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A Magic Mix: After-School Programs In A Nursing Home, Judes Ziemba, Kathleen Roop, Sally Wittenberg

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At 3:00 every afternoon. Monday through Friday. 8-year-old Darlene and nine of her classmates leave school and ride a special bus that brings them to a nearby nursing home where they participate in an afterschool program. At the nursing home. residents anxiously await the children's arrival. Many of them have been sitting patiently iii the lobby for over an hour.

Service: Meeting Youth's Need To Be Needed, James C. Kielsmeier, Rich Willits

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In April 1861, hours after the smoke cleared at Fort Sumpter, the first volunteer military units from the North were organized in preparation for the battle to preserve the Union. They were from Minnesota.

The North Star State is again mobilizing, capturing some of the fresh air of the service movement sweeping the nation, and adding its own populist brand of citizen involvement. Youth service is blooming in America's heartland, and community educators are leading the way.

Violence, Youth And A Way Out, John A. Calhoun

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It is a conviction shared by those who care for young people and their families that violence among youth has reached intolerable levels and that a response is demanded. The homicide statistics are chilling: In 1986, four to five people under age 18 were murdered per day, 10 percent more than in 1985. Equally chilling, three to four people under 18 were arrested for murder every day, a seven percent increase over 1985.

Recommendations To The Presidential Transition Office Regarding The Youth Entering Service To America Foundation, The Youth Service America Working Group On Public Policy

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Youth service today operates from an expanding base of well-organized programs utilizing the energy and idealism of young people to address significant community needs. This programmatic base currently includes 50 full-time state and local youth corps; 450 campus-based community service programs; more than 3,000 junior and senior high school community service programs; additional community-based programs; and federal civilian service programs including the Peace Corps, VISTA, and the Youth Conservation Corps.

Roots Of Service, Theodore H. Erickson

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The thesis that I want to advance is a simple one: It is that service is rooted in religion. Service is religious in the sense that it expresses our bondedness with the universe (religare: to bind fast), and by extension with one another. Over time, service-oriented activities may become rationalized, institutionalized, and secularized. But the roots of service remain religious.

National Service And Religious Values, L. William Yolton, Edward L. Long Jr.

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The idea of national service covers a range of proposals for organizing young people and, in some cases, senior citizens to do work of national importance to satisfy unmet needs in the society. How people at middle age would be engaged in service is rarely discussed.

Conversation Piece: National Service, Is It For Us?, Carl A. Bade

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Many of the writers, conceptual developers, and advocates of a National Service Program for the United States credit William James with issuing, in 1910, the first call to youth to be enlisted in a program entitled "The Moral Equivalent of War,'' The program was envisioned to engage youth in industrial work and social service, according to their skills and interests. While that did not come to fruition, we saw some forms of it instituted during the bleak days and years of the Great Depression in the 1930's. Thousands of youth were enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps beginning in 1933, …