The Beautification Team or BT Express is a service-learning program that offers young men and women life learning and cognitive skills development through a strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic engagement and responsibility and strengthen communities.
Approximately, 100 youth are placed annually in this program that has youth involved in beautification projects and service learning. Service learning combines service objectives with learning objectives with the intent that the activity will change both the recipient and provider of service. This is accomplished by combining service tasks with structured opportunities that link the task to self-reflections, self-discovery, and the acquisition and comprehension of values, skills and knowledge content.
In essence, the program gives a second chance to youth to get involved with members of the community. Thus, every Saturday 25-30 San Franciscan youth come together to give back to local communities areas, while learning the values of becoming productive members of society.
