CEL Online in a Pinch with your Community Partner(s)
If it is possible to transition to online engagement with your community partner or a new partner, here are some ideas that might work with your course and partner needs:
Research:
- Conducting background research or gathering best practices or other information requested the partner(s).
- Conduct online research on best practices or develop tools for program assessment.
- Create a listing of grant opportunities that may be applicable for their organization.
- Remote interviewing current/past clients about their experiences, impact of the organization on where they are today.
Content/Product Creation:
- Create marketing or social media content for future use by the partner.
- Create brochures or other materials for information-sharing.
- Create birthday cards to give to a local housing shelter or senior center.
- Taping, recording, or streaming performances or workshops to benefit community partner(s).
- Create a resource (build a website?) of activities for after-school programming.
Virtual Connecting:
- Provide support via phone or web-based meetings with agency team member support to those being served by the organization or others in the community.
- Work with staff to share videos or use technology to continue visits with residents or patients of retirement home facilities.
- Conducting virtual or phone-based educational supports for youth and adults.
Other:
- Offering (or compiling, researching, or brainstorming) strategies that provide indirect support from volunteers as a result of coronavirus.
- Write a positive review for the organization to help with their marketing efforts.
- Reflection on COVID-19 From Loyola University: Leveraging the Learning Opportunity of a Global Health Situation.
- Analyze the COVID-19 outbreak and public responses to it (including changes in university policy) through a lens that is attentive to underlying structures of power and inequality.
- Offering students, a conceptual framework (and a corresponding digital platform) that presents 'consciousness-raising' as a radical and transformational mode of social change (rather than 'helping' or 'serving' per se).