Building capacity through community service in Southwest West Virginia
Listening Projects are an unscientific way to assess community needs by simply listening to people answer questions based around a topic. In Winter 2009, Step by Step VISTAs developed a set of questions to find out what mattered to community members in Southern West Virginia. After interviewing several people, multiple themes arose, but the topic [...]
Fri, June 26 2009 » Life/Job Skill Development, Listening Projects » Comments Off
The “Green Team” is a group of Charleston area youth trained to do energy audits where they go into people’s homes and show them how to weatherize their houses so that they can save money on their energy bill, and help curb global warming in the process. Step by Step VISTA members have been trained [...]
Fri, June 26 2009 » Green Team, Life/Job Skill Development, Sustainability » Comments Off
The Front Porch project teaches youth how to do basic building repairs like painting, putting in windows, putting in a front porch, landscaping, etc. for community members in need. Not only does this help connect young people to their community members, but it also helps beautify the area and it teaches youth teamwork and life [...]
Fri, June 26 2009 » Front Porch Project, Life/Job Skill Development, Service Learning » Comments Off
Energy Express is a six-week summer program promoting the school success of children living in rural and low-income communities across West Virginia by: • Providing summer learning experiences focused on reading. • Serving two nutritious family-style meals each day. • Engaging college students in service through AmeriCorps. • Developing strong partnerships involving parents, schools, communities, [...]
Fri, June 26 2009 » Big Ugly Community Center, Education Support, Energy Express, Health and Wellness, Literacy, Service Learning » Comments Off
Youth between the ages of 14 and 20 are invited to sign up for a free Summer of Service program which will run Monday through Friday from June 22 – August 7th in Charleston. Participants will explore digital photography, graphic design, building repairs, business basics, computer repairs, service projects, tree planting, stream testing, swimming, field [...]
Mon, June 8 2009 » ***Volunteer/Work Opportunities***, Arts & Culture, Bullying Awareness & Prevention, Computer Rebuilding Project, East End Family Resource Center, Education Support, Leadership Development, Life/Job Skill Development, Project FLOW, R.E.A.L Program, Service Learning, Summer of Service Program, Sustainability, Technology » Comments Off
There will be a workshop held on Monday, April 27 from 7:00 am to 9:00 am to educate Lincoln County High School students’ parents on how to use EdLine to check grades and communicate with teachers, as well as the Counselor’s Corner on the web page, and how to keep their children safe online. To [...]
Tue, April 21 2009 » Community Events, Education Support, Health and Wellness, Life/Job Skill Development, Lincoln County High School, Lincoln County Youth & Prevention Coalition, Technology » Comments Off
Thursday, April 23 the Youth Build workers – to help celebrate Global Youth Service Day – will be working with the afterschool children at Beards Fork Community Center, to create a community garden from 3:30 – 5:00 pm. They need and welcome all the help they can get. They expected to receive some donations of [...]
Tue, April 21 2009 » ***Volunteer/Work Opportunities***, Community Events, Education Support, Life/Job Skill Development, Service Learning, Southern Appalachian Labor School, Sustainability » Comments Off
Tim Craddock, Coordinator of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s Save Our Streams program, trained Project FLOW (Future Leaders of Watersheds) Instructors in water quality monitoring on Friday March 20th from 9 – 4PM at the Big Ugly Community Center in Lincoln County. Eleven people attended the training, including Project FLOW teachers, afterschool leaders [...]
Mon, April 20 2009 » Big Ugly Community Center, Life/Job Skill Development, Project FLOW, Sustainability » Comments Off
Step by Step sponsored a Volunteer Fair at West Virginia State University (WVSU) on February 25, 2009. Marketing VISTA, Laura Herberg, who sometimes works out of Step by Step’s Service Learning Internship office at WVSU, decided to plan this event upon learning that no other like it was on the annual calendar at the university. [...]
Thu, April 16 2009 » Community Events, Community Shares of West Virginia, East End Family Resource Center, Education Support, Leadership Development, Service Learning, Service Learning Internship Program, West Virginia State University » Comments Off
Below is a copy of this Op-Ed piece which was printed in the Charleston Gazette. To view the version on wvgazette.com go here. Op-Ed Commentaries February 10, 2009 Against all odds, I wanted to go to college. When I was in high school, my stepfather went to prison, leaving my Mom, my little sister and [...]
Fri, April 10 2009 » ***Press***, Education Support, Leadership Development, Life/Job Skill Development, Service Learning, Southern Appalachian Labor School » Comments Off
![Step by Step WV posted a photo: Bonner Scholars from Earlam College in Indiana listened to a panel discussion of long-term West Virginia activists arranged by Step by Step's Executive Director Michael Tierney in April 2009. Afterward, the students interviewed the panelists on tape so that their [the activist's] stories can be adapted to digital stories.](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2676/3808418455_07d468b4db_t.jpg "Step by Step WV posted a photo: Bonner Scholars from Earlam College in Indiana listened to a panel discussion of long-term West Virginia activists arranged by Step by Step's Executive Director Michael Tierney in April 2009. Afterward, the students interviewed the panelists on tape so that their [the activist's] stories can be adapted to digital stories.")
