Local Service Directory
YouthLINC is proud to partner with the Utah State Office of Education to produce this Directory sponsored by Chase and the George and Dolores Eccles Foundation.
The YouthLINC organization exists to create life-time humanitarians. This year we are proud to partner with the Utah State Office of Education to create a Local Service Directory for and by Utah students.
YouthLINC works with young people all over the State of Utah in a school-year program of local and international service - where student participants earn a sponsorship that pays approximately half the cost of a service trip to Kenya, Mexico, Peru, and Thailand.
Because our student participants must become relied upon volunteers - contributing 60 -100 hours each during the school year -- each year we have 6,000 hours of their experiences in service sites all over Utah to reflect upon.
The feedback we receive from our student participants is that the best places to volunteer provide:
- Hands-on service with individuals in need
- Mentoring in a positive, encouraging atmosphere
Research also shows that when volunteers make an emotional connection, that is when a service ethic takes root within an individual…. And that is how people start on the road to becoming life-time humanitarians.
The YouthLINC Local Service Directory is unique because it includes:
- Service sites where our participants have had great volunteer experiences that meet the criteria of hands-on service and mentoring in a positive, encouraging atmosphere.
- Quotes from our student participants reflecting on their service experience at that site
- Easily accessible information about what the service site does and what the volunteer can do at that site, as well as current contact information
We hope our Directory is presented in a way that young people all over Utah - YouthLINC volunteers and all students - will find interesting and enjoyable to browse.
We hope our Directory makes it easier for young people to become involved in meaningful service - and to see how fulfilling service can be in their lives.
Our Directory is not meant to be comprehensive. We will add more sites each year through the recommendations of YouthLINC participants.
We also hope that through this Directory, we can encourage all service sites in Utah to attract young volunteers by providing more opportunities for hands-on service and more mentoring to ensure that the seed of life-time service grows within our State's greatest resource - our youth.
Judy Zone,
YouthLINC Director
I really looked forward to going to the Murray Senior Care Center each week, not just because of the good I was doing there, but because of how good it made me feel about myself. It's hard to be sad when you are doing service. --Kelly Pearson, YouthLINC participant