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...This past fall,” she says, PBHA “did a Day of Service, a university-wide project day with a lot of different projects, including a field day at Mission Hill and river cleanup. When a graduate student council member approached PBHA, they wanted to do those one-day, feel-good, paint-a-mural type projects, and we got back to them and said, ‘That’s not really what we’re about...
...Less time-consuming activities that don’t involve personal relationships—such as the “paint-a-mural type projects” PBHA avoids—can be particularly harmful, Graham says, because of the negative effects of PBHA’s relationship with community leaders...
...While the directors of PBHA programs have a responsibility to choose dedicated volunteers, it is often difficult to anticipate a volunteer’s level of commitment. One way of dealing with this is by educating their volunteers as much as possible about the communities they are working in. But there is also a large element of self-education and awareness necessary for real immersion in social service...
...College seems to agree. As a result, the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning initiated a program that collaborates with PBHA and the Public Service Network in order to place students in area schools. Still, even with some training in pedagogy, students can be susceptible to some pitfalls...
...Peebles acknowledges the fact that PHE, along with many other Public Service Network and PBHA programs, often tries to weed out those participants who don’t want to be there in any discomfort...