Service Program
Omega Phi Alpha has a diverse, flexible service program which allows each member to contribute to the world around her. Many chapters have ongoing projects that they have worked with for years.
Six areas of service:
1. Permanent Project: The permanent project is mental health. Mental health service projects are defined as any project that improves the well being of others, and these projects are typically hands on projects such as playing with kids in an afterschool program, playing Bingo at a nursing home, or serving meals at a soup kitchen.
2. President's Project: Each year at Omega Phi Alpha National Convention, the National President of Omega Phi Alpha presents the cause she feels is worthy of being the focus of OPA service nationwide.
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- 1968-1969: Mental health
- 1970-1971: Ecology
- 1973-1974: Elderly
- 1974-1975: Muscular Dystrophy
- 1977-1978: Heart Disease
- 1979-1980: International Year of the Child
- 1980-1981: Hands Across the Ages- Working with the Elderly
- 1982-1983: Girl Scouts of the USA
- 1983-1984: National Head Injury Foundation
- 1984-1985: Alcohol Awareness
- 1990-1991: Environment
- 1991-1992: Cultural Diversity
- 1993-1994: AIDS education
- 1995-1996: Breast Cancer
- 1996-1997: Ronald McDonald House
- 2002-2003: Girl Scouts of the USA
- 2003-2004: Alcohol abuse prevention/Alcohol Awareness
- 2004-2005: Support your sisterhood
- 2005-2006: Education
- 2006-2007: Women's health
- 2007-2008: Domestic violence awareness
- 2008-2009: Women's cancer awareness
- 2009-2010: Literacy
- 2010-2011: Money Management
- 2011-2012: Archiving OPA
- 2012-2013: Community Inclusion
- Past President's projects prior to 2002 include the environment, terminal illness, AIDS awareness and education, domestic violence, "Just Say No To Drugs", handicapped children, nursing, ecology, heart disease, children, the elderly, head injury prevention, Literacy, and internal organization keypoints.
3. Service to the University Community: Volunteering to help at a school event, holding stress relief classes, random acts of kindness
4. Service to the Community at Large: Local park clean ups, food banks, tutoring at a local school, Humane Society volunteering
5. Service to the members of the sorority: Alumnae, internal strengthening
6. Service to the nations of the world: UNICEF, AIDS Awareness, diabetes awareness (American Diabetes Association), breast cancer awareness (Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, among others)
Through these six areas of service, active and alumnae chapters plan a variety of service projects year each to carry out and make a difference.
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