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

Resources:

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

Animals

• CSL Handout

Disabilities

Resources:

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

Domestic Violence

Resources:

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

Education

• CSL Handout

Environment

Resources:

• CSL Handout
• www.ncseonline.org
• www.epa.gov
• Salem Parks

Homelessness

Resources:

• CSL Handout
• csf.colorado.edu/homeless
• www.nationalhomeless.org
• Union Gospel Mission (www.ugmsalem.org)
• Habitat for Humanity (www.open.org/~sahfh)
• Salem Outreach Shelter
• HOST Youth Shelter

Hunger

Resources:

• CSL Handout
• www.bread.org
• www.oxfamamerica.org/art1716.html
• Marion-Polk Food Share (www.foodbanksalem.org)
• Salvation Army (www.salvationarmy.org)
• Union Gospel Mission (www.ugmsalem.org)

Illiteracy

Resources

• indian-river.fl.us/living/services/als/facts.html
• www.ed.gov/inits/americareads
• Reading Buddies at local elementary schools
• Teach ESL (English as a Second Language) through Chemeketa

Mental Illness

Resources:

• CSL Handout
• www.nami.org/illness/whatis.html
• Oregon State Hospital

Migrant Workers

Resources:

• www.pdhre.org/rights/migrants.html
• web-and-flow.com/members/awolinsk/migrants/hotlist.htm
• Mano a Mano
• Causa
• PCUN
• Oregon Farm Worker Ministry