The following are resources to support service learning:
- Corporation for National & Community Service: The Corporation for National and Community Service learning is a federal agency that leads service, volunteering and grant making efforts nationally. The website includes information about how to find community partners and resources in your community, where to volunteer, and national service days. Link here: https://www.nationalservice.gov/serve
- Youth Service America: This youth friendly website has a number of wonderful resources. Out of school, time providers might find the YSA Knowledge Center especially helpful. There are a number of toolkits and curriculum that support youth lead service learning: Link here: https://ysa.org/
- National Youth Leadership Council: The National Youth Leadership Council connects schools, afterschools and youth together to share high quality, dynamic content for service learning. The website also highlights the lift program, and follows the service learning projects at three school sites. Link is here: https://www.nylc.org/
- Lions Quest International: Lions Quest is an international social and emotional learning program that includes anti-bullying, drug, alcohol and tobacco awareness and service learning. The comprehensive curriculum includes eighteen sessions to teach the concepts of service learning, and teaches youth how to plan a service project. Here is the link: https://www.lions-quest.org/#
- International Education Resource Network (iEARN): iEARN is a nonprofit that provides real life, interactive service learning curriculum, allowing teachers and students to work together online to complete service projects that are integrated into the classroom. Link here: https://iearn.org/
- Learning by Doing: The Environmental Protection Agency has a booklet that includes server service project that have an environmental focus. Link here: https://www.epa.gov/students
- Passport in Time: Funded by the US Department of Agriculture, this clearinghouse provides service learning projects working with the US Forest Service. Link here: http://passportintime.com/
- FEMA Teen Cert: Teens can get certification as Community Emergency Response Team members through FEMA. In this program, youth can learn how to protect themselves and others in the event of an emergency. Link here: https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/28048
- VA Voluntary Service: Have a youth who is interested in the medical community or serving in the military? The VA Voluntary Service program allows youth to be a part of the medical team at VA centers. https://www.volunteer.va.gov/StudentProgram.asp
Below are resources that can support out of school time programs incorporate youth voice into program design:
Youth Voice Basics
- The Freechild Institute: Advancing Youth Engagement Worldwide: https://freechild.org/
- Adobe Youth Voices: http://adobeyouthvoices.tigweb.org/
- Creative Ways to Solicite Youth Input: https://www.nonprofitmaine.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Creative_Ways_to_Solicit_Youth_Input.pdf
Ways to Engage Youth
- Unceif Youth Participation Guide: https://www.unicef.org/adolescence/cypguide/files/youth_participation_guide.pdf
Supporting Youth Activism
- Advocates for Youth: Download the Youth Activist Toolkit, which provides a detailed guide on how to help youth plan a project with a social impact. https://advocatesforyouth.org/youth-activist-toolkit/
- Youth Engaged 4 Change: Learn about changemakers who are leading programs designed by youth. https://engage.youth.gov/