Service Hours

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Service Learning Requirements/ Student Volunteer Service Program

  • Students are REQUIRED to complete 40 services hours to graduate.
  • The purpose of the Service Learning Graduation Requirement and the Student Volunteer Service Program is to acquaint high school students with the need to become a participant of change by providing service to both their school and community.
  • Service Learning is defined as: An educational method which allows students to learn skills of civil participation and develops an ethic of service and civic responsibility through active participation in service that is conducted in and meets the needs of the community.
  • Students can provide service in the community on a voluntary basis to public, nonprofit agencies, civic, charitable and governmental organizations and school campus.

Community Service Application and Approval Forms

  • Students should see the Student Volunteer Service Program Coordinator at their school for the appropriate service hour forms.  
    Student should not just go to a site and work for hours. The service site or organization must be approved and specific paperwork must be submitted.  Not all projects undertaken by school clubs and organizations count for service hours and could be rejected.
  • It is recommended that students speak with the appropriate person at their individual school for approval of community sites/organization and service hour forms BEFORE completing the hours.
FORMS


Service Hours Approval Form (must be submitted and approved before hours are earned)



Visit the links below for service opportunities:

Visit the link below for volunteer opportunities in Broward County.

http://www.volunteerbroward.org

Kids in Need Resource Center needs volunteers on Saturdays from 8am - 2pm

Copans Commerce Park at 2300 W. Copans Road, Suite #5, Pompano Beach

Office # 754-321-9021

We are located on the south side of Copans Rd., just west of Powerline Rd., opposite the water treatment plant, and inside the Copans Commerce Park.

As you enter the Copans Commerce Park, we are in unit #5, in the middle of the light gray building, to the east.

Please contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 754-321-9021