Summer of Service

Schedule of a Typical Day

Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 3:00 pm

(Monday – Thursday)
8:30 – 9:00 am – Icebreaker games and activities
9:00 – 10:00 am – Team time
10:00 – 2:00 pm – Service (and a lunch break!)
2:00 – 2:30 pm – Reflecting and celebrating
2:30 – 3:00 pm – Snacks, announcements, and more games!

1st Friday FUN DAY BBQ!
2nd Friday End of camp CELEBRATION and Awards Ceremony

Leadership Teams

During Summer of Service, there will be four leadership teams. Each team will concentrate on one particular issue area during the first week of camp and will do service in all the other issues during the second week. Campers can rank their preferences on the registration form or
confirmation packet. The teams are:

1. Childcare and Education: Help classroom teachers and tutor preschool children.
2. Health Care: Visit seniors and challenged individuals, cook healthy food, and fight disease through education.
3. Hunger and Homelessness: Cook lunch at a soup kitchen, volunteer at a shelter, and tutor homeless children.
4. Freshman Leadership Team: Entering 9th graders develop leadership skills while learning about community issues.

This summer, we will be hosting four two-week sessions for middle school campers and four two-week sessions for campers entering 9th grade. All camps meet Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 3:00pm.

Summer of Service-YCS

Want to make a difference in the community? Join Summer of Service and develop leadership skills, meet new friends, and have fun while helping out in the community. Each day campers will go out in teams to local schools, senior centers, food pantries, and parks for service. At Summer of Service you will have fun while learning how to tackle community issues. We also enjoy one fun day field trip each session, and an end of camp celebration! For more information, contact Youth Community Service at (650) 858-8019.

YCS Freshmen Leadership Corps

Ready for high school? Spend two weeks building leadership skills, meeting new friends, and helping create change in the community! For summer 2016, YCS will offer the Freshman Leadership Corps Summer of Service Program for incoming ninth graders. Campers will learn about important issues that impact the physical and social environments in their communities. They will examine these issues from environmental, social, and cultural perspectives and will gain an understanding of how they can make a difference. In addition, campers will enjoy a fun day field trip each session, and an end-of-camp celebration. For more information, contact Youth Community Service at 650.858.8019.

SUMMER OF SERVICE – YCS (Entering grades 6-8)
Date and Catalog Registration Code	Palo Alto Resident	Non Palo Alto Resident
6/12/17 – 6/23/17 (10422)	$550	$600
6/26/17 – 7/07/17*(10424)	$495	$540
7/10/17 – 7/21/17 (10425)	$550	$600
7/24/17 – 8/04/17 (10426)	$550	$600

FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP CORPS – YCS (Entering Grade 9)
Date and Catalog Registration Code	Palo Alto Resident	Non Palo Alto Resident
6/12/17 – 6/23/17 (10427)	$585	$635
6/26/17 – 7/07/17* (10428)	$530	$575
7/10/17 – 7/21/17 (10430)	$585	$635
7/24/17 – 8/04/17 (10431)	$585	$635

• July 4th Holiday, no camp.

Tuition includes all camp activities and supplies, field trip and transportation costs, two camp t-shirts, and snacks. Campers provide their own lunches.

Register online through the City of Palo Alto Enjoy! catalog!

The home base of the Summer of Service camp is the multipurpose room at the Ventura Community Center at 3990 Ventura Court in Palo Alto. Please note that our camp location is different from that of our main office.

YCS offers partial scholarships to at least 25% of our campers so that students from all families have a change to attend camp. If you would like to make a tax deductible contribution, please contact Leif Erickson or mail a check made out to “Youth Community Service” to our office and write “SOS fund” in the memo line. To apply for a scholarship, please contact Monica V. Ponce. We would of course like to thank all of our supporters who have already contributed to the scholarship fund.

Check our Careers page in Spring 2017. . .