ABSTRACT
The City-Youth Empowerment Project (CYEP) was established in 2005 at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences. One of the most valuable intended outcomes of CYEP is to transfer values and experiences heavily anchored in fundamental social sciences knowledge to students who are of other disciplines–in order to promote civic engagement, effective direct helping skills, community integration, and the caring mission of CityU. CYEP leans heavily on such youth empowering through its Volunteering Process Model (VPM) for contextualizing its creation, rationale, and development process. CYEP leans heavily on such youth empowering through its VPM for contextualizing its creation, rationale, and development process. Borrowing the VPM from E. A. Risler and M. J. Holosko but with an emphasis on the reciprocal relationship among volunteers and the social environment, and among volunteers and different target groups they served, we modified their model to be a Reciprocal Volunteer Process Model.
