Human Services & Restorative Justice Articles

Woven baskets beautifully beckon shoppers. A delicate angel, standing watch Human services students staff sale in CC lobby. The Nativity, fashioned by hand A little birdie, as intricate as it is vibrant A fair-trade sale of colorfully handmade items, organized each year by students in a human services course at Penn College, is being held in the Bush Campus Center through Friday.

Students in a human services class at Pennsylvania College of Technology will host a fair-trade sale Nov. 14-16 in the Bush Campus Center. The annual sale helps working poor in other countries. Facilitated by students enrolled in the course Community and Organizational Change, the Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale will feature handcrafted goods.

A new minor in criminal justice at Pennsylvania College of Technology will help to prepare students who may enter careers working in conjunction with the law-enforcement system.

Erin M. LaCerra, who graduated in May with a degree in human services, will be among exhibitors during downtown Williamsport's First Friday celebration of the arts on April 6. LaCerra whose talents include painting, drawing, music and jewelry-making will hold a reception at 7 p.m. in Barrel 135, 135 W. Third St.

A 1973 graduate of Williamsport Area Community College, whose business success became a selfless springboard to helping others achieve their goals, was among the honorees at Thursday's 11th annual Education Celebration held at The Genetti Hotel by the Williamsport-Lycoming Chamber of Commerce and its partners. Carol A.

Students in human services classes at Pennsylvania College of Technology hosted two events on campus in November that together raised $4,600 for local and international causes. For the first time, students in the course Service Learning in Sociology organized a Gifts That Give Hope Fair.

A fair-trade sale of internationally handcrafted home décor items, an annual event organized by students in human service classes at Penn College, is being held in the Bush Campus Center. The Ten Thousand Villages Festival sale features handmade jewelry, ornaments, soaps, musical instruments and other goods fashioned by the world's working poor.

Students in human services classes at Pennsylvania College of Technology will combine forces to offer holiday-shopping opportunities that benefit others Nov. 16-18 in the Bush Campus Center.

Degree programs in human services at Pennsylvania College of Technology have earned reaccreditation from the Council for Standards in Human Service Education through May 2016. The college's bachelor-degree major in applied human services and its associate-degree major in human services were reaccredited by the council for the next five years.

Kristi L. Hammaker, health and fitness specialist, and applied human services students Maggie J. Bauman and Allyson B. Cox joined 160 students from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania colleges May 24-26 at the 2011 New Jersey Peer Institute at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J.