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Adopt-a-family (Omaha, NE)
This program links Creighton University organizations with families residing in local homeless shelters.
Computer Club (Omaha, NE)
This Creighton Prep program refurbishes donated computers to send to Africa through the computers for Africa, a non-profit group started by a Jesuit and an Ignatian Associate
Computers for Africa (Omaha, NE)
CFA refurbishes and delivers computers to Eastern Africa. In all of our services, CFA encourages the strengthening of African relationships. By the time we leave an area, schools have generally formed their own Association for on-going support.
How do we do it? Techies, grandmothers, students, military, business people working as a USA team, refurbish and package PC labs for 30 African schools a year.
CFA fosters international relationships bringing USA refurbishers and African beneficiaries together to celebrate and learn about each other.
Creighton at Bryant Resource Center (Omaha, NE)
Creighton at Bryant Resource Center serves the city's African American community through support for small business. The Center also provides computer and web access to individuals. In partnership with other organizations, the Center provides Introductory and Advanced IT training for individuals residing in Omaha’s near north side. 676 people completed at least one IT class through the center over a two year period. 59% of the students were women, 82% were African American. More than 60 adults completed an entrepreneurial 12-week training course, and 50% of these adults went on to open a small business.
Creighton Cardoner Program (Omaha, USA)
Cardoner at Creighton began in January 2003 with funding from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., Cardoner intends to assist Creighton in the continued realization of Creighton's Mission Statement.
To accomplish this, Cardoner at Creighton provides the university community with opportunities to explore and reflect upon how faith, their personal lives, and their professional lives interrelate.
Cardoner's mission reflects Creighton's central commitment to creating an academic community where life choices, especially regarding one's life work, are discerned and made in a context of reflection, faith, prayer, and community.
Creighton Center for Health Policy Ethics (Omaha, USA)
The Center assists professionals, policy makers and the general public in clarifying ethical issues and in making health care and health policy more just and humane. To that end, CHPE conducts workshops, conferences and consultations on ethics and social issues in health care and health policy.
In addition, individual faculty members provide service across CUMC, the University, and the community at large through membership on boards and committees in health care, the health sciences, and the arts.
Creighton Center for Service and Justice (Omaha, NE)
The CCSJ seeks to engage students in direct service with persons who suffer and experience injustice in order to awaken the desire and develop the capacity to act with and on behalf of the poor and marginalized.
Creighton Magis Teacher Corps (Omaha, USA)
Magis Catholic Teacher Corps recruits college graduates who view education as their vocation and their ministry. In a spirit of service, our teachers respond to the question “what more can I do for Christ?” by making a two-year commitment to teach in under-resourced Catholic schools. During these two years, teachers live together in intentional Christian community as they pursue educational, professional, and spiritual development.
Creighton Medical School Magis Clinic (Omaha, NE)
Magis Clinic was established by Creighton students to serve disadvantaged and homeless populations in Omaha. The Magis Clinic, with assistance from our partners, provides free healthcare and referrals to existing community services. It is the only free medical clinic in Omaha open on Saturdays that treats homeless men, women, children, and the medically uninsured.
Creighton Online Minsistry (Omaha, NE)
This well-known and utilized resource provides on-line Ignatian spiritual reflection and other resources to serve faith and promote justice (presentations, on-line book readings, etc)
Creighton University Project Homeless Connect (Omaha, NE)
Since 2007, Project Homeless Connect is a one-day event held at Creighton that serves as a "one-stop shop", connecting homeless individuals to needed services, including: housing, healthcare, legal resources, Social Security, food-stamp benefits, and employment. Creighton University President Fr. John Schlegel who has served as chair and host of the event noted in 2010: 330 individuals were provided housing information, 80 moved into housing, more than 100 have received new dentures, and 540 received some form of health care-related service and of those 80 percent receiving follow-up treatment.
Food pantry and rent assistance program (Omaha, NE)
St. Benedict the Moor Parish sponsors a chapter of the St. Vincent de Paul society which runs a food pantry at the parish as well as other services to homeless and low income people.
Habitat for Humanity (Omaha, NE)
Creighton Prep students, parents, faculty, and alumni help to build TWO Habitat for Humanity homes on Fridays and Saturdays each summer:
Institute for Latin American Concern (Omaha, NE)
The ILAC Center in the Dominican Republic is an international, Catholic, Ignatian-inspired, collaborative health care and educational organization that exists to promote the integral well-being and spiritual growth of all participants. It is built upon the values of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits (Society of Jesus).
All of Creighton's ILAC programs emphasize the importance of global vision and understanding in the process of educating well-rounded individuals. To this end it offers dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy, law, physical therapy and occupational therapy, undergraduate and high school students, and also to faculty-led groups, medical/surgical teams and other colleges the opportunity for service-learning and immersion experiences in the rural Dominican Republic.
Justice and Peace Studies (Omaha, NE)
A multidisciplinary program in the Creighton College of Arts & Sciences, is a response to the challenge of Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Superior General of the Jesuits, to "educate the whole person for solidarity with the real world."
Justice For Immigrants (Omaha, NE)
Kripke Center: for the Study of Religion and Society (Omaha, NE)
The Kripke Center is dedicated to facilitating scholarly activity in the areas of religion and society in the form of research, publications, conferences, seminars, symposia, lectures, and fora.
Operation Others (Omaha, NE)
Operation Others is a Creighon Prep outreach program which delivers food to 1400 families each Christmas season.
Service Immersion Trips (Omaha, NE)
Prep ILAC (Institute for Latin American Concern) has sent students to live and work in the Dominican Republic since 1993. Each year, students spend two weeks living with a Dominican family and working on a project based on a determined need of the campo. Throughout the trip, students are immersed in the culture of the Dominican Republic through their contact with the families, work, trips to Haitian migrant villages, excursions in the Dominican city of Santiago, and one day in the primarily tourist region on the north coast of the island. The goal of the program is to provide each participant with a valuable cross-cultural experience in the context of Christian service in the tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola
The Civil Law Clinic, Creighton University Law School (Omaha, NE)
The Civil Law Clinic offers free legal assistance on civil matters to low-income residents of Douglas County, Nebraska. The clinic operates as a small law firm, staffed by law students under the supervision of the Clinic Director, Professor Catherine Mahern, Connie Kearney Chair in Clinical Legal Education. The Clinic's bilingual, Spanish-speaking attorney takes appointments for Spanish-speaking clients at Latina Resource Center and Juan Diego Center in South Omaha. Her focus is primarily civil law and some immigration issues. This externship will expose the student to substantive areas of immigration law and regulations regarding removal, asylum, waivers, citizenship and family-based petitions, and how those are applied in actual cases.
