Event Title
Session 1D. Best Practices in Service/Immersion Trips
Location
BCC Mezzanine
Start Date
13-6-2012 2:30 PM
End Date
13-6-2012 3:15 PM
Description
What makes a service/immersion experience meaningful? The goal of this roundtable discussion is to determine “tried and true” best practices among students involved in service/immersion trips through the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network. Two groups of Fairfield students will present briefly about their 2012 spring break experiences in Joplin, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana. They will share a distilled conversation about their trips’ strengths, lessons learned, and best practices. They will then invite the audience to share their insights into service/immersion trips best practices. Given that many of our Jesuit institutions visit the same locations, participants may discuss how we could better collaborate or discuss the possibility of a multi-institutional trip.
Session 1D. Best Practices in Service/Immersion Trips
BCC Mezzanine
What makes a service/immersion experience meaningful? The goal of this roundtable discussion is to determine “tried and true” best practices among students involved in service/immersion trips through the Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network. Two groups of Fairfield students will present briefly about their 2012 spring break experiences in Joplin, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana. They will share a distilled conversation about their trips’ strengths, lessons learned, and best practices. They will then invite the audience to share their insights into service/immersion trips best practices. Given that many of our Jesuit institutions visit the same locations, participants may discuss how we could better collaborate or discuss the possibility of a multi-institutional trip.
Comments
Facilitators:
Danielle Brouillard is a rising sophomore nursing major from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. She is involved in Rotaract, Lector’s, JUHAN and Students for Life at Fairfield University.
Nicole Davidow is an undecided rising sophomore from Southington, CT. She is involved in Eucharistic Ministers, S4SJ (Students for Social Justice), New Student Leaders, JUHAN and is a manager of the women’s basketball team.
Sara Hoegen is from Wilkes-Barre, PA and was an art history and French major with minors in religious studies and women’s studies. She is a graduated member of the class of 2012. Sara was involved with JUHAN, Ignatian Residential College, IRHA, Campus Ministry, Bellarmine Museum of Art, Theta Alpha Kappa, and several small planning committees during her time at Fairfield University.
Emma Cannon is a rising junior with a double major in Spanish and International Studies. She is involved in JUHAN with a focus on implementing projects aimed toward the promotion of global access to clean and safe water. She is involved with the Community Service Alliance, has interned with the NGO Partners in Development, and will be spending the coming academic year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Chandler Oliphant recently graduated from Fairfield University with a double major in Spanish and English and a minor in Peace and Justice Studies. During her time at Fairfield, she was a JUHAN co-leader, co-president of the Community Service Alliance, a Spanish tutor, and an avid student volunteer in the Bridgeport Community.
Erin Eife '12 is a double major in Politics and Sociology with a double minor in Peace and Justice Studies and Irish Studies. She has displayed her interest in prison ministry and criminal justice reform through events on campus, such as organizing the lecture by Piper Kerman, namely "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison," and participating as a student member in the Prison Ministry Panel. Next year, Erin will be in Galway, Ireland fulfilling her research project entitled The Effectiveness of Female Re-Entry Programs in the Irish Penal System, as part of the Fulbright Scholar Program.
Daniel Jones is a rising senior at Fairfield University with a major in politics and minors in Peace and Justice Studies as well as Anthropology. Daniel invests much of his energy and passion into the club Students for Social Justice where he along with his fellow students have pioneered new and innovative ways to advocate for worker rights and living wages around the world and within our very own Universities!
Alicia Bissonnette, '12, is a newly graduated alum of Fairfield University with a Bachelor's in Political Science, Music, and Peace & Justice Studies. She led the most recent NOLA immersion trip as part of the P&J Capstone and will be continuing her service career in Wentachee, Washington in August.