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FIELDWORK OPPORTUNITIES / PROJECT IDEAS

Download: Fieldwork Options: VolunteerMatch.Com - Spring 2010

Download: FIELDWORK RESOURCE GUIDE

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Archive: Senior Project Workshops

 

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FIELDWORK - Last Chance Opportunities!

If you still need fieldwork ideas for your Senior Project, you can view & print this helpful document!

 Download Fieldwork - Last Chance - Spring 2010

Opportunities include working with the following organizations:

* Free Library of Philadelphia

* The Village of Arts and Humanities

* Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas

* MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Society

* Philadelphia Reads

To view the Fieldwork Resource Guide, please visit - http://phennd.typepad.com/phillyseniorprojects/2009/11/fieldwork-fieldwork-resource-guide.html

FIELDWORK: PennCORD Civic Opportunities Fair

Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to find fieldwork for your Senior Project!

 

FIELDWORK: Mural Arts Program - Youth Action & Art Digital Media Class

Mural Arts Program is recruiting students for our Youth Action & Art afterschool class in mid-February. Details are as follows:

Session dates:  Every Wednesday, February 17 to  June 9, 2010, 3:30 to 6:30 pm

Description:  Youth Action & Art students will explore existing youth media web-based content and learn to take a critical eye towards youth media.  Students will then explore art in their own communities and create their own digital media, including photography, writing, and video, and learn how to publish their media to a website.  Most classes will take place at Mural Arts Program, 1727 Mt. Vernon Street, Philadelphia, with occasional field trips to be scheduled.

Open to any high school student in Philadelphia, FREE of charge!  Space is limited - application  required.

Visit www.youthactionandart.org for samples of previous students' work.

Interested students can complete the application and return to Maneesha Sane (maneesha.sane@muralarts.org) by Thursday,  February 11th.  

Download Mural Arts - Application Winter 2010

Download Mural Arts - Digital Media Workshop

FIELDWORK OPEN HOUSES: Spring 2010

TOPICS RELATED TO: HIV/AIDS, sexual health, gender, identity, body image

 

Youth Health Empowerment Project (Y-HEP)

Tuesday, Feb. 2nd

4-6 pm

112 N. Broad St., 9th Floor

JFK Building; Philadelphia PA 19102

 

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TOPICS RELATED TO: race & culture, African American History, healthy youth & communities, political awareness, youth violence, violence in the media, child neglect, foster care, adoption

 

Temple Youth Voices

Thursday, Feb. 4th

4 pm

Temple University’s Anderson Hall, Room 102 @ 11th & Berks St. (take elevator to 1st floor)

 

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TOPICS RELATED TO: bullying, gangs, gun violence, international peace efforts

 

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)

Tuesday, Feb. 9th

3:30 pm

704 North 23rd St.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130

 

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TOPICS RELATED TO: mental health, body image

 

Penn Office of Health Education (OHE)** Rescheduled!

Thursday, Feb. 18th

3:30-4:30 pm

3535 Market Street, 1st Floor

Movie Screening Event: Call+Response

If your Senior Project is about Human Trafficking, a new club at UPenn's campus, Moral Voices, is hosting a FREE MOVIE SCREENING. Attend and participate in this event and work towards getting your fieldwork hours!

Moral Voices Movie Screening: Call+Response 

MONDAY, FEB . 1ST, 2010

7:30 - 9:30 pm 

Event Details
Moral Voices, a new initiative raising awareness of and combating human trafficking, is screening Call+Response, a movie which brings together celebrities and public figures including Madeline Albright, Ashley Judd, Natasha Bedingfield, Matisyahu and Nicholas Kristof to speak about and fight modern day slavery.

Contact Information:
Event Contact Name: Rachel Cohen

LOCATION
Shotel Dubin Auditorium (2nd floor)

Penn Hillel
215 S. 39th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
P: 215-898-7391

FIELDWORK: VolunteerMatch.Com - Spring 2010

Click the link below to download and view possible fieldwork/volunteer opportunities via VolunteerMatch.com (http://www.volunteermatch.com). 

Please contact the organization directly for more information:

 Download Senior Projects VolunteerMatch - Spring 2010

FIELDWORK: Volunteer with the Sierra Club!

VOLUNTEER WITH THE SIERRA CLUB!

They have multiple ways for students to volunteer. There is the Climate Recovery Project related to global warming and clean energy. Engaging friends, colleagues and neighbors in getting petitions signed for legislation in Congress.

Contact Jason Brady at Jason.Brady@sierraclub.org if you would like to get more info

PAPER: Sources for Your Research Paper

Here are more potential sources for your research paper!

DRUGS & ALCOHOL

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/teens-parents-open-role-models-drugs-alcohol/story?id=8774499

ABUSE 

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/parents-struggle-break-cycle-abuse/story?id=8549642

PARENTING

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/10-tips-parents-defiant-children/story?id=8549664

TEEN PREGNANCY / RESOURCES

Unplanned Pregnancy Changes Teen's Life

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/10-tips-parents-defiant-children/story?id=8549664

Finding Safe Haven at the Center of a National Debate

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=7901532&page=1

Teen Pregnancy Resources

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=7884899&page=1

Teen Pregnancy: A Day-in-the-Life

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=7851069&page=1

Teen Dad Puts Dreams on Hold for Family

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=7860891&page=1

RESEARCH PAPER: Articles/Sources For Your Research Paper

For possible sources for your research paper, the U.S. Department of Justice - Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention has a comprehensive archive of articles with many topics ranging from health to gangs, violence to substance use/abuse. 

PUBLICATIONS - U.S. Department of Justice 

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubResults.asp

Publications/articles include: 

(*Click on PDF to download the article) 

• Children's Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey 
  
• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009 
  
• Court Performance Measures in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases 
  
• Highlights of the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey 
  
• Co-Occurrence of Substance Use Behaviors in Youth 

FIELDWORK: Fieldwork Resource Guide

Download and print out your own copy of the Fieldwork Resource Guide! 

All organizations listed in this guide have been personally contacted by PHENND as fieldwork sites for high school students. 

Please contact the organizations directly for more info.

Download Fieldwork - Resource Guide Listing