CKSS Student Services: Community Involvement
All Community Involvement Hours must be physically submitted
directly to Student Services...
and make sure you put your name on your form.
No name... no hours!
directly to Student Services...
and make sure you put your name on your form.
No name... no hours!
Track Your Hours!
In order to make sure that you earn the required 40 Community Involvement hours needed for graduation, you should be keeping track of the hours you submit.
Before you submit your hours in person to Student Services, you should take a picture/scan the document and upload the image to your portfolio in myBlueprint. That way you have a complete record of all your hours, including those that you have earned beyond the required amount.
Click HERE for more information on myBlueprint portfolios.
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Every student in Ontario must perform 40 hours of Community Involvement in order to graduate from High School. It's hoped that this experience will guide students toward a lifetime of volunteering in the effort to create strong and caring communities. Community Service means you should be giving of yourself for the betterment of our community: Milton, Ontario, Canada, and beyond.
It is important to understand that students are not "earning volunteer hours", but are performing Community Service. In other words, not all volunteering is Community Service (e.g. volunteering in a doctor's office, or at a private dance studio). These sorts of activities will not qualify for the the 40 hours as they are businesses, and, as such, the owner of the business and the person volunteering benefit, but not the community.
*IMPORTANT NOTICE*
Change to Community Involvement Hour Graduation Requirement for 23/24
Please note that as of September 1, 2023, the following covid accommodations for Community Involvement Hours are no longer in effect:
> Counting up to 10 hours of paid work
> Unlimited hours for duties performed in the home
Any students that completed community involvement hours before September 1 that aligned with these previous accommodations should have them counted.
A maximum of 10 hours from paid employment can be submitted for students aged 14 years and older towards the required Community Involvement hours
(also includes written reflection to be considered towards their hours),
and must be earned PRIOR to Sept. 1, 2023.
Please CLICK HERE to submit those hours for approval.
(also includes written reflection to be considered towards their hours),
and must be earned PRIOR to Sept. 1, 2023.
Please CLICK HERE to submit those hours for approval.
*** PLEASE NOTE ***
At certain times of the year, myBlueprint uploads are delayed and your Community Involvement hours will NOT BE AS UP-TO-DATE as what we have recorded for you. Please be patient. IF you have a concern about your totals hours, please carefully review the total hours posted on your report cards, which will confirm what we have on file.
Read the information below BEFORE beginning any Community Involvement Activity:
Activities that ARE ELIGIBLE are:
Work for a non-profit organization
Tutoring or mentoring
Coaching
Work for clubs, religious groups, arts & cultural associations, or political organizations that seek to make a positive & ethical contribution in the community
Please note that as of September 1, 2023, the following Covid accommodations for Community Involvement Hours are no longer in effect (only hours dated PRIOR to Sept. 1st will be counted based on the criteria below):
Up to 10 hours of paid employment may be used, accompanied by the completion of a reflection
Unlimited hours may be used completing duties in the home (chores, child care etc)
Activities that are NOT ELIGIBLE are:
work completed during your regular class time
work that is required as part of one of your classes
work that would normally be performed by someone who is paid (in other words, you cannot volunteer to help a person or business in order to help them earn or save money)
work that provides direct financial gain to the student, or the student's immediate family
*Note: Hours submitted will be rounded to the nearest 1/4 hour (e.g. 27 hours and 10 minutes will count for 27 hours).
For Volunteer Opportunities
please visit:
please visit:
Virtual Volunteering Opportunities
What to Submit:
For Community Involvement Hours completed outside of the school:
Either a letter on letterhead, or an printed email directly from the supervisor that includes the number of hours completed, what the service involved, the supervisor's contact information, and the date the hours were completed. Please submit the above directly to Student Services.
OR
Record of Community Involvement form, signed by the supervisor, then physically submitted to Student Services.
For Community Service Hours completed in school at CKSS, under the supervision of a staff member, please have them fill out the CKSS Community Service Hours form (available only to school staff on the STAFF RESOURCES page of the website), sign it, and then submit it to Student Services.
- Hours should be physically dropped off in Student Services (black Drop Box) or directly to the Guidance Administrative Assistant in Student Services, Mrs. Swire. MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON THE FORM!
- If you have any questions, please contact your guidance counsellor or Mr. Hume (humek@hdsb.ca) in Student Services.