Stay Engaged

Student building a seismometer as part of their service-learning project.

Exiting a Service-Learning project can be a difficult transition. Even as you complete this project, there are opportunities to stay engaged and active in the community and take future steps.

Wrapping Up Your Placement

We encourage you to continue to serve with your agency, if appropriate. Consider ways you might continue supporting your community partner and their work. If you have been providing direct service, clearly communicate to your community partner the date of your last day and schedule this with them.

If you say you will come back, you must follow through. If working with youth, make sure you make time to say “goodbye” on your last day. If/When you come back again, it will be a nice surprise.

If you are developing a product, make sure you share the final version with your organization.

Using Your SL Experience for Your Future

Tips for Incorporating SL into a job and resume: Boise State’s Career Center Tips!
Tips to Design & Write a Volunteer based Resume!

Using your Service-Learning Experience

Still a Student?

Continue Serving – on average, 40% of students say they will continue to serve with their community partner.

Get Involved on campus with Student Groups
Alternative Spring Breaks – learn about political and social community dynamics while becoming a catalyst for collaborative social change
Internships – earn credits while serving through internship opportunities through the Career Center
Volunteering and Internships for Nursing Students – see the volunteer and internship possibilities you have on a region by region basis and understand why this work matters

International Partnership for Service-Learning – serve internationally through The IPSL
Education Abroad – learn internationally in a different country
Work U – gain 3 Upper Division credits while also working 10 hrs / week at an organization
Service-Learning Job Openings – work with the service-learning program to support students, faculty, and community partners on and off campus!
United Way of Treasure Valley – a collaborative organization that funds and supports local non-profits and initiatives

Planning for After Graduation?

Connect with the larger community – there are many communities that are eager to have you serving alongside them.

Peace Corps – serve internationally with Peace Corps
AmeriCorps – serve America through AmeriCorps
VISTA – Volunteers in Service to America is an AmeriCorps program
City Year – volunteers tutor and mentor students at risk of dropping out of school

IPSL – serve internationally through The International Partnership for Service-Learning graduate program.
IVPA – International Volunteer Programs Association
JVC (NW) – responding to local needs after being placed in a community with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Financial Volunteer – use your personal finance expertise to help those in need within your community by following the information and guidance provided here!