Alternative Breaks

Do Good

Alternative Breaks is a program for Sonoma State University student volunteers that coordinates and organizes week-long service trips during SSU's breaks.

JUMP sponsored two AMAZING Alternative Spring Break experiences in Spring 2007!
Read about them here:

New Orleans, Louisiana
This group spent their week with Habitat for Humanity New Orleans and worked in St. Bernard Parish, one of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina and the levee break in New Orleans. The students were involved in two projects: remodeling a school to become Camp Hope II and working on the first two Habitat homes in the Parish. Camp Hope II will become the new home for all of the Habitat for Humanity volunteers in August and to prepare for those volunteers the group removed tile throughout the school. The group constructed the foundation, floor and framing for two houses for two families currently living in FEMA trailers. A wall-raising ceremony was held for the first two homes built in the Parish.



2006-2007 Alternative Breaks trips:

Spring Break Trips: April 9th-13th

New Orleans: Working with Habitat for Humanity.

Moab, Utah: Environmental restoration.

Thank you to all of our 2006-2007 Alternative Breaks participants!

Questions about the Alternative Breaks program? Contact Aimee and Lindsey in the JUMP office at 707-664-4277 or send an email to spring.break@sonoma.edu


To see pictures from Spring 2005's Trip to Catalina Island, click here

For more information on Alternative Spring Breaks, click on Break Away, a national organization supporting Alternative Spring Breaks at colleges and universities across the United States.

Other Service Opportunities

Summer Service Programs
Year of Service Programs
Non Profit Job Announcements

Contact Info

JUMP Office
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave
Rohnert Park, CA. 94928

Location : JUMP Office, Student Union 1st floor
Phone : 707.664.4277
Email : jump@sonoma.edu