This book presents seven case studies of middle school youth service programs that challenge their participants to change from takers to givers and from observers to active members of the community. Chapter 1 discusses new ways for responding to the needs of middle school youth and promoting community service. Chapter 2 describes a tutoring program in which Hispanic "at-risk" middle-school students tutor Hispanic "at-risk" elementary school students. Chapter 3 describes a combined academic and community alternative for potential drop-outs, and chapter 4 describes a program that helps keep middle-school youth from being recruited into gangs. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 describe, respectively, programs that bring youth into nursing homes to enrich the lives of the elderly and to increase the understanding of the old by the young; involve junior high school students in community service projects; and place students in a school-based community service program. Chapter 8 describes the integration of community service with learning in 40 schools, while Chapter 9 discusses lessons learned from the case studies in terms of youth services issues and new directions for middle-school students. The book contains two brief forewords by Senator Dave Durenberger and Senator Edward M. Kennedy respectively. Related materials and a directory of case study programs are appended. (RH)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- Youth Service America, Washington, DC.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Reports - Research
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Middle School Students And 5
- Community Service 5
- AcademicCommunity Alternative 47
- For Potential Drop-Outs 47
- Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 47
- From Being Recruited Into Gangs 67
- Bringing Young People Into Nursing Homes 77
- About The Elderly 77
- Baltimore Maryland 77
- Junior High Students City-Wide 89
- In Community Service Projects 89
- Minneapolis Minnesota 89
- Through Service And Smiles A School-Based Community Service Program 105
- Colorado Springs Colorado 105
- 1 1 3 113
- Integrating Community Service With Learning In Forty Schools 118
- Springfield Massachusetts 118
- Issues And New Directions 134
- For Middle School Students 134
- 1 3 6 136
- 1 5G 156
