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Community Partner Resources

Community Partners and CPS:
Community partnerships are at the core of CPS programs. We believe that partnerships should be mutually beneficial. Community partners play a significant role in the education of our students by providing opportunities to learn and guiding students through the exploration of social justice, course concepts, and personal and professional development.

CPS works with over 30 agencies and organizations to meet community needs. Our partners include agencies and organizations working with youth, homelessness, hunger, poverty, Latino migrant farmworkers, technology, literacy, elderly, environmental justice, food security, community development, etc.

Becoming a Community Partner:
CPS is continuously looking for new partnerships that will be beneficial to all involved. Community Partners are active with students and/or faculty for service-learning course.

Partnerships with CPS and Student Program Coordinators:
To explore the possibility of becoming a Community Partner, contact Gretchen Natter, Director of CPS. Read about specific responsibilities of a Community Partner.

Partnership Proposals for 2008-2009 Academic year are due in Dec 2008.

Partnerships with Faculty
If you are interested in working in conjunction with faculty on a Service-Learning class or community based research, explore the Community Partner Handbook. It is a resource for planning and implementing a Service-Learning initiative which provides an introduction to Service-Learning, suggestions for initiative development,other resources available to community partners, as well as appendices of useful Service-Learning information.

Partnerships with Community
Work Study
The Federal Community Work-Study program enables eligible students to create a community-based position that is paid, in part, by Gettysburg College. Community agencies must provide the remainder of the student's salary. Jobs can be part-time during the academic year or full-time during the summer (if student is a Pennsylvania resident.)

Migrant Education Program Participants

Examples of
Partnership Activities

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Migrant Education Program
The Migrant Education Program supports and advocates for migrant farmworkers and their children to ensure they develop and grow to their greatest potential. After-School Tutorial Program offers individualized tutoring to migrant youth, encouraging positive application in school and offering academic success with school assignments. College volunteers assist with the tutoring, creating a partnership that offers inspiration to migrant youth as well as the PC and student volunteers. Together, all participating students enhance personal self esteem, augment social skills, and improve knowledge of world sensitivity among peoples.

Adams County
Literacy Council (ACLC):
The ACLC offers a safe and nurturing place for the Program Coordinator (PC) and other college students who come to us as tutors, interns or through service learning placements, to expand practical teaching skills, empathize with life circumstances other than their own, and grow in understanding their ability to affect social change. In turn, the PC recruits college volunteers to become tutors for ESL and Basic Literacy. During 2006-2007, college students provided over 825 hours of service to ACLC. In addition, advocacy and awareness projects related to literacy are organized.

Additional Opportunities:

Center for Public Service Resource Library
Stop by and check out our collection of service-learning print resources, including journals, reports and books. Your welcome to peruse them in our comfortable chairs or take them with you for further research.

Community Partner Workshops
Throughout the year CPS will host workshops on topics focused for community agencies.

Resources
For a comprehensive list of resources available (including websites, services offered by the Center for Public Service, and more), see the Gettysburg College Community Partner Handbook.

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