service learning
CSI: Community Service Initiative
Students in teams of nine spend their junior year examining their role in the community, reading the motivational words of teens across the country who have executed successful service initiatives, and reflecting in journals about the difference they can make in New York. Over the course of the year, they visit multiple community service sites in the city to complete one-time projects and determine the type of service to which they feel most connected. They fulfill volunteer hours as seniors in an organization that matches their interest.
The Partners
SLJ and New York Cares identified service sites in the community where help is desperately needed and teenagers working in service teams can effect the most meaningful change. We are proud to announce the CSI: Brooklyn service sites for the current term...
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.
Green Apple Corps
NYC Parks Department initiative that enlists volunteers for ecological restoration work.
Children’s Aid Society/PS 5
Head Start community preschool for children of low-income families.
Furnish a Future
Donation-driven free furniture bank for NYC’s recently reintegrated homeless.
Cobble Hill Health Center
Non-profit skilled nursing facility for elderly and disabled patients.