AMERICORPS: Youth Villages AmeriCorps

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AmeriCorps is looking for AMERICORPS: Youth Villages AmeriCorps

Location: USA

Job Type: Full-time

Description:

Youth Villages AmeriCorps is a full-time service opportunity for individuals committed to creating safe learning environments for youth experiencing behavioural or emotional challenges. Members are presented with opportunities to engage youth who have otherwise experienced repeated failures and low self-concept with the traditional learning process. Members provide tutoring, life skills, service learning, afterschool and summer programming, campus events, and leadership opportunities to youth in care. The Youth Villages AmeriCorps team transforms student apathy into student engagement using a variety of experiential approaches such as West African drumming, service-learning, gardening, outdoor kitchen sessions, vocational programming, service engagement, horsemanship, art, and other methods. Members also support local non-profits and organizations in the community through weekly service projects and provide natural disaster response throughout the state of Georgia as needed.

Members are eligible for HOUSING AND MEALS, LIVING ALLOWANCE, HEALTH INSURANCE, AND OTHER BENEFITS, INCLUDING EDUCATION AWARD.

The following link provides additional information about Youth Villages AmeriCorps: http://www.youthvillages.org/what-we-do/residential-programs/inner-harbour-campus/americorps-program.aspx and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/youthvillagesamericorps.

Note: Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Member Duties:

Youth Villages AmeriCorps members provide critical Career, Education and Future Life Success tutoring, service learning, afterschool and summer programming, and classroom assistance to children and adolescents at the Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus, a residential treatment facility on 1,200-acres in Douglasville, GA.
Additional opportunities for members include leading service learning, outdoor kitchen activities, community gardening, outdoor education initiatives, a variety of professional and member development trainings, including ropes course facilitation and Therapeutic West African Drumming Instructor certification.
Members collaborate with local non-profits and organizations on weekly service projects and provide disaster relief assistance in the state of Georgia.
Full-time members serve 1,700+ hours from September through early August, while half-time members serve 900+ hours in full-time capacity from January through early August.

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