Youth Service

Youth Volunteer Corp

Mission Statement

To create and increase volunteer opportunities to enrich America's youth, address community needs and develop a lifetime commitment to service.

Four Goals

1. To engage young people in service projects that are challenging, rewarding and educational.
2. To serve the unmet needs of the community and its residents.
3. To promote among young people a greater understanding and appreciation for the diversity of their community.
4. To promote a lifetime ethic of service among young people.

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News

Day of Action

This year’s Day of Action (June 21) fell on the summer solstice, so what better project for it than to alert people to their risk of getting skin cancer?  A plucky band of 15 Youth Volunteer Corps members set up tables outside of Sault Ste Marie’s K-Mart and Walgreen's, spending the afternoon giving out flyers, raising awareness and having fun.  In addition, Wallgreen's supplied free water bottles with sunscreen samples, medication cases and other things to give out.  By the end, 250 information sheets were disseminated and $65.76 had been raised.  Collecting donations had not been the original plan, but as generous passers-by insisted, the YVCers agreed that the money should go to the American Cancer Society.  Thanks to everyone who made this possible!

Soup for Seniors Day

United Way hosted "Soup For Seniors Saturday" on January 23, 2010 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  The project was funded by Kids Care Clubs and Quaker.  Forty-one volunteers of all ages gathered at LSSU's Cisler Center; children learned about MLK, Jr. through activities while older volunteers prepared homemade soup and chili with LSSU's Student Organization For Diversity.  Volunteers then packaged and delivered the soup to 80 seniors living in Community Action's Senior Apartments; volunteers also took soup back to their own neighbors.

The volunteers constructed an MLK "Wall of Dreams," where each of them traced their silhouettes and finished the following statements: "MLK was..." and "My ideal world would be...". This wall was displayed in the LSSU's students dining hall.

Pictured here are (from left to right) Zack Gross, Community Action resident Elenor Schrader, and Malual Deng.