A class of 16 at-risk students in Anaheim's Youth and Family Resource Center (YFRC) undertook the design, making, and delivery of pillows and care packages for young patients confined to the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (NICU/PICU) at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. The project had two goals: to extend the students' concepts of community and to aid young children in need. Service-Learning Coordinator Jim Perez submitted this effective practice in July 2006 as part of a report on the success of Alternative, Community, and Correctional Education Schools and Services (ACCESS) in Orange County, California.

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