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 explore our site and to leave your mark.

Featured Service Project: YouthSERVE


Synopsis:YouthSERVE, a program of the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz, set out to make their National and Global Youth Service Day project inclusive of youth with disabilities. Read our interview with Emily Redding, YouthSERVE’s Program Coordinator, to learn how they did it.

youthserve_SuccessStory.pdf

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Service Inclusion Blog I have to admit when I entered the field of disability inclusion four years ago, I was immediately put off by the term “consumer” which I quickly learned was used by service systems to refer to individuals with developmental disabilities… I’ve learned that the term “consumer” was seen as a step up from the term “client” … I see the progress this term was designed to foster. But now, it’s time for a new term.
Read more of the third edition of our new blog!
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