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 About Learn & Serve Grant Program
Partnerships That Address Health Disparities
Seven Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were competitively selected to participate in an initiative to develop community service and service learning programs that address health disparities in minority communities.
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The Grants
The Learn & Serve grants are funded through UNCFSP's Division of Community and Education by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Liberty Life Insurance Company. UNCFSP administered the initiative to assist institutions in increasing the quality and quantity of community service and service learning practices on their campuses and in their surrounding communities.
 
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Service Learning classes have a community service requirement
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Students use a plastic breast to learn
how to do a breast exam
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Learn & Serve Goals
The goals of the UNCFSP Learn & Serve Grant Program were:
- To engage HBCUs in increasing the quality and quantity of community service and service learning programs on their campuses and
- To increase understanding of service learning, community service, and volunteerism among UNCF institutions, other institutions of higher education, cummunity-based and local private and public organizations
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Focus on Health Disparities
This initiative, which ended in September 2007, addressed health disparities using innovative approaches that integrate service learning into the respective college's curricula.
The UNCFSP Learn & Serve program featured model programs, curricula, and dissemination practices.
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Student volunteers administer
blood pressure checks at a community health fair
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A great turn out for an annual community health walk
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Activities
Some of the activities supported under this initiative included health fairs, workshops, newsletters, radio talk shows, and campus peer health educator/mentor programs. |
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Participating Schools
The Learn & Serve America program enriched the community service and service learning practices at seven HBCUs. These institutions integrated service learning programs into their respective curricula and disseminate models they have developed to other institutions within the HBCU or Other Minority Institution (OMI) networks and health organizations: |
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Benedict College
Dillard University
Lane College
LeMoyne-Owen College
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Rust College
Wiley College
Xavier University of Louisiana
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