You will choose a community involvement for at least 5 hours which may include
volunteering at a soup kitchen, a charity event (e.g. walk, run), open 12 step meetings,
community meetings etc.
The community involvement was at opendoor community center in south hackensack,nj. It involved food distribution in a parking lot drive thru on day one 6/29/2024 (2 hrs from 8-10am). Day 2 was on 7/1/2024 which consisted of stocking, organizing inventory, counting the bags used for food distribution, and packing up bags with food items (rice, cans of beans, milk, eggs, cheese etc).
Think about the community in which you are involved: what does it look like? How many
people are involved (15 volunteers)? What is the purpose? How do people involve themselves? How
does that involvement address the problem?
Look in your text for information about sense of community, empowerment and other
relevant topics. Use information from the text and from 5 peer reviewed articles that
pertain to the topic (e.g. what works in the community, what doesn’t work, how to define
the community, particular issues to attend to in the community etc).
Write a 5-7 page paper about the community, your experience, research about the
community and the problem and future areas for research. Here is an outline:
I. Introduction: talk about what you are going to describe in the paper in an
overview format
II. Description of the community and the problem.
III. Description of your experiences in your community involvement
IV. Research about the community and the problem (at least 5 peer reviewed
journal articles in APA format and some information from your text)
V. Future areas for research: what needs to be explored that hasn’t really been
covered in the literature
VI. Conclusion
