{"id":21959,"date":"2022-01-11T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21959"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T18:16:14","slug":"criminal-justice-students-organize-clothing-drive-for-our-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/01\/11\/criminal-justice-students-organize-clothing-drive-for-our-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Justice students organize clothing drive for Our Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students in Camosun College\u2019s Criminal Justice program finished off the fall 2021 semester by collecting a classroom-sized clothing donation for Our Place. The students gathered donations from all over Victoria, which, once delivered, were all re-homed within days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Second-year student Sean Eversfield says that \u201cbasically everyone\u201d in the second year of the Criminal Justice program was involved in the drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had students put up posters around Interurban and Lansdowne, and then we also had students distribute flyers around the communities around Camosun,\u201d says Eversfield. \u201cAnd we also had a community drop-off at the roundabout at Lansdowne.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our Place is a community centre with nine locations around Victoria that serves people facing homelessness, mental-health struggles, substance-abuse issues, and financial instability. Students in the Criminal Justice program have worked with them in the past, along with several other organizations in Victoria, according to Eversfield.<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Criminal Justice students and the donations they collected for Our Place last semester (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOur Place is one of the major ones because of the shelter, and they really enjoy being connected with our program, but we are involved with almost every criminal-justice-related or volunteer-related organization in Victoria,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Second-year student Emma Godard says that due to the students not being able to work directly with these organizations because of learning online last year, as well as the impacts of the pandemic, the need for donations is growing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a need for it, and there\u2019s definitely been an increased demand,\u201d says Godard. \u201cOn our flyer there was a part where we specified men\u2019s clothing, because that\u2019s what\u2019s really needed, men\u2019s clothing like jackets, sweaters, and socks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students in the program also hosted a sock drive earlier in the semester, and they have a bottle drive planned for the new year. After having put volunteer work on hold for the last year, Eversfield and his classmates found the clothing drive to be a meaningful experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the clothing drive,\u201d he says, \u201cthe students who went to Our Place and the other shelters to distribute the clothing, they said it was a really positive experience, and it was eye-opening to speak with them and hear their stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the students being unable to work in person with their partner organizations during the previous school year, Eversfield says that program chair Wendy Taylor did. He says that she still managed to host smaller clothing drives for Our Place, and Godard says this is the program\u2019s third year working with the organization. The organization also works with the students, presenting in their classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of people come in every single week for our seminar, and they were one of the people that came and talked to us,\u201d says Godard. \u201cThey came in three or four weeks ago. It was one of their head coordinators for their volunteer program and then another person that helped run their facility down on Pandora.\u201d<\/p>\n

Godard and Eversfield both appreciate the organizational partnerships that the program offers, which also includes a job fair at the end of the year. Students in the program are in the midst of planning their year-end fundraiser, and Eversfield is looking forward to more community involvement. It\u2019s something that he says he finds rewarding, and he views it as more than just a mandatory part of the program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a requirement, and also a really important part of the field that we\u2019re going into in general,\u201d he says, \u201cjust being involved in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students in Camosun College\u2019s Criminal Justice program finished off the fall 2021 semester by collecting a classroom-sized clothing donation for Our Place. The students gathered donations from all over Victoria, which, once delivered, were all re-homed within days.\u00a0 Second-year student Sean Eversfield says that \u201cbasically everyone\u201d in the second year of the Criminal Justice program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-january-10-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21963,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21959\/revisions\/21963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}