Learning to Give created this series of videos to help students understand different ways to give back, create awareness and advocate for change.

Connecting Skills and Interest to Community Needs (2:43)

This video helps students think about things they might be good at and connect those skills, passions, and interests to community needs.

Learning to Give: Understanding Advocacy and Action (3:31)
Learning to give time, talent or treasure while taking action for the common good is good for all. This video looks at simple ways to give using time, talents and treasure.

Learning to Give: Advocacy (3:59)
This video defines advocacy and looks at ways of influencing change for the common good and by impacting change through political legislation.. (middle/high school/college)

Learning to Give: Stages of Service Learning (3:28)
This video helps students think about four different ways to serve by connecting the student’s life to learning about the needs in the community.

Learning to Give: Learning Philanthropy and Service Giving-Why do they matter? (3:34)
This video defines, describes, and provides examples of philanthropy and service-learning to inspire students on how to use time, talents or treasures to give back to a community in need.

What’s Happening in Dependency Court?
An Activity Book for Children Going to Court in Florida You’re Not Alone (.pdf)

Make Your Voice Heard (15:13)

A video for youth ages 12 to 18 that explains what happens in dependency court and encourages youth to participate in hearings. In the video, Tammy Workman, Senior Policy Advisor for Transitional Youth Services at the Florida Department of Children and Families, is playing herself and former foster youth Tom Fair plays the role of a foster youth in court, while the other roles are acted by people from the court system and local community based care agency.