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Youth-led Community Service

YouthConnect! Advocates

PASE and its network of afterschool program have long supported the involvement of young people in their communities. Building on this history, and in response to the needs of young people to express their views following the events of September 11, 2001, PASE created YouthConnect!, a program that helps youth to strengthen their communities through collaborative service and advocacy projects.   From 2001 to 2003, over 75 youth agencies participated in YouthConnect!, interviewing their communities about the economic and political repercussions of 9/11, receiving training to develop community service components in their own programs, and creating Power point presentations of their community service projects.

YouthConnect! Resource Guide for Youth-Led Community Service
and the YouthConnect! Project Profile Series

• The Resource Directory includes an agency listing, a bibliography and abbreviated funder prospect list.
• Project Profiles offer background information and specific project examples of youth-led services in the areas of:
  
  
  • Arts & Media
  • Peer Education
  • Youth Councils
  • Intergenerational Service
  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Advocacy
  • Service Learning

Participating Agencies: Prospect Park Alliance, Bed Stuy's Project Re-Generation, The Point Community Development Corporation, DreamYard, Latin American Integration Center, Youth Organizers United, Citizens for NYC, South Asian Youth Action, New York Center for Interpersonal Development, Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlem ent, VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Project Reach Youth, Inc., Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc., The Brotherhood/SisterSol, The Valley, Inc., Pius XII North Bronx Family Service Center, and Fresh Youth Initiatives.

Funders: MONY Foundation, Time Warner Foundation, and Vivendi Foundation.