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:
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: $3100
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
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: $1900
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: $1300
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: $1900
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: $1900
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:
$1850
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:
- Engaging in direct service with the people of the community
that welcomes us;
- Living simply, while in community with fellow students and
people of the host community;
- Reflecting on social justice and Catholic Social Teaching
issues pertinent to the community we are visiting;
- 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.