This service project involves students helping to develop an educational awareness program that focuses on HIV prevention by increasing student knowledge about HIV. Students will work with their service learning liaison to discover what educational strategies will work best for taking this message to a variety of high school students.  Students will develop an AIDS/HIV prevention curriculum that they will then teach at local area high schools. 

This project involves students working with the outreach counselor from the Planned Parenthood office to engage in a dynamic campaign to encourage community and student awareness around issues of safe sex and the services offered by Planned Parenthood. Awareness activities include various activities such as staffing a campus table in the HUB and passing out contraception during a pub crawl. Students will learn how to facilitate a group discussion before taking the project to the public.

In this project, students will organize a rally at the local Women’s Clinic for the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers in March. Organizing will involve staffing an info table at the HUB, where students will pass out material about their upcoming event and encourage other students to attend.  Students will also post flyers in town and on campus to publicize their event.  Students are required to attend the event they organize.

For this project, students will work with the staff at the WRC to organize a fundraiser for the WRC.  The Center has an annual 5K run/walk, and students will be responsible for publicizing the event as well as helping during the run/walk.  Students should plan on developing a publicity strategy and will implement their publicity campaign in the weeks before the event. 

This project involves a variety of outreach activities to increase awareness of the LGBTA and to educate students about the various events sponsored by the LGBTA. In particular, students will table in the HUB as well as help with outreach and publicity for the upcoming LGBTA lectures and film series.  In addition to attending these events, students will announce these events in other Women's Studies courses.  

Students participating in this project will be responsible for organizing an educational booth for the “FRIEND” Program (a mentor program for young people in the community.)  This booth will be presented during their “Magical Science Day” at Mt. Nittany Middle School and at the "Spring Festival" at Mt. Nittany Middle School.  The group is free to develop the content and presentation of their booth, but the presentation should attempt to incorporate some aspect of gender into the presentation.  (Ex- famous women in science)

Students participating in this project will work with members of the food bank to organize the winter coat distribution for families with children.  Students will also work closely with their service learning liaison to think about the specific issues of poverty in our community.

This project will involve students meeting regularly with the Center for Women’s Students. Students will develop a bulletin board presentation to be installed in the Boucke Building. This service project will also require students to design a table display and staff an information booth at the HUB in an effort to raise awareness around issues of "chilly climate" for women on campus.  

Students working with Housing Transitions will be involved in developing a community awareness campaign to increase the visibility of the Emergency Shelter among State College residents. The purpose of the community awareness is increase references to the Shelter and to increase the rate of charitable giving in the community.

Students working with Stormbreak will be responsible for developing a community awareness campaign that will be used for fundraising as well as for creating familiarity with the organization.  Students will develop both a web-based and print-based portfolio for the Stormbreak group.