Community Partner Policy
The Center for Social Concern works with community partner organizations and request that they sign a Memorandum of Understanding and submit a Certificate of Insurance before participating with any of our programs. Students are not allowed to participate in a CSC Program until staff have communicated with the partner and / or signed an agreement.
For CSC student groups, we are able to identify our community partners based on the re-registration paperwork that you submit for your group. If we are having trouble signing the agreement for whatever reason, we will contact the student group leaders. If there are other organizations that you’ d like to work with, you must contact and receive approval from your CSC staff advisor prior to your service with them.
Student groups who are looking to partner with a new organization should contact their CSC staff advisor or group management intern.
Image and Photo Policy
The CSC prohibits volunteers from taking any images, including photos and video, of or with children, in connection with your volunteering activities.
There are many privacy and safety concerns that are easily forgotten when it comes to taking photos and images of people without their permission. We take this policy seriously and prohibit students involved with the CSC’ s programs from taking pictures of people or children.
The CSC and JHU realize that the work you are doing is engaging and impactful and in many cases, it provides you the opportunity to build strong bonds and meet new friends. When you work with the same people and / or children week after week, it’ s hard not to build a friendship. We understand but you must remember that you don’ t have the authority or right to take a picture of anyone without permission nor do you have the right to decide where their photo can be placed / shared( i. e.-social media, brochure, etc.).
We realize that you mean no harm. However, by taking and having a picture of a child in your possession, you are putting them at risk or in danger. What if the photo falls into the wrong hands of someone who does want to harm the child? What if the child and their family is in a witness protection program and should not be identified? What if a child is adopted and their biological parents are trying to locate them and harm them? By having and / or posting a picture of a child in a public forum, you are placing that child at risk. We realize these are drastic situations but point being is we don’ t know any child’ s situation nor can we make any assumptions of their situation. Any information or pictures shared online and / or in a public setting lasts forever and you have no control over where it goes and / or who has it which is why we prohibit students from taking any photos or images, in connection with your volunteering activities. If a student chooses to do so, it is at the student’ s own discretion and JHU / CSC cannot advise the student in this process.
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