CSC Student Advisory Board Information

Current Members
Student Advocacy Board Mission
SAB Activities
CSC Learning Communities

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Student Advocacy Board (SAB) Mission Statement

Our mission is to foster unity within and between all the service organizations of the Center for Social Concern. We hope to come up with joint resolutions for difficult situations and improve the overall service experience by sharing anecdotes, ideas, and resources among organizations. This regular interaction between groups is a path to awareness of each other so that in the future, groups may collaborate in servicing the larger Baltimore community.

We also aim to advocate for the Center for Social Concern and make civic engagement and volunteerism more widespread on campus. Hopefully, community service, advocacy, activism, and awareness will become a Hopkins tradition.

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SAB Activities

To achieve these goals, the SAB advocates on behalf of its groups and serves as a liason for the groups to the Center for Social Concern. We also coordinate many special events during the year, including a Chocolate Festival, B'more Aware Days, and a retreat, where leaders gain awareness of each other’s programs and coordinate joint activities. Finally, we inform our volunteers of specific opportunities to aid other community organizations. As a result, we hope to create a sense of wholeness for all groups that can extend to the Baltimore area that we serve.

Structure:

One SAB member will coordinate activities for one learning community. One or two leaders/representatives should represent each group to meet with their respective Learning Communities.

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Center for Social Concern Learning Communities

1. Arts
The Arts Learning Community brings together organizations that seek to use the arts – that is, music, dance, visual art, and other creative means – to serve the Baltimore community. Through the arts, volunteers teach, perform, and create to promote art as a way to fulfill people’s aesthetic needs and to build a strong rapport between people.

2. Health
The Health Learning Community comprises of groups that focus on improving the overall physical and mental health of the members of the Baltimore community through education and outreach. Groups provide services ranging widely from health fairs, educational workshops, mentoring programs, work at clinics and shelters, fundraisers, to blood drives. By working with the Baltimore residents and students on and off campus, all of the health groups together seek to better the quality of health for everyone in the community.

3. Tutoring & Mentoring
In some way, shape, or form, we all interact with Baltimore’s youth in either social or academic settings. As Hopkins students, we serve as positive role models, and aim to promote individual development and learning. Our vision is a simple one: to mutually enhance the lives of our mentors and the children they serve. The groups in this Learning Community are also devoted to the art of teaching skills and knowledge to constituencies that may not otherwise be exposed to them. Hopkins students are able to interact with people from all walks of life while teaching. The organizations cover a wide range of areas from computer skills to language fluency to homework help. In this Learning Community, the organizations provide a valuable asset to society by dispersing knowledge and giving Hopkins students access to meaningful experiences.

4. Social Justice
The Social Justice Learning Community is composed of student groups that promote a vision of social justice specifically in the Baltimore community and beyond. By outreaching to diverse populations and providing information regarding various social issues, this Learning Community acts to potentially enhance the quality of life for the populations they serve.

5. Awareness, Advocacy, Activism
The "Three A's" group is composed of groups whose main mission is focused more on spreading awareness and adovcating for a particular cause rather than performing service activities in the Baltimore community.

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