Programs/Trips
Congregational Journeys
When a group travels together from a single congregation, members have the benefit of returning home with others who have all shared in the same powerful experience. The process deepens learning, spiritual reflection, and solidarity with our partners. And the collective experience also makes it easier to share the rewards of the journey with the rest of the congregation.
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Service-Learning Trips
BorderLinks: Immigration Justice Tour
Human rights are at stake on the U.S.-Mexico border, and a UUA-UUSC Borderlands trip is your chance to delve into various on-the-ground aspects of immigration. Through education, partner meetings, service opportunities, and theological reflection, you will explore immigration through a program designed by BorderLinks. Return home informed and inspired to be a leader for immigration justice.
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Haiti Just Recovery
On this weeklong trip, participants will work with members of the Papaye Peasant Movement (MPP), a UUSC partner, on projects to help former Port-au-Prince residents build new lives in rural Haiti. Every day, you will work with Haitian peasants to build new homes, construct food gardens from old tires, or contribute to other sustainability projects.
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UUSC-UUA Supporter Journey to Tanzania and Burundi
This trip is a chance for donors to witness vital on-the-ground human-rights work and to meet African Unitarians. You will learn about the work of the Tanzania Gender Networking Program (TGNP), a UUSC environmental-justice partner, and be hosted by the Assemblée des Chrétiens Unitariens du Burundi/Assembly of Unitarian Christians of Burundi (ACUB), a UUA partner church.
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UU Holdeen India Program: Justice for Women and Marginalized Communities in India
Join the UU Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) and the UU College of Social Justice for an 11-day pilgrimage to India. This journey will take us to the western state of Gujarat, where you will witness firsthand the struggles that UUHIP grassroots partners are waging for social justice.
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Food for Thought: An Exploration of Eating and Worker Organizing
Ethical eating means more than local and organic ingredients — it means supporting the people throughout the food chain who bring food to your table. Come to Chicago, a nexus of America’s food industry and economy, to learn how to use your power as a consumer to improve the lives of U.S. food workers.
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Programs for Spiritual Leaders
UU International Minister Programs
Through the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUCSJ), the UUA offers several international programs for ministers. In locations throughout the world, these programs are designed to provide ministers with opportunities to broaden their ministerial experience, offer their expertise to international congregations, and deepen multicultural understanding.
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UU International Seminarian Programs
Through the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUCSJ), the UUA offers several international programs for seminarians. In locations throughout the world, these programs are designed to provide seminarians with opportunities to grow in multicultural understanding as they serve communities and deepen their ministerial training.
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UULMCA Spiritual Activist Leadership Training (SALT) Fellowships
The UU Legislative Ministry of California (UULMCA) Spiritual Activist Leadership Training (SALT) program trains, empowers, connects, and releases the potential of young-adult UU justice leaders through development of concrete justice and organizing skills, faith development, spiritual deepening, and community building. UUCSJ provides fellowships to select applicants interested in SALT training.
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High School Youth Programs
Youth Justice Training: Boston
This transformative three-week social justice training for high school youth offers interactive social justice education and real-world internships. In a program grounded in Unitarian Universalist values and practices, participants will create community across differences and leave with a deeper understanding of themselves and social justice. Youth who attended high school during the 2012-2013 school year are invited to apply.
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Youth Justice Training: New Orleans
This transformative one-week training for high school youth offers interactive social justice education and meaningful hands-on work with local organizations engaged in building a thriving New Orleans. In a program grounded in Unitarian Universalist values and practices, participants will develop foundational skills for creating social change through community engagement, reflection, and beloved community. Youth who attended high school during the 2012-2013 school year are invited to apply.
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Youth Civil Rights Pilgrimage
We have teamed up with the UU Living Legacy Project to offer this special social justice pilgrimage for high school youths. On a journey that explores the U.S. civil rights movement, you will meet the people, hear the stories, and visit the sites that changed the United States and had ripple effects throughout the world.
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Young Adult Programs
Global Justice Summer Internships
UUCSJ’s Global Justice Summer Internships are specifically for young adults interested in exploring global social-justice issues in a Unitarian Universalist (UU) context. Selected applicants will spend several summer weeks abroad collaborating with one of UUSC’s grassroots partner organizations.
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