Senior Service program started in the summer of 1975 when the thelogy department decided to let the students put their Christian values into practice. This is a thelogy course that is offered only to Seniors. There are many places the Seniors can go such as Mary Queen of Angels, Bellcourt Terrace, Berry School Headstart, St.Mary's Villa, Crieve Hall Elementary, High Hopes, Outlook Nashville, Harris Hillman, Whitsitt Elementary, Centennial Adultcare Center, Norman Binkley, St.Vincent Elementary School, Woodbine Headstart Program, and Murrell Alternative School. This course gives the Seniors a chance to go off campus for two periods a day to become a "volunteer employee" at their placement. The Seniors help with many different kinds of people such as special needs children, behavoir problem children, kids with attention disorders , the elderly, and typically developed children at a typical daycare.

This is an elementary school with typically developed students mainly and with two special needs classes. The seniors help with the special needs classes. They do one on one work, and pretty much just whatever is needed at the time. The children range any where from 5-10.

High hopes is an early intervention day care program for 1-5 year old with disabilities. There are speech and physical therapists there who recognize no limit for any given child. Father Ryan service students help by entertainig the children and assistin the teachers with bullitin board and crafts.

Clients at Harris Hillman are aged 6-22. Service Students feed clients, assist in Physical therapy, help with gym, and join the clients in the Snoozelin Room(light and sounds stimulation)

This is a Metro-Nashville elementary school that has behavoir problem kids, special needs children, and typically developed students. The students are there to help with any thing that is needed and to set a good example that bad behavoir is not ok. They work with all types of special needs children.

Students at Murrel are in grades 1-8. FRHS Students are most importantly 1 on 1 tutors and mentors. Murrel's student body is predominantly male as are the volunteers sent there. It is stricly disciplines, and structured. When a volunteer messes up the students are quick to let him know. Students say that they love Murrel, but the occasional unusual incidents took some getting used to.

At St. Mary's senior service volunteers work as teachers aides and mentors to the small children enrolled there it's a Catholic oriented daycare center for chilren of working families.

Children at Outlook range in age from infant to 3 years old. Outlook integrates special needs infants and toddlers with typically developed children. It's an early intervention program that teaches typical children to accept disabilities and challenges the special needs kids to keep up with the others. Students volunteering act as teacher's aides and help feed, diaper, and entertain the children.

This is a Metro-Nashville elementary school that has a class for children with autism. The students work with the autistic children helping them with their classwork.

This is a parochial elementary school and the students work with the kindergardeners helping them with their school work.

This is a Metro-Nashville school that has a headstart program for children aging from 3-5 years old preparing them for kindergarden.

Created by S.Hahn on January 17, 2002