The Service-Learning Partnership promotes the academic success and civic leadership of local youth through service learning, an educational strategy that incorporates meaningful service and critical thinking in standards-based instruction. The program participants, students age 5 - 12, engage in Project YES programming for two hours per week at their school during each academic semester.  

All Project YES Service-Learning Partnership programs are facilitated using Project YES’s arts based service-learning curriculum to engage young people in reflecting on and identifying community needs and planning and implementing service-based action plans.  Students begin by researching community needs and choosing an issue of focus from the needs they identify.  Once a topic is determined, students create a group project that represents the message they wish to send about the issue while engaging in activities to increase their knowledge and understanding of it.  These activities include service-learning field trips, guest speakers, and further research.  Reflection, a key component of service-learning, is interlaced throughout this process in the form of writing, games, and group discussion.  Please visit the current initiatives page to learn more about our current projects!

"Service learning makes me happy because I dreamed of one day when I grow up I would help people, but my dream came true, and I am only ten-years-old."
-- Elementary School Student

"[The service-learning workshop] demonstrated best practices in teaching. This concept is so perfect for providing those real-life experiences in learning, and I found this day to be so beneficial."
-- Secondary School Teacher