Service Learning Investigation

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Service Learning Investigation

• Healthy People, Healthy Places
• Winter 2003

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Group Members Sherstin Gladis Sterling
Humphrey Sara Schaefer Heidi Stotler
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People With Disabilities
The federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is the
first known statute or regulation to address
disabilities, people with disabilities and the
government's position with regard to both. The
definition contained in the Rehab Act uses
functional terms, and the inability to perform 2
or more of 11 life skills, as the basic
prerequisite for being disabled. (George
Gladis, interviewed Saturday, February 15, 2003)
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Why Is This An Important Topic?

• Working with and getting to know people with
  disabilities are good ways to incorporate people
  with disabilities into society.
• By interacting with people with disabilities, you
  obtain familiarity with a socially unknown
  community.
• Adapted to the needs of individuals
• (ie. communication skills, patience,
  interaction, etc.)

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Camp Kiwanis
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Kiwanis Camp

• Located just outside of Rhododendron at the base
  of Mt. Hood
• The Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp was founded for
  disadvantaged youth in 1933 by the Kiwanis Club
  of Montavilla.
• We acted as counselors at the overnight Winter
  Retreat
• Feb. 22, 2003 to Feb. 23, 2003

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What It Means To Be A Counselor

• Working as part of a team to participate in a
  variety of activities.
• Modeling interactions and supporting campers with
  dressing, hygiene, eating, mobility, and using
  specialized equipment as needed.

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Who Was At Kiwanis Camp?

• There were 10 campers, ranging from 17 to 24
  years of age, each with various disabilities.
• We worked in conjunction with 5 other staff
  members throughout the weekend.

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Getting To Know The Campers
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The Talent Show
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• They had so much energy! So much vitality! So
  much zest for living! ... Let no one ever again
  say to him that lepers were just apathetic
  people, a bundle of rags and tatters, a
  collection of derelicts resigned to their lot.
  These men and women were life itself
• (Lapierre, The City of Joy, 292).

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Playing In The Snow
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At The Dance
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What Did We Learn?
You begin to find who you really are. The
implication is clear enough We become human only
in the company of other human beings. And this
involves both opening our hearts and giving voice
to our deepest convictions (Loeb, Soul of a
Citizen, 22). As Rilke and the Dalai Lama
suggest, satisfaction can be found amid the most
testing of situations (32).
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Youth Initiative

• Elective course
• High school students as counselors
• Classroom setting
• Pre-camp training session learning aspect
• Week-long retreat

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Youth Initiative Curriculum

• Semester in length
• Classroom setting to learn about different
  disabilities.
• Meet 2 times/week
• 2 tests and a paper

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Youth Initiative Retreat

• Weekend training
• Groups of 7 (camper, counselor, supervisor)
• Camper assigned to each student
• Reflection journal

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Why Would It Work?

• Awareness
• General Experience patience, communication
  skills
• Identity Building
• Kolbs Learning Cycle - experiential learning
• Selflessness
• 9 Challenges of Democracy

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