YTB Community CALM: Youth opportunities for improving their communities. Youth gain social, digital, educational inclusion.

Youth TimeBanking has youth-adult programs in the US and in Africa. See our newest video: World Knows Her, https://tinyurl.com/WorldKnowsHer

Event: Sunday, January 14 - Resources 4 Recovery, Register: https://tinyurl.com/Jan14R4R * Flyer: https://tinyurl.com/Jan14Flyer 

Event: Sunday, February 18 - Meet Youth Humanitarians, Register: https://tinyurl.com/Feb18Youth * Flyer: https://tinyurl.com/Feb18YouthARE

Youth TimeBanking is a community service practice for supporting youth to increase awareness of community organizations and expand their social connections.  YTB is experiential learning in the interests of building community.  YTB introduces youth to principles of co-production and servant leadership.  When youth are involved with community, they strengthen their connections to their community and learn about Civic Engagement.  As youth continue with YTB they experience co-production -- a model in which each person contributes to the design and delivery of projects or services. 

YTB's Vision is that all youth transition to adulthood with the experience of contributing service to their community. YTB is a system of service exchange that leverages the talents, capabilities, and energies of youth so that they are viewed as partners and co-producers to achieve shared goals and work towards shared visions in our communities.

Youth Earning Time Credits for Community Service Activities - Youth TimeBanking is a nonprofit that provides youth with opportunities through its network of community organizations. YTB is Timebanking customized for youth, a program of giving and receiving where youth earn YTB time credits for their service contributions. Youth take care of Little Free Libraries and community gardens, design logos, participate in virtual events, work on community crochet & ISSB projects, and more. YTB time credits earn youth resources-services-opportunities, such as cell phone minutes, refurbished technology, sports gear, school supplies, arts-crafts supplies, books, coaching sessions, digital inclusion, lessons, etc. YTB is a youth-adult partnership in which youth develop strengths, make community connections, and experience something bigger than themselves.  YTB helps youth as they help others!

See https://www.guidestar.org/profile/84-3685123. 
Also view these short videos https://tinyurl.com/YTBvideo3min and https://tinyurl.com/ITBD2023YTB and https://tinyurl.com/YTBcrochet


Youth-TimeBanking

Started as 10-week walking challenge, 10 years ago, by 2 friends, GirlTrek is now a global movement of 1M+ Black women.

GirlTrek, the largest public health nonprofit for African-American women and girls in the United States. With nearly 100,000 neighborhood walkers, GirlTrek encourages women to use walking as a practical first step to inspire healthy living, families, and communities. As women organize walking teams, they mobilize community members to support monthly advocacy efforts and lead a civil rights-inspired health movement.

Beyond walking, GirlTrek’s active members support local and national policy to increase physical activity through walking, improve access to safe places to walk, protect and reclaim green spaces, and improve the walkability and built environments of 50 high-need communities across the United States.

With Partnership for a Healthier America, The Centers for Disease Control, Stanford Prevention Research Center, The American Council on Exercise, Safe Routes to School National Partnership, and The Sierra Club, GirlTrek has developed a world-class training for African-American women to serve as health professionals in the areas of fitness, mental health, nutrition, and environmental stewardship. GirlTrek’s mission is to inspire one million African-American women and girls to develop a daily habit of walking.

GirlTrek

Working to ensure a place--and an experience--for everyone in Pennsylvania's state parks and forests.  Http://paparksandforests.org

Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation

WCPL, located in a historic building 4 blocks from downtown WC, is a destination for connection, collaboration and enrichment through knowledge and community engagement.  We specialize in connecting readers to good reads.  On street parking (no meters).

West Chester Public Library, PA

One of three 100% volunteer fire companies that make the West Chester Fire Department

First West Chester Fire Co

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