The Community Outreach Program is that forum in which the student is able to give active expression to her growing understanding of what it means to live her created uniqueness in the context of just interrelationships within a global community.  The student is required to complete thirty hours of service in meeting identified needs within her community.  The student may complete up to ten hours in Grade Nine.  During her sophomore year, she may complete up to an additional fifteen hours (or a total of twenty-five hours).  The last five hours of service must be completed by the end of the first semester of the junior year.

The distribution of service hours through two and one-half years is to allow the student to demonstrate the expansion of her awareness of the needs of her community, as well as her maturing ability to meet those needs.  (A brochure is available to the student to explain this progression.)  The student will maintain a Community Service Portfolio as she progresses through the program.  This portfolio will contain her theological reflections relevant to the human’s call to justice, and reflections on the insights that she gained through her service, as well as the documentation of her service hours.  Though required for graduation, this program is not factored into the computation of the student’s grade point average.