Tarjan Center, Service Inclusion Project
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Service is both a privilege and an opportunity. It’s a time to demonstrate one’s character and to build it. It’s a way to find one’s passions and employ them for the greatest good. It’s a means to develop one’s skills and assert them benevolently. Service is the place where the deepest callings of the individual meet the deepest needs of the community.

The Tarjan Center Service Inclusion Project strives to make service and volunteerism equally accessible to people with and without disabilities.

Whether you are an individual with a disability seeking to serve, a volunteer program hoping to engage more volunteers with disabilities, or simply an ally of service inclusion, we invite you to explore our site.

Students Develop Job Skills Through Volunteering


Alex and Kelley work in the VITAS database Communities can be permanently altered when volunteers with disabilities are regularly included. Partnerships between volunteer programs and disability organizations can create stable recruitment pipelines that form the basis of this transformation. But how do two partners go from meeting to marriage? TRACE is program of the San Diego Unified School District which prepares high school students with disabilities for independence. For more than three years, TRACE students have volunteered weekly at VITAS Innovative Hospice Care. The partnership has been spearheaded by VITAS Volunteer Coordinator Alexander Silva. Read our interview Alex, Kathy Pracanica—TRACE Special Education Technician, and TRACE students—Teresa and Kelly to learn more about developing sustainable partnerships that create impact year after year.

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