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FREE Community Service Course

An online, interactive, program with five modules - always FREE to organizations and youth.  Helps teens make the most of their community service experience, encourages them to consider how to "give back" beyond their community service assignment, and documents exactly what they did and what they learned.

 

  • TEENS - click HERE to get a password and get started
  • Schools, staff, organizations - click HERE to SIGN UP* for unlimited use, from Youth Life Choices
  • Click HERE for a handout to give to teens with full instructions

CLICK to share the Community Service Course with colleagues and other organizations


How does it work?

  1. Send teens to YLC-Go.net to get a free password for the Community Service Course.
  2. They fill out a simple form (name and email) and we immediately email their password.
  3. They logon, complete the Course, print a Certificate of Completion, and return it to you.
  4. The course is easy, engaging, and takes 4 to 5 hours - they can start and stopy at any point.
  5. Their Certificate includes their password, if you want to further verify their work.

What are the benefits for youths assigned to do Community Service?

  • Document in detail for the school, parents, school, court, etc. exactly what they did
  • Learn what it's like to help others by interviewing a service worker or volunteer
  • Reflect on, engage, and report about their community service experience
  • Decide how they might continue to help others beyond this assignment
  • Look beyond themselves and consider how to be useful to others
  • Do a better job for the organization they are serving

Here are the five modules included in the Course:

1. What Community Service did I do, and why, when, and where?
       Document all the key details of my Community Service assignment or sentence
2. What is Community Service?
       Why do so many people volunteer and want to "give back"?
3. Community Service Self Assessment
       Discover how you can best help others and what talents you bring
4. Interview a service worker or volunteer
       Talk with someone personally about the ways they help others
5. Community Service: Why Does This Matter in MY Life?
       Consider and answer "what's the point of this?"
Finally: Print and turn in your Certificate of Completion

Click HERE to get a free password and explore... Or SIGN UP your organization now!


* SECURITY and CONFIDENTIALITY: All student data, including names, passwords, email, and course content is kept secure and strictly confidential. We never use, access, or share student info except to assist them with technical support.

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