Working Together to Build a Brighter Future

The Jewett Center for Community Partnerships (JCCP) is the home of community engagement at Wesleyan University. Guided by the principles of mutual respect and collective responsibility, the JCCP focuses on developing and maintaining local partnerships with schools, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and the community at large through the Office of Community Service and Volunteerism, the Center for Prison Education, and WESU 88.1FM. Our work in the Middletown community and beyond is organized around three areas of focus: Sustainability and Environmental Justice, Education and Youth Development, and Reimagining Justice. 

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Engaged University Blog

Reflections from Macie Carlos ’27, a recipient of the Spring 2026 Student Innovation Fund and founder of the Play It Forward

Play It Forward taught me that sustainable impact is not created through one event, but through buildingsystems that allow communities to support, collaborate, and motivate one another. I learned that meaningful civic engagement requires accountability, trust, and communication. Play It Forward hasshown me that real change is possible when we create solutions that outlast us.–…

Wesleyan Students Participate in Spring “Career Trek” to LEAP!

For over three decades, LEAP (Leadership, Education, Athletics, in Partnership) – a New Haven-based organization – has provided literacy, arts, athletics, and leadership programming to young people across the city.  A group of Wesleyan students – some working with JCCP volunteer groups, others leading educational initiatives in their hometowns – visited the organization and met…
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