Service
Sign up below for SCSJ Local Community Engagement
Interested in a committed site for the semester or one time volunteering? Scroll down for student-led opportunities to serve and learn with our Omaha community. Transportation is provided.
For semester-long, committed programs (402 Service Program, C.R.E.W. for Social Justice) our applications are now open! Applications for Spring semester are due January 19.
For drop in weekly service, sign up for each week you wish to attend on the eventbrite links below.
SCSJ Weekly Service
Join the SCSJ for drop in service with a variety of community partners. Students can attend once or multiple times across the semester, but must sign up on Eventbrite for each week they wish to attend. If a site is full, you are encouraged to sign up for the waitlist. We reflect as a community after each service experience. Transportation is provided and leaves from the SCSJ (Lower Becker Hall west of Kiewit).
Serve a meal and meet our neighbors at Siena Francis House, Nebraska’s largest provider of services to individuals experiencing homelessness. Creighton volunteers fill a variety of roles– serving a meal, practicing hospitality, and/or organizing items in the pantry. After dinner we host a game night with guests. Student will need to register on the SCSJ Eventbrite as well as Siena Francis House’s volunteer portal. For the safety of Siena Francis House guests, volunteers must wear a mask to serve with this community partner. We meet in the SCSJ and transportation is provided. Sign up below!
Creighton volunteers will be serving at City Sprouts North- a community garden, education center and much more. Volunteers will be doing a variety of work- harvesting, weeding, watering, painting/creative projects, work in the greenhouse, and the community garden. Please come prepared to do physical labor. During winter months there are available indoor projects. Interested participants must pre-sign up on eventbrite. We meet in the SCSJ and transportation is provided. Sign up below!
Refugee Empowerment Center (REC) is a refugee resettlement agency that provides holistic and culturally effective refugee resettlement services that empower newcomers to thrive in their new lives. Last year they welcomed over 600 refugees from around the world! SCSJ volunteers will serve in a variety of ways each week, which could include setting up homes, moving furniture, grocery shopping, welcoming arriving refugee families at the airport, assisting in the job center etc. Transportation is provided. Sign up for each week you wish to attend.
Join fellow students at Omaha’s Habitat for Humanity ReStore to process donations that will go directly towards building homes in the local community. We meet in the SCSJ and transportation is provided. Questions? Contact EmilyNaegele@creighton.edu. Sign up below!
402 Service Program & C.R.E.W. for Social Justice
Apply for a semester long service, justice, and reflection program with the SCSJ. Various options are available.
Complete our interest survey to hear about future programs!
402 Service Program
This committed group of students will have the opportunity to serve as mentors and/or reading buddies for students at local schools or serve as conversation partners for adults learning English. Transportation provided. Participants are expected to demonstrate commitment to building relationships and attend every week. Community partner options could change and new ones could still be added, but currently include: Completely Kids, and Omaha Public Schools (OPS) Welcome Center
Applications for Spring 2023 have closed - complete our interest survey to hear about future programs!
C.R.E.W. for Social Justice
Community. Reflection. Education. Weekly.
Participants in this 6-week program commit to weekly formation, reflection, community building and learning together about environmental justice or criminal justice. Students will focus on the topics of environmental justice or criminal justice, learn and reflect together, and participate in various one time service opportunities. This program will meet in person in the SCSJ!
Applications for Spring 2023 have closed - complete our interest survey to hear about future programs!
