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Adults who are vetted and trained to lead YVC service projects.
Who are Team Leaders?
Projects that occur on weekends, afternoons or evenings.
What are episodic projects?
The sheet that records the youth that are present at a project.
What is the attendance sheet?
Projects with this focus promote education among the population served by YVC youth.
An activity to be used in case of extra time at a project to keep youth engaged.
What is a back up plan/project?
YVC's branded colors.
What are red, orange, and gold (yellow)?
A near-peer mentoring initiative that is in it's 4th year and is an in-school program.
What is Service through STEAM?
The document that is used for planning the project.
What is the Project Checklist?
Projects with this focus promote the visual arts and humanities.
What is Arts & Culture?
An activity focused on transforming a group of individuals into a cohesive, collaborative, and productive unit. Usually done when there is a lull in service or a need to reenergize youth
What is a team builder?
The organizations with which YVCHR collaborates in order to deliver meaningful service experiences for our youth volunteers.
What are community partners or host sites?
YVC's intensive camp program that provides a four-day service experience during the months of June, July and August.
What is Summer of Service?
This document is used if a parent would like to stay at the project. Each Team Leader also has to sign this document at Team Leader Training before serving at a project.
What is the Adult Volunteer Liability Waiver?
Projects with this focus promote a community’s basic needs, including social services aimed at promoting the overall quality of life for at-risk populations.
What is Compassionate Communities?
A form of experiential education that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.
What is service learning?
The year that YVCHR was founded.
What is 2009?
This program empowers youth to develop, plan and lead neighborhood-based projects during in-school and/or after-school time.
What are YVC clubs?
This document is used if an accident occurs at a project with a youth or Team Leader.
What is an Incident Report?
Projects with this focus promote physical and mental well-being.
What is Healthy Lifestyles?
A game or activity that makes people who do not know each other feel more comfortable together.
What is an icebreaker?
The founder of Youth Volunteer Corps.
Who is David Batty?
This program engages youth from local elementary, middle and high schools to construct 3D works of art from thousands of pounds of donated canned goods.
What is Canstructure?
This document includes YVC staff names and numbers along with a response in case of a significant and newsworthy accident.
What is the Crisis Communication Response?
Projects focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math or the world around us like garden beautifications.
What is STEM & Environment?
The use of creative and critical thinking skills to help prepare for, succeed in, and learn from service experience, and to examine the larger picture and context in which service occurs.
What is Reflection?