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The
Team Kids Challenge:
Team Kids’ Keystone Service-Learning Program
Representatives from the Irvine Unified School District, local service agencies, the Irvine Police Department and the Orange County Fire Authority work alongside students to enhance community health and safety. In the process, students learn the value and strength generated through collaborative and mutually supportive community relationships.
While there are other outreach programs available to children, most provide limited services to small, select groups of students who have the resources—time, money and transportation—to participate. The Team Kids Challenge is open to all students at no charge. The entire school community is engaged. Together, students, teachers, principals, parents and community and civic leaders join forces, creating a win-win situation for both schools and communities.
Team Kids’ Keystone Service-Learning Program
Representatives from the Irvine Unified School District, local service agencies, the Irvine Police Department and the Orange County Fire Authority work alongside students to enhance community health and safety. In the process, students learn the value and strength generated through collaborative and mutually supportive community relationships.
While there are other outreach programs available to children, most provide limited services to small, select groups of students who have the resources—time, money and transportation—to participate. The Team Kids Challenge is open to all students at no charge. The entire school community is engaged. Together, students, teachers, principals, parents and community and civic leaders join forces, creating a win-win situation for both schools and communities.
The Team Kids
Challenge is a month-long direct service-learning
experience which challenges youth to meet certain
participation and fund-raising goals to benefit
other nonprofit agencies. Representatives of the
Irvine Police Department, Orange County Fire
Authority and UC Irvine athletes serve as mentors,
while student leaders organize their peers to
achieve program goals and objectives.
The project is kicked off with a school-wide assembly that inspires students to become agents of change as they embark on a four-week program that allows them to take action to improve issues such as homelessness and hunger, tolerance and violence prevention, animals and environment, and health issues such as pediatric cancer prevention.
While all students participate in service projects, we place special emphasis on fifth and sixth grade students, who are invited to serve on the Team Kids Leadership Team. The TK Challenge serves as a vehicle to help students make healthy choices before entering junior high school, which is a critical time in youth development when students are most likely to experiment with high risk behaviors.
Typically 70 to 80 percent of these students volunteer to serve, and meet during their lunch recess once or twice each week. Team Kids staff facilitate meetings for students and their peers, who organize younger students to plan school wide projects to benefit four community nonprofit causes, one for each week of the Challenge. The recipients of each of the challenge weeks (Families Forward, Southwest Community Center, Irvine Animal Shelter, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles) help facilitate and deliver programs for each of the corresponding weeks by inspiring students to learn about their respective needs, providing containers necessary to collect donations of canned food, clothes, pet supplies and other items, and then picking up collected items.
The project is kicked off with a school-wide assembly that inspires students to become agents of change as they embark on a four-week program that allows them to take action to improve issues such as homelessness and hunger, tolerance and violence prevention, animals and environment, and health issues such as pediatric cancer prevention.
While all students participate in service projects, we place special emphasis on fifth and sixth grade students, who are invited to serve on the Team Kids Leadership Team. The TK Challenge serves as a vehicle to help students make healthy choices before entering junior high school, which is a critical time in youth development when students are most likely to experiment with high risk behaviors.
Typically 70 to 80 percent of these students volunteer to serve, and meet during their lunch recess once or twice each week. Team Kids staff facilitate meetings for students and their peers, who organize younger students to plan school wide projects to benefit four community nonprofit causes, one for each week of the Challenge. The recipients of each of the challenge weeks (Families Forward, Southwest Community Center, Irvine Animal Shelter, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles) help facilitate and deliver programs for each of the corresponding weeks by inspiring students to learn about their respective needs, providing containers necessary to collect donations of canned food, clothes, pet supplies and other items, and then picking up collected items.
Participating
Schools
