Service Learning Placement Sites

Neighborhood Partners

Daemen College is proud of the partnerships it has developed and sustained over the last decade, specifically within three local disadvantaged neighborhoods: Seneca Babcock, the West Side, and the Fruit Belt. Each of these partnerships aims to address a variety of social, educational, economic, cultural, and environmental problems that create barriers to a neighborhood’s sustainability, and future growth and development. Through the service learning program, Daemen students provide after-school tutoring and mentoring in computers, English, math, and reading, as well as recreational programs for the hundreds of youth in these low-income communities. Other service projects to benefit the residents of these neighborhoods have included: housing rehabilitation projects, summer reading camps, neighborhood block club and community events (National Night Out, Teen Challenge), art, senior citizen, and athletic programs, assistance with tax preparation, health awareness clinics and workshops, and much needed support and services to refugee and international populations.

Service Learning Sites

Neighborhood Placements

Seneca Babcock

  • Seneca Street Church
  • Seneca Babcock Boys & Girls Club
  • Seneca Babcock Community Center

West Side

  • Asbury Shalom Zone
  • Butler Mitchell Boys & Girls Club
  • Grover Cleveland High School
  • International School #45
  • Journey’s End Refugee Services
  • Massachusetts Avenue Project
  • Vive LaCasa
  • West Side Community Services
  • West Side Ministries/Housing Rehabilitation

Fruit Belt

  • St. John Baptist Community Charter School

Additional Placements

  • Aspire of WNY
  • Alzheimer’s Association
  • Baker Victory Services (Foster Care)
  • Blessings Creating Smiles (tutoring for children on East Side)
  • Buffalo ReUse
  • Buffalo Urban League
  • Child & Family Services ~ Ways to Work Family Loan Program
  • Child & Adolescent Treatment Services
  • DePaul Community Services/McKinley Square
  • GERSCH Experience @ Daemen
  • Hospice Buffalo
  • The Income Taxi
  • Martin Luther King International Elementary School
  • Moving Miracles People Inc./YALT
  • Program @ Daemen
  • SPCA
  • St. Vincent DePaul Soup Kitchen
  • St. Mary’s School for the Deaf
  • Upstate New York Transplant Services
  • Weinberg Campus
  • WNY Earth Day
  • Western New York Developmental Disabilities Services

For more information or questions contact:
Susan M. Marchione, Service Learning Coordinator
smarchio@daemen.edu
(716) 839-8447

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