Service Learning Immersion is a tool for social change and is a model of deep, enriched community service. It is more than just volunteer work, but rather a reciprocal model of service where those serve and those who are being served mutually learn from one another. Apopka offers a rich learning environment for this experience.
Central Florida is brimming with history and diversity, from its rural farmworker roots to its increasingly urbanized, multicultural character. We are pioneers in the field of Community and Civic Engagement and we have a long history of facilitating experiences like this! HCC has developed a unique model which makes it possible for people from all walks of life to participate in our community and offers year-round availability for Service Learning experiences that last from a single day up to an entire semester.
Participants do not passively participate in service and then walk away, but rather spend their time here broadening their perspective through direct experience.
Additionally, host families and members of the community learn and grow through their interactions with people of different races, faiths, and lived experiences than them. The goal is that both the participant and the host community broaden their world view through building relationships with people of different lived experience.
Participants spend their time living with a host family in the community, getting to know about their experiences and their reality by stepping into it for their time here.
