This study is the second in the Youth Helping America Series, a series of reports based on data from the Youth Volunteering and Civic Engagement Survey conducted in 2005. The survey collected information on teen volunteering habits, experiences with school-based service-learning, and other forms of civic engagement.
Key findings:
- More than three-quarters of school-based service experiences take place as part of a course that contains one or more of the accepted elements of high-quality service-learning.
- School-based service has a positive impact on students' experiences
- Youth coming from families where their parents and/or siblings volunteer are more likely to report current or past participation in school-based service
- Participation in school-based volunteer service was found to have a strong positive relationship with several measures of civic engagement, including their stated likelihood of future volunteering, their sense of personal efficacy, and their interest in current events and politics.
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Further information
Program/Intervention
Youth Volunteering
Intermediary(s)
Corporation for National and Community Service and the U.S. Census Bureau
AmeriCorps Program(s)
Learn and Serve America
Age(s) Studied
6-12 (Childhood)
13-17 (Adolescent)
18-25 (Young adult)
Study Type(s)
Case Study or Descriptive
Study Design(s)
Non-Experimental
Researcher/Evaluator
Corporation for National and Community Service
Published Year
2006