National Youth Service Day: A Youth Development Strategy
A growing number of studies show connections between youth participation in service and service-learning opportunities and positive behavior outcomes. Building on this data, the article presents National Youth Service Day (NYSD) as a program that can be incorporated into ongoing activities to enhan...
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Clemson University Press
2006-06-01
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| author | Silvia Blitzer Golombek |
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| description | A growing number of studies show connections between youth participation in service and service-learning opportunities and positive behavior outcomes. Building on this data, the article presents National Youth Service Day (NYSD) as a program that can be incorporated into ongoing activities to enhance youth development goals. The paper describes the program’s components– building a network of support organizations, offering project planning grants, providing service-learning materials, and developing a media and advocacy campaign. Examples of NYSD projects show how project planners are using the program to learn and practice academic and non-academic skills. A review of evaluations to date indicates the program is annually increasing its output measures. Participants’ responses show that the program is also contributing to positive behavioral changes, in particular related to young people’s increasing awareness about specific community issues and their own competency in addressing them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-61892613be7c492b8b399cec332c337e2024-02-02T22:35:42ZengClemson University PressJournal of Youth Development2325-40172006-06-0111606610.5195/jyd.2006.399377National Youth Service Day: A Youth Development StrategySilvia Blitzer Golombek0Youth Service AmericaA growing number of studies show connections between youth participation in service and service-learning opportunities and positive behavior outcomes. Building on this data, the article presents National Youth Service Day (NYSD) as a program that can be incorporated into ongoing activities to enhance youth development goals. The paper describes the program’s components– building a network of support organizations, offering project planning grants, providing service-learning materials, and developing a media and advocacy campaign. Examples of NYSD projects show how project planners are using the program to learn and practice academic and non-academic skills. A review of evaluations to date indicates the program is annually increasing its output measures. Participants’ responses show that the program is also contributing to positive behavioral changes, in particular related to young people’s increasing awareness about specific community issues and their own competency in addressing them.http://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/399advocacycivic engagmentmediaplanning grantsserviceservice learningyouth voiceyouth development |
| spellingShingle | Silvia Blitzer Golombek National Youth Service Day: A Youth Development Strategy Journal of Youth Development advocacy civic engagment media planning grants service service learning youth voice youth development |
| title | National Youth Service Day: A Youth Development Strategy |
| title_full | National Youth Service Day: A Youth Development Strategy |
| title_fullStr | National Youth Service Day: A Youth Development Strategy |
| title_full_unstemmed | National Youth Service Day: A Youth Development Strategy |
| title_short | National Youth Service Day: A Youth Development Strategy |
| title_sort | national youth service day a youth development strategy |
| topic | advocacy civic engagment media planning grants service service learning youth voice youth development |
| url | http://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/399 |
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