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This report elaborates on this idea of a Summer of Service rite of passage, including background on citizenship education, service-learning, and youth development. It then examines fourteen existing programs for what they tell us about policy options for expanding opportunities for young teens to participate in summer service programs. The authors identified programs in two ways -- by contacting service-learning experts for nominations and reviewing previously published material by youth policy organizations. Based on this pool, they selected programs that fit their target age (teens), calendar (summer or after school), and activity (service-learning), and to represent diverse program designs. These programs were asked to provide in depth background information. These programs are profiled in Appendix A and are discussed in the text of the report.
