Community Service In The United States

What does community service mean? Community service, to me, means bettering the community with volunteering at local places, business, or helping the people themselves. Community services is very important due to most of the things in a community such as parks, food banks, etc. being ran/used by the community.

How many people do you know that volunteer? How many are forced to do it? United States citizens shouldn’t be required to serve one year of community service between the ages of 18 and 30. By forcing people to volunteer they won’t do it out of kindness, the United States will have a deeper debt, and there is no way to keep track.

The issue of whether or not the United States should require all adult citizens to perform one year of community service by the age of 30, is a very important situtation. In my opinion, I think that Americans should have a free choice in deciding whether or not they would like to volunteer. I agree with the passage, "The Heart of Service," this passage represents Americans rights and makes a strong argument about volunteering.

In The United States of America it is our right to pursue happiness in any shape or form. The founders belived that citizens should be willing to put aside personal interests to help support the common good. The adults between the age of 18 to 30 should be required to complete a years worth of national service.

I have made a difference in my community by volunteering for many organizations. To start, I have participated in the Lisbon Community Band and provided musical entertainment for the community to enjoy free of charge. Each year, my town band has a winter and summer concert. These concerts include a new set of songs for the community to hear. Music relaxes the mind and is believed to have certain healing properties. I have been in my town’s community band for eight years now and I plan to be a member for as long as I can. The community band is a valuable and necessary aspect of my community. I also have participated in my town’s Boy Scout Troop in the past, helping out individuals in the community, raking leaves in their yards, and performing

It's undoubtable that community service is a good thing, however when someone is forced into doing something, the power of the action is greatly diminished. For example, a child who wants to play a sport on their own free will is much more likely to excell than a child whose parent made them play. Community service can easily be viewed with the same logic, and because of this I don't think the United States should require mandatory community service.

My high school career has brought me many great opportunities, especially in the area of community service. However, our school does not require service to the community for graduation eligibility. Key Club, Future Farmers of America, and National Honors Society are a few of the organizations I was involved in that offered community service opportunities. The majority of my service opportunities in FFA were directed toward agriculture and the agricultural community I was involved with. Our officer team served food at multiple steak feeds, organized petting zoos for young children, and created scholarship opportunities for future FFA members. Because I was the president of this organization I was given the responsibility to supervise these events and establish these scholarship opportunities by applying for

From personal expirience, I believe that forcing volunteer work on anyone can become an issue. During the summer of 2012, I received a curfew ticket for being out passed 10 p.m. I was given the option to complete 20 hours of community service at a local food bank in order to have the ticket expunged from my record. On one hand, due to the community service being mandatory, I didn't want to do it, on the other hand however, the community service was a way out of a 50 dollar ticket.

“Service above self” acquires a certain meaning to me that goes beyond volunteering at a planned community service event. At face value, it could be seen as people stacking service events on their plate and piling up hours for personal interests. Though, it goes beyond that ideology entirely. To me, service above self means to help or assist others without the need of any benefit or recognition from anybody. I conduct service for the sole purpose to make a difference in the community and people’s lives, and beyond the recorded hours on a piece of paper.

Communities around the world will always need service's provided by the citizens. In America though, we have the right to serve if we choose. The only time something is mandated, is if you break the law and are court ordered to do community service. There are many different forms of community service, from law enforcement, hospitals, to donating food to the homeless.

The United States of America should support the common good all around. Community service shouldn't just be a punishment, which is what it is used for mostly now days in the USA. It should be used to help the community and those in need. Whether it be cleaning trash, painting over graffiti on a bridge, or donating clothes to the needy. Many other countrys already have their own type of manditory community service that their citizens participate in. Why can't we?

Communites all around the country differ, and that is due to the amount of effort each community puts in. It is important to pick up a new skill as you progress in life, and that is what community service can help you accomplish. Serving for a year will allow citizens to pick up on a skill and be efficent with that skill.

Community service is something that as a Junior we have to do till senior year. Community service is when you volunteer to help a non profit organization or a non profit event. This is an unpaid position. There are many benefits to having teenagers do community service. One benefit is that teenagers are learning to be more responsible. If they fully commit to the position that they have agreed to do that shows the responsibility of the individual. They could be doing sports or watching tv but they choose to help a specific organization which proves their responsibility.

Looking back on the community service events I went to, as a student of social work I benefited. When asked to do it I was nervous, because I didn’t know if I would have time. Doing 40 hours this semester I thought would be challenging. Also having it determine if I pass or fail the class was scary. When told to do the community service I wondered what I can do. I didn’t have a car, so going to places would be hard. Finally midway through September I started to do it, and didn’t procrastinate. I realized I am a part of an organization who go out and do community service. Just so happen I am also the community service representative. My job is to come up with events, so I had resources at my disposal.

The efficiency of service can be looked at from multiple angles. Does the motive behind service lessen its effectiveness? Effective service refers to benefits communities gain when individuals volunteer. I will be exploring effective service in this paper by evaluating the net benefit to a community and its lasting impact on the individual performing mandatory versus voluntary service. I was drawn to this topic after listening to Tovia Smith’s podcast, ‘Selfish’ Giving: Does It Count If You Get In Return?. Smith interviews many professionals on their opinion on service and concludes that service done for personal gain is effective service. While Smith agrees that high school students completing service for an award is mandatory service, the Center for Justice and Reconciliation in the article, Community Service, defines mandatory community service as restorative justice for offenders. The Center for Justice and Reconciliation leads a reader to believe that offenders doing community service are no different than when a high school student does it for a college application. High school students partake in mandatory community service for college applications while offenders volunteer in order to get a lighter sentence for a crime. High school students use service to get into college while offenders use service to make amends with the community they have harmed. Both Smith and the Center for Justice and Reconciliation agree that service is good regardless of motivation. While