An effective service-learning project provides a meaningful experience for students, volunteers, or national service participants; includes opportunities for reflection on service; fosters positive attitudes about citizenship and lifelong service; and meets a real community need. Service-learning projects require careful planning and collaboration to ensure that all partners work together successfully to meet their goals. Following are some of our most relevant resources on this topic.

• Service-Learning Toolkits
• Youth and Communities Helping Each Other: Community-based Organizations Using Service-Learning as a Strategy During Out-of-School Time
• A Guide for Engaging Youth in Leadership and Decision-Making in Service-Learning Programs
• Youth Engaged in Service: How and Why to Incorporate Volunteer Projects into Your Youth Program

Online Course

• Making the Connection: SaYES to Intergenerational Service-Learning

Effective Practices

• Designing a service-learning program in ten steps
• Outlining steps for planning, implementing, and assessing a service-learning project
• Using the PARE model in service-learning
• Redefining a service-learning program model for increased efficiency

Lending Library

• Complete Guide to Service Learning
• Community-Based Service-Learning: Starter Kit
• KIDS As Planners: A Guide to Strengthening Students, Schools and Communities Through Service-Learning (Second Edition)

Related Websites

• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• National Youth Leadership Council
• National Service-Learning Partnership
• Learn and Serve America