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Vision and Mission
Our Vision
Young people transforming themselves and their communities, civically, educationally, spiritually and emotionally through service.
Our Mission
Making service a meaningful part of every young person’s life.
Our Strategy
We look for the multiplier effect when choosing our work: we work with teachers who then have an effect on hundreds of students each, with organizations that interact with hundreds or thousands of young people, with regional, statewide, and national groups.
Our Work
We train the adults who work with young people. We work with them to develop service activities that help them achieve their program goals, whether those goals are academic, developmental, faith-based, civic, moral, or something else. We provide this training through workshops, conferences, institutes, retreats and forums. We back up the training with publications, web-based resources, and individualized coaching.
We write and produce materials that help people plan the specific youth service programs that fit into their settings.
We manage statewide programs that have youth service at their core. Then we disseminate to the state and country what we have learned from managing those programs.
We convene groups of people and organizations that have youth service in common but who may not have worked together, so we can all learn from each other’s practices.
Our Current Programs
- Cesar E. Chavez Afterschool Service Clubs (with CaliforniaVolunteers)
- Pacific Region, National Service-Learning Exchange (with National Youth Leadership Council)
- CATALYST Youth Service Ambassadors (with CalServe Initiative, CA Dept of Education)
- Annual California Service-Learning Leadership Institute (with CalServe Initiative, CA Dept of Education)
- Statewide Service-Learning Network (with CalServe Initiative, CA Dept of Education)
- Service-Learning Young Professionals Network (with National Service-Learning Partnership)
