Community Service

St. Paul Catholic High School Christian Service Formation Program

Community Service Hours at St. Paul

Each student at St. Paul is expected to respond to the Christian call to service. 

Community service is required of every student and completion is mandatory for graduation.

A minimum of 15 hours of community service each year is required for graduation from high school.
Students must devote five hours of service to the St. Paul community (Falcon Hours) and
five hours to the larger community (Faith in Action) in the spirit of social justice/corporal acts of mercy.
Students have the flexibility to devote the remaining five hours as either Falcon Hours or Faith in Action Hours.

Students must submit a proposal to the Campus Minister and have the proposal approved before completing their service hours. All service hours logged by students will happen through the MobileServe web portal/app.

Transfer students are not required to make up service hours from previous school years in which they did not attend St. Paul. For students that transfer in midyear, service hour requirements are prorated at the discretion of the Dean of Academic Life.

Students must be up to date on their service hours by June 30th of each school year. Students failing to complete their service hours requirement will be placed on academic probation for the following school year.

St. Paul Catholic High School uses MobileServe to track student participation in our service learning program.
MobileServe makes it easy to document and verify students’ impact, as well as help match them with volunteer opportunities in their community.

Click Here to go to MobileServe and download the app directly to their iPad and then login or create their account.

Community Service Opportunities

Philosophy of the Program

The Christian Service Formation Program at St. Paul Catholic High School strongly embraces the call of the Second Vatican Council, and in particular the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) which “binds us to make ourselves the neighbor of every person without exception and of actively helping him when he comes across our path, whether he be an old person abandoned by all, a foreign laborer unjustly looked down upon by all, a refugee…or a hungry person who disturbs our conscience by recalling the voice of the Lord, ‘As long as you did it for the least of my brethren, you did it for me (Mt. 25 :40) ‘ (GS 27).”

Our Christian Service Formation Program has three components, each with a particular focus:

• Faith in Action
• Falcon Service
• St. Paul Outreach

Each student at St. Paul is expected to respond to the Christian call to service. Community service is required of every student and completion is mandatory for graduation. A minimum of 15 hours of community service each year is required for graduation from high school. Students must devote five hours of service to the St. Paul community (Falcon Hours) and five hours to the larger community (Faith in Action) in the spirit of social justice/corporal acts of mercy. The students have the flexibility to devote the remaining five hours as either Falcon Hours or Faith in Action hours. Students must submit a proposal to their religion teacher and have the proposal approved before completing their service hours. All service hours logged by students will happen through the MobileServe web portal/app.

The objective of the Christian Formation Service Program is to help students understand their individual and corporate role in building the Kingdom of God. As is said in the Purpose and Vision for Catholic School Education, one of the fundamental purposes of a Catholic school education is to “Graduate students prepared to become productive, virtuous citizens and Church leaders who will fashion a more humane world.” It is important that, in the process, students come to appreciate that this service is not about “giving back” although we want them to be grateful, rather their service is geared towards the building up of the community through a spirit of generosity.

Participating Agencies

• Alzheimer Center – Southington
• B.A.R.C. – Bristol
• Har Bur Middle School – Burlington
• Bristol Hospital – Bristol
• Linden Street School – Plainville
• Edgewood Elementary School – Bristol
• St. Matthew School – Bristol
• Greene Hills K-8 School – Bristol
• St. Joseph School – Bristol
• Holy Family Retreat Center – Farmington
• St. Peter/St. Francis School – Torrington
• Humane Society – Meriden
• Southington Catholic – Southington

• Derynoski School – Southington
• Northeast Middle School – Bristol
• UCONN Medical Center – Farmington
• Sacred Heart School – New Britain
• New Britain Hospital – New Britain
• United Way of West Central CT – Bristol
• Sacred Heart School – New Britain
• St. Brigid-St. Augustine Partnership School – West Hartford
• St. Anthony School – Winsted
• West Bristol K-8 School – Bristol
• Franciscan Life Center – Meriden
• Bristol Boys & Girls Club – Bristol