Mentor program

Campus Ministry is dedicated to educating and challenging the Canisius community on a variety of justice issues. We offer a variety of ways to become engaged in the pursuit of justice: social justice movie nights, justice newsletter, Ignatian Family Teach-ins, the annual Sleep-out in the Quad, For Your Consideration weekly emails, tabling on various peace and justice issues, and various speakers and trips.

The Centro Altagracia is dedicated to faith in action; promoting social justice through active collaboration with parishes, community organizations, and individuals and through initiatives that serve the needs of the community as those needs have been identified by the Hispanic community of northern Manhattan. We seek to awaken awareness within individuals of how their Catholic, Christian faith calls them to be aware of the issues impacting their community and to be engaged in action to address these issues. Among the Centro's programs are: Social/Pastoral Ministry Teams that serve as coordinators and catalysts for social awareness and action within parishes; H.E.L.P. (Hispanic Evangelization Leadership Program) that trains young adults for leadership roles within their parishes; and G.R.A.C.E. (Gaining Respect and Awareness through Community Education) which addresses the issue of domestic violence. The Centro also maintains a library of books and DVDs for community use.

The Dominican Outreach Center or Centro Altagracia de Fe y Justicia (Altagracia Center for Faith and Justice) was formed by the New York Province of the Society of Jesus in response to the unmet needs of the Dominican community of the Washington Heights area. In a period of slightly more than one year the Centro Altagracia has been able to make incredible strides in establishing itself in the community through its work with the ten parishes of the North Manhattan vicariate, various community organizations, and elected officials.
 

 The program requires students to accrue steadily more hours of volunteer service throughout the student's four year career.

The Christian Service Program at McQuaid Jesuit seeks to cultivate in its students a passion for social justice and a vocation to serve those in need. Through service, reflection, education, and advocacy we promote the formation that Fr. Arrupe challenged us to bring forth in our students. The activities, programs, projects, and service trips that the Christian Service Program coordinates all work towards the goal that our students will be "Men for Others."

	Program Philosophy Why are there community service requirements?
	Service Requirements Service themes and minimum hour requirements for each year.
	Service / Immersion Trips Photos from past trips and information about upcoming opportunities.
	Volunteer Opportunities Upcoming projects and links to service databases.
	Senior Capstone Project Overview presentation, placement suggestions, proposal worksheet, and more.
	Online Submission Form Submit your hours directly to Mrs. Stark for review.

Throughout the year, Regis students are asked to give their support to the needy, both in New York City and abroad. Support may be given in the form of money, goods (food and clothing), or labor (ranging from asking for donations to working in a soup kitchen and delivering food). Some appeals are made on an ad hoc basis; for instance, Regis students have worked to raise money for a parish in Chinatown, and for a grammar school in Harlem. With other organizations, the school has had a long-term relationship; for several years now, Regis students have raised funds and offered services to Part of the Solution (P.O.T.S.), a shelter for the homeless in the Bronx, and for the Yorkville Common Pantry, which serves the poor and hungry of the Upper East Side.

CFX organizes service trips that send groups of student volunteers for a few weeks during the summer to help build homes for people in need in Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mexico. The program also raises thousands of dollars each year to assist the sponsor organizations at the places of service. The group in Maryland works with First Fruits Farm, Tennessee works with Habitat for Humanity, while the group in Tijuana, Mexico, works with Esperanza International. There are also community service opportunities for all sophomores, juniors, and seniors

The Companions Program at Canisius High School offers the student an opportunity to respond to the Ignatian call to service. He is invited to grow in self-knowledge through an experience of service to and solidarity with the marginalized. A personal encounter with communities and individuals bearing the weight of poverty, weakness, and financial dependence challenges a young man to understand these conditions while acknowledging the poverty implicit in his own weaknesses, shortcomings, and dependence. Likewise, the companionship of this encounter affirms the goodness and potential implicit in his strengths. Drawing upon four central components of community, spirituality, justice, and simple living, Companions engages the Gospel message while challenging the student to embrace struggle and discomfort in an unfamiliar context. The program seeks to foster an ongoing desire to serve the needs of the other, coupled with a lifelong commitment to justice.

Program sites include New Jersey and Appalachia.

The Day Nursery offers a challenging preschool program that focuses on each child’s uniqueness and their social, emotional and cognitive growth. Our child-centered curriculum fosters learning through creative play. The “I am Special” program nurtures a sense of joy and self-esteem. Children explore their own special talents and learn to value and respect those of others. It is our goal that each child develop a strong sense of self and lifelong desire to learn.

The Day Nursery is an independently funded program of the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. The Nursery is nondenominational and accepts students of all religions, races and national origins.

The Center for Service and Justice (CSJ) offers a variety of opportunities for students to learn from, engage in and reflect on service and social justice.

Volunteer Opportunities- CSJ works with community partners near the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses to place students in a variety of service environments:
Volunteer Opportunities -Rose Hill
Volunteer Opportunities - Lincoln Center

Service Learning- CSJ helps students connect academics to volunteers experiences in the community through the Service Learning Program.
Service Learning Program

Internship Opportunities- Students can obtain paid and unpaid internship opportunities through CSJ, working in a variety of social service environments.
Internship Opportunities

Post-Graduate Vocational Discernment- CSJ helps connect students to long-term volunteer opportunities after graduation, as well as nonprofit careers in the New York area.
Post Graduate Opportunities

Integrated Service-learning Community- CSJ has developed an Integrated Serivce-Learning Community located in the Belmont neighborhood in the Bronx where students committ to ongoing volunteering during the year and participate in weekly reflection and community building activities.
Integrated Service-Learning Community

The Emmaus Group of St. Ignatius Loyola offers a safe environment, enriched by our faith, where we meet to share our sorrow, our stories, and our victories over sadness. As a community of faith, we find comfort in the promise of Jesus to be with us always.

The Feerick Center brings together the major stakeholders responsible for solving our most difficult urban social issues. Uniquely combining the insights of a think tank, the urgency inherent in a mission to achieve social justice, the balance required of a meditation center, and the educational mission of a law school, the Center will work with all parties to frame concrete and achievable solutions to the endemic problems plaguing the urban poor.  The Center also has a "senior lawyer program" designed to help retiring lawyers transition to pro-bono work.

Global Outreach is a cultural immersion and service program where Fordham students learn about various issues of social, economic, political and environmental injustice, while living a simple lifestyle that fosters communal and spiritual growth. We send teams of students consisting of approximately ten students, one student leader, and one chaperone to live, work, and learn with partnering organizations in approximately thirty locations throughout the United States and countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Global Outreach teams travel to collaborate with our partnering organizations during winter, spring, and summer break. The projects vary in both length and scope.Regardless of its focus, each project shares the ultimate goal of creating solidarity, learning about issues of poverty and injustice, and connecting the local with the global.

The Ignatian Social Justice is a group at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola made up of parishioners committed to raising awareness of current Catholic social teaching and addressing timely social justice issues. The volunteer group embraces the responsibility not only to act, but also to help inform parishioners and engage them in constructive change to promote peace and social justice

Students are taken on a spring break trip to work with materially disadvantaged people in a region outside of New York.

This clinic represents immigrants securing or maintaining lawful immigrant status in the United States. Most cases are before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s immigration agency, the U.S. Immigration Court, or federal court. Students conduct interviews, counsel clients, prepare evidence, draft legal documents, and represent clients in court hearings and agency interviews.
 

The Center responds to the clear need for service among some of New York City's most vulnerable populations and to the equally clear need to increase interdisciplinary collaboration in advocacy and service delivery. To this end, the Center is engaged in projects in the following three areas: Graduate Education and Professional Training, Community Collaboration and Advocacy, Research and Scholarship. The Center embodies Fordham University's simultaneous focus on excellence in education and scholarship and service to the community.

Each summer six to eight Regis students who are reasonably proficient in Spanish spend a month at the Working Boys’ Center in Quito, Ecuador. The Center was founded by Father John Halligan, S.J. to help street children and has now become a holistic family development center with a clinic and school attached. The Regis students work side by side with the Center’s full time volunteers tutoring, supervising recreation, and accompanying the Center’s clients at meals and mass.

This program is being expanded to include Haiti and possibly other locations.