Giving Back: Introducing Community Service Learning: Improving Mandated Community Service for Juvenile Offenders

This manual gives youth courts and other juvenile-justice agencies the tools they need to apply school-based service-learning methods to court-mandated community-service. This guidebook provides skill-building strategies and materials to introduce juvenile offenders to basic concepts of community and community problems and offer three options for planning and implementing community service-learning projects specifically designed to deal with ten offenses that youth courts and other juvenile-justice agencies most frequently address. The book contains 20 short-term pre-planned community service-learning projects and are designed to require minimal supervision and resources, and be done in a day.(publisher)