[Youth-list] Youth Service-Learning: A Family Strengthening Strategy

[Elizabeth Shack]

Youth Service-Learning: A Family-Strengthening Strategy
This policy brief from the Family Strengthening Policy Center of the National Assembly frames service-learning as a strategy that promotes healthy families and communities, and synthesizes research on the benefits of service-learning for a broad range of stakeholders, including children, youth, families, and communities. The highlighted benefits for families include connecting parents and siblings to community resources, helping youth become competent and effective contributors to the family, and helping family members learn new skills. The brief highlights examples of successful service-learning programs in action, describes challenges at the federal, community, policy, and programmatic levels, and offers recommendations to help improve access to and quality of service-learning, particularly in low-income and ethnic minority communities.
http://www.nassembly.org/fspc/documents/Brief21.pdf 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.ctvoices.org/pipermail/youth-list-ctvoices.org/attachments/20071023/1d077e91/attachment.htm