Week Two: Day Three and Four Participants begin to turn a vision into action as a community.

Today’s Suggested Activities

• Community Service Project

• Paper Plate Awards

Materials needed for day

• Room to Move Around

• Paper Plates

• Art Supplies

• Materials Needed Should be Decided by Participants

Week Two: Day Three and Four Community Service Project

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Participants spend the day planning community service project.

Directions: Follow the service activity planning process:

• In large group, go through service planning process.

• Identify sub-committees to work on various aspects of the plan.

• Sub-committees gather to work on their tasks. Make a work plan.

  • Identify individual responsibilities.

  • Establish due dates.

  • Work in minute detail.

• Finish each planning day with a group meeting reporting on the progress of each sub-committee.

• Identify decisions that should be made by the entire group and those that should be made by the sub-committee.

• Site Visit (if one is to be made)

  • Group prepares by making a list of information needed and assignments are made.

Service Project Planning

1. Identify the project to be planned.

2. Identify the community partner.

3. Identify the date of the project.

4. Project Tasks:

Logistics:

Identify Community Partner and describe project in detail: task, site, date, contact information, any special instructions of how to complete task. Are there other people the participants should meet besides the contact agency? (example: the task is to paint a deck for a senior citizen, where is the site, when, who, how)

Materials: What is needed and who will provide?

(host site may provide or participants will have to seek contributions - example: paint, brushes, clean up solution, drop cloths, etc.)

Transportation: How will participants get to the site?

How will the materials get to the site?

Budget: What is the cost?

Is there enough in the We Lead! budget?

Is it necessary to get other partners to help?

Will there be money left for a neighborhood party?

Food: How will the participants get lunch, drinking water?

Bathrooms: Where can the participants use a bathroom?

Media: Work to get media attention for your project and the We Lead! Program.

Participant Instructions:

Are there things the participants must learn before the service project might be successful?

Other: Every project is unique and may have additional tasks to add to the list.

Service Project Work Plan

Tasks	Responsible Person or sub-committee	Completion Date

This chart should be used for both the overall project and for sub-committee work plans.

Paper Plate Awards

Time:

Source:

Purpose: Each member will give a custom, personal award from their group.

Directions:

Participants break into two groups and go into separate rooms. Have the participants in each group make awards for the other group so each member will have one award made for them on a paper plate. After every member has been made an award participants can make more awards if they wish for other members. Examples of awards have been a paper plate decorated as a turtle with the award being, “Came out of their Shell” award. Other awards have been, ‘Most Improved Leader,’ and ‘The “I’ll Do IT!!!’ award for a student who always said, “I’ll do it, I’ll do it!!!”