YCS Gunn SERVICE Day

Youth Community Service (YCS) and PAUR Youth Services invite you to consider assisting at several upcoming school service days in Palo Alto this spring in March and April.

 

The first is Gunn High School Service Day on Thursday March 1.

 

Organized by Gunn YCS-Interact students and YCS staff, over 200 students will go out on district buses to twelve local agencies for a day of service and learning from 8:00AM to 2:00PM. The twelve sites include: Gamble Garden, Arastradero Preserve, Magical Bridge Playground, Baylands, YMCA and JCC.

 

Interact is the high school version of Rotary. The purpose of the event is to engage students in "service above self" in the local community, with adult role models, to experience connectedness and learn about local issues. We hope students will discover a service activity they will want to follow-up on their own to deepen their engagement, and to begin a life-long habit of service. Keynote speaker at 8:15 is Palo Alto Councilman and Gunn alum Adrian Fine.

 

Volunteer roles include:

 

7:30 to 9:00AM on Gunn campus to help with morning student check-in.

 

8:00AM to 2:00PM accompanying the student team, ride the bus to the sites, assist with the activity, and return to campus. Student leaders trained by YCS will partner with agency staff to lead the activity - PAUR volunteer responsibility is to assist, not lead. We have choices of outdoor or indoor activities, active or seated.

 

1:00- to 2:30PM check students back in on campus when they return to help them record their reflections and comments, with YCS staff.

 

Thank you for the club's past support for these events. For more information or to sign up for the Thursday March 1 event, please email Leif Erickson at YCS at:  leif@youthcommunityservice.org.