This 48-page manual features:

• Steps you can take to get a youth volunteer effort up and running
• Dozens of tips and techniques for recruiting youth
• How to connect with and motivate young people
• Perks geared to youth volunteers
• How to reach and engage college-aged volunteers
• Reasons for volunteering as a family
• Ways to recognize youth and their volunteer contributions

Here's a small sampling of topics covered in Youth Volunteers:

• Five keys to involving youth as volunteers
• Guidelines help in selecting top youth
• How to find quality junior volunteers
• Tips for successful youth recruitment
• Teen incentive program increases hours
• How to create successful college partnerships
• Ways to recruit youth volunteers online
• Advice to keep young volunteers motivated
• Help young volunteers hit the ground running
• Match career goals with jobs needing attention
• Consider instant messaging for youth
• Creative gifts to motivate volunteers
• Make your intern's experience rewarding
• Grants, awards for youth
• Provide volunteers with proof of their service
• Call on youth to teach seniors
• Internet draws youth into community service
• Benefits to volunteering with your children
• Connect with teens in language they understand
• How to make the most of family volunteering
• Steps to improve student volunteer success
• Tips for working with first-time offender youth
• Recruit male volunteer through fraternities
• What you need to know to start an intern program
• Give teens their own volunteer board
• Ways to recognize high school volunteers
• And much more!