Youth and Service-learning

An Asset Builder's Guide to Service-Learning
A clear and informative strategy for schools, faith communities, and youth organizations to blend the best of effective service-learning programs with the philosophy of youth "asset building" and Healthy Communities.

An Asset Builder's Guide to Training Peer Helpers
A trainer's manual for adult leaders preparing young volunteers to do peer helping, with 15 interactive sessions complete with discussion guides and handouts (many useful for any age volunteer learning to do counseling).

Children as Volunteers
How to integrate volunteers under the age of 14 into an existing adult volunteer program: multi-age teams, designing work, preparing the agency, liaisoning with schools, and legal issues.

Friends Across the Divide
All the guidelines and materials necessary for an e-mail exchange between students and senior partners.

Step-by-Step
Ideas for how young people can discover what they care about, gain support, and implement a plan for change.

Working Shoulder to Shoulder: Stories and Strategies of Youth-Adult Partnerships That Succeed
Stories and strategies of youth-adult partnerships that succeed, with over 20 reproducible tools to help you engage youth participants to the greatest effect in your organization.

The Youth Volunteer Audit
An assessment and planning tool for developing best practices for dealing with young people as volunteers, complete with forms to copy and use again.