Deepen your engagement through a year-long service leadership program!

Student Leaders for Service is a year-long leadership program that facilitates students’ involvement in both the Portland State and greater Portland communities. Students serve at a community partner site on a weekly basis, supporting the work of the community partner and bringing its mission back to the PSU campus. In addition to serving in a designated volunteer role with their organization, a key component of this role is for the SLS member to serve as a liaison between the community partner site and PSU, developing awareness for the community organization throughout campus and promoting the organization’s volunteer opportunities to PSU students.  

I was able to meet some amazing people and make close connections to the others in the group. I had a sense of importance by being in SLS and apart of a community at PSU. 
-- SLS Member

SLS members also support engagement with the Student Community Engagement Center through facilitation of large Days of Service, shorter Serve Your City projects, tabling, and other outreach events on the PSU campus. Student Leaders for Service develop their leadership skills and identities through weekly Friday leadership classes each term and work to incorporate their learning into their service with their community partner site and vice versa throughout the year.  

I think that not being afraid to fail is one of the things that I learned a lot about with my site and cohort this year. There are a lot of bumps in the road with service work and being flexible and [the ability] to keep a positive attitude is what makes an event and the work go smoothly.
 

[My biggest take-away is that] I am capable of making a difference in my city and that I am not alone in my dedication to making the world a better place for all.