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Currently,
the community service opportunities posted on  are
intended for joint participation by kids and their parents,
or group leaders. Many activities have an age requirement
set by the agency or organization, often for safety reasons,
that restricts participation.
At
present, none of the postings give the age at which youth
can participate on their own. We plan to add this information
for the existing opportunities, as well as new ones, as soon
as possible.
IN
THE MEANTIME, youth are encouraged to take a look at the county
pages to get ideas and contact the agencies directly for activities
they are interested in. Many will allow teens to participate
without a parent or group leader.
hopes
to become a resource to youth interested in fulfiling community
service requirements set by the schools. If you have any information
or ideas as to how to accomplish this, please contact Kids
Connect. Also,
for those interested in taking a bigger plunge, the following
are opportunities for older kids, high school and beyond,
that involve a long-term, full-time commitment of several
months to several years.
AmeriCorps
Appalacia Service Project
City Year
Do Something
Habitat for Humanity International
Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Peace Corps
Americorps
www.americorps.org
AmeriCorps
is a network of local, state, and national service programs
that connects more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive
service to meet our country’s critical needs in education,
public safety, health, and the environment. AmeriCorps members
address critical needs in communities throughout America,
including tutoring and mentoring disadvantaged youth, fighting
illiteracy, improving health services, building affordable
housing Teaching computer skills, cleaning parks and streams,
managing or operating after-school program, helping communities
respond to disasters, building organizational capacity.
Full-time
members who complete their service earn an AmeriCorps Education
Award of $4,725 to pay for college, graduate school, or to
pay back qualified student loans. Members who serve part-time
receive a partial Award. Some AmeriCorps members may also
receive a modest living allowance during their term of service.
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Appalachia
Service Project
www.asphome.org
Appalachia
Service Project is a home repair ministry through which volunteers
and our staff to repair homes for low-income families in rural
Central Appalachia. Our goal is to make homes warmer, safer
and drier, while offering transformational experiences for
volunteers and families alike. Each year, ASP achieves its
goals with the assistance of nearly 15,000 volunteers. The
Home Repair Ministry Summer Program is especially valuable
for high school youth groups and their adult advisors; and
ASP also offers year-round service opportunities for college
groups, family groups, individuals, and couples at our Housing
Services Centers.
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City
Year
www.cityyear.org
An “action
tank” for national service, City Year seeks to demonstrate,
improve and promote the concept of national service as a means
for building a stronger democracy. An action tank is both
a program and a think tank - constantly combining theory and
practice to advance new policy ideas, make programmatic breakthroughs,
and bring about major changes in society.
City Year
unites young people ages 17 to 24 from diverse economic, racial,
and geographical backgrounds for a year of full-time service
to their communities.During the ten-month program, City Year
corps members engage in a variety of activities to meet critical
needs in their communities. They are primarily focused on
the education and development of youth, serving as mentors
for children in partnership with public schools and organizing
and running after-school programs and curricula on important
social issues including domestic violence prevention, AIDS
awareness, and diversity.
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Do
Something
www.dosomething.org
Do Something
inspires, supports, and celebrates young people changing their
world. Do Something programs include:
- Monthly
Challenges: Do Something provides monthly “challenges” in
3 areas: community building, health, and the environment.
Challenges can be after-school activities or in-school class
projects, undertaken in groups or alone, and they never
require any money to execute. Over 4 million kids have tackled
these challenges.
- Do
Something BRICK Awards® & Do Something Grants: Young people
rock. They should have role models who rock too. Through
the BRICK Awards and the grants program, Do Something celebrates
young people who have dared to dream up and pursue their
own community change ideas. Do Something has distributed
over 1 million dollars to these amazing young people. In
1998, CNN dubbed the BRICK Awards “the Oscars for young
people in service” and in 2005 P
- The
Magazine: Just as Rolling Stone helped create icons of rock-n-roll,
Do Something: The Magazine is giving a face to community
service. Currently distributed gratis, it is the only public
service magazine distributed nationally. Many of the articles
are written by kids, and the production is extremely professional.
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Habitat
for Humanity
www.habitat.org
- Local
affiliate opportunities- Assist staff with the preparation
for and running of special events and/or participate in
events (like the Aids Walk & Ride) - Dates and times
vary.
- Alternative
spring break - campus chapters http://www.habitat.org/ccyp/default.aspx
- Global
Village Work Camps - domestic and international vacations
ranging from one to three weeks.
- Full-time
Volunteer in Americus, GA.
- International
Partner - 3 year commitment living in another country carrying
out Habitat's misison.
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Jesuit
Volunteer Corps
www.jesuitvolunteers.org
The Jesuit
Volunteer Corps is a national and international program operated
by six regional offices.In all, about 300 JVs each year work
in the United States and in six countries around the world.
Hundreds of grassroots organizations across the country count
on JVs to provide essential services to low-income people
and those who live on the margins of our society. JVs work
for and with people who are homeless unemployed, refugees,
people with AIDS, the elderly, street youth, abm in the country.
used women and children, the mentally ill and the developmentally
disabled. JVC has become the largest Catholic lay volunteer
program.
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Peace
Corps
www.peacecorps.gov
Since
1961, the Peace Corps has shared with the world America's
most precious resource—its people. Peace Corps Volunteers
serve in 72 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central
and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Collaborating
with local community members, Volunteers work in areas like
education, youth outreach and community development, the environment,
and information technology.
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Know
of an upcoming event or community service opportunity not
listed on our website? E-mail Kids
Connect to let us know about it!
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