Community Service is central to the T1L1 program.  Clark County T1L1 students contributed hundreds of hours in community service during the 2013-2014 School year.

Students in T1L1 are guided through planning and carrying out a service learning project.

Mentors do this each year for several reasons: 

• We want to help bring the Universal Principles that we teach each week to life.
• Allow a student to feel valuable to society.
• Foster an initiative in young people to continue serving the community.

During the 2013-2014 School Year the following Community Service Projects were planned and carried out by students with mentor and teacher guidance.

Fort Vancouver High School

• Students went to Martin Luther King Elementary in Vancouver, WA to teach what they had learned about leadership to 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders.
• Students assisted at the Giving Closet in Vancouver, WA in their efforts to provide clothing for low-income families.
• Students helped the local little league prepare for the upcoming season by striping lines, cleaning trash, and racking the fields.
• Students wrote letters of encouragement to the Wounded Warriors at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.  Over 150 letters were collected from Clark County T1L1 students.
• Students made custom colorful pillow cases that were sent to US Armed Forces members in the Middle East to brighten their world.
• Students assisted at the Share House in their efforts to provide support to the homeless population in Vancouver, WA.

 Hudson’s Bay High School

• Students spent 4 hour sessions cleaning the “Pond Area” of their campus.  Students raked, planted grasses, weeded, tore out noxious weeds, and sifted soils.
• Students wrote letters of encouragement to the Wounded Warriors at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.  Over 150 letters were collected from Clark County T1L1 students.
• Students made custom colorful pillow cases that were sent to US Armed Forces members in the Middle East to brighten their world.

Prairie High School

• Students cleaned the outdoor pre-school area of their campus.  Students raked bark chips and cleaned play equipment.  Students also spent time encouraging the pre-school students.
• Students wrote letters of encouragement to the Wounded Warriors at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.  Over 150 letters were collected from Clark County T1L1 students.
• Students made custom colorful pillow cases that were sent to US Armed Forces members in the Middle East to brighten their world.
• Students participated in a project with the Battle Ground Mentor Collaborative to decorate and paint a “buddy chair” for encouraging playground friendship at the elementary schools.

Mountain View High School

• Students helped plan and carry out an all staff BBQ that coincided with National Teacher Appreciation week in May 2014.  T1L1 students prepared and served food, greeted and thanked teachers, and cleaned up.  The teachers were honored to have such a nice lunch.
• Students packed over 100 sack lunches for a local homeless shelter called WHO.
• Students wrote notes of encouragement to the entire staff of their school including classified, certificated, and administration.
• Students wrote hundreds of positive notes and placed them on lockers throughout their school; and cleaned up at the end of the day.   Students wanted to affirm other students in their school.

Sifton Elementary School

• Students designed and made a custom “Quilt” that will be a permanent display on campus in the Library.  Students carefully made drawings of each Universal Principle and then artistically created quilt squares using a transferring process with dye.  A professional wood frame finished the legacy project.
• Students designed and carried out a pet food drive to benefit the Humane Society of Southwest Washington.  Cans and bags of pet food were donated to the Humane Society.  Students were encouraged by Humane Society Staff to participate as junior docents at the humane society and several students wanted to sign up as volunteers.