Giving Back: Introducing Community Service Learning,
Improving Mandated Community Service for Juvenile Offenders

This free manual gives youth courts and other juvenile-justice agencies the tools they need to apply school-based service-learning methods to court-mandated community-service. Giving Backprovides skill-building strategies and materials to:

• Introduce juvenile offenders to basic concepts of community and community problems.
• Offer three options for planning and implementing community service-learning projects designed to deal with ten offenses that youth courts and other juvenile-justice agencies most frequently address.