Service

Service Opportunities

At Totino-Grace High School, we believe in the power of service to transform lives and foster a deep sense of community. Our service program offers various opportunities for students to engage in meaningful work, both locally and globally.

Immersion Trips

Our Immersion Trips provide students with transformative experiences by immersing them in different communities and cultures. These trips are designed to deepen students' understanding of social justice and service while fostering a spirit of compassion and global awareness. Each trip includes:

Community Engagement: Working alongside local organizations and communities.
Cultural Exposure: Learning about and experiencing different ways of life.
Reflection: Opportunities for personal and group reflection on the service experience.
Local Service Opportunities

A few examples of trips include Habitat for Humanity, Arizona-Mexico border, or Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana.

Local Service

In addition to immersion trips, Totino-Grace High School offers numerous local service opportunities to engage students in their own communities. These include:

Community Service Projects: Various initiatives that address local needs and support community organizations.
Volunteering: Regular opportunities to volunteer with local nonprofits and community groups.
Campus Service: Projects and activities that enhance the school environment and support our school community.

Service Immersion Trips

Totino-Grace High School's service immersion trip program encompasses the core values of the Lasallian mission while providing students with unique opportunities to learn about different cultures and poverty issues locally and internationally. Partnering with Lasallian communities, schools, and ministries allows us to do this most effectively. Our students have truly enjoyed these learning opportunities with the Christian Brothers, Lasallian Volunteers and other various ministries. These students have the opportunity to travel with Totino-Grace each year, living out the Gospel as Jesus calls us to do.

Kansas City, Missouri

New York City, New York

The Bedford Park Lasallian community will host TG students in the Bronx, NY. They are an intentional community that accompanies groups and individuals who work, volunteer, and are students in the New York area living and engaging with the local community. TG students will volunteer with Part Of The Solution (POTS) which is a non-profit organization that focuses on personalized services that fight hunger and poverty in the Bronx community. While in New York, TG students will pray, share in meals, and share in community with both Lasallian and the Jesuit community connected to Fordham University.

Browning, Montana

In Browning, Montana, Totino-Grace partners with the De La Salle Middle School on the Blackfeet Reservation. DLS Blackfeet offers a Lasallian education to young people in the impoverished community of the Blackfeet Reservation. TG students will serve as volunteers in the classroom, hear speakers on Native American culture and community, and spend time near the Glacier National Park.

Indiana Woods

Tuscon, Arizona

This program provides TG students with the opportunity to visit the US/Mexico border and learn about the Catholic and humanitarian response to the many complexities of immigration. Through this five day immersion program, students will learn about, and experience in part, the hard journey our brothers and sisters crossing from “El Otro Lado” endure. In addition to informing students of the hundreds of migrant deaths that occur in the Arizona desert, El Otro Lado allows students to interact with humanitarian and Catholic groups, Border Patrol agents, and those directly impacted by US immigration policy. El Otro Lado students attend presentations by members of Southern Arizona’s humanitarian aid community, visit a US Border Patrol Station, clear belongings and refuse from migrant trails, visit a Lasallian Cristo Rey school primarily serving the children of immigrants, see deportation proceedings, and volunteer with bi-national faith-based organizations.

Chicago, Illinois

The Br. David Darst Center provides transformative social justice retreats and immersion experiences grounded in the Lasallian tradition and Catholic Social Teaching. Through programs and partnerships with local community organizations, participants gain a deeper understanding of the complex realities of injustice and obtain tools to take action. TG seeks to inspire an active and engaged faith, a commitment to serve, and a passion for social change. Students will participate in service and learning opportunities that explore topics around urban poverty.

Antigua, Guatemala

How to Get Involved

Students can explore and sign up for service opportunities through our Campus Ministry Department by contacting Andrew Blake. Whether participating in an immersion trip or local service project, every student is encouraged to find their passion and make a difference.

Social Teaching

Social teaching is a central element of the Catholic Church. As a Catholic and Lasallian community we place emphasis on social justice education and action through our mission, curriculum and campus ministry programming.

There are seven themes of Catholic social teaching:

Life and Dignity of the Human Person
Call to Family, Community and Participation
Rights and Responsibilities
Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
The Dignight of Work and Rights of Workers
Solidarity
Care for God's Creation

More can be found on the USCCB website.

Social Justice

Totino-Grace is committed to bringing social justice teaching topics and experiences to our students. Our faculty, staff, coaches and moderators help strengthen students' awareness of social justice systems and provide charity opportunities in a variety of ways throughout the school year. Examples include: mission trip experiences, Lasallian youth service projects, respect life group opportunities, mission collection and donation opportunities through campus ministry and co-curricular group initiatives, partnership with Common Hope and St. Josephs in Keren, Eritrea.

Our Theology Department offers a Social Justice elective course that includes examines how we are called to address systems and do charitable work.