Domestic Winter Breakouts
Applications for Domestic Winter BreakOuts are now available.
During Winter Break, you can spend your time learning about a different part of the country, meeting new people, sharing about yourself and helping others. Winter BreakOuts are a great way to get off campus for a short time and do something that can truly enhance your college experience and your life.
These trips will fill on a first come-first serve basis. If a trip is full, you can still apply and be put on a waiting list. Registration will close on October 24th unless there is still space on a trip.
The cost of the trip covers transportation, lodging, and most food. Plan on bringing some spending money for snacks and other needs along the way. Some funds have been set aside for partial scholarships based on need (contact Mary Niebler for scholarship requests).
If you would like more information about any of the trips below, contact Mary Niebler at 937-229-2012 or e-mail her mniebler1@udayton.edu.
Amate House
Chicago, IL
January 6-12
Cost: $200
Students on the Chicago BreakOut will stay with and shadow yearlong volunteers at Amate House. Volunteers with the Amate House live in community houses in the neighborhoods in which they serve. They provide critical tasks for nonprofits, schools and churches in the area. This BreakOut will provide students with a taste of what is like to live and work in the social service realm of Chicago. Plans are for students to work in schools, homeless shelters, a food pantry, and a homeless advocacy organization.
Project Homecoming
New Orleans, LA
This trip is already full. If you apply now, you will be placed on a waiting list.
January 6-12
Cost: $200
This trip is a great combination of hands-on service, reflection, prayer, learning and cultural immersion. The group will do hands-on service continuing the rebuilding process in New Orleans' neighborhoods through Project Homecoming, staying at their residence, the Olive Tree. Evenings will include guest speakers or other opportunities to deepen understanding of the political, environmental, ethnic and class dimensions of the suffering brought on by hurricane Katrina and theological reflection on the topics. The trip will conclude with a visit to the historic French Quarter.
Solsberry Hill
Bloomington, IN
January 6-11
Cost: $200
Participants will spend the week building community through acts of service and prayer in the spirit of simplicity. Solsberry Hill Retreat Center serves local non-profit agencies that respond to the injustices of substandard housing, inadequate senior care, underprivileged children, sparse homeless care, and inequity of food distribution. Participants will stay in a hand crafted retreat center in the quiet rolling hills of Indiana.
Hubbard House and Catholic Urban Programs
East St. Louis, IL
January 6-12
Cost: $200
This immersion into East St Louis works in conjunction with the Hubbard House, Catholic Urban Programs, and Marianist brothers. Students will stay at the Hubbard House, and learn about social issues and life in East St Louis. Students will be able to grow relationships with others through a variety of hands on service as well. Placements may include: helping at a day care, working with senior citizens, helping in a soup kitchen, tutoring adults and children, and working at a homeless shelter. The variety of jobs to be done and of people to meet provides a great inner-city experience.
Marianist University Collaborative Winter Immersion
Los Angeles, CA
This trip is already full for this year.
January 5-12
Cost: $250 (the rest will be subsidized by a generous grant from the Marianists)
This will be the second year we participate in a joint collaborative Winter Immersion/ BreakOut experience to Los Angeles with the other two Marianist Universities, Chaminade and St Mary’s. It should again prove to be an educational and rewarding experience. Students will engage in a variety of learning and service-based organizations throughout LA. They will also work on Marianist leadership skills together and discuss what it means to be a leader at a Marianist University and in the world. We are looking for students familiar with the Marianist mission and willing to take part in this exciting experience.
Applications for the LA trip were due October 1st.