CCLL Risk Management
Students
Certain forms are required for your safety,
success, and recording of community learning. Students should complete
the Community Learning Plan and other forms as required.
Faculty
Conducting community learning activities in the community can involve
risk. Risk management provides tools to identify areas of potential
difficulty. This information and these tools can be used to reduce
risk by educating and preparing stakeholders (the university, students,
and community partners). Identifying risk in advance reduces concerns
about liability that may undermine a program or project.
Best practices for risk management
- A Community Learning Agreement is established between the SJSU Center for Community Learning & Leadership and the community organization/placement
site regarding student service activities and liability.
- Students assess and understand any risk such that they can provide
informed consent prior to engaging in service activities, that is,
by completing a Student Community Learning Plan.
- Students understand their roles and have the training, knowledge,
skills and tools to perform their service duties safely and effectively.
- All stakeholders (students, faculty, community site supervisors)
are encouraged to report problems, potential hazards or feelings
of being physically or emotionally at risk.
- Faculty member monitors students' service experiences and addresses
risk issues quickly if they arise.
Risk management tools and forms are provided
by the Center for Community Learning & Leadership. They have been created by a group
of CSU community learning practitioners and risk managers for practical
and legal reasons to:
- Help protect the instructor, the university, the community partner,
and the students from taking unnecessary legal and physical risks;
- Track student placements and service hours as well as clarify
student commitment and accountability;
- Encourage the community placement site to establish plans for
training, orientation and supervision - critical elements for reducing
risk to students;
- Establish agreements between the university and community agency,
protecting both in the event of an accident or incident and;
- Prompt the exchange of important information such that all participants
are informed of and prepared to accept the risks of engaging in
the community learning activities.
Advise your students to visit this website, particularly
the student section, for an orientation
to Community Learning and Risk Management. Faculty might familiarize
themselves with Student and Community Partner forms as well. Student
leaders from the CCLL can also help introduce, distribute and collect
student forms in a community learning class. Please contact the Center
if you would like advice or in-class help related to the forms.
Community Partners
Community organizations share the concerns of the CSU and SJSU in
the safety and success of students, staff and clientele in community learning
within the community. Therefore it is important to address risk management
issues. Risk management provides tools to identify areas of potential
difficulty and to reduce risk by educating and preparing stakeholders
(the university, students, and community partners). Identifying risk
in advance reduces concerns about liability that may undermine a program
or project.
Best practices for risk management
- A Community Learning Agreement is established between the SJSU Center for Community Learning & Leadership and community organization/placement
site regarding student service activities and liability.
- The community partner conducts an orientation to service
at its site. An Orientation Checklist is provided to guide orientation
the orientation of students.
- Students assess and understand any risk such that they can
provide informed consent prior to engaging in service activities,
that is, by completing a Student Community Learning Plan. This form
contains contact information of for all stakeholders.
- Students understand their roles and have the training, knowledge,
skills and tools to perform their service duties safely and effectively.
- While there is a Student Tracking Sheet for service hours,
of greater validity is the Volunteer Log or Sign-in procedure of
your organization. A Community Organization Community Learning Sign-In
Sheet is offered for your use.
- All stakeholders (students, faculty, community site supervisors)
are encouraged to report problems, potential hazards or feelings
of being physically or emotionally at risk.
- Community partners monitor students' service experiences
and addresses risk issues quickly if they arise.
Community partner organizations should be familiar with risk
management forms and support their
use. Partners may also have forms of their own to employ. Partners
who have the benefit of our AmeriCorps PLUS Teams may involve these
liaisons in processing forms and managing risks.
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