Serve! Engaging Youth for Change

experience this!

Youth Outreach/Recruitment Underway for
Next Program Start January 2010

Want to make a difference in your life, and in the lives of others?

“Experience This!” is Serve’s full-time experiential learning program for youth 17 - 24 years old. Participants engage in an intensive five to six month program that focuses on personal development, teamwork and community involvement. Working in a diverse team, participants gain valuable skills and experience that will enable them to achieve success in the future.

Over the course of five or six months, participants:

  • work toward achieving their personal goals
  • participate in a team of diverse individuals
  • experience leadership roles in their community

Youth participants engage in guided learning activities through community involvement. They also experience an adventure-based challenge and trip outside of the city.

Participants receive a living stipend during the program and receive support for working on future goals.

Interested in the next program? You must be:

  • Willing and able to work in a team and with diverse populations
  • Committed to personal development and improving yourself
  • Eager to carry out community service/development work to meet community needs
  • Available on a full time basis (40 hours per week mainly weekdays) for a five month program from January 11 to end of May/beginning of June 2010

You will gain:

  • Leadership, job and life skills
  • Greater self-confidence, assertiveness, and personal awareness
  • Experience in organizing and delivering community projects
  • Skills for planning and reaching your goals
  • An experience of a lifetime!

Still have questions? Read our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Remember that this is NOT A JOB...It is a program, a challenge and an experience of a lifetime!

A March Break program for youth 13-16 years old. This program fosters community involvement, skills development and teamwork and is currently offered in Flemingdon Park/Thorncliffe Park.

We are looking for a few agency partners for weekly community projects for a team of 10 youth (17 to 24 years old) to meet community needs and to build youth civic engagement and skills development. Does your organization/agency have a project that can run once a week from end of January to May 2010? We are mainly looking for projects for Monday or Wednesday afternoons (or possibly a one-time service project on a Friday morning).