Vallejo Community 101: How can Learn and Serve America benefit Vallejo?

November 10, 10:31 AMVallejo Community ExaminerPatricia Kutza

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This Thursday, November 9th, 2009, you have another opportunity to share your viewpoints and experience at a California Maritime Academy-sponsored Learn and Serve America town hall meeting being held in Vallejo (see time-and-place information below).

 If the words Learn and Serve America don't ring a bell with you, that's understandable.   So many  of us are operating on information-overload, and choosing the phrases we remember gets to be a full-time task.

But consider committing  these four words to your permanent memory bank:  Learn and Serve America, because the initiatives powered by this new federal program may make a big difference in the quality of your life and the ones you love in the not-too-distant future.

Learn and Serve America provides direct and indirect support to K-12 schools, community groups and higher education institutions to facilitate service-learning projects by:

• Providing grant support for school-community partnerships and higher education institutions;
• Providing training and technical assistance resources to teachers, administrators, parents, schools and community groups; and
• Collecting and disseminating research, effective practices, curricula, and program models.

Learn and Serve America grew out of  Serve America, a program created under the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to distribute grants in support of service-learning with the goal of enhancing the civic dimensions of youth. Read more about its history.

 Vivienne McClendon, Director of the California Maritime Academy's Center for Engagement, Teaching & Learning, told the Vallejo Community Examiner that the main goal of this Thursday's town hall meeting is to identify specific projects that will be a good match for this grant support. 

It's all about nurturing partnerships.  Other contributing sponsors to Thursday's town hall meeting event include the Global Center for Success, the EdFund and the Vallejo Housing Authority.

Have you read these other Vallejo Community 101 postings? 

• Where are the best free places to picnic in Vallejo?
• Where is the Vallejo Baylink Ferry Terminal?
• What is the Temple of Odin?
• What are white bengal tigers doing in Vallejo?
• How do you change careers and become a tiger trainer?
• Where are more free places to picnic in Vallejo? 
• Where is the nearest bocce ball court?
• What is the Filipino-American National History Society?
• What is the Solano Community Foundation?