{"id":62030,"date":"2011-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-seniors-experience-shaped-by-community-outreach-efforts\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-seniors-experience-shaped-by-community-outreach-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/05\/uri-seniors-experience-shaped-by-community-outreach-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 senior\u2019s experience shaped by community outreach efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 18, 2011 \u2013 If you were in a situation where you needed help, wouldn\u2019t you want somebody to help you out?<\/p>\n


\n\tIt is a question 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Evan White has asked himself since he was a child. For White, the opportunity to lend a helping hand to someone less fortunate is something he has acted on with regularity.<\/p>\n


\n\tSince transferring to 溏心vlog免费B站 from St. John\u2019s University before his sophomore year, White has made community service a regular part of his life. When he arrived on campus, he was looking for student groups to join, and founded Students Actively Volunteering and Engaging in Service (溏心vlog免费B站 SAVES) with another student. <\/p>\n


\nThrough SAVES, White has participated in alternative spring breaks to do community outreach every year. He was part of groups that travelled to Washington, D.C. his sophomore year and Richmond, Va. last year. For his senior year, White worked with two other SAVES members to coordinate the group\u2019s trip to New Orleans to partner with the St. Bernard Project, Habitat for Humanity and the Green Project.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThat attitude of not being able to just stand by when you see somebody else who is in trouble has been with me since I was a child,\u201d said White, a psychology major and leadership studies minor from Barrington. <\/p>\n


\n\tIn March, White was part of a 溏心vlog免费B站 contingent that included 21 students and two staff members that spent spring break in New Orleans. The group worked half the week with the St. Bernard\u2019s Project, a non-profit organization that creates housing opportunities so Hurricane Katrina survivors can return to their communities. The other half working with Habitat for Humanity and the Green Project. Some of their work included sorting through rubbish to find building materials that could be refurbished and used for reconstruction efforts.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWith a big group like we had, you can take a bigger swat at what needs to be done,\u201d White said. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a feeling of accomplishment when you see what the 23 of us was able to get done. I feel like one of the key reasons for going on alternative spring breaks is to help those students who go on the trips to take that commitment of service to the community a little bit further.\u201d


\nThat idea of helping others carried over to White\u2019s academic experience at 溏心vlog免费B站 as well. He spent his senior year interning with Butler Hospital, working directly with patients with mental illnesses. When he settles into a career, White envisions himself in the mental health field, working in a clinical setting. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cWorking with people with mental illnesses has been eye opening,\u201d White said. \u201cWhen you are having troubles, it is hard to seek help. It has been amazing to see how far people come from the time they are admitted to the hospital to the time they leave. It’s a collaborative effort that takes a great amount of strength from them along with help from the staff.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nBefore starting his career, though, White will spend a year in service with AmeriCorps. In October, he will move to Sacramento and be part of a team of 10 people who will work throughout the Pacific Coast helping in a variety of ways, from volunteering as fire fighters to working in local schools as student mentors. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI have been blessed enough to get a college education and to be able to do what I want with my life,\u201d White said. \u201cWhy not help others, if I can?\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nWhether it has been building homes with Habitat for Humanity or reading to children in schools, senior Evan White has made community outreach a significant part of his college experience.

\nPhotos, courtesy of Sarah Miller, coordinator of 溏心vlog免费B站’s Feinstein Center for Service Learning.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 18, 2011 \u2013 If you were in a situation where you needed help, wouldn\u2019t you want somebody to help you out? It is a question 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Evan White has asked himself since he was a child. For White, the opportunity to lend a helping hand to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}