Current Collaborators

SOAR is a unique collaboration among Garden Hills Elementary School, various units and departments at the University of Illinois, and community organizations focused on positive youth development.  Each organization contributes important information and resources which combine to foster the strongest potential for reaching the goal of helping students succeed in school and beyond.  The SOAR program also utilizes enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer tutors from University of Illinois service-learning courses, student organizations, and service fraternities and sororities. 

Campus and Community Partners

• Center for Education in Small Urban Communities
• Champaign Unit #4 School District
• Department of Entomology, UIUC
• Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
• Department of Speech and Hearing Science
• Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Club Latino, Parkland College
• Community Informatics Initiative/GSLIS
• Family Resiliency Center
  
• Garden Hills Elementary School
• Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• LaCasa Cultural Latina
• Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, University of Illinois
• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement
• Psychology Department
• School of Social Work
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
• Spanish and Illinois
• University of Illinois Extension

University of Illinois Colleges and Departments Offering Service-Learning Courses Connected to SOAR

• College of Education
• Department of Spanish
• Department Speech and Hearing Science
• Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• Psychology Department
• School of Social Work