Youth who develop leadership skills while participating in community service build self-esteem and engage even more people, especially other youth, in service. City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley is developing service-leadership skills in middle and high school students through their "Young Heroes" and "City Heroes" programs. The time-intensive programs structure service projects around leadership skills such as critical analysis, problem-solving, managing diversity, and project management. Excerpted from The Resource Connection newsletter, vol. 5, no.1.
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