for students with special needs.
Neighbors Together
Provides hot meals for the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood with a mission to fight poverty.
Doc to Dock
Ships surplus and donated medical supplies to developing nations in Africa.
East New York Farms
Community garden proving fresh and affordable produce to East New York residents.
NYC Clothing Bank
Distributes donations of new, unused clothing to NYC shelters and community centers.