In a number of places worldwide, the junior youth spiritual empowerment program has been adopted by academic schools which have made the program available to their students in order to contribute to their moral empowerment and enhance their capacity to serve society.
In Kiribati, where the Ootan Marawa Educational Institute has been offering the program in public schools, a growing number of teachers, principals, and parents have described how the participants of the program have strengthened their ability to express themselves with clarity, improved their academic performance, and enhanced the development of their character. Older youth in the schools have been offering their service as animators for groups of their junior youth peers and have built their own capacity for service in the process. On various occasions, the organization has been invited to speak at formal gatherings arranged by the nation’s Ministry of Education on the importance of creating environments for students that foster mutual support and reinforce academic progress and moral empowerment.
In New Zealand, the Prosperity Foundation collaborates with public schools to form junior youth groups with students in their seventh year of schooling and accompany youth in high schools to serve those younger than themselves. The efforts are leading to further insight around the involvement of parents and teachers in supporting this unique age group. The families of young people participating in the school setting are also connected to community-building activities taking shape in surrounding neighborhoods throughout the school year and into the holiday periods.
In Tajikistan, the junior youth spiritual empowerment program has been offered in schools since 2007 with the assistance of a nongovernmental organization, Education Science Advancement Foundation. Over the years, many service projects have been carried out by junior youth groups in these settings, such as tree planting, street clean ups, and, in one village, efforts to support the community and local government to install road signs. These service projects and numerous others have had positive effects on the wider community. Particularly significant is the fact that, in some places, long-lasting prejudices between various ethnic groups in the area are gradually fading away, as the youth have been learning to build more enduring bonds of friendships based on working together for the common weal. As of 2022, there were over 600 young people participating in the program in schools across the country.