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SRDC Series #199

Building a Foundation for Community Leadership:
Involving Youth in Community Development Projects

This handbook is designed to guide Extension agents, high school teachers, or adult leaders of youth organizations in creating and implementing their own youth leadership and community development project. The purposes of this project are as follows:

  • To provide youth with a community service learning process so as to increase their understanding of their community, to improve their sense of empowerment, and to encourage participation in community affairs.
  • To forge the school-community partnership and to develop increased community support for the school’s educational programs.
  • To help community leaders and citizens address important local needs through the enthusiasm, knowledge, and labor contributed by youth. “I’m more likely to be involved because here I’ve been involved already and I want to see it keep moving
Table of Contents
 
Introduction

An Overview

Purpose

Community Service Learning

Developing the Community

Strategy for Merging These Together

Project Outline

Time Line for Use

Creating a Successful Project

References and Resources
 

Part 1. Learning about Community Leadership

A Primer on Community

Studying Your Community

Overhead Masters

Population Exercise

Mapping Exercise

Studying Community Action Exercise

Technology Exercise

History Exercise

 

Part 2. The School-Based Community Needs Assessment Survey

Community Needs Assessment

Creating a Survey Questionnaire

Writing and Formatting the Survey Questions

Question Construction Exercise

Question Order Exercise

Overhead Masters

Needs Assessment Survey Example

Promoting Your Community Needs Survey

Promoting Your Survey: Preliminary Work and Selecting Media

Promoting Your Survey: Preparing a Fact Sheet and Press Release

Overhead Masters

Sampling in Community Surveys

Random Digit Dialing in Telephone Surveys

Random Digit Dialing Sampling Exercise

Directory Sampling Exercise

Overhead Masters

Interviewing Techniques for Telephone Surveys

Interviewing Training

Interviewing Scenario Exercise

Overhead Masters

Analyzing Survey Data

Overhead Masters

 

Part 3. School-Based Community Development Project

Community Projects: Beyond the Needs Assessment

Possible Community Projects and Solutions

Information Sources for Community Projects

Recognizing the Impact of Community Projects

Overhead Masters

Community Projects: Preparing for Action

Project Resources Exercise

Overhead Masters

 
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