Project Guidelines
What is and is not age appropriate service for high school students?
Is age appropriate...
Thank you for your willingness to help a young person get the most out of his or her volunteering experience. Remember, behind every Disney Adventures All-Star is a great coach!
What is and is not age appropriate service for high school students?
Is age appropriate...
- Cleaning a polluted lake or river
- Researching general information on political platforms and distributing it to peers
- Making a panel for the AIDS Quilt and giving awareness presentations
- Helping design a playground in an underprivileged neighborhood
- Volunteering as a candy striper in a hospital
- Holding a forum about racism to form possible community solutions
- Working as aides in group homes for adults with disabilities
- Setting up a peer counseling program
Is not age appropriate...
- Making posters about pollution
- Developing a political candidates talking points for a debate
- Facilitating an AIDS support group
- Building a playground in an underprivileged neighborhood
- Running the candy striper volunteer program at a hospital
- Organizing and facilitating a weekend diversity retreat
- Making holiday decorations to be used in group homes for adults with disabilities
- Providing therapy for drug or alcohol addicted peers
Thank you for your willingness to help a young person get the most out of his or her volunteering experience. Remember, behind every Disney Adventures All-Star is a great coach!
Disney Adventures would like to thank the Points of Light Foundation for providing us with the information and guidelines on which we have based our Coaches' Handbook.
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Quick Jump
Getting Started
How to Help Select a Project
Trouble-shooting Tips for Popular Types of Volunteer Projects for Young People
Designing Age-Appropriate Projects
Project idea starters and examples of service projects for grades K-5
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Project idea starters and examples of service projects for grades 6-8
What is and is not age appropriate service for grades 6-8?
Project idea starters and examples of service projects for high school students
What is and is not age appropriate service for high school students?