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Gunn Service Day: For several years Youth Community Service has worked along side several non-profit organizations in order to provide an opportunity for Gunn High School Students to engage in community service work throughout the Bay Area. Gunn Students participate in both indoor and outdoor service opportunities that revolve around issues of homelessness, childcare, and environmental restoration among others.

 

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Please follow this procedure:

1. Read the descriptions below for each service site.

2. Choose your preference for service site and click on the Registration hyperlink Mysignup.com at the bottom of this webpage.

3. Follow the instructions for registering your site preference through Mysignup.com. *Note: You may only CHOOSE ONE service site, and you MUST fill in your FULL NAME when you register so that we can get you excused from classes that day!

4. Download the permission/waiver forms; one form for your preferred site and one form for the Palo Alto Unified School District. Bring a signed copy of each of these forms to GSD. You will need to submit a signed copy of each form to participate in GSD.  Scroll down to your volunteer site to locate your forms.

 

** Be sure to use the new updated YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form for 2009 now available**

 

5. **Please bring a bag lunch**

6. Have a great time at GSD!

 

SERVICE SITE DESCRIPTIONS

Magic    
Location: Stanford, CA
Minimum number students: 10
Maximum number students: 25

Activity: We will be abating Coyote Brush, a non-native invasive species, in an area where the coyote bush is competing for water and nutrients with recently planted native oaks.

Website: www.ecomagic.org

Magic Waiver Form

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form

Ecumenical Hunger Program
Location: East Palo Alto, CA
Minimum number of students: 6
Maximum number of students: 8

Activity: Students will be volunteering in the food closet, preparing food boxes off-stacking pallet or barrels of food onto the shelves, organizing and/or maintaining that area.

Website: www.ehpcares.org

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form only (no Ecumenical Hunger Program Waiver Form required)

Lytton Gardens
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Minimum number of students: 5
Maximum number of students: 10

Activity: Assistance with St. Patrick’s Day decorations, Arts/Crafts with cookies.
*Our residents will eat lunch at noon, so we do not need any volunteer assistance after 12pm. Thank you!

Website: www.lyttongardens.org/

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form only (no Lytton Gardens Waiver Form required)

Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
Location: Los Altos, CA
Minimum number of students: 5
Maximum number of students: 15

Activity: The students will be working in the Skyline Ridge Tree Farm Restoration Area-Site B. The site is located above Horseshoe Lake, where disturbed areas hosting a section of a leased Christmas Tree Farm trees was causing added siltation to run into the lake.  The site has been cleared of the Christmas Trees, re-graded, replanted, and is in periodic need of follow-up care.  The Gunn students will be caring for the restoration area by adding wood chips for mulching and protection measures.  A District Ranger will be there to explain this important project and lead the project.

Website: www.openspace.org

Midpeninsula Waiver Form

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form

Rebuilding Together Peninsula
Location: Redwood City, CA
Minimum number of students: 10
Maximum number of students: 30

Activity: We need help organizing our warehouse inventory and tasks include sorting, counting, boxing up, and moving paint and other construction materials. Appropriate dress is important; we want you to be safe and comfortable (e.g. long pants, closed-toe shoes). Please DO NOT wear sandals. We suggest dressing in layers as it can get cold in the warehouse, but it can easily get warm after working for a while. Avoid dangling jewelry. Also, please wear clothing you don’t mind getting dirty.

Website: www.rebuildingtogetherpeninsula.org

Rebuilding Together Waiver Form #1

Rebuilding Together Waiver Form #2

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form

Acterra
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Minimum number of students: 10
Maximum number of students: 20

Activity: Working with the Pearson-Arastadero Preserve Stewardship Project, and engaging with the community in restoring native habitat in the Palo Alto foothills, and protecting the ecological and recreational value of the area.

Website: www.acterra.org

Acterra Waiver Form

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form

 

Half Moon Bay State Beach
Location:  Half Moon bay
Minimum number of students:  10
Maximum number of students: 50

Activity: The students will participate in Half Moon Bay State Beach’s Habitat Restoration Project, which consists of removing non-native invasive plants, using shovels or hoes.  All gloves and shoes will be provided. All participants must wear long pants, closed toed shoes, and warm layers.

Website: www.parks.ca.gov

Half Moon Bay Waiver Form

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form

Creative Montessori Learning Center
Location: East Palo Alto, CA
Minimum number of students:  4
Maximum number of students: 16

Activity: CMLC has 4 classrooms, where students will be assisting teachers by washing chairs, cleaning shelves, assisting with art projects and working with children.
    
Website: http://cmlcepa.org/

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form only (no Creative Montessori Waiver Form required)

 

Abilities United
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Minimum number of students:  10
Maximum number of students: 20

Activity: Build four garden beds and compost bins in our horticulture therapy garden at our facility. Simple construction of boxes that will require use of drill, hammers, and shovels.
Agency will provide oversight, design and materials as well as one supervisior. We will require additional adult supervisors provided by you-ideally adult(s) with experience/knowledge of simple garden projects.

Website:http://www.abilitiesunited.org/

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form only (no Abilities United Waiver Form required)

 

Innvision
Location: San Jose, CA
Minimum number of students: 10
Maximum number of students: 35

Activity: Students will help in the donation department, where we intake all of our food donations, sort them and put them out in our Welcome Home Shoppe, where clients can come and shop free of charge. This is a warehouse setting so we advise all volunteers to dress warm and wear comfortable shoes. Since the group will be here from 9am- 1pm, we will have them sorting and organizing donations in the warehouse.

Website: http://www.innvision.org/

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form only (no InnVision San Jose Waiver Form required)

Innvision
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Minimum number of students: 6
Maximum number of students: 10

Activity: Students will help prepare, cook and serve meal to homeless and very low income clients.  InnVision will have a staff person there to supervise and direct them

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form only (no InnVision Palo Alto Waiver Form required)

*NEW* Literacy for Environmental Justice
Location: San Francisco, CA
Minimum number of students: 10
Maximum number of students: 30

Activity: Native plant propagation, planting, gardening, composting, building, and helping in Bay View Hunters Point community garden.

YCS and PAUSD Waiver Form only (no LEJ Waiver Form required)