Service Learning and Community Service for Teens

Service-Learning and Community Service
Opportunities with the Parks Department

Seattle Parks and Recreation has a wide range of service-learning and community service opportunities in your neighborhood community centers.

Please consult your counselor or teacher at your school to find what the requirements are for your respective school and have the project approved. Youth are responsible for supplying the appropriate paperwork to document service-learning and community service hours.

Please note, each of these opportunities requires youth who are responsible, dedicated, dependable, hardworking, trustworthy, self-motivated, detail oriented, and comfortable with working in small groups. Many of these opportunities are service based and require an understanding of customer service. The Parks Department would like the individual not only to have a fulfilling experience, but to be proud of the work that they have produced.

The experience will not only expand talents that the individual already has, but discover new hidden talents and
interests.

Each individual involved in the service-learning project will be required to record their thoughts and reflect on their experience in either a journal or by other means. This could include group discussions, photographs with captions, poetry, illustrations, or by other methods approved by the teacher or counselor in charge of servicelearning at the students’ school and also by the project supervisor.

If you are interested in any of the following service-learning or community service projects, or if you have any questions, please contact:

• Teen leaders at the community center of your choice
• Ron Mirabueno | ron.mirabueno@seattle.gov
  Ken Turner | KenO.Turner@seattle.gov
  (206) 233-3979

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