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At-risk youth are children/youth who are more likely to drop out of school due to a variety of demographic, socioeconomic, and institutional characteristics. Service-learning helps to connect such students to the school and community, and addresses issues like boredom and disaffection, which are common reason for students dropping out of school. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.
NSLC Site Resources
- At-Risk Youth and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
- Juvenile Justice and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
- Violence Prevention and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
- Youth Courts and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
NSLC Library Items (How to Borrow)
- Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service (2008) (PDF)
- Engaged for Success: Service-Learning as a Tool for High School Dropout Prevention (2008) (PDF)
- Civic Problem-Solving: Results of a Mentoring Project with At-Risk Middle School Students (2007)
- Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (2007) (PDF)
- Leveling the Path to Participation: Volunteering and Civic Engagement Among Youth From Disadvantaged Circumstances (2007)
- "Not satisfied with stupid band-aids": A Portrait of a Justice-Oriented, Democratic Curriculum Serving a Disadvantaged Neighborhood (2007)
- Giving Back: Introducing Community Service Learning: Improving Mandated Community Service for Juvenile Offenders (2006) (PDF)
- Roots & Wings: A Tool Kit for Launching and Supporting Girl Scouts Beyond Bars and Girl Scouting in Detention Centers Programs (2006)
- Silent Epidemic, (The): Perspectives of High School Dropouts (2006)
- Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth (2006) (PDF)
- Information About the School Dropout Issue: Selected Facts and Statistics (2005) (PDF)
- Research Report: Fifteen Effective Strategies for Improving Student Attendance and Truancy Prevention (2005)
- Service-Learning: Creating Community and Developing Citizens [video] (2005)
- The International Journal on School Disaffection (2005)
- Mentoring as Service-Learning for Undergraduates (2003)
- Resiliency in Schools: Making it Happen for Students and Educators (2003)
- Linking Service-Learning & No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: Title I, Part H, School Dropout Prevention (2002) (PDF)
- Service-Learning and Resilience in Disaffected Youth: A Research Study (2002)
- Partners in Prevention: Involving College Students in Dropout Prevention (1997)
- Effective Strategies for Educating Students in At Risk Situations (1995)
- Service Learning: Meeting the Needs of Youth At Risk. A Dropout Prevention Research Report (1992)
Related Websites
- The Journal of At-Risk Issues
- National Dropout Prevention Center / Network (NDPC/N)
- National Association of Youth Courts: A listing of youth court programs
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