SERV Information
Student SERV Induction eligibility is determined each year, according to the following guidelines:
SERV Basic Requirements
- Student must volunteer a minimum of 12 hours to be inducted into SERV each spring. A minimum of 10 SERV hours must be done off-campus each year, and a maximum of 10 on-campus hours can be counted each year.
- 2024 SERV hours must have been completed January 1 - December 31, 2024.
- Documentation of these 2024 hours must be logged by student on APA’s Track It Forward website and are due January 10, 2025.
- The SERV Induction will be held on March 20, 2025 (based on SERV hours completed in 2024).
- Students who earn 100+ SERV hours will be inducted as Presidential Service Scholars and will be recognized at the SERV Induction and the Senior Banquet.
- Seniors may wear their Presidential pins to graduation.
- APA's Patriot Players Steel Magnolias Volunteers Needed!!! 8-10 student volunteers are needed for both Friday and Saturday night's productions. Arrival time is 6PM for help with concessions, ticket sales, and programs. Text Kristie Lewis (252.347.2211) or sign up on bulletin board outside of Mrs. Lewis's classroom by WEDNESDAY!!!
- Fall Into the Arts Volunteers Needed!!! Volunteers needed from 3-5PM on Thursday, November 7th. Sign up on the bulletin board outside of Mrs. Lewis's classroom ASAP!
- Carolina Greens Card Making Event Carolina Greens is holding a card making event on Friday, November 1 from 2:30 to 4:30 after school in Ms. Harper’s room. We will make fall cards to give to the local soup kitchen. Anyone can join the event to earn SERV hours by signing up on the bulletin board outside of Ms. Lewis’s room.
- APA Recycling All students are invited to join the APA Recycling Program to help support recycling at Parrott and earn SERV hours during the school day. Students meet at the beginning of break in Ms. Lewis’s room on Fridays and collect recycling from the different buildings on campus. Join us this Friday!
- Spring Creek Horses of Kinston is seeking student volunteers to brush horses, walk them and spend time with them, clean stalls, sweep concrete, clean water troughs. clean tack room, keep our social media page active by posting our farm and horse pics, do a fundraiser for the horses for feed and vaccinations. Text Cindy Reise if interested 252-286-7144
- Britton Manor is seeking student volunteers for several dates to help with events and weddings, beginning September 24th and throughout the fall. Email Kandis Harvey at [email protected]
- Hope Preparatory School has an after-school program that meets from 3-5pm on campus for about 60-70 of their K-7th grade students, and they are looking for volunteer workers to help with homework and monitor the playground. Hope Prep is located in First Baptist Church in Kinston. Please contact Andrew Worthington at [email protected] if you are interested in volunteering.
- Race Volunteer 11/2 (Colors 4 Cancer 5K/1Mile in New Bern): Colors 4 Cancer 5K/1M/Virtual Volunteer Registration (runsignup.com)
- Upward Cheerleading volunteers needed: The program runs Nov-Feb, and practices are 1 hour one day per week. Games are 1 hour on Saturdays. Contact Amy Howard at 252-341-8847 if you are interested or have questions. You can also find more information on the volunteer website: https://jarvis.church/upward
What is Teen Court? Teen Court is an alternative, restorative system of justice, which offers juveniles who cause harm through minor misdemeanor offenses an opportunity to take responsibility for their offenses through community service and other educational opportunities assigned by a jury of their peers. Volunteers must be in grades 6-12 and enrolled in a District Public, Private, Charter or Homeschool.
What's in it for you? Teen Court offers volunteers the chance to earn community service hours--a lot. Why do you want or even need service hours? Some need them to complete graduation requirements, or even to satisfy the parameters of a club you want to join. Best of all, though, is the fact that any good job prospect you may have or college you wish to attend, highly regards the fact that you spent time giving back to your community. Colleges are especially curious about Teen Court, its purpose, why you volunteered and what you learned in the process.
Youth who volunteer for Teen Court are given an active role in their community, receive education in the functions and operations of the judicial system, and they work together toward the same goal: helping to restore their peers back into their community with hope, and filled with new skills and ways of thinking about things, which can carry them through to their future. Volunteers are trained as attorneys, clerks, bailiffs, and most important: jury members. They are also trained in Restorative Justice Circle processes which, instead of treating "a criminal act as a mere violation of a rule or law, it acknowledges the harm caused to individuals and relationships. The primary focus of restorative justice is to repair the harm caused by a crime while holding the offender accountable for their actions. This accountability involves accepting responsibility and taking measures to make amends for the harm caused."
https://ncteencourts.org/restorative-justice/
- Craven County: Sign up before the training session on November 9th! https://www.trackitforward.com/site/936447/event/979322
- Pitt County: Fill out this application if you are interested. Pitt County Teen Court Application (google.com)
- Lenoir County: Email [email protected] or text 252-523-5576 your name, email, and cell number if you are interested in volunteering.