CBL by the Numbers

Community-Based Learning A N N U A L R E P O R T / S P R I N G 2 0 1 2

2011-12 CBL Program Highlights

The Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman

Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts

2011-12 Community-Based Learning Courses at Mount Holyoke College: 24 Department and Programs Offering CBL Courses: 11 Students Enrolling in 2011-12 CBL Courses: Fall 2011 = 243; Spring 2012 = 179/Total 422 CBL Student Staff Serving as Fellows & Mentors: 44 CBL Community Fellows & Mentors Learning/Service Hours to Area Community Organizations: 3,816 Community-Based Organization (CBO) Partners Supporting Courses and Fellows: 19

CBL students and staff once again made major contributions to the planning and execution of both Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 Holyoke Bound trainings. Holyoke Bound is a day-long introduction to the history, politics, culture and organizations of Holyoke, planned by and for Five College students involved in com-munity service, learning and work-study. Holyoke bound employs community members, faculty, and stu-dent leaders to deliver talks and workshops each semester.

In partnership with the Office of the President, CBL staff and students co-organized the January 2012

TedXPioneerValley event “How Learning Happens” at Amherst College. Co-sponsors included Smith and Amherst Colleges, and the Adult Learning Center at Holyoke Community College. President Lynn Pasquerella and Professor Susan Barry each gave their “talk of a lifetime” before a selected audience of 100, captured on video at tedxpioneervalley.com. Like TedXPioneerValley, the March 8 A Person With A Dream performance by adult learners and their CBL Program tutors/mentors emerged from partnerships with local adult learning organizations begun in part by funds from a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation grant to the College. The performance featured testimonials by both learners and college student tutors about the mutual, transformational power of adult basic education. In partnership with Professor of Psychology Kathy Binder, CBL is supporting a growing range of projects and organizations dedicated to adult education.

CBL continues support for partnership activities in the Holyoke and South Hadley public schools. At

the William R. Peck Full Service Community School in Holyoke, MA, collaborations involve families, so-cial service and youth development agencies, and community engagement office students and staff from area colleges to advance innovative practice in community partnerships for education. This year CBL has supported the CHOICES and Connections afterschool programs, a Massachusetts Promise Fellow (Stacey Funston, ’11) to run an 8th-9th grade transitions program and a community service project on April 21 (more inside), a day-long college search simulation at HCC, the CAMBIAS college access/health mentoring pro-gram, and the PeckACCESS partnership devoted to high-impact support for student achievement and col-lege visits. CBL Coordinator Alan Bloomgarden is a member of the committee planning next year’s dis-trict-wide partnership initiatives in the Holyoke Public Schools. South Hadley initiatives are described fur-ther inside...

CBL has partnered with offices on campus for skills training and community engagement programming for

students and faculty. The Learning in Action series is a collaboration with the Nexus Program and the Weissman Center’s “Cultivating the Leader Within” program to offer concrete leadership skills workshops. And this spring’s Engaging the Pioneer Valley series panel discussions have been cosponsored by the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives, the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, and the Pre-Health Program. Events are listed inside.

Integrating academic with

experiential learning to advance

positive social change, build

sustainable and reciprocal

community partnerships, and

foster commitment to social justice.

Alan Bloomgarden

CBL Coordinator 206 Dwight Hall

538-3072

Angelica Castro CBL Assist. Coordinator

& Advisor to C.A.U.S.E. 206 Dwight Hall

538-3553

Marianne Taylor Administrative Assistant

217 Dwight Hall 538-3183

From the CBL Coordinator After three years of intensive growth in Community Fellows’ numbers and educational programming (CUSP 202/203 courses), and after expanding CBL course partnerships with area community organizations and building associated educational and logistical infrastructure, 2011-12 appeared last August to be a year in which CBL would focus on consolidating programs and practices. The academic year should always unfold as neatly as one might anticipate in the calmness of late summer! Yet as busy as we’ve been, the year has seen significant improvements to capacities and practices even as we have contributed to other exciting conversations underway at MHC. Bringing CAUSE advisor Angelica Castro into CBL is enabling great synergies as we move toward more impactful and intentional community service partnerships (with coordinated educational, transporta-tion and supervisory structures to support them). And the part-time administrative talents of Marianne Taylor (shared with the Office of Fellowships) have improved our capacities to manage our students, programs, events, communications, and much more. Students are appropriately enamored of them both. All the while, CBL has made substantial contributions to both an external review underway at the Weissman Center, and to the development of campus-wide “Curriculum to Career” plans at MHC. CBL’s models for providing rich academic support to substantive and educationally-rich experiential learning, focused on community development and social change, are helping to guide College thinking about how to support experiential learn-ing with research-based and effective preparatory, reflective, and

integrative educational practices. Students, faculty, and community partners alike draw upon the web of pedagogical and logistical support CBL is weaving. Looking forward, a few initiatives in development are worth not-ing. As President Lynn Pasquerella ably advocates on the na-tional stage for college access as an urgent matter of social justice, CBL is supporting student-led college awareness and educational achievement programming here in South Hadley, in Holyoke, Springfield and other area communities through school and youth development partnerships. In 2012-13, CBL, CAUSE, and other campus partners will work to further advance the coor-dination and demonstration of impacts and outcomes in these partnerships. Alumnae serving in Ameri*Corps and VISTA posi-tions like this year’s MACC VISTA Sarah Wentworth ’11 and Massachusetts Ameri*Corps Promise Fellow Stacey Funston ’11 will continue to support this work going forward as they have during the last decade. Similarly, CBL is currently working with LITS to advance efforts begun years ago under my predecessor Preston Smith to establish an accessible archive of partnership projects that will enable students and partners to build upon and reference prior work – on track to become a “digital archive” during the coming year. More to tell but for now that’s all there’s time and space for, so I’ll just leave it there and say: stay tuned!

— Alan H. Bloomgarden, Spring 2012

C O M M U N I T Y - B A S E D L E A R N I N G

From the Assistant CBL Coordinator & C.A.U.S.E. Advisor As my first year of being the Assistant Coordinator for the Com-munity-Based Learning Program comes to a close, I reflect back on all of the learning and new relationships that were forged. I feel so fortunate to be working with Alan Bloomgarden, who has a true passion and gift for engaging our students in fostering community partnerships. Although helping support the CBL program administratively and logistically are a couple of my key roles, I must say that the highlight for me has been mentoring and advising CBL fellows regarding their tremendous contribu-tions within our communities. A significant project that our CBL program helped to launch and that I manage is the Five College PVTA Red 29, an express bus that helps transport most of our CBL fellows and volunteers to their respective community partners in South Hadley and Holyoke. I know there were challenges that arose with this new resource; however, I will continue to explore solutions with the Five College Transportation Committee to make getting to and from partner sites timely and effectively a top priority. I also helped to coordinate the Learning in Action Workshop Series in collaboration with the Nexus Program and the Weiss-

man Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. We wanted to equip our students with some necessary skills that often don’t have time to be taught in the classroom. This was a pilot semes-ter, so Alan and I have some ideas on ways to have these work-shops fully attended in the 2012-2013 fall and spring semesters. I am excited to see the continuous growth the CBL program has experienced and am looking forward to seeing some new and familiar faces next year. I will be here, ready to support our CBL fellows in making their experience with working in our communities a memorable one. — Angelica Castro, Spring 2012

Voices from the Field: What are CBL Staff Saying? What are Community Based Learning (CBL) students saying about connecting Mount Holyoke to the community? “The connection between Mt. Holyoke and Tapestry has been reestablished with a bang by a successful HIV testing event on campus.” - Jordan Seto '13 Community Fellow, Tapestry Health

“These PSAs are an important way for us to present the writing center as an integrated part of the high school, and are a great form of publicity. They began airing this week, and we’re excited to see the student body’s reaction.” - Julia Herman '13 and Ariel Lantz '13 Community Based Learning Fellows, South Hadley High School (SHHS Writing Center)

What are Community Based Learning (CBL) students saying about connecting their experience to career growth? “As a Fellow, I worked closely with the head of the special education department. I took part in the Behavioral Management Work Group, researched schools with a similar demographic to Peck’s and the way they managed behavioral issues. I ob served teachers at the school to look for trends in teaching practices that promoted good behavior…” - Hannah DiCocco ‘11 Community Based Learning Alumna “On a side note, I'm glad to be at HCLT as I've realized that my work dovetails very nicely with some classes I'm taking this semester – Race and Urban Political Economy, and History of Global Inequality. Both classes have been amazingly eye-opening in educating me about inequality around the world.” - Sharon W.H. Ling '12 Community Fellow, Holyoke Community Land Trust, Holyoke, MA “I think creating videos, especially digital stories, is ideal work for the CBL program because it encapsulates many of its philosophies when engaging with communities.“ - Sophie Hadingham ‘13 CBL Mentor, SPAN 350/Latino Youth Media Initiative Springfield “After working as a tutor in an Adult Basic Education Class last year, I realized that this was an extraordinary opportunity for me to learn more about the impact of education, particularly adult education on community development in low income communities.” - Chiedza Mufunde ’12 Community Fellow, Valley Opportunity Council (VOC)/Adult Basic Education Program (ABE) “I truly believe that the skills I gained from the CBL Program are one of the core reasons I was tapped to take on this organizing work out of a group of very talented and passionate canvassers who I have been so proud to work with. I feel confident in my ability to take on the job because CBL gave me the chance to learn about coalition building in the classroom and practice it in the field.” - Amy Gaidis, ‘10 former CBL Fellow and current equal rights activist in Maine “Now, the classes I teach are structured around the dual purpose of learning and action, of theory and praxis. We engage in ideas of social justice and then find ways to do something about it (like our voter registration drive).” - Hilary Pollan ’12 Community Fellow, Holyoke Community College/Adult Learning Ctr. & Spanish Mentor What are Community Based Learning (CBL) students saying about connecting their experience to personal growth? “When working with the Northeast Organic Farming Association I feel content knowing that I am finally doing something and fitting myself into something far bigger than I am.” - Hannah Blackmer ‘12 Community Fellow, Northeast Organic Farming Association, MA Chapter “Each of us has the power to make a difference in the lives of those we interact with in our many communities of practice.” Cynthia Staniszewski FP ‘13 Community Fellow, The Women’s Fund of Western MA “Working at Girls, Inc. has been amazingly rewarding. I enjoy every moment while I’m there and always leave feeling like my time there is useful and appreciated.” - Gwendolyn Coiley ‘13 Community Fellow, Girls Inc. of Holyoke

The View from the AmeriCorps* VISTAs at the Five College Community-Based Learning Committee Sarah Wentworth - MACC*VISTA at Five Colleges, Inc. & Monica Freeland - MACC *VISTA at Five Colleges, Inc./Smith College

Besides this project, planning Holyoke Bound for the fall and spring semesters has been a major undertaking and has been tremendously rewarding. At the fall Holyoke Bound, we had 116 students come to Dean Technical High School in Holyoke to participate in a day of workshops, activities, and dialogue about what it means to be working in the city of Holyoke as a student. Holyoke Bound was held recently on February 18th and we received feedback that it was one of the most successful orientations yet. Held at the Picknelly Center in downtown Holyoke, we invited students to hear Mayor Alex Morse deliver the keynote address; eat at Fernandez family restaurant; and partake in student-led and CBO-led workshops. Additionally, we had the great pleasure of watching a performance led by a group of performing artists from the Holyoke Community College Adult Learning Center. They performed an original piece about what it is like to be an adult learner. We had 119 participants at our spring Holyoke Bound. Hopefully, the orientation can only gain more momentum from here on out.

Sarah Wentworth

Holyoke Bound Fall ‘11 & Spring ‘12

What’s new with the AmeriCorps VISTAs who represent the Five College Community-Based Learning program? Well, since the beginning of the year, our program has seen two successful Holyoke Bound orientations for Five College Stu-dents, we have launched a new bus route that connects Holyoke to Amherst, and have begun to have a bigger presence in the city of Holyoke with the new Five Colleges, Inc. office in the Picknelly Adult and Family Education Center. This is what the committee as a whole has made happen and we’re excited to be a part of that. Our role with the commit-tee had been to focus specifically on Community-Based Learning and the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engi-neering, and math). Over the past few months, we have been talking with people in the community, and within the five colleges, to articulate what form this could take and what such a project would look like. We are currently working to develop a program that would tap into the resources at the five colleges- student and faculty voices- to create this new part-nership around science content.

Meet Massachusetts Promise Fellow and AmeriCorps Volunteer Stacey Funston, ‘11 After serving as a Commonwealth Corps mentor to youth at the Peck School in Holyoke through the CBL Pro-gram in 2010-11, Anastasia (“Stacey”) Funston became a “Massachusetts Promise Fellow” for 2011-12 based at Peck. Sponsored by the CBL Program, Stacey’s responsibilities as a full-time AmeriCorps volunteer at Peck in-clude:

Establishing an “alumni club” for Peck graduates at Holyoke High School that plans orientation and 8th-9th grade transition pro-

grams for subsequent Peck graduates; Enlisting alumni to define academic and social support needs for 9th graders and subsequent entrants; Supporting the flow of volunteer support from Mount Holyoke and other area colleges to after-school academic and social enrichment programming by recruiting, preparing, and providing orientation to college tutors and mentors; and

Serving as an 8th-9th grade transition program liaison to the Peck ACCESS partnership (including school administrators, college and community partners). Besides serving as a valued mentor to 8th and 9th grade students at Peck and Holyoke High School this year, Stacey organized a massive service event involving nearly 50 community volunteers on Saturday, April 21st 2012 (described and pictured below).

Reclaiming the Dingle was a service project prompted by the need to make major changes to a space known as the “dingle” behind the Peck K-8 School and Holyoke High School. The path through this wooded area is used every day by students and families, as well as community members on their way to school and work as the most direct path between these schools and downtown where most of these residents live. But the Dingle is unsafe, unsupervised, and largely unmaintained. As a path that is used extensively by the Holyoke community, community members wanted to reclaim it as a space that could be more accessible, maintained, safe, and beautiful. With help from many community partners, students and family members of Peck and Holyoke High School came together on April 21st for a day of service to reclaim the dingle.

Community volunteers get “down and dirty” to make the “dingle” to a better and safer environment.

Lots of Preparation & Planning

Rebecca Neubardt (La Linda Manita Parenting Education Project) Assists in weekly workshops for teen parents and overall program evaluation process.

Quanita Hailey (Western Mass. Training Consortium Leadership Education, Advocacy and Development (LEAD) program) Networks with possible employers to train and develop youth in their career explorations, and develops curriculum for the youth's meetings. Kristina Bolton & Sabina Dhakal (Choices at Peck Middle School) Recruits, trains and manages MHC volunteers for the program and organizes CAMBIAS, leadership and college awareness conferences for middle school students in Holyoke.

Alexis (Lexi) Myers (Womanshelter/Compañeras) Researches statistics on past residents at the domestic violence shelter, improves social media (in charge of Facebook and Twitter page), co-presents to the local community about domestic violence.

Ariel Lantz & Sarah Charbonneau (South Hadley High School) Coordinates the Writing Center Program and teaches Connections Classes on Peer Mentoring to Juniors and Seniors who have been nominated to work in the writing center.

Chiedza C. Mufunde (Valley Opportunity Council, Adult Education Program) Provides tutorial support in level 1 ABE classroom, working on reading, writing and math. Conducts research on the importance of building a strong writing curriculum and best strategies for teaching writing in adult learners.

Jean Baker (See/Hear/Feel/Film Program) Provides logistical and creative support for program staff at the Amherst Cinema.

Cynthia Staniszewski (Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts) Acts as a liaison between the Marketing Committee and Fund, provides Media and Communications support, develops content and researches best practices.

Sharon W.H. Ling (Holyoke Community Land Trust) Researches funding opportunities in support of HCLT's planned affordable housing projects.

Stephanie Roses (Mount Holyoke College Sports Club, Peck School) Coordinates athletic teams and the CONNECTIONS after school program Mount Holyoke Sports Club at the Peck School.

Sarah Bond (Holyoke Planning and Economic Development Office) Acts as an intern and researches and develops surveys.

Lucy Watson (Westfield Department of Youth Services/Collaborative for Educational Services) Assistant teaches, tutors, and mentors young men in a juvenile correctional facility. Also working to increase collaboration between Westfield DYS and the MHC community.

Hilary Pollan (Holyoke Community College/Adult Learning Center Tutor, CBL Course Mentor “Engaging the Pioneer Valley" ) Tutors in a pre-GED Science class, and mentor students in pre-CBL fellowship independent study in service-learning literature and campus-community partnerships.

CBL Fellows - Community Partners & Job Descriptions

Sarah Chase (CBL Communications Fellow) Creates and streamlines communication within the CBL Program and beyond the gates of MHC.

Caitlin Kidder (Mosier Elementary School) Develops curriculum on salmon conservation and works with 4th grade classrooms to raise fish provided by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Atlantic Salmon Egg Rearing Program (ASERP) to be released in the Connecticut River.

Jordan Seto (Tapestry Health) Raises awareness about Tapestry Health on the five college campuses and also

coordinates student volunteer projects. Kim M. Fielding (CBL Administrative Fellow) Develops Programming and Communications for the CBL Program and assists in various ways.

Stasia Morton (High Schools in the Pioneer Valley) Raises awareness about diversity, social norms, race and class through inter-group dialogue.

Ruth Tirado (Latino Scholarship Association) Creates an Alumni association that will provide future Latino students with a social networking resource and promotes community engagement.

Mary Cooke (Center for New Americans) Assists in English classes and coordinates outreach for classes and activities.

Hannah Blackmer (Northeast Organic Farming Association, MA Chapter) Assists in the winter conference, coordinates the bulk order program and spreads accessibility to local food production.

Julianna Lord (Gardening the Community) Food Justice and youth-led organization that is engaged in urban agriculture and creating healthy and equitable communities.

Marcella Jayne (Springfield No One Leaves/Nadie Se Mude) Fights foreclosure gentrification and displacement through community organizing and post foreclosure eviction defense.

Emily McClintock (South Hadley Community) Fosters the relationship between the MHC community and the South Hadley town community to promote a better collaboration and cooperation between the two.

Anika Gearhart (Homework House) Coordinates and organizes volunteers for Homework House, which provides free tutoring to students at academic risk.

Diana Ngai (Hitchcock Center for the Environment) Assistant teaches preschool (3-5 year olds) and elementary (6-8 years old) children in an environmental education program that engages students and parents with nature and the outdoors.

Sandra Jacques (Reader to Reader/Opportunities for Community) Acts as a liaison and helps engage students in literacy projects, searches for grants to support current endeavors in Haiti.

CBL Fellows - Community Partners & Job Descriptions

South Hadley Youth Commission Induction Ceremony at MHC—Fall 2011

South Hadley High School Writing Center Celebration Fall 2011

Since Spring 2011, SAW Mentors Ariel Lantz and Julia Herman have been working as CBL Community Fellows, organizing and delivering a program of peer mentor training and writing center support at South Hadley High School. Sarah Charbonneau has ably filled in while Julia is abroad, and together they have sup-ported dozens of students while building their capacity as leaders to become peer mentors themselves.

Working with South Hadley Youth Commission’s Adam Roberts, SHHS alumna and MHC sophomore Emily McClintock hosted the town’s youth nominees to the commis-sion for an induction ceremony last fall.

As mentors with the Mount Holyoke “Commonwealth Corps” program, sponsored by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, CBL Fellows Sabina Dhakal, Kristina Bolton and Ashley Metellus developed in 2010 a college access workshop for Holyoke middle-school youth that covered life planning, relationships and reproductive health and much more. They have taken this work to a new level in 2012 running three such events on campus.

Architectural Studies 225 S. Brown Introduction to Architectural Design II Regenerative Design: Shifting the Sustainability Paradigm

Curricular Support Courses 102 A. Bloomgarden

Community-Based Learning: Networks, Reflection, and Meaning

Curricular Support Courses 103 A. Bloomgarden

Community-Based Learning: Integrating Learning, Service, and Social Action

Education 205 S. Lawrence Racism and Inequality in Schools and Society

Education 300 S. Frenette The Process of Teaching and Learning: Developing Literacy in Early Childhood and Elementary Schools

Education 324 L. Reilly Carlisle Observing and Assisting in Early Childhood and Elementary Settings

Education 325 R. Vernon-Jones

The Process of Teaching and Learning: Developing Math/Science/Technology Instruction and Curriculum

Education 330 S. Lawrence The Process of Teaching and Learning in Secondary and Middle Schools

Education 332 S. Lawrence

Observing and Assisting in Secondary and Middle School Educational Programs

Education/Psychology 233 S. Marx Educational Psychology

Education/Psychology 234 G. Bass Differences in Learning

English 202 A. Bass/C. Manegold Introduction to Journalism

English 301 A. Bass Studies in Journalism: Health and Science Journalism

Environmental Studies 200 J. Bubier

Environmental Science

Environmental Studies 390 L. Savoy Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies

Film Studies 310 B. Mellis Production Seminar - Advanced Documentary Production Workshop

Gender Studies 390 M. Ackmann Field Placement

History 214 H. Hanson History of Global Inequality

Philosophy 280 M. Michaels Philosophy for Children

Psychology 340 K. Binder Laboratory in Perception and Cognition: Cognition and Literacy

Spanish 202 E. Garcia Frazier Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Spanish 210 N. Romero-Diaz Conversation and Culture: Speaking Spanish in the Real World

Spanish 340 R. Miñana Visual Cultures: An Introduction - The Other (in the) Media: New Media and Otherness in the Americas

Spanish 350 R. Minana Advanced Studies in Concepts and Practices of Power Community Narratives: Digital Storytelling in Springfield, Massachusetts

Learning in Action Workshop Series

2 0 1 1 - 1 2 A N N U A L R E P O R T

This series is co-sponsored by the Community-Based Learning Program and Nexus Program: February 15th—Cultural Competency, by Angela Robles—Learn how to enhance partnerships and be effective in cross-

cultural working relationships. February 29th—Speak Up!, by Susan Daniels—Find your voice in the classroom, negotiate in the workplace, and become

more confident, and persuasive as an authentic communicator. March 14th— Asset Mapping for Social Change, by Alan Bloomgarden—Inventory personal resources, then map the re-

sources of the organizations, networks and communities to which we belong for effective collaborative action planning. March 28th—Transferable Skills, by Kim Parent—Learn how your skills can be transferred to the post-college workplace and

how to speak about them more articulately.

Engaging the Pioneer Valley

Spring 2012 Panel Discussions with the Region’s Leaders

February 27th “International Humanitarian Aid”

Panelists included directors/staff of locally-based international humanitarian aid organizations or initiatives,

including those that work in health, education and development in Haiti, Afghanistan, and the Dominican

Republic. This event was co-sponsored by the McCullough Center for Global Initiatives.

March 12th “CBL Community Fellowships”

Current and/or former fellows working with area organizations through paid, academically supported “Community Fellowships” with the CBL Program

presented their project work.

April 2nd “Social Justice

Filmmaking”

Local documentary and filmmakers whose work exam-ines social justice themes discuss their work. This event is timed in conjunction with a conference sponsored by the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center and the Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke.

Annmarie Heath, Founder Association ADAMES

Improving maternal infant health care in the Dominican

Republic .

Gary Moorehead, Co-Founder MARIGOLD FUND

Providing a humanitarian aid mission invested in the recovery and

development of Afghanistan.

March 12th CBL Fellow Presenters:

Hilary Pollan ‘12 Stasia Morton FP Marcella Jayne FP Kristina Bolton ‘12 Sabina Dhakal‘12

The Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts

James Harold, Director

Located in Dwight Hall, the Weissman Center and its affiliated partners, the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing (SAW) Program, the Community-Based Learning (CBL) Program, the Teaching and Faculty Development Initiative (TFDI), and the English for Speakers of other Languages provide substantial resources to students as they become effective agents of change in their chosen professions and communities. The center collaborates with faculty, students, alumnae, student

organizations, and College offices to engage students critically with important issues; to foster their commitment to public and civic life; to build their abilities to analyze, argue, and promote their views; and to intensify the ways in which women

will take action and create positive change in the world.

Alan Bloomgarden 538-3072 CBL Program Coordinator abloomga@mtholyoke.edu Dwight Hall, Room 206 Angelica Castro 538-3553 Assistant CBL Coordinator C.A.U.S.E. Advisor acastro@mtholyoke.edu Dwight Hall, Room 213 Marianne Taylor 538-3183 Administrative Assistant mataylor@mtholyoke.edu Dwight Hall, Room 217C WEB: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cbl BLOG: https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/cbl/ FACEBOOK: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/go/cblfb

CBL Program Offices & Contacts

Amherst Cinema - See/Hear/Feel Film Amherst High School

Center for New Americans CHOICES Afterschool Program

Connections Afterschool Program Gardening the Community

Girls Inc. of Holyoke Holyoke Community Land Trust

Holyoke Office of Planning and Development Homework House Inc.

La Linda Manita/Holyoke Health Center Latino Youth Media Institute Springfield

LEAD - The Western Mass Training Consortium Mosier Elementary School

Northeast Organic Farming Assoc., MA Chapter Opportunities for Communities

Reader to Reader

South Hadley High School South Hadley Youth Commission

Springfield No One Leaves/Nadie Se Mude Tapestry Health

The Adult Learning Center/Holyoke Community College The Collaborative for Educational Services/Westfield

Detention Center The Hitchcock Center for the Environment

The Holyoke Food and Fitness Policy Coalition The Holyoke Tutor-Mentor Program The Latino Scholarship Association The Massachusetts Justice Project

The Picknelly Adult and Family Education Center The Springfield Renaissance School The Women's Fund of Western MA

Valley Opportunity Council WomanShelter/Compañeras

The CBL Program expresses its deep gratitude to the staff of many organizations who have served as hosts, supervisors, teachers and mentors to Mount Holyoke students in community-based learning courses and fellowships. Community-based learning

depends upon substantive contributions by and a generous spirit of cooperation among individuals and organizations throughout the region. The following community partners made possible our students’ learning in 2011-12: