Ready & Response Service Team
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What is it?
The Ready & Response Service Team is a Learn & Serve America higher education consortium grant between the Louisiana Campus Compact (LACC) and the Kentucky Campus Compact (KyCC). This three year grant began in 2007 and will end in May, 2010.
What are the goals of the grant?
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Deepen and strengthen the service-learning infrastructure in higher education in Louisiana and Kentucky
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Provide opportunities for students to engage in their communities
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Ensure a brighter future for Louisiana's and Kentucky's youth by providing academic and civic engagement through a focus on disaster relief and preparedness which will lead to increased expectations of high school completion and college enrollment
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Help individuals and communities in Louisiana devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita and to help Kentuckians prepare for weather and seismic disasters
What results have we seen from this grant?
Currently in its last year of operation, the grant provided:
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A total of $148,000 a year for service learning subgrants to Ashland Community and Technical College, Big Sandy Community and Technical College, Henderson Community College, Northern Kentucky University, and West Community and Technical College
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A total of $35,000 for mini grants to Berea College, Eastern Kentucky University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, and Transylvania University
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Funding to attend a Train the Trainer Service Learning Institute to Big Sandy Community and Technical College, Gateway Community and Technical College, Henderson Community College, Kentucky State University, Northern Kentucky University, and Thomas More College
How is it affiliated with the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement?
With the assistance of a federal Learn and Serve grant and a partnership with the Kentucky Campus Compact, the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement has been able to send students to Katrina-damaged Moss Point, Mississippi to help rebuild the community.