LOCAL ENGAGEMENT
ON MISSION
Local Engagement exists to serve the Azusa and Greater Los Angeles communities by loving our neighbor and sharing the redemptive hope of Christ. We facilitate this by connecting students with opportunities to serve locally.
MORE ON LOCAL ENGAGEMENT
Local Engagement provides opportunities for students to serve locally over fall and spring semesters. Service opportunities vary in length, location, intensity, and the type of service (e.g. tutoring, food ministry, community development, outreach) students get to participate in, with our partner communities and host organizations. Ongoing LE opportunities earn students 15-30 service credits. One-time opportunities earn students 5.
Students have the opportunity to serve within the local community through various partnerships that our office works to maintain with organizations throughout Azusa, Los Angeles, and the San Gabriel Valley (from the Zu to LA). We offer both on-going weekly opportunities to serve throughout each semester, three-day experience trips to LA, as well as various one-time opportunities as opportunities within the community arise.
Our office strives to create mutually beneficial and sustainable partnerships with local community organizations through foundations of intentional and appreciative community development practices, as established by the Christian Community Development Association
Transportation:
If you sign up for a Local Service opportunity through OSD, our Local team can help coordinate rides.
Service Credits:
Service with OSD: If you serve through OSD Local Engagement, our team will process and post your service credits to your APU student account. You do not need to submit a service credit report.
If you serve outside of OSD like with a local church, community organization, or any other un-paid volunteer work, you will be responsible for your own transportation and recording your service hours through your student portal at home.apu.edu (Service Credit Request Form). Please do not list Local Engagement as your supervisor on this form, as this will result in an automatic denial of service credits. Please instead list the org rep who witnessed your service at the event as your supervisor. Please note that you will also be required to write a short reflection essay with the submission of this form. (This essay is waved when you sign up with OSD via Manages Missions.) If you have questions about your service credits, or would like to check on the status of an application, please email servicerequirement@apu.edu. Thank you.
If you have an approved medical exemption from the Accessibility and Disability Resources Office, please contact Karen Rouggly at krouggly@apu.edu to discuss your options for participation.
For more information regarding Local Engagement, please contact localengagement@apu.edu