联邦半工半读的

The 联邦半工半读的 (FWS) Program encourages students receiving program assistance to participate in community service activities.

社区服务定义

The definition of "community services" was amended to read: services which are identified by an institution of higher 教育, through formal or informal consultation with local nonprofit, 政府, 社区组织, as designed to improve the quality of life for community residents, particularly low-income individuals, or to solve particular problems related to their needs, 包括

• 比如医疗保健领域, 照顾孩子, 读写能力训练, 教育 (包括 tutorial services), 福利, 社会服务, 运输, housing and neighborhood improvement, 公共安全, 预防及控制罪案, 娱乐, 农村发展, 社区改善;
• Work in service opportunities or youth corps as defined in section 101(*) of the National and Community 服务 Act of 1990, 以及各机构的服务, 机构 and activities designated in section 124 (a) [**] of the National and Community 服务 Act of 1990;
• Support services to students with disabilities
• Activities in which a student serves as a mentor for such purposes as:
  
  • 辅导
  • Supporting 教育 and 娱乐al activities
  • Counseling, 包括 career counseling

*Section 101 of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 defines the terms "service opportunity" and "youth corps program" as follows:

• 服务机会: 计划或工程, 包括 service learning programs or projects, that enables students or out-of-school youth to perform meaningful and constructive service in agencies, 机构, and situations where the application of human talent and dedication may help to meet human, 教育, 语言, 环境社区需要, especially those relating to poverty.
• 青年团计划: 一个程序, such as a conservation corps or youth service program, 提供全职工作, productive work (to be financed through stipends) with visible community benefits, in a natural resource or human service setting and that gives participants a mix of work experience, 基本和生活技能, 教育, 培训, 支持服务.

**Section 124(a) of the National and Community Service Act (NASA) of 1990 provides the following list of agencies, 机构, 这些活动包括:

In the case of conservation corps programs, focus on:

• 保护, 康复, and the improvement of wildlife habitat, 牧场, 公园, 还有休闲区
• 城乡振兴, 历史及遗址保存, and reforestation of both urban and rural areas
• Fish culture, wildlife habitat 维护 and improvement, and other fishery assistance
• Road and trail 维护 and improvement
• Erosion, flood drought, and storm damage assistance and controls
• Stream, lake, waterfront harbor, and port improvement
• Wetlands protection and pollution control
• Insect, disease, rodent, and fire prevention and control
• The improvement of abandoned railroad beds and rights-of-way
• Energy conservation projects, renewable resource enhancement, and recovery of biomass
• Reclamation and improvement of strip-mined land
• Forestry, nursery, and cultural operations

Making public facilities accessible to individuals with disabilities .In the case of human services corps programs, include participant service in:

• State, local, and regional 政府 agencies
• 养老院, 济贫院, 老年活动中心, 医院, 当地的图书馆, 公园, 娱乐设施, 儿童和成人日托中心, programs serving individuals with disabilities, 和学校
• Law enforcement agencies, and penal and probation systems
• Private nonprofit organizations that primarily focus on social service such as community action agencies
• Activities that focus on the 康复 or improvement of public facilities, 社区的改进, 读写能力训练 that benefits 教育ly disadvantaged individuals, weatherization of and basic repairs to low-income housing 包括 housing occupied by older adults, energy conservation (包括 solar energy techniques), removal of architectural barriers to access by individuals with disabilities to public facilities, activities that focus on drug and alcohol abuse 教育, 预防和治疗, 和保护, 维护, or restoration of natural resources on publicly held lands
• Any other nonpartisan civic activities and services that the Commission determines to be of a substantial social benefit in meeting unmet human, 教育, or environmental needs (particularly needs related to poverty) or in the community where volunteer service is to be performed; or encompass the focuses and services described in both paragraphs (1) and (2).