2026 Immersion Application Coming Soon

The Immersion application for the Summer of 2026 opens on November 3. The priority application deadline is Friday, November 21. Applications are open until all spaces are filled. Please speak with Mrs. Fuentes to learn more.

2026 Experiences

Financial aid is available for students currently receiving tuition assistance. If cost is the only factor preventing participation in immersion, please contact the Office of Service and Justice to have a conversation. We want all interested, qualified students to be able to participate in this program.  

The locations are as follows:

Courts for Kids - Costa Rica

With the mission of “transforming lives through building courts and cultural exchange,” each project is unique. Help build a court with a unique community with its history, strengths, and needs, partnering with a distinctive group of volunteers who live, work, and engage in cultural activities with the community. Approximate Cost: $3000

Camp ReCreation – Eagle Lake, CA

Volunteers spend the week working in a 1-to-1 ratio with a camper with a developmental disability. Camp ReCreation is staffed entirely by volunteers who generously share their time, energy, and talents to provide experiences and memories for our friends who are too often marginalized by their communities. Cost: $200 

Sierra Service Project – Navajo Nation (Tsaile, AZ)

SSP has a long history of working with partners in the Navajo Nation. Since 1994, SSP has partnered with various Diné (pronounced din-EH, meaning “the people”) communities. Service will include: weatherization for harsh winters, including roof repairs, installing awnings, and building sheds to keep wood dry; accessibility repair projects for elder residents, including decks, stairs, and ramps. Approximate Cost: $2100

L’Arche Tahoma Hope – Tacoma, WA

We will partner with the L’Arche Tahoma Hope Community, spending time working alongside core community members with intellectual disabilities on the community farm, learning about disability justice and socializing with the members of the community. Housing is provided on-site. Approximate Cost: $1400

Darst Center for Peace & Justice – Chicago, IL

The Br. David Darst Center provides transformative social justice immersion experiences grounded in the Lasallian tradition and Catholic Social Teaching.  Through the programs and partnerships with local community organizations, participants gain a deeper understanding of the complex realities of injustice and obtain tools to take action. They seek to inspire an active and engaged faith, a commitment to serve, and a passion for social change. Approximate Cost: $2100

Kino Border Initiative – Nogales, AZ and Sonora

This Jesuit apostolate works to provide humanitarian aid to recently deported migrants, advocate for policy change (in the U.S., Mexico, and beyond) that impacts migration, and educate about the complexities of immigration. Students provide service through meal service and accompaniment of migrants through conversation. Students also meet with ranchers, border patrol officers, and participants in the court system (attorneys, judges) for dialogue with people impacted by migration and for reflection on their experience and response. Approximate Cost: $2000

Jerusalem Farm – Kansas City, MO

We will be living simply and giving our time and energy to help others, primarily with home maintenance and repair, so that they may have adequate shelter and avoid code violations. The Jerusalem Farm community, which provides our housing, is led by an alumnus of Jesuit High School. Approximate Cost: $2100

American River Ecology – Sacramento, CA

Homelessness and the Sacramento River intersect through encampments on the river’s banks. Students will serve and learn about addressing the needs of the unhoused population and the environmental concerns the encampments create. For the duration of the week, students will camp on Jesuit High School’s Campus. Approximate Cost: $500

What is an Immersion?

Our service immersion program offers rising Seniors an opportunity to put their faith into action in a particular way. The service experiences are about responding to the Gospel call to serve those in need, while questioning the reasons behind why people are in need. Service is a tool for creating spaces for kinship and solidarity. While each immersion has its own unique focus, they all encourage participants to live in solidarity with people experiencing acute needs like hunger, homelessness, physical or developmental disability, isolation due to old age or illness, or dislocation due to migration. Experiencing community, simplicity, justice, and prayer is central to the immersion experience.

Each immersion has goals which are modeled on tenets of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps program:

1. Engaging in direct service with the people of the community that welcomes us;
2. Living simply, while in community with fellow students and people of the host community;
3. Reflecting on social justice and Catholic Social Teaching issues pertinent to the community we are visiting;
4. Reflecting through prayer at the end of each day as a means of noticing where and how God was acting throughout the day, and, further, how God invites us to respond.