Empowering disadvantaged and at-risk youth to build a better future and lead healthy, productive lives is the focus of many service and volunteer programs across the nation. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic area.

• Ensuring a Brighter Future for All of America’s Youth
• Service Learning Hot Topic: At-Risk Youth
• Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service (from Youth Service America)

Effective Practices

• Reducing delinquency through service
• Preventing common at-risk behaviors with early intervention
• Using community-based service-learning as a strategy during out-of-school time

Online Library Items

• Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: Identifying Strategies and Best Practices
• The Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants
• Youth Helping America - Leveling the Path to Participation: Volunteering and Civic Engagement Among Youth From Disadvantaged Circumstances

Related Websites

• The Institute for Youth Development
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Public/Private Ventures High-Risk Youth Publications (free downloads available)

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