This Summer:
Social Justice Work Pays $320 Per Week
The Vassar Summer Community Fellows Program pays students $320 per week to work in human service agencies that promote a personal commitment to social justice.
You join with 18 great, local agencies that face everything from advocacy for battered women and people with developmental disabilities to direct care work with inner city youth. It all adds up to striving for a better local community.
Of course it’s Vassar, so it’s also learning. This ten week, 40 hours per week opportunity to explore a career in human services is attached to a running (free lunch!) seminar. So you are filled-in with what’s happening in the other agencies as you share your own experiences with fellow students.
You’re also encouraged to examine ways in which the disciplinary perspective of your major contributes to the quality of the community work you do (and how that work effects your learning!)
To apply, download and fill out the Community Fellows Application Word document or stop by the Field Work Office (165 N. Main) for more information about a life-changing summerin Poughkeepsie as a Community Fellow.
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MARCH 7
(You’ll be informed of the decision by Friday, March 28th)
Community Agencies: Summer 2008
Battered Women’s Services
Advocacy for women who are victims of domestic abuses. (Spanish a help)
Catharine Street Community Center
Summer camp youth work at Poughkeepsie’s oldest community center
Children’s Media Project
Intense program in media activism with youth at risk; or work on community outreach to media, politicians and other non-profit agencies.
Center for Creative Education
An arts and education agency in Kingston, New York. It emphasizes music, drumming and dance.
Dutchess County Health Department
Work on a range of public health issues from anti-tobacco awareness and lyme disease to HIV and Latino issues.
Dutchess Outreach
Lead agency for providing food for low-income individuals and families. Programs range from a soup kitchen to emergency food supply and advocacy for an African Roots Library.
Family Partnership Center
Special administrative assistant to the president of a center for 23 human service agencies. Emphasis on administrative structuring of collaborative human service programming.
Grace Smith House
Work with women and children in a battered women’s shelter (Spanish a help).
Green Teen
Youth program focusing on urban farming and food distribution.
Hudson River Health Care
Work with doctors and administrators in an agency that specializes in health care for Spanish-speaking immigrants. (Good Spanish required)
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley
Non-profit legal representation for low-income individuals.
Mill Street Loft
Summer arts camp and work with inner city youth.
New Horizons Resources
In the mornings do direct care work in a farm setting with adults who have developmental disabilities. Afternoons work as an assistant for special administrative projects.
Poughkeepsie Farm Project
Actually farming combined with community action and outreach on food justice issues.
Real Skills Network/Sadie Delaney Peterson African Roots Library
Grass-roots educational programs for urban youth and voter education for adults. There will also be special attention to inter-agency cooperation.
Rural and Migrant Ministry
Advocacy for Spanish-speaking migrant workers, and youth programs for their children. (Spanish required)
YMCA
Summer camp for urban youth and administrative assistant for special projects.
Vassar Field Work
Main N-165, Box 40
124 Raymond Ave.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
Phone: (845) 437-5280
Fax: (845) 437-7563