Break Out of Your Bubble with Alternative Breaks!

Alternative Breaks is currently accepting Applications for our 2010 parciipant application. To download an application click here. For a list of trip issue areas for Spring 2010 click here. You can drop your application off outside of UMC 358 or in UMC 356.

Alternative Breaks, a program of the Volunteer Resource Center, sends teams of college students to engage in community-based service projects during each college break. Atlernative Breaks provides opportunitites for students to learn about the problems faced by members of communities with whom they may otherwise have had little or not direct contact. This immersion in diverse environments enables students to experience, discuss, and understand social issues in a significant way, ultimately, moving students towards action to make a positive impact in their own communities.