Alternative Breaks Program at SUNY Plattsburgh

Alternative Breaks Program

Getting Involved and Giving Back

The mission of the Alternative Break Porgram is to provide students with opportunities to engage in intensive service experiences with communities in need during campus breaks, and through reflective activities, promote civic engagement, leadership development, and appreciation of diversity. 

The program challenges students to participate in an extended and intensive service experience during the college's winter or spring breaks.

These experiential learning opportunities help students develop a sense of personal identity and community, as well as an understanding of important societal issues, while helping other who are in need of assistance.

Each trip provides the opportunity to meet new people, visit new places, and learn new skills. Alternative Break can be a very rewarding, and sometimes, life changing experience, but it is a challenging commitment.

The Sites for Alternative Break 2012 are:

Alternative Spring Break 2012

• Site #1 Greensboro, GA Habitat for Humanity
• Site #2 Toronto, ON, Tim Horton's Onondaga Farms (building, painting, working w/ children)
• Site #3 Bridgeport, CT Habitat for Humanity
• Site #4 Mt. Rogers, VA Student Conservation Association (Environment)
• Site #5 Bridgeton, NJ Tri-County Action (Headstart Pre-K Program)
• Site #6 Georgetown, SC Habitat for Humanity
• Site #7 Pursglove, WV The SHACK (Fraternity/Sorority trip - Community Outreach)

Interested In Applying?

Alternative Spring Break applications will be available Oct. 31st and due Nov. 18th in Activities and Volunteerism (Angell College Center 101).

Contact Information

If you would like to learn more about Volunteerism at SUNY Plattsburgh, we invite you to stop in, or call:

Cori Jackson, Director of Campus Activities
Student Activities and Volunteerism
Office Location: Angell College Center 101
Phone: (518) 564-4830
E-mail: cori.jackson@plattsburgh.edu