Each year over 150 DePaul students choose to dedicate their Spring or Winter break to service, reflection, simplicity, community, spirituality and social justice during a Service Immersion. YOU have the opportunity to serve, live, and build relationships with over 15 marginalized communities throughout the United States and the Americas.

As a Vincentian in Action on a Service Immersion you could spend your week working with the homeless in Los Angeles, repairing and building homes in Appalachia, learning about Civil Rights in Montgomery, living simply in El Salvador, and much more. You will have the opportunity to dive deep and get to know other DePaul students while traveling to new places.

“What must be done?” is our Vincentian question. On a Service Immersion you will learn firsthand what it means to be a Vincentian in Action and how to live out DePaul’s mission of service and justice.

The mission of Service Immersion trips is to provide students with transformational short-term service immersion opportunities that incorporate community, spiritual reflection, simplicity, and increased awareness of social injustice. Integrated throughout the immersion experience is the Vincentian in Action ways of awareness/appreciation, dialogue and solidarity. It is in these experiences that we hope to inspire growth and change in a way that resonates back home through the sharing of stories and action toward systemic change.