Center for Service & Social Action

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Center for Service & Social Action
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Abbreviation CSSA
Predecessor Center for Community Service
Established 1992;26 years ago (1992)
Location
Director
 Sr. Katherine Feely, SND
Affiliations John Carroll University
Jesuit, Catholic
Staff
Nine
Website JCU CSSA

Center for Service & Social Action (CSSA) was founded at John Carroll University in 1992 primarily to further the Jesuit mission of educating men and women for others, [1] through service and advocacy. [2] The center currently facilitates activities related to social justice as course components, and as voluntary one-time or semester-long experiences. [3]

John Carroll University private university in University Heights, Ohio

John Carroll University is a private Jesuit university in University Heights, Ohio. It is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution, accompanied by the AACSB-accredited John M. and Mary Jo Boler College of Business. John Carroll has an enrollment of 3,650 students. The university offers undergraduate programs in the liberal arts, sciences, and business, and in selected areas at the master's level. John Carroll offers 70 academic programs of study for undergraduate students. The university has been ranked in the top 10 of Midwest regional universities by U.S. News & World Report's annual guide, "America's Best Colleges," for 29 consecutive years.

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Programs

CSSA offers to students around 120 possibilities for weekly service commitments over the 10-week semester. [4] It also offers to the whole JCU community the opportunity to help with special projects like Special Olympics, health fairs, and advocacy events. [5]

Special Olympics sports organization for people with intellectual disabilities

Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to 5 million athletes and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries. Special Olympics competitions are held every day, all around the world—including local, national and regional competitions, adding up to more than 100,000 events a year. Like the International Paralympic Committee, the Special Olympics organization is recognized by the International Olympic Committee; however, unlike the Paralympic Games, Special Olympics World Games are not held in the same year or in conjunction with the Olympic Games.

A health fair is an educational and interactive event designed for outreach to provide basic preventive medicine and medical screening to people in the community or employees at work in conjunction with workplace wellness. It can also be a public health intervention.

Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and publishing research or conducting exit poll or the filing of an amicus brief. Lobbying is a form of advocacy where a direct approach is made to legislators on an issue which plays a significant role in modern politics. Research has started to address how advocacy groups in the United States and Canada are using social media to facilitate civic engagement and collective action.

Professors use CSSA to facilitate placement of a service or advocacy component in their courses, [6] which currently includes 75 academic courses as diverse as Clinical Psychology, Poverty & Social Entrepreneurship, U.S. Politics, Exercise Science, Women's/Gender Studies, Business Communications, [7] and The Carroll Ballers. [8] A grant from the McGregor Fund assisted the extension of this program into 60 poverty-related courses for better understanding of its causes, effects, and possible solutions. [9]

CSSA partners with over 75 nonprofit organizations in the area which provide service experiences, [10] including schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities, social service programs, and neighborhood outreach centers. [11] The organizations also offer numerous and varied internship possibilities. [12] Through its various programs JCU provides more than 100,000 hours of service to the community each year. [4]

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view. In economic terms, it is an organization that uses its surplus of the revenues to further achieve its ultimate objective, rather than distributing its income to the organization's shareholders, leaders, or members. Nonprofits are tax exempt or charitable, meaning they do not pay income tax on the money that they receive for their organization. They can operate in religious, scientific, research, or educational settings.

The Center hosts the Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associate program which sent two youth in 2012. They assisted with an emergency food center, a healthy eating program for youth, and a vegetable garden for immigrant families. [13] The office also serves as a resource for JCU's academic programs which train administrators for non—profit organizations. [14] Jesuit networking is an important part of the Center's experience. [15]

Awards

In 2015 the Center received the Higher Education Civic Engagement Award from the Washington Center for its We the People program with East Cleveland schools. [16] Organizations mention the energy that the student volunteers bring, animating initiatives that would not be possible without them. [17]

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See also: Marian J. Morton. John Carroll University. Charleston: Arcadia, 2013. ISBN   9780738590745, pp. 101–103. Coordinates: 41°29′28″N81°31′48″W / 41.491°N 81.530°W / 41.491; -81.530

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