Reflection Paper On Service Works

VOLUNTEERING RESPONSE PAPER I chose to write Service Works, because it’s a nationwide organization that helps young adults in developing communities to build acquired skills to prepare for college and their career paths. Service Works provides success coaches for young individuals as role models, and people that they can interact with if they have any problems, questions, or need advice regarding their career paths. Service Works is an organization that is hosted by Jersey Cares, a nonprofit organization that has been around since 1993. Service Works recruits and engages volunteers in rewarding effective efforts that help address community-identified needs. According to Jersey Cares.org, their mission statement is to, “increases the level of meaningful volunteer engagement by creating and managing efficient, impactful projects that address critical community-identified needs.” With the support of Jersey Cares, Service Works had the opportunity to go to different locations in New Jersey, such as, Penn Station, and areas in Burlington county. They gave food and clothes. They also clean public parks, such as Branch Brook Park.

This organization, Service Works, made the volunteers do a capstone project, where we had to

Most people in the society do not care about the homeless, because they feel that they are not serious about their life, so why should they care about them. So, with us volunteering, it shows society that homeless people are also human beings just like us. We as a group in the program are also showing the less privileged that society cares and knows about their problems. Also, we has a community are trying everything in our power to eliminate problems, such as unemployment, unaffordable housing, addiction and disorders, and