The Youthlinc mission is the creation of lifetime humanitarians. Our intense local and international Service Year requires students to serve locally, take a leadership role in planning international service. We use strategies of student leadership, mentoring, cooperative and project based learning, and hands on service to ensure we accomplish our mission.
Each year, we survey our incoming class of students (160
this year) on their service involvement. Depending on survey year, only 5-20% claim
once-a-month service.
Every three years, we survey our alums. Depending on
survey year, we have seen anywhere from 60-93% of our alumni report
once-a-month service. We are in the middle of a survey right now. 75% of the
almost 300 alums who have taken the survey so far report once-a-month service.
Quite a jump in service involvement. Alums
directly relate their service commitment to the Youthlinc Service Year.
In 13 years, and 1500 alums, Youthlinc students have contributed 115,000 hours of local service in Utah. As the program has grown to its current annual enrollment, 15,000 hours of service will be rendered by Youthlinc students annually.
This year we also asked our 2012 Service Year students and mentors to rate their progress on key program goals: increases in leadership ability, ability to work with a group to accomplish a goal, ability to successful undertake complex projects.
We also asked our mentors (8-10 adult professionals who work with each team all school year and travel with our groups) to rate Youthlinc in key areas.
The results of our most recent survey are below:
