Benefits

YOUTH Benefits

• Promotes responsibility
• Provides leadership experience
• Teaches the importance of service to others
• Builds community pride
• Strengthens social relationships
• Have a voice in the community
• Gain skills in working with others
• Understand decision-making process

ADULT Benefits

• Potential to change adults perceptions of youth
• Learn needs of youth
• Experience power of youth
• Develop relationships
• Promotes communications with youth
• Learn how to involve youth as resources
• Accept youth as partners
• Program more in touch with needs of youth

COMMUNITY Benefits

• Creates change
• Fully engages youth & adults
• Increases civic & social competencies
• Enhance the community’s quality of life
• Greater credibility of the program
• Address concerns of youth and adults
• Increase the number of youth remaining in rural communities