FAQs: InnerView Youth Service Platform
Serve Connecticut is pleased to partner with InnerView to provide an innovative platform to empower Connecticut’s high school aged youth leaders to capture and share their diverse service and volunteerism activities.
Individuals with questions are welcome to reach out to Serve Connecticut’s Director of Programs, Kate Scheuritzel, at kate.scheuritzel@ct.gov, or reach out directly to InnerView’s responsive helpdesk at help@innerview.org.
InnerView has designed its tools to keep identifiers very light for student security and privacy.
The only questions asked of a youth to create an InnerView account include:
- First & Last Name (The platform only displays the last initial on a student impact resume!)
- School
- Graduation year
- Phone Number is Optional (If youth want text reminders for volunteer/service activity signups.)
InnerView does not ask for home address, birthdate, ethnicity, race, gender, etc.
Additionally, Serve Connecticut only has access to aggregate data of service activities of Connecticut youth in the platform; we do not have access to individual youth profiles.
If we as a service commission want to contact youth in the platform – for example, to feature their service activity in our social media – we must go through InnerView to ask to connect with that youth. Youth (with their guardians) can absolutely decline our request.
Each Serve Connecticut Community Impact Award certificate will be customized to reflect each individual recipient’s unique service achievements. Each award will feature the name of the youth recipient as well as the total number of hours they served in the school year, the total number of service activities they completed, and the U.N. Global Goal to which most of their service activities were related.
All you have to do is use InnerView to track all of the ways you are helping others, learning about causes, and making a positive impact in your community through activities like volunteering, tutoring, fundraising, coaching, serving on a board or committee, participating in a service event, donating, leading a collection drive, registering others to vote, and more.
InnerView will automatically build your digital service resume as you log your service hours and service activities. As those service hours and activities accumulate, you will automatically be considered for the Serve Connecticut Community Impact Award. No other steps or information – for example, a separate application, recommendation letters, or essays -- are required. You can monitor your progress anytime under the Awards tab in your InnerView account. Visit InnerView’s Awards page to learn more.
If a certain high school does not already appear the dropdown list, the registering youth can type the name of the high school in the field to create their account and start recording service right away. The student is not impacted by their high school not already being in the system. Within a day, InnerView will take care of adding the new high school to system so future registering youth will find it in the dropdown list.