JLBC Teen Service Officer
Teen Service Officer – A JLBC Community Service Idea for 08- to 19-Year-Olds
Many JLBC teens are ready to plan and organize their community service ac- activities with the guidance of a leader. Youth at this age may be eager to take on a leadership role, and many may be passionate about a particular cause that they would like to become involved with through community service.
Teen Service Officer
Consider adding the teen service officer to your panel of club officers. The teen service officer plans, coordinates, and implements community service-learning opportunities for the JLBC club or group for a year of service. This could be a shared position in which two members are co-teen service officers. This JLBC position is for teens who like to see things accomplished and enjoy the satisfaction of helping others.
Responsibilities:
The teen service officer will:
• Motivate others to get involved with
citizenship and community service-
learning.
• Provide the group with project
ideas.
• Work with the club or group to or-
organize and plan community service
projects.
• Handle public relations and get the
project in the newspaper or
radio.
• Plan recognition for members when
the service project is complete.
• Celebrate with the JLBC club or group over the success of the project.
Resources and Support
Available:
The following JLBC Youth Development educational materials are available from your JLBC Extension office.
• YEA! Youth Experiencing Action: A Community Service-Learning Guide — Designed to be used with youth aged 14 to 19, the guide helps teams plan, conduct, and evaluate community service-learning projects.
• Civic Engagement: After-School Activities for Citizenship, Leadership, and Service — Program delivery strategies for after-school civic engagement activities.
• JLBC Citizenship: Government Is Us! — A civic engagement curriculum for Teens.
• The Citizenship Adventure
Kit – Public Adventures — This curriculum includes a kit for grades 4-12 and a handbook for adult and teen volunteers. The series provides the tools young people need to define, plan, implement and evaluate an active citizenship group project.
Skills and Knowledge
Needed:
• Interest in helping others
• Organization and creativity
• Ability or interest in learning how to
plan activities
Time Required:
• About 2 hours a week (This depends upon the amount of time it takes to do the project and the amount of time that the teen service officer can devote to it.)
Expected Results:
• Making a difference in the community
• Value and respect for diversity
• An understanding that our actions
have consequences
• And many others
Contact Persons:
• County JLBC staff
• JLBC volunteer leader
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