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Volunteering: Insights and Tips for Teenagers provides a complete guide to the world of volunteerism. It shows you how to become engaged in what will be among the most gratifying and worthwhile experiences of your life.
In this book you'll learn why volunteerism is so important both to volunteers themselves and to those they serve and explore different types of volunteer opportunities and how to find and secure a rewarding volunteer placement. With advice from professionals and first-hand accounts from teen volunteers, including a fifteen-year-old girl who started a foundation that now helps hundreds of new parents, this book will help you make the most of your volunteer experience.
You will learn
·how to research volunteer opportunities
·what to expect from the application, interview, and orientation process
·how to be a successful volunteer
·how to handle unfamiliar or uncomfortable situations and how to ask for help, and
·how you can use what you learn as a volunteer to create new academic or career opportunities.
With helpful tips for success and a resource list of volunteer opportunities, this book provides everything you need to understand the vital and vibrant world of volunteerism.
Sommario
You Are Not Alone
Part I: What Is Volunteering?
1: Why Volunteer?
2: Getting Started as a Volunteer
Part II: Expectations and Challenges
3: What Makes a Successful Volunteer?
4: What You Learn as a Volunteer
5: Volunteer Challenges
6: Finding Your Area of Interest as a Prospective Volunteer
Part III: what's Next
7: Making the Most of Your Volunteering
8: Continuing to Make a Difference
9: Beyond Volunteering
Notes
Selected Resources
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Info autore
Jean Rawitt is a freelance writer and a consultant for the Department of Volunteer Services at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York). For ten years, she oversaw the Varsity Volunteer Services at Mount Sinai where she developed and coordinated a program to recruit, train, supervise and mentor high-school students as volunteers on hospital inpatient units.
Riassunto
While many young adults want to help their community in some way, many are unsure of where to start. This book empowers teenagers to take action by providing information on how to get started, be successful, and make a difference. First-hand accounts from teenagers provide additional insight from those who have gone through the process themselves.
