This document provides information about an orientation day of service event being organized by the Center for Community Engaged Service & Learning (CCESL) at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. It gives details about the event logistics including transportation to service sites, expectations for participants, and check-in/out procedures. It also encourages student leaders to discuss the value of civic engagement and service with first-year students after the event.

1. August 21, 2018

3. Who We Are
Katie Flowers: Director
Jeremy Wattles: Associate Director
Shayne Feinberg, Program Coordinator
Amy Jackson Sellers, Geneva 2020 Program Coordinator
203 Trinity Hall x3825
E-mail serve@hws.edu

4. Where We Are
The Center is located on the
second floor of Trinity Hall.

5.  “We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected
by a thousand individual threads and along these
sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes and return to
us as results.” -Herman Melville
Community Service
Civic Engagement
Civic Leadership
Engaged Citizenship

6. Introducing CCESL to First Year
Students

7. Community Service
Orientation DOS
Days of Service
Holiday Gift Project
Blood Drive
Community Lunch
Program
Habitat For Humanity
Service-Learning
Classes
Civic Leadership
Club Leadership
POAP Guide
AR Coordinator
HWS Tutor Corps
Coordinator
Civic Leader for
CCESL Programs
Community Based
Research
Summer of
Service
Social Justice
Minor
Civic Engagement
POAP
HWS Votes
Community Sale
Alternative Spring Break
Geneva Heroes
America Reads
HWS Tutor Corps
Geneva 2020 House
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Service Learning Classes
Community Based
Research

8.  Example: Service and Sustainability
you’re riding in a bus toward your service site in Canandaigua
or Seneca Falls and you see this:
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 your FY students ask you – what IS that? What do you say?

9. 1.Personally Responsible Citizen
 Regularly recycles on their own
 Contributes to a food drive
2.Participatory Citizen
• Helps organize a recycling drive
• Helps organize a food drive
3.Justice Oriented Citizen
• Explores why our culture has so much waste and acts to
solve root causes
• Explores why people are hungry and acts to solve root
causes

16. …the moment you’ve all been waiting for

17. • Statement of values – 19th year
• Creating a culture of service
• doing something for others is part of being an HWS student/Geneva community
member
• Geneva 2020
 Every child enters school ready to learn
 Every student is supported, engaged, and succeeds in school
 Every graduate attains employment or a post-secondary credential
• Geneva Partnership - unique opportunity
• Small town with characteristics of a larger city
• What will you learn?
• What can you share with your FY students?
• How will you/they spend their time in Geneva?

18. • CCESL has been planning all summer
• 9am - 12noon
• 29 sites – 716 students
• Throughout Ontario and Seneca counties
• Working with community partners
• Serving with community members

19.  Habitat for Humanity
 NAACP Backpack Program
 Family Promise - homelessness
 Food Justice – fruit/veg storage for free distribution
 Rise Against Hunger meal packaging
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fffB1JfjW8
 Geneva Neighborhoods
 Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

20. Things you should know/tell your First Years
• Be on time; have a positive attitude
• Wear sneakers, depending on your site—wear long pants
• First years leave cell phones behind
• BRING PLENTY OF WATER!
• You are representing the Colleges.
• Do the kind of work that you are proud of!

21. First Year Orientation Day of Service – 25 Aug 2018: Dismissal Info
EVERYONE MUST WEAR CLOSED TOED SHOES
OM Name(s): + # of students: Camryn Seidel +11 from OM Group 26
Type and Location of Transportation: Bus 11, Medbury Lot
Site: North St. School, 400 North St, Geneva, NY
*Note: Your FY students must wear appropriate clothing. If they arrive Saturday morning at breakfast
without it, they must go back to their room and change before they may eat.
Project Details: Site Contact Person & Phone #: Eric Vailliancourt (585) 760 9904 – project details
TBD
If you have a problem, contact: Jeremy Wattles 315 450 6652 or Katie Flowers 716 983 5534
*Before Calling Jeremy/Katie, if you are lost: Put the address we gave you into your GPS app on your
smart phone, and/or call your site contact’s phone number.
*Before Calling Jeremy/Katie, if you reach your site and no one is there, call your site leader’s phone
number a couple of times. Wait 3-5 minutes. If no answer and no people to greet you, then call
Jeremy/Katie
Return & Check-In Procedure: You will walk back or your van/bus driver will bring you back to
campus. OMs must text Sydney Ferry (978) 806-5394 with your first and last name and the word
“BACK”.

22. Check out dismissal info
 If your group is split, figure out who will be going to which site
BEFORE Saturday
 Know whether you are on a bus, van, or walking
 Know where your bus/van will be parked
 Driving a van? Know when/where to get keys
 If you/your bus driver get lost, use address on your phone GPS
 Know your site contact name/phone number

23. • Assemble at 8:40am - PLEASE BE PROMPT
– collect any tools/gloves you may need
• Welcome, Photo, and President’s Greeting
• Dismissal begins at 9am
• Check dismissal sheets – fold/put in your lanyard/nametag
• Listen for your bus/van number and parking and depart when it is called
• Some groups will walk – listen for your site/location, depart when it is
called
• We will split some groups. There will always be one OM with part of a
group

24. • Once back to campus, text Sydney Ferry (978) 806-5394 with
your first and last name and the word “BACK”.
• Return any gloves/tools to Medbery steps
• Debrief the experience with your group:
• What did they learn?
• How can they continue this involvement?
• How does service enrich and expand the college experience?

25. https://hws.turbovote.org/
 sign up to become a registered voter
 request an absentee ballot from any state
 create an account in a few minutes
 postage prepaid incoming /outgoing
 all paperwork will be mailed to you
 if you’re registering, we recommend you register at home, then
request an absentee ballot

29. Election Year # of Users Comments
2012 803Presidential Year
2013 43Off Year
2014 244Congressional Midterms
2015 189Off Year - Geneva City Council Elections
2016 921
Presidential Year - began peoplesoft
integration
2017 208Off Year
2018 507…so farCongressional Midterms - using referral codes
2019 Off Year - Geneva City Council Elections
2020 Presidential Year

30. HOW MUCH BETTER CAN WE DO
IN 2018?

32.  In 2015, the Geneva Mayoral race had a 12 vote margin…
 2018 Congressional Elections:
 All 435 members of House of Representatives
 1/3 of the Senate

33.  Time for TV on Orientation schedule
 If your FY’s have already used TV…
 They can guide their peers through the TV process
 Research who is on the ballot in their district
 Create a plan
 Successful Registration
 Researching Candidates
 Knowing Deadlines
 Accounting for Postal Service
 Knowing Polling Place / Correct Address to Mail Absentee Ballot
 Successfully Casting Your Vote!
 Yes, it’s harder than it should be. And it’s vitally important.

34. • Vote.
• If you have a problem, double check your info.
• Still no luck? Call Jeremy or Katie
• Interested in further resources?
• Success for Geneva’s Children Data Book
• Geneva 2020 plan
• Compass Times newsletter (check your email)
• Visit CCESL (2nd floor of Trinity)
• Complete a brief online evaluation after service
• Good luck and thank you for your time!
• Questions?