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Community-Based Fact Sheets
 | AmeriCorps, Service-Learning, and Community: Working to Address Community Needs and Strengths | |
 This fact sheet introduces community assessment to AmeriCorps members working in educational settings and looking to enhance their experience of learning through service, and for anyone interested in finding a way to increase civic engagement, academic, personal, and social outcomes of youth and students. |
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| AmeriCorps and Service-Learning 101 | |
| This fact sheet introduces core information about service-learning to AmeriCorps members working in educational settings and looking to enhance their experience of learning through service, and for anyone interested in finding a way to increase civic engagement, academic, personal, and social outcomes of youth and students. |
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| Benefits of Community-Based Service-Learning | |
| This fact sheet highlights some of the emerging knowledge in this field based on theory, process evaluations, and field wisdom—knowing that more rigorous research is needed. | ||
| Beyond Needs Assessment: Identifying a Community's Resources and Hopes | |
| This fact sheet discusses the importance of and ways of determining what a community has, wants, and hopes before conducting a service-learning project. | ||
| Building Effective Partnerships in Service-Learning | |
| Effective partnerships between agencies, schools, colleges or universities, businesses, government, and residents for the benefit of the community are a vital part of youth service in America. This fact sheet provides resources that will get you thinking about how to develop and sustain these partnerships. | ||
| Character Education and Service-Learning | |
| Learn more about the integral relationship of character education and service-learning. | ||
| Developing Partnerships for Service-Learning: Starting Points for Community-Based Organizations | |
| Forming partnerships is key to effective service-learning. Schools, youth-serving organizations, and faith-based organizations often seek community-based partners as service sites. Young people reach out to agencies as they implement projects. Social service and cause-related organizations seek partners in schools and universities as a way to increase their capacity to meet community needs. | ||
| Developmental Assets: A Framework for Enriching Service-Learning | |
| This brief introduces one framework for positive youth development (PYD), known as Developmental Assets, as a tool for enriching service-learning. | ||
| Engaging Families in Service: Broadening Service-Learning’s Reach, Impact, and Support | |
| This resource gives an overview of the challenges and benefits of including the entire family when doing service-learning. | ||
| Public Health & Service-Learning | |
| This resource gives an overview of service-learning and provides a list of resources and research on service-learning and public health. | ||
| Recognition in Service-Learning | |
| Find new ideas for recognizing your service-learning participants, learn how to select appropriate forms of recognition, and get the resources you need to create a successful recognition program. | ||
| Resilience | |
| The concept of resilience is based on the theory that particular traits or “protective factors” such as caring relationships and high expectations help strengthen people’s ability to persist during adversity. This fact sheet discusses how service-learning programs that build in protective factors can also help build students’ resiliency. | ||
| Resources for AmeriCorps Members | |
| This fact sheet includes resources for those who are interested in finding a way to increase civic engagement, academic, personal, and social outcomes of youth and students. |
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| Risk Management and Liability | |
| The terms risk management and liability strike terror into the hearts of service-learning program managers. However, this does not need to be the case. This fact sheet provides tips for staying on top of liability issues and limiting risk. | ||
| Service-Learning with Disadvantaged Youth | |
| On average, it’s harder to grow up well when you live in poverty. Indeed, low socioeconomic status (SES) is negatively linked to a wide range of indicators of child and adolescent well-being (Beauvais & Jensen 2003; Evans 2004; Hawkins et. al., 2000). At the same time, growing up poor does not seal one’s destiny. | ||
| Youth Voice in Service-Learning | |
| Learn more about encouraging and increasing the input of young people in developing and implementing policies, plans and projects to guide service-learning efforts. | ||
