1st Reflection

What do you hope to achieve during your 4-week community service project?

During our four week community service project with Just in Time for Youth, I hope to work with my wonderful group and mentor in promoting the organization. Since most of us are entering our junior and senior years in high-school, its really important that we give back to the community and promote the organization to our friends and family. We plan on using social media resources like facebook,twitter, and blogs to make San Diegans aware of the lack of funding for foster youth. Many people do not know about how the foster system works, and I am really excited to help the foster youth in being successful and self sufficient. Our project for the next 4 weeks is the "My First Home" project in which we help a foster youth furnish their first home. We plan on fundraising and working with local businesses so that we can have all of the resources needed to give our assigned person the best experience possible, since its the first real home that they will be living in.

What role would you like to have in the project?

I plan on taking the initiative to organize and outline what we plan on doing for the next four weeks. I like to plan everything that I do ahead so that our group wont feel pressured or unorganized during our community service project. Since I have experience with fundraising, I want to plan the fundraising aspect and how we will go about getting donations from local businesses.