Service-Learning Resources
An effective service-learning project provides a meaningful experience for students, volunteers, or national service participants; includes opportunities for reflection on service; fosters positive attitudes about citizenship and lifelong service; and meets a real community need. Service-learning projects require careful planning and collaboration to ensure that all partners work together successfully to meet their goals. Following are some of our most relevant resources on this topic.
- Service-Learning Toolkits
- Youth Engaged in Service: How and Why to Incorporate Volunteer Projects into Your Youth Program
- Ask the Experts: Barbara Holland – Service-Learning
Online Course
Effective Practices
- Designing a service-learning program in ten steps
- Outlining steps for planning, implementing, and assessing a service-learning project
- Using the PARE model in service-learning
- Redefining a service-learning program model for increased efficiency
Online Library Items
- Youth Voice: A Guide for Engaging Youth in Leadership and Decision-Making in Service-Learning Programs
- Youth and Communities Helping Each Other: Community-Based Organizations Using Service-Learning as a Strategy During Out-of-School Time
- Bring Learning to Life: An Introduction to Service-Learning
- Service-Learning: Turning Ideas Into Action Communications Kit
- Growing to Greatness: The State of Service-Learning Project
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