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About Foundations Community Partnership Students Making a Difference in the Community Doylestown, PA (June 3, 2010) - Fourteen college students from Bucks County have been chosen to participate in Foundations Community Partnership's Summer Youth Corps, which sponsors paid student internships at local non-profit human service agencies in Bucks County. Focusing on non-profit human service agencies providing services to children, youth and families, the Summer Youth Corps offer interns the ability to gain practical experience while helping to effect positive change in the community. This is the third year in a row that Foundations has offered the internship program. Non-profit agencies have the benefit of additional helping hands and the students gain meaningful work experience with groups that are making a difference in Bucks County. "Service learning is a wonderful way of integrating community service with academic study," said Ron Bernstein, Executive Director of Foundations Community Partnership. "We are glad to be able to provide students with the opportunity to learn civic responsibility and enrich their communities. I am also pleased that many of our Partnership in Education winners have been selected for the Summer Youth Corps so they can broaden their community service endeavors." Through a relationship with Bucks County Community College, students are able to experience "service learning", a form of experiential education where students learn to solve community problems and achieve real objectives for the community while earning college credits. Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Service-learning is different from volunteerism in that it is a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. This year's Summer Youth Corps is led by Field Supervisor Sarah Inver, a graduate student at Widener University, where she is earning a PsyD in Clinical Psychology. Students in the 2010 Summer Youth Corps program have been placed in the following locations: Croydon resident Melissa Arnold will be assisting the American Red Cross Homeless Shelter in Levittown. She is attending Kutztown University and majoring in Social Work. New Hope resident Logan Cawley will work at Bucks County Council, Boy Scouts of America in Doylestown. He is attending Penn State University, majoring in biology. Perkasie resident Kelsey Detweiler will be working at NOVA in Jamison. She attends Penn State University and is a Print Journalism major. New Britain resident Gabe Hurtado will work at Pearl S. Buck International in Dublin. He attends Muhlenberg College. Doylestown resident Melanie Frank will do her internship at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown. She is mathematics major at Penn State University. Warminster resident Pavan Kottamasu will be working at Habitat for Humanity in Chalfont. He attends Cornell University. Quakertown resident Amanda Kinnon will work at Aark Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center, Inc. in New Britain. She is in the Biology Pre-Vet program at Lycoming College. Bensalem resident Daphne Lam will work at the YWCA of Bucks County in Trevose. She is a business major at Villanova University. Penndel resident Jackie Matzke will be working at Special Equestrians in Warrington. She attends Penn State Mont Alto and is majoring in wildlife management. Doylestown resident Mallory Pie will assist Central Bucks Family YMCA in Doylestown. She is studying sports management at Xavier University. Fairless Hills resident Amanda Ramus will join Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, She attends Kutztown University. Ivyland resident Andrew Sklar will be working at Upper Bucks YMCA in Quakertown. He is a business major at Bentley College. Doylestown resident Allison Serpico will work at the Community Conservatory in Doylestown. She is studying French/Education at Haverford College. Washington Crossing resident Richard Yahn will be working at Penndel Mental Health Center Life Program. He graduated from Bucks County Community College and will be studying psychology at LaSalle University. Students who have completed their freshman through junior year at college and who are residents of Bucks County are eligible to participate in Foundations Community Partnership's Summer Youth Corps. The 10-week service-learning program runs from June 1 through Aug. 6. Internships are subsidized by Foundations Community Partnership. ### |
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