The Youth Volunteer Audit: Best Practices for Engaging Youth as Volunteers

Donna Lockhart

This book will help you:

Not only think about, but actively engage youth in your volunteer program.

Understand, develop, and implement best practices for welcoming young people as volunteers.

Assess what improvements need to be made and create an action plan for implementing those changes.

e-book version, The RETHINK Group, 2005, 29 pages

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Price: US$12.00

Susan Says:

Supporting youth and helping them develop into life-long volunteers is no small task.  Donna Lockhart has provided a tool for assessing three areas of successfully engaging youth in our volunteer programs:

  1. Philosophy: Organization Readiness (communicating the importance)
  2. Research: Youth Opportunities and Relationship (building options)
  3. Development: Processes and Practice (making something ideal and  successful)
You’ll find easy-to-use worksheets guiding your assessment team through the questions that need to be answered if your organizations want to be successful in engaging youth as volunteers.  The Audit will help both new and already existing youth programs to strengthen their practices.
 
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Brief Excerpt

As Managers of Volunteers, we are in the business of nurturing and promoting the benefits of voluntarism not just for today but with a keen eye to what resources will be needed in the future. Successfully engaging youth today may mean resource sustainability in the years to come. This is the true meaning of the term “gift” that I was trying to relate. We need tools and strategies that enable us to support youth and build them into life-long volunteers. Not a small or simple task.

This is the purpose behind The Youth Volunteer Audit. We need to understand, develop and implement best practices for dealing with young people as volunteers. They are a unique target group that deserves our attention. I believe this tool will assist organizations to work with youth in non volunteer experiences as well – those school directed activities like “community service,” “co-operative programs” and “placement.”
 

Table of Contents

Preface
Best Practices for Engaging Youth
Steps for Conducting Audit
The Audit

  1. Philosophy – Organization Readiness – Youth Friendly
  2. Research – Youth Opportunities and Relationships
  3. Development – Process and Practices

Action Planning Sheet (sample and example)
Action Planning Sheet Template
Resource Listing
Acknowledgements
Youth Workshop and Audit

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