Youth Service
Youth service involves recruiting, engaging, and supporting youth in meaningful service experiences to create positive connections with family, schools, and the community, and to foster a sense of civic engagement, responsibility, and self-worth. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.
- Youth Engaged in Service: How and Why to Incorporate Volunteer Projects into Your Youth Program
- Youth and Community Service
- Tips for Effective Service-Learning Projects in Out-of-School Time Programs
- Youth and Communities Helping Each Other: Community-based Organizations Using Service-Learning as a Strategy During Out-of-School Time
Online Courses
- Making the Connection: SaYES to Intergenerational Service-Learning
- Engaging College Students as Volunteer Leaders
Effective Practices
- Generating a list of 100 ways teens can serve in their communities
- Developing civic service with a teen corps
- Building community by empowering youth in ten ways
- Engaging youth as decision-making partners in organizations
Lending Library
- Power in Youth to Make a Difference
- Learning to CARE: Education, Volunteering, and Community Service
- Engaging Youth in Lifelong Service
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