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Center for Community-Based Learning and Action Seminar II E 2125, Olympia Campus 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW; Olympia, WA 98505 www.evergreen.edu/communitybasedlearning

ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19

Campus-community partnerships are a commitment and passion. CCBLA has a deep belief in Higher Education’s public service mission. This means building capacity and working for economic and racial equity and justice. Neighbor-ing efforts are fueled by heart and muscle power on a shoe-string budget. This can inspire student engagement and innova-tion. In “Competencies and Critical Commitments Associated with Cultivating High-Quality Partnerships” Dostilio (2019) share that “it is vital for you to become familiar with the communi-ty’s culture and histories, its past experiences with your institu-tion, the network of assets.” Having a presence in the community is the only way to ensure this happens. Most effective knowledge of our local community comes from direct participation. Evergreen is out in the community, Greener grads work as community partners and students make a difference. This annual report tells that story and many more.

Director’s Report Ellen Shortt Sanchez

“A Place for the Community to Engage” ~Jacinta McKoy, Center Visionary

CCBLA and Gateways Staff CCBLA Director: Ellen Shortt Sanchez CCBLA Dean: Therese Saliba CYS AmeriCorps Tutor and Mentor Coordinator: Jessica Jimenez-Smith CAC AmeriCorps AMP Coordinators: Julian Landa and Konrad Bruns Gateways Program Coordinator: Talib Williams Campus Food Bank Coordinator: Richelle Enriquez Gateways Faculty: Eirik Steinhoff SOS: CCBLA Faculty: Chico Herbison, Laurie Meeker, and Ted Whitesell

Message from Therese Saliba Academic Dean, The Evergreen State College

CCBLA’s commitment to campus-community partner-ships has contributed to constructing a unique, deeply engaged and reciprocal model of Community-Based learning for Ever-green students. The center nurtures authentic partnerships, supports faculty in integrating this work into their programs, and provides rich internships for our students. This service to the community is both a mandate of higher education, and a high impact practice that transforms students and the commu-nity in the process. Congratulations to CCBLA for receiving the Campus-Community Partnership award in collaboration with Kokua’s LEAD program and for supporting James Jackson, the winner of the statewide Governor’s Civic Leadership Award. This report shares 2018-19 accomplishments leading to goals for the upcoming year. CCBLA offers intensely col-laborative and effective leadership that builds a sense of com-munity rooted in justice, belonging, and inclusion—on campus and far beyond. We appreciate the impressive contributions to Evergreen and our regional communities.

“Community Based Learning enables students to apply their knowledge in concrete situations, to solve problems in

partnership with the community...and gives faculty and staff the opportunity to build long-term community relationships which continually inform and strengthen the curriculum...and places

the college as a progressive force deeply involved in community work.” ~ Evergreen DTF report (1997-1999)

CCBLA Recognition Event Photo Shauna Bittle

Sharing the 2019 Campus–Community Partnership Award from Campus Compact Western Region

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Community Partners 18-19 AVID Olympia High School Books to Prisoners Boys and Girls Club Big Brothers Big Sisters Capital Recovery Center Central for Natural Lands Mgmt. Childcare Action Council CHOICE High School CIELO Project/Olympia & Shelton Community to Community Develop. Community Lifeline Shelton Community Youth Services Crisis Clinic Dispute Resolution Center EGYHOP Elevate Mason County Emergency Food Network Pierce Co. Evergreen Elementary Dual Language Evergreen Villages Familias Unidas Para la Justicia Family Support Center Fertile Ground Community Commons Freedom Farmers at Muirhead Farm Garfield Elementary School Get Set and Serve GI Voice Coffee Strong Green Hill School/JJ&RA DSHS GRuB (Garden Raised Bounty) Hands On Children Museum Heartsparkle Players Hispanic Roundtable of Thurston Co HOPE Garden Shelton Interfaith Works Emergency Shelter Kiwanis Food Bank Garden Kokua/ LEAD (Literacy and Educa-tion for Adults with Disabilities) Lincoln School Garden Madison Elementary School Madison Welcome Room Mason Co. Consort. Student Success Mason Matters Media Island Mentor Washington Native Plant Salvage Nature Nurtures Farm Nisqually Land Trust North Thurston High School AVID Northwest Cooperative Develop. Ctr. Northwest Eco-Building Guild Olympia Food Co-Op Olympia Free Clinic Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Olympia Seed Exchange Partners continued on page 3….

“ CCBLA has a strong current and future presence at Evergreen and the broader community. CCBLA achieves its mission of enhancing student learning through community engagement and is one of the opportunities here that makes Evergreen unique and appealing. ”

-Evergreen Student Laura Giannone

103 Participating Organizations!

Community to Community (C2C) New Student Orientation Action Day was organized with the New Student Programs Office. Students got to know local organizations and each other at this event.

277 students served around the community during the annual C2C day.

Evergreen/Olympia Tutoring Collaboration Coordinated by CCBLA Youth in Service (YIS) AmeriCorps member through Community Youth Services. Evergreen students and faculty respond to needs of Title 1 public schools and af-ter-school programs in low-income communities in Thurston and Mason counties supporting students through tutoring and mentoring. Our CCBLA YIS AmeriCorps member mentored 28 youth through the AVID college access program at North Thurston High School.

College Access: In collaboration with Native Student Alliance and the Evergreen Longhouse the Wa He Lut Indian School came to campus on April 12th. 40 middle school youth joined Native Student Alliance for workshops: record-ing studio, herbal lip balm making and herbal food making. This year the YIS member had two interns from Upward Bound Shelton High School. They worked at CCBLA for a month this summer. CHOICE HS Gear Up program also came to see Evergreen and visit CCBLA. Evergreen Student Volunteers served 170 hours with youth and in schools.

Community Service Work Study: Evergreen Work Study Coordinated by a Work Study Student provided by Academics Evergreen Work Study Community Service is a collaboration with Student Em-

ployment. 15 Evergreen students worked 2,888 hours supporting10 local grass-roots non profits, focusing on real community needs around fighting poverty, providing education to immigrant learners, confronting homelessness with inno-vative solutions, and offering crisis social services. Participating organizations included: Sound Learning, Kokua, Family Support Center Pear Blossom Shelter, Crisis Clinic, Thurston County Food Bank, Quixote Village, TUPAC, YWCA, HOPE Garden, Pizza Klatch, Gateways and CIELO.

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Community to Community Day (Photo: Shauna Bittle)

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Community Partners continued … Olympia Senior Center Panhandle Lake 4H camp Pacific County Youth Alliance People for Puget Sound Pear Blossom Shelter Pierce County AIDS Foundation Partners in Prevention Education(PIPE) Pizza Klatch Planned Parenthood POWER (Parents Organizing for Wel-

fare and Economic Rights) Quixote Village Rachel Corrie Foundation Rebuilding Together Thurston County Regional Alliance for Youth (RALLY) ROOF Safeplace Saint Martins U Social Justice-Service Sidewalk Shelton High School Shelton Innovators Showing Up for Racial Justice Olympia South Sound Beach Naturalists South Sound Volunteers Coordinators Sound Learning South Sound Com. Farm Land Trust S. Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement SPSCC Diversity and Equity Center South Sound Seniors Stonewall Youth St Martins U Service Immersion Sustainability in Prisons The Bridge (CYS) Thurston Climate Action Team Tacoma Community House Thurston Community TV (TCTV) Thurston County Volunteer Legal Svcs Thurston Conservation District Thurston Co. Food Bank (5 programs) Thurston County Syringe Exchange United Communities AIDS Network United Way of Thurston County Veterans Ecological Trades Collective WaHeLut Indian School WashPIRG Washington Service Corps Works In Progress YouthBuild YWCA Olympia

Gateways for Incarcerated Youth

College Access Corps AmeriCorps, funded through WA Campus Compact, supports incarcerated youth. AmeriCorps members re-port: 27 Evergreen students served as academic mentors to 72 incarcerated youth at Green Hill School JJ&RA facility and Community Programs and 15 youth at Thurston County Juvenile Detention Center. Mentor Washington provided Technical Assis-tance training for youth outcomes. Next year funds will support Gateways to revitalize mentoring in Touchstone Group home. Fabian’s Fund collaborated for a College Access Corps member. Re-entry Navigator and Gateways student, James Jackson won the statewide Gover-nor’s Civic Leadership Award in April 2019.

The Gateways College Class The Gateways College Class brings Evergreen students to Green Hill School to work collaboratively in a seminar style learning environment with 15 incarcerated youth, 10 who earned college credit in 2018-19. Youth participants described the program: “Class is a great experience and prepares you for what would come next in a real college environment and the people are great.” https://www.evergreen.edu/news/post/look-inside-one-evergreen%E2%80%99s-most-impactful-programs

TCFB Satellite Food Bank at Olympia Evergreen Campus

WACC AmeriCorps VISTA Richelle Enriquez and Thurston County Food Bank (TCFB) Satellite volunteers at CCBLA served over 2,798 students and community members. 10 volunteers served 212 hours. The Food and Ag Path of study supported 3 paid summer student workers and hired a Food and Ag Outreach Coordinator for summer and fall publicity and coordination.

Annual José Gómez Farm-worker Justice Day On Wednesday April 24th nearly 235 Evergreen students, faculty, staff, and community members worked on farmworker justice. A tribute to Evergreen faculty and civil rights activist José Gómez launched the event. Voices of farm-workers and activists included the Farmworker Justice Solidarity Collec-tive, Parakh Hoon, a faculty from South Puget Sound, Community College, Community to Community (C2C) De-velopment, Familas Unidas para Justi-cia, Miriam McBride, Hilltop Urban Gardens (HUG) and Saint Martin’s Uni-versity dean and author, Jeff Crane. Evergreen has a long history of support for Washington Farmworkers. We hon-ored Helen Lee, Evergreen Labor Cen-ter founder for decades of collabora-tion.th the movement for farm worker rights.

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Gateways College Class, Photo Shauna Bittle

Farm Worker Justice Day . Honoring Helen Lee, Former Labor Center Director with Rosalinda Guillen and Ellen Shortt Sanchez (Photo: Josh )

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2018-19 CCBLA Budget

2018-2019 CCBLA Budget

Evergreen Institutional Funds Grants -CCBLA AmeriCorps match Gateways for Incarcerated Youth

Salaries $98, 666 North Thurston SD $2,000

Publications/Sales

Donations

Green Hill Contract

$664.52

$2,289

$8,500

Benefits $34, 953

Mentor WA Grant $5000 Thurston Co Food Bank

Goods and Ser-vices, Travel $4,403 $4,700

TOTAL $ 138,022 TOTAL $6,700 Medina Grant $15,000

$31,453.52

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‘Raquel’s scholarship endowment is a way to remember her mission and to keep it alive, and

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Evergreen, CCBLA and Student Engagement: EVERGREEN STUDENTS VOLUNTEERED 5,566

HOURS IN ACTION THROUGH CCBLA.

CCBLA AMERICORPS SERVED OVER 131 YOUTH

OVER 189 EVERGREEN STUDENTS CONTACTED CCBLA FOR COMMUNITY BASED LEARNING.

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Center for Community Based Learning and Action Advisory Committee 2018-19

Community Partners: Charo Portaro, Kindra Galan (CIELO), Consuelo Guijosa, Jenny Blumenstein (Sound Learning), Keiya Johnson (Family Support Center), Randi Miller and Amy Briggs (Kokua), Heather Sundean, Dean Crabapple (TC Food Bank), Rachel Uberman (HOPE Garden), Brett Rader (Pizza Klatch) Evergreen Faculty: Alice Nelson, Zoltan Grossman, Mukti Khan-na, Toska Olson, Lori Blewett, Lin Nelson, Chico Herbison, Karen Gaul, Savvina Chowdhury, Suree Towfighnia, Ted Whitesell, Toska Olson, Catalina Ocampo, Eirik Steinhoff Students: Mymy Nguyen, Jessica Jimenez-Smith, Julian Landa, Jean Madrone Evergreen Staff: Jean Eberhardt, Talib Williams Richelle Enriquez (AmeriCorps VISTA)

Campus Wide, Evergreen Registered

378 Internships

36% were In-Program Internships (Internships within Academic Programs)

with 272 organizations 34% were at Schools & Non-Profits

CCBLA SUPPORTED Over 660 Evergreen Students in

19 Academic Programs

Thank you to AmeriCorps Partners: