Program: Academic Service-Learning (all academic majors) Please visit our website at http://www.cwu.edu/~asl for more information!
Need 10 students to work up to 15 hours per week with community agencies to implement and design programs that will benefit citizens of Washington State. Community agencies include: Elmview, Head Start/ECEAP, Hopesource (Community Action Council), Kittitas Department of Public Health, and Kittitas Sheriff’s Office. Some specific job duties for these professional fieldwork positions are listed at the end of this announcement.                                                                                                                                     
*Work-Study Only

Duties & Responsibilities:
Students will provide direct service-learning and research assistance to campus/community partners and faculty members. They will identify a community organization and do direct community service and/or research or review and assess needs. Under general supervision, students will perform varied support functions requiring knowledge and skills specific to the community needs. During the service-learning project each student will write reflection commentaries and complete a portfolio. When necessary students might gather, record, organize, transcribe and verify the accuracy of research for the information they gathered and studied, prepare data for computer input; set up research databases and complete other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications / Skills Needed:
Students should have excellent writing skills and be eligible for State Work Study as determined by the Student Employment Office and the Financial Aid Office. Please visit the website at http://www.cwu.edu/~asl for more details. A faculty advisor should be assigned to each student. Undergraduate and graduate students in any major must apply and enroll in EDCS 309 (2 credits) or EDCS 509 Service-Learning (3 credits) each quarter up to a maximum of three times for each course.

Why do you need this position?
This position is necessary to provide service-learning or research assistance for community partners and faculty throughout the academic year.

What educational benefits will the student gain from this position?
Students will gain academic service-learning and research skills as they meet relevant community needs. Students will become civically engaged and gain work experience that will prepare them for future employment in their field of study.

Other Benefits:
Working with the community/non-profit agency that will look great on a resume.
Can help with career decisions and lead to a future paid compensation.
Design or implement a plan that coincides with classes/major at CWU.
Opportunity for personal growth and reflection.
You can earn up to nine credits of course credit for community based service to nonprofit agencies.

Hopesource: (Formerly Kittitas County Action Council)
General Purpose of Paradigm Shift Team
English, psychology/sociology/ or any interested student willing to work here. The idea is to change the way people think about, talk about, and describe individual’s and families movement to self-sufficiency
Essential Functions of the Position
Study and recommend ways to change the paradigm of how agency employees and the general public perceive and talk about the "poverty", "low-Income" or "welfare" populations. Include language and symbol shifts that will increase the hearers’ receptivity to the subject, and will speed change for clients, employees, and the community members in perception and toward greater support of that population

Qualifications and Requirements
General
Interested in and excited about the area of assignment
Sees connection between their personal educational direction and the assigned project
Willing to be immersed in the relevant populations and issues during the commitment time
Reliable (show up when they say, produce what is promised on time and in a quality manner)
Open to guidance by experienced agency members
Dedicated (willing to put in the time necessary to make the project successful, not just the minimum required time)\
Willing to bring and forward their own vision to the project

Specific to Paradigm Change
Knowledge of linguistics and semiotic

Sheriff’s Office
1) Need for two students to complete a public informational survey on the jail expansion project. Kittitas County will be placing a 3/10 % ales tax on the ballot to help fund the Law and Justice expansion. This includes a 285 bed correctional facility, additional Superior Court Room, expanded Prosecutor and Juvenile Probation Office. Public awareness will be crucial to promoting this project.

2) A student to develop a marketing plan for the Sheriff's Office. This would include research and publishing a product that illustrates the many functions of the Sheriff's Office including crime prevention, investigation, corrections, Search and Rescue, Emergency Management and the civil process. Crime stats and trends will help show the current and future needs that face the County.

3) A student to write a History of Sheriff's Office in Kittitas County". Kittitas County has elected Sheriff's since 1883. Who were the sheriffs and what significant things highlighted their terms? This could include interviewing Sheriff's still alive and or their relatives. Information can also be obtained from local libraries, museums and newspaper archives.

Several Students needed for a Needs Assessment Team
General Purpose of Client-Skills Education Team
Research and articulate the presenting life-needs of the Upper and Lower Kittitas County, followed by design of a relevant education program targeted at specific areas of need

Essential Functions of the Positions
Position One: Research Need. Research demographics and life-needs (food, shelter, jobs, education, financial assistance etc) of the Upper and Lower Kittitas County area and be able to articulate their size, urgency, and the specific profile of need

Position Two: Develop Training/Education. Research training available in all areas of need, recommend or design a comprehensive life-skills program, and recommend best delivery method for populations

Qualifications and Requirements
General
Interested in and excited about the area of assignment
Sees connection between their personal educational direction and the assigned project
Willing to be immersed in the relevant populations and issues during the commitment time
Reliable (show up when they say, produce what is promised on time and in a quality manner)
Open to guidance by experienced agency members
Dedicated (willing to put in the time necessary to make the project successful, not just the minimum required time)
Willing to bring and forward their own vision to the project

Specific to Client Life Skills
Ability to talk to a wide variety of people and elicit focused information, sometimes about personal need, comfortably
Ability to address public officials and legislative members from a posi tion of equality
Ability to articulate intent of the project clearly and compellingly

Length of Employment: Fall, Winter, Spring
SWS Class:  Program Assistant, Range 32