Service Learning
DID YOU KNOW...
That you can learn math, science, history, and language by volunteering in your community?
Yes, its true. Not only can you learn these typical and required subjects for school YOU CAN ALSO
- Learn job skills
- Build your resume
- Meet new people
- Feel good about yourself
Between January and March 2005, the Corporation for National and Community Service, in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau and the nonprofit coalition Independent Sector, conducted the “Youth Volunteering and Civic Engagement Survey.”
The survey gathered information from 3,178 American youth between the ages of 12 and 18 on their volunteering habits and experiences with school-based service projects, as well as information related to positive youth development. The results are remarkable-
38 Percent of students participate in school-based service (estimated 10.6 million students nationwide). 64 percent of students who participate in school-based service do so as part of a class.
School-based Service increases volunteering and students who participate in school-based service are more likely to have volunteered through an organization within the past year than students who have not participated in school-based service.
Family volunteer history affects school-based service- students from families with parents and/or siblings who volunteer are more likely to participate in school-based service than those who do not come from participatory families.
To view the complete survey, visit www.nationalservice.gov
