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Service Group Hosting

Let Us Host Your Alternative Break Group

The Office of Community Service Learning (OCSL) at The University of Southern Mississippi has extensive experience hosting alternative break groups. OCSL has hosted groups as small as 10 individuals and as large as 50.

Services offered

  1. Securing housing for your group
  2. Coordinating service projects including day trips to volunteer on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans
  3. Freedom Summer Trail (civil rights) tour
  4. Cultural events
  5. Providing meals
  6. Securing transportation (if needed)

Groups hosted

  1. Bridgewater State College
  2. California State University – Chico
  3. Earlham College
  4. Humboldt State University
  5. Miami University
  6. University of Guelph
  7. University of Wisconsin – River Falls

Past service projects

  1. Rebuilding and recovery work in Pass Christian and Pascagoula (Gulf Coast)
  2. Hurricane Katrina Oral History Project in Moss Point and Pascagoula (Gulf Coast)
  3. Building houses with Habitat for Humanity
  4. Cemetery cleanup in New Orleans

Past Cultural/Educational programs

  1. Day trip to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
  2. Crawfish Boil
  3. Southern Miss athletic events
  4. Freedom Summer Trail (civil rights) tour
Fee

The Office of Community Service Learning charges a small fee per participant, depending on the size of the group and services arranged.

About Hattiesburg, MS

The University of Southern Mississippi is located in Hattiesburg, the educational, retail and medical center of South Mississippi. Hattiesburg is known as the “Hub City” for its proximity to the Mississippi Gulf Coast; Mobile, AL; Jackson, MS; and New Orleans.

For more information, contact David Brooking at 601.266.6342 or by e-mail at david.brooking@usm.edu