Low-income Outreach:The Impact On Youth

First, teenagers can improve their communities through efforts as easy as painting a fence, feeding the poor and organizing clothing drives. Dictionary.com says the word "improve" merely means "to raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better." When a teenager paints a fence they raise the quality of that fence to a higher standard. An example of teenage

When a teenager gives of himself, through physical labor or emotional labor, they gain an understanding of pride, self-esteem, and relationships. An adolescent that is proud of himself is more likely to have accomplishments and make long lasting friendships with people of the same esteem. This in turn keeps him or her away from people of negative influence. One example of this is a juvenile that I will call Jon. Jon had been in trouble with the authorities since the age of nine. He has been in trouble with drugs, gang activity, theft, and assault. You name it and he has probably done it. Then he was introduced to an outreach program that reached into his community for years. He got involved with helping others and now works in that community. His efforts help bring out his friends still trapped in the life of a you

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