Community Action Program

Building Leadership through Service Learning

A major curricular theme at June Jordan is Community Action. Through Service Learning internships that require intellectual curiosity as well as civic and political engagement, we help students to develop their voices, identify their passions, and shape their own visions for the future. Students participate in a Service Learning internship for three hours each week. In the process, students hone their professional skills and develop a commitment to being a force for positive change in their communities.

Students in the Junior Institute (9th and 10th graders) spend one afternoon weekly volunteering their time, energy, and skills at a local school or community organization. Service Learning provides an opportunity for our students to:

• Earn academic credit for community service and reflection
• Strengthen their connections to the greater community
• Deepen their knowledge of math and reading concepts as they work to explain them to younger students.

Senior Institute (11th and 12th graders) take service learning a step further with a Community Action Internship, an intensive weekly internship at an organization connected to their passions. As part of the Senior Institute, each student completes a Community Action project, a real world example of social change led by a young person. Some Community Action Internship sites include:

• Idriss Stelley Foundation
• Bank of America
• Barbizon School of Modeling
• Bernal Heights Recreation Center
• Best Care Day Care
• Boys & Girls Club (The Village)
• Bryant Elementary (tutor/teacher's assistant)
• California Pacific Medical Center
• Carter Terrace Community Center
• Center for Young Women's Development
• Children's Day School
• City Dental
• Cleveland Elementary
• Coalition of Essential Schools
• Dance Mission
• District Attorney’s Office
• Compañeros del Barrio Preschool
• Critical Resistance
• CYO - Mission DayCare
• Dr. Joseph Gabany's Dental Office
• Excelsior Boys & Girls Club
• Excelsior Family Connections
• Filipino Community Center
• FranDelJA
• Freedom Archives
• Geneva Eye Care
• GSA Network
• Healthy Children Pantry @ Cobb Elementary
• Hillcrest Elementary
• HOMEY – Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth
• InnerCHANGE
• Mayor's Office of Education
• Hydra Mendoza for School Board Campaign
• Meals On Wheels
• Mission Grafica
• Cameron House
• SEIU Local 87
• PODER – People Organized to Demand Economic & Environmental Rights
• MYEEP
• YouthWorks
• Our Family Coalition
• Out of Site Center for Arts Education
• Paul Revere Elementary
• Reveu Furnishings
• Sailing Center
• San Francisco Mime Troupe
• San Francisco Organizing Project
• Senator Carole Migden's Office
• SF Youth Empowerment Fund/CHALK
• SFC - Straight Forward Club Boxing Gym
• Somerset Restaurant
• Southeast Community College
• St. Elizabeth School
• St. Luke's Hospital
• Sunset Youth Services
• Up on Top After School Program
• Visitacion Valley Boys & Girls Club
• Visitacion Valley Peer Resource Center
• Women's Community Clinic
• WORLD
• YMAC - Youth Making A Change
• YMCA, Mission
• Young Community Developers
• Youth Outlook! Magazine

Interested in mentoring a Community Action intern at your non-profit or community-based organization? Community Action Internship Overview (PDF)

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