Developing a Community Leadership Corps:

1. Developing a Community Leadership Corps: A Model for Service-Learning

2. What is service-learning? Service-learning is an educational method that emphasizes learning through community service.

3. What is a community leadership corps? A community leadership corps connects students with an organization or initiative in his or her community.

4. Why develop a community leadership corps? • Provide educational experience for students. • Teach positive values, leadership, citizenship, and personal responsibility. • Encourage students to become active community members. • Teach job skills to students. • Contribute your outreach efforts to local community, the state, and beyond. • Increase school-community collaboration. • Help with community education. • Contribute many hours of service to people in need, non-profit agencies, private sector companies, and governmental agencies.

5. When is a good time to develop a community leadership corps? A community leadership may be most useful for you after your organization has created its strategic plan and developed relationships with strategic partners.

6. Who should be involved in developing a community leadership corps ? You will need to have partnerships between the institution or organization that recruits and supports the students or youth and the individual organizations where they will be placed.

7. How do you go about developing a community leadership corps? • If possible, secure resources and support • Identify host organizations and any additional partners • Identify host organization needs • Recruit students • Identify student interests • Train students • Match students with host organizations • Monitor and support students during their placements • Allow students, hosts, and sponsors to reflect on the experience • Celebrate!