COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
PURPOSE:
Seabury Hall offers its Community Involvement Program as an opportunity for students to make a contribution to the larger Maui community. In providing students with greater exposure to community problems and issues, and with the chance to make an impact on the lives of others, this program strives to engage the students' generosity of spirit and broaden their perspectives.
Awareness of social needs and the responsibility of citizenship are so important to the total development of Seabury Hall students that successful completion of the Community Involvement Program is a graduation requirement.
GUIDELINES:
All upper school students must successfully complete the Community Involvement class as a requirement for graduation. This requirement may be completed during the sophomore, junior, or first semester of the senior year. Students may opt to participate in this program through a summer experience. Students who choose the summer option will still be required to attend the weekly school sessions held on Friday club-block during the fall semester.
The service must involve working with people, preferably the same person or group of people throughout the period, under adult supervision. Every semester several placement opportunities are presented to potential volunteers, and students choose, with guidance, where they will work. Students are further encouraged to create their own placement with faculty guidance.
Twenty hours of service must be completed, and if that 20 hours is completed before the end of the semester, the student volunteer will continue to attend/volunteer until the week prior to final exams.
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