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Active Citizenship Today

Louis P. Eatman, President
Todd Clark, Executive Director
Marshall Croddy, Director of Program and Materials Development
Charles Degelman, Editor Susan Philips, Consultant
Andrew Costly, Production Manager

©2005, Service-Learning NETWORK
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This issue of Service-Learning NETWORK is made possible by a generous grant from The Ford Foundation.

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Building Partnerships for Service Learning
Dr. Barbara Jacoby (Editor), and Associates
ISBN: 0-7879-5890-5
Hardcover 400 pp.
Jossey-Bass
Indianapolis. 2003.
Also available as e-Book

Service learning has the potential to yield tremendous benefits to students, communities, and institutions of higher education. Increased student learning has been well documented. As communities gain new energy to meet their needs and greater capacity to capitalize on their assets, service learning enables higher education to fulfill its civic responsibility. When service learning inspires colleges and universities to transform themselves into fully engaged community institutions, its ability to bring about positive social change is limitless.

To be successful, service-learning must be grounded in a wide range of solid, reciprocal, democratic partnerships. Building Partnerships for Service Learning assembles leading voices in the field to bring their expertise to bear on this crucial topic. Faculty, administrators, student leaders, and community and corporate leaders will find this volume filled with vital information, exemplary models, and practical tools needed to make service-learning succeed in the long run.

Building Partnerships for Service Learning includes:

Fundamentals for developing sustainable partnerships.
Assessment as a partnership-building process.
Collaboration between academic affairs and student affairs.
Partnering with students to enhance service-learning.
How to create campus-wide infrastructure for service-learning.
Profiles of outstanding partnerships.
Service-learning and the civic renewal of higher education, and more.

For more information, visit the web site.

Two from Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development

Youth-Adult Partnerships: A Training Manual
Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
ISBN: 0-9712642-1-X
3-ring binder
256 pp.
Takoma Park, MD. 2003.

Youth-Adult Partnerships: A Training Manual provides activities and resources that guide teachers, trainers, and community-based practitioners through the process of engaging youth and adults equally and authentically to create community change. This 256-page manual explores the foundations of effective youth-adult partnerships and includes nuts and bolts skill-development activities.

Youth-Adult Partnerships is organized under six sections:

Section One: Training Essentials assists participants with assessing their experience, knowledge, and values surrounding youth–adult partnerships.
Section Two: Foundations for Youth-Adult Partnerships includes training activities designed to encourage relationship building, appreciate diversity, identify partnership assets, develop a common vision, and recognize partnership barriers.
Section Three: Advancing Youth-Adult Partnerships focuses on issues and components of already existing youth–adult partnerships. Activities explore principles of shared leadership, resolving issues, conducting interviews, and more.
Section Four: Philanthropy helps youth and adults understand the role of philanthropy in society and in their own lives and helps them use the strength of youth–adult partnerships to engage in fundraising and giving.
Section Five: Research makes the case for knowing and having access to research reports, data, other resources to help partners make the pitch, address skeptics, and reinforce your organization.
Section Six: Resources illustrates how youth–adult partners can create half- or full-day trainings. A comprehensive list of print, video, and Internet references and resources completes the section.

Youth-Adult Partnerships has been organized to encourage trainers to customize their sessions to meet the learning objectives of their participants.The training exercises can be used solo or grouped with other exercises.

For more information, contact Melanie Brevis, Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development, (301) 270-1700 x 111 or visit the web site.

Building Community: A Tool Kit for Youth and Adults in Charting Assets and Creating Change
Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
ISBN: 0-9712642-0-1
3-ring binder
234 pp.
Takoma Park, MD. 2003.

Building Community presents an asset-based approach to creating positive community change. This 234-page took kit outlines a process whereby youth and adults in communities can explore community resources by creating community visions and translating them into strategy; offering a positive perspective on community resources; increasing youth participation and leadership; fostering increased collaboration among community-based groups.

The Building Community process includes four components:

Building Readiness—Bringing a group together; evaluating positive assets of the people and places involved; helping youth and adults communicate successfully.
Visioning and Planning—Creating community goals and plans.
Implementation—Building community support; getting the word out; effective use of group time.
Change and Sustainability—Developing strategies to ensure project continuity; decision making and sharing power.

Building Community is not a school- or curriculum-based publication but shows great potential as a supplemental resource for teachers who like to create their own classroom-to-community methodologies. Although the tools in this adaptable kit were drawn from experience in rural communities, many are applicable to urban and suburban environments.

For more information, contact Melanie Brevis, Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development, (301) 270-1700 x 111 or visit the web site.

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