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Explore Social Issues

The Office of Community Service Learning strives to connect outreach activities with social justice issues that face our community. Knowing how to identify social injustices is the first step toward eliminating them. Explore the following social issues and contact us with any you would like to see added to this list!

AIDS

Online resources:

• www.aids.org
• www.aidsquilt.org

Local resources:

• Lifeline AIDS Project (www.open.org/lifeline)

Disabilities

Online resources:

• www.aapd.com
• www.disabilities-online.com
• www.specialolympics.org

Local resources:

• Garten Services
• Children's Guild Easter Seals
• Oregon School for the Blind

Domestic Violence

Online resources:

• www.ncadv.org

Local resources:

• Women's Crisis Shelter
• Liberty House
• Family Building Blocks (www.familybuildingblocks.org)

Environment

Online resource:

• www.ncseonline.org
• www.epa.gov

Local resources:

• Salem Parks
• Pringle Creek Watershed Council
• Oregon Peace Works

Homelessness

Online resources:

• csf.colorado.edu/homeless
• www.nationalhomeless.org

Local resources:

• Salem Outreach Shelter
• HOST Youth Shelter
• Union Gospel Mission (www.ugmsalem.org)
• Habitat for Humanity (www.open.org/~sahfh)

Hunger

Online resources:

• www.bread.org
• www.oxfamamerica.org/art1716.html

Local resources:

• Marion-Polk Food Share (www.foodbanksalem.org)
• Salvation Army (www.salvationarmy.org)
• Union Gospel Mission (www.ugmsalem.org)

Illiteracy

Online resources:

• indian-river.fl.us/living/services/als/facts.html
• www.ed.gov/inits/americareads

Local resources:

• Reading Buddies at local elementary schools
• Teach ESL (English as a Second Language) through Chemeketa

Mental Illness

Online resources:

• www.nami.org/illness/whatis.html

Local resources:

• Oregon State Hospital

Migrant Workers

Online resources:

• www.pdhre.org/rights/migrants.html
• web-and-flow.com/members/awolinsk/migrants/hotlist.htm

Local resources:

• Mano a Mano
• Causa
• PCUN

State resource: