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Service-Learning Resources and Tools for Disaster Response Efforts
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has collected resources and tools to help students and educators develop service-learning or community service projects related to disaster relief efforts.
From the NSLC Library: Service-Learning and Disaster Preparedness
Relief Organizations
Lessons Learned: Service-Learning in Times of Past Disasters
Service-learning has been a vital part of disaster recovery efforts around the world. We can build on what we've learned in past relief efforts to better help those in need today.
- Homeland Security Sample Programs and Resources for School-Based Programs (K-12)
From the Corporation for National and Community Service: describes school-based service-learning and other programs centered around prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery in disasters such as floods, fires, and chemical spills. - Prepare Today -- Lead Tomorrow Teen Toolkit (CBO, K-12)
This toolkit was created to support teen community preparedness service-learning experiences. It provides background information on community preparedness and service-learning and takes teens through the entire process of designing a service-learning project, assessment, and reflection. It also includes over a dozen worksheets and several project ideas. - Disaster Relief and Preparedness through Service-Learning (CBO, K-12)
Youth Service America (YSA) developed this module on disaster preparedness and relief through service-learning to complement the National & Global Youth Service Day Service-Learning Curriculum Guide, a resource for helping youth develop project management skills. In addition to providing information about service-learning basics, this guide provides resources and service-learning project ideas on the topic of disaster and emergency preparedness. - Incorporating Service-Learning in Emergency Management (HE)
This paper suggests ideas for incorporating service-learning in emergency management curriculum. Areas covered include: emergency preparedness and planning; response and recovery; and hazard mitigation.
Relief Organizations
- American Red Cross
Find out the latest on the relief effort and find out how to donate money or blood. - Corporation for National & Community Service
When disaster strikes, Learn and Serve America and the Corporation for National and Community Service coordinate thousands of volunteers across the country to assist with repair and recovery efforts in response to fires, hurricanes, floods and famine. You can make a donation and make a difference.
Right Now:
Earthquake in Haiti
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is highlighting resources for students and teachers who want to get involved in supporting the relief effort in Haiti, or learn more about the country. At this time, volunteer opportunities in Haiti are extremely limited to people with specific skills. According to the State Department, the best way to help the people of Haiti right now is to give money to a reputable relief organization.
Please help us grow this list by submitting your service-learning ideas, stories and lesson plans related to the situation in Haiti to nslc@servicelearning.org.
Disaster in Haiti: How You Can Help
Current information from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
5 Ways to Teach About Haiti Right Now
From the New York Times' Learning Network
PBS NewsHour Extra's Teacher Resources on Haiti
Resources for integrating news from Haiti into the classroom.
The American Red Cross Disaster Online Newsroom
Updates on relief efforts in Haiti from the Red Cross.
Disaster in Haiti Inspires Myriad Projects in Washington Area Schools
Student-driven fundraising projects include a pennies for Haiti program to collect coins for the Red Cross, a school dance to raise funds for shelter supplies, and paying $1 to participate in Pajamas Day.
Earthquake in Haiti
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is highlighting resources for students and teachers who want to get involved in supporting the relief effort in Haiti, or learn more about the country. At this time, volunteer opportunities in Haiti are extremely limited to people with specific skills. According to the State Department, the best way to help the people of Haiti right now is to give money to a reputable relief organization.Please help us grow this list by submitting your service-learning ideas, stories and lesson plans related to the situation in Haiti to nslc@servicelearning.org.
Disaster in Haiti: How You Can Help
Current information from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
5 Ways to Teach About Haiti Right Now
From the New York Times' Learning Network
PBS NewsHour Extra's Teacher Resources on Haiti
Resources for integrating news from Haiti into the classroom.
The American Red Cross Disaster Online Newsroom
Updates on relief efforts in Haiti from the Red Cross.
Disaster in Haiti Inspires Myriad Projects in Washington Area Schools
Student-driven fundraising projects include a pennies for Haiti program to collect coins for the Red Cross, a school dance to raise funds for shelter supplies, and paying $1 to participate in Pajamas Day.
Service-learning has been a vital part of disaster recovery efforts around the world. We can build on what we've learned in past relief efforts to better help those in need today.
- Universities Rebuilding America Partnership: A Toolkit for Organizing Group Service Trips to the Gulf Coast to Help Communities Recover From the Hurricanes of 2005
The Universities Rebuilding America Partnership (URAP) is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Corporation for National and Community Service. CNCS has developed this toolkit to help college students and staff prepare for group trips to help rebuild the devastated areas of the Gulf Coast region. - Katrina Relief Projects from Learn and Serve Grantees and Subgrantees
What students, schools, and universities did to assist with Katrina relief. - Service-Learning and Samoa Relief
Learn and Serve America grantees helped coordinate a tsunami relief response in American Samoa. - South Asia Tsunami Resources and Tools
