The Youth Volunteer Audit

Best Practices for Engaging Youth as Volunteers

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

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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:

Philosophy: Organization Readiness (communicating the importance)
Research: Youth Opportunities and Relationship (building options)
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 existing youth programs to strengthen their practices.

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From the Introduction

By Donna Lockhart
From The Youth Volunteer Audit, The RETHINK Group, 2005

[This material provides worksheets with Audit questions, not book "text." The following is from the introduction.]

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.”

Permission is granted to download and reprint this material. Reprints must include all citations and the statement: "Found in the Energize online library at http://www.energizeinc.com/a-z"

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Publisher:

The RETHINK Group

Publication Year:

2005

Pages:

29

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