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[APO-L] Youth Service Ideas Wanted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Klosterman Rielage)
Mon Oct 7 11:55:49 2002
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:24:58 -0400
Reply-To: Jennifer Klosterman Rielage <jrielage@SIU.EDU>
From: Jennifer Klosterman Rielage <jrielage@SIU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Fellow APO members:
Allow me to introduce myself. I am serving as co-chair for the 2003
National Spring Service Day committee. We are in the process of
revising the handbook describing APO’s participation in National Youth
Service Day and need your help. One of the things we would like to do
is build upon the current handbook to increase the number of service
project ideas, with some step-by-step descriptions of how to set-up
projects that would incorporate youth. We’d like this handbook to serve
as a useful reference for chapter service chairs and their committee
members both in planning for this upcoming National Spring Service Day
as well as for planning ongoing projects focused on youth service.
If you have ideas for projects that would be relevant to youth service,
please send them to me at: jrielage@siu.edu. Information that would be
useful to know would be:
1) name/description of project & population
2) has your chapter done this project before & if so was it done as part
of last year’s Spring Service Day focus on youth?
3) provide any brief details which would be useful
We are looking for a variety of projects, including those in the
following areas:
A) one-time projects which involve child, adolescent, & young adult
populations
B) ongoing projects: annual events, philanthropies, etc.
C) projects which assist youth in getting directly involved in their own
service activities
D) ways of involving other organizations/groups in projects aimed at
serving youth
Particularly, we are looking for projects that would fulfill one or more
of the National Youth Service Day’s 3 goals:
· To recognize the year-round service and volunteering efforts of
millions of young people nationwide;
· To recruit a new generation and cadre of citizens that both
participates and supports youth service organizations;
· To promote young people as resources, rather than problems in
their communities.
If you have any relevant project ideas, thoughts, or ways to improve
last year’s handbook please let me know.
In Service,
Jenn Rielage
National Spring Service Day Co-Chair
jrielage@siu.edu
