Information about Youth Service

Youth service

Youth service refers to non-military, intensive engagement of young people in organized activity that contributes to the local, national, or world community. Youth service is widely recognized and valued by society, with minimal or no compensation to the server. Youth service also provides opportunities for reflection (e.g. an organization where young people are recruited, offered leadership opportunities, participate in activities that improve the community, and are trained and mentored).

Definitions

The general definition of community service does not vary; however, the understanding of what youth is varies by country. The most common age group defined as ‘youth’ is 15-30 years of age. The United Nations defines youth as 15-24 years of age. The variation of whether or not youth service is "long range" depends on the setting. Some communities regard long-range youth service as being from six months to two years of service; however, this time range can vary with each country’s national youth service policy.

Configurations of National Youth Service

There are various types of youth service programs worldwide. The following are three examples that show the range of civic engagement that youth service provides.

• Servicio Social, México: Servico Social is a required community service program for all Mexican university students. Students must serve 480 hours of voluntary activity over the course of a four-year undergraduate education. The goal is to build solidarity among youths and increase collaboration in community development.

• Servicio Social (In Spanish)

• National Youth Commission, South Africa: NGO-based national youth service program and government-sponsored national youth service programs that enlist youth in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS and in reducing youth unemployment.

• National Youth Commission

• Servicio País, Chile: A competitive selection, civil program for university graduates with the goal of decreasing rural poverty. Select professions are recruited to the program such as lawyers, engineers, and medical professionals. If chosen, graduates serve 13 months in a rural area. They practice their professions and also build relationships with local people.

• Servicio País (In Spanish)

This definition comes from the Global Service Institute which is the partnership of Innovations in Civic Participation and the Center for Social Development.

External Links

• Global Service Institute
• Innovations in Civic Participation
• Center for Social Development
• International Association for National Youth Service
• Youth Service America
• National Youth Leadership Council
• The Freechild Project
• America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth

See also

• Service learning
• Volunteerism
• National service
• AmeriCorps
• Global Youth Action Network
• Youth Service America

Community service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community. People become involved in community service for a range of reasons — for some, serving community is an altruistic act, for others it is a punishment or even sometimes
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Youth is defined by Webster's New World Dictionary as, "The time of life when one is young; especially: a: the period between childhood and maturity b: the early period of existence, growth, or development.
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Service-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting that combines academic classroom curriculum with meaningful service, frequently youth service, throughout the community. As a teaching methodology, it falls under the category of experiential education.
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Volunteerism is the willingness of people to work on behalf of others without the expectation of pay or other tangible gain. Volunteers may have special training as rescuers, guides, assistants, teachers, missionaries, amateur radio operators, writers, and in other positions.
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National service is a common name for military service programmes. (Compulsory military service is more often known as conscription.
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AmeriCorps is an American network of more than 3,000 non-profit organizations, public agencies, and faith-based organizations. It was created in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. More than 70,000 individuals join AmeriCorps each year.
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Uniting youth movements

The Global Youth Action Network (GYAN) is an international network of youth NGOs spanning 180 countries, and headquartered in New York, near the United Nations.
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Youth Service America, or YSA, is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally.
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Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults.
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Student voice describes the distinct perspectives and actions of young people throughout schools focused on education.^[1]

Definition

Student voice is the individual and collective perspective and actions of young people within the context of learning and
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Discrimination

Major forms
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism

Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
Hate speech · Hate crime
Genocide · Ethnocide · Holocaust
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Youth-Adult Partnership is the title of a conscious relationship which establishes and sustains intergenerational equity between young people and adults.

Activities

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Evolving Capacities is the concept in which education, child development and youth development programs led by adults takes into account the capacities of the child or youth to exercise rights on his or her own behalf.
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Intergenerational equity is the concept or idea of fairness or justice in relationships between children, youth, adults and seniors, particularly in terms of treatment and interactions. It has been studied in environmental and sociological settings.
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Discrimination

Major forms
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Ageism
Antisemitism
Islamophobia
Ableism

Manifestations
Slavery · Racial profiling
Hate speech · Hate crime
Genocide · Ethnocide · Holocaust
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Youth activism is best summarized as youth voice engaged in community organizing for social change. Around the world young people are engaged as activism planners, researchers, teachers, evaluators, social workers, decision-makers, advocates and leading actors in the environmental
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Youth participation is the active engagement of young people throughout their communities.

Coinage

Youth participation, also called youth involvement, has been used by government agencies, researchers, educators, and others to define and examine the active engagement of
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Community youth development, or CYD, is a philosophy emphasizing the uniquely symbiotic nature of youth development to community development by situating the two practices in a common framework.
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Youth leadership is the practice of teens exercising authority over themselves or others.

Youth leadership has been eleborated upon as a theory of youth development in which young people gain skills and knowledge necessary to lead civic engagement, education reform and
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Teen courts are authorized by law in many United States to provide an alternative disposition for juveniles who have committed a delinquent act and are otherwise eligible for diversion.
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Youth councils are a form of youth voice engaged in community decision-making. Youth councils exist on local, state, provincial, regional, national, and international levels among governments, NGOs, schools, and other entities.
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Student activism is work done by students to effect political, environmental, economic, or social change. It has often focused on making changes in schools, such as increasing student influence over curriculum or improving educational funding.
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The youth vote is a political term used primarily in the United States to describe 18 to 25-year-olds and their voting habits.

The term "Youth Vote" goes back to the 1930s, when low-income rural and urban young people in the United States were first mobilized to vote in
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Youth-Led media is any effort created, planned, implemented, and reflected upon by young people in the form of media, i.e. video, newspapers, websites, etc.

Movement

These efforts form the basis of an international movement born in the early 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.
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A youth movement is any attempt to organize individual young people into a unified identity. According to one organization, "A growing number of organizations and individuals are calling for a worldwide youth movement, built around information technology, political and social
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Student rights are those rights which protect students, here meaning those persons attending schools, universities and other educational institutions. The level of rights accorded to students, whether legally or by convention, varies considerably around the world.
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Student-centred learning or student-centered learning is an approach to education focusing on the needs of the students, rather than those of others involved in the educational process, such as teachers and administrators.
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A free school, often intentionally spelled free skool, is a decentralized network in which skills, information, and knowledge are shared without hierarchy or the institutional environment of formal schooling.
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Positive youth development, or PYD, is a common neologism that summarizes the intentional efforts of other youth, adults, communities, government agencies, and schools to provide opportunities for youth to enhance their interests, skills, and abilities into their adulthoods.
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"Youth philanthropy is, at the broadest level, youth giving of their time, talents and treasure."^[1] It is seen as an effective means in which youth develop knowledge of and participate in philanthropic projects such as volunteering, grant writing, and community service.
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