Regularly spend time helping others-and talking about why you do it. Include service projects and reflection as an integral part of all youth programming. Teach youth caring skills and provide opportunities to use them. Use cooperative learning approaches that teach students to help each other. Create a peer counseling program in your school.
Youth are concerned about world issues such as world hunger.
Include your teen in family discussion about how to contribute to charitable organizations. Give youth responsibility and leadership for service projects so they learn they can make a difference. Always take time to debrief service projects to help youth understand issues and make connections. Infuse service into the school curriculum so students address world concerns through classes. Sponsor school-wide emphases on particular world concerns.