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COMPARISON of BENEFIT LEVELS
for
MILITARY AND CIVILIAN NATIONAL SERVICE
Military Service
National Service
Monetary
E-1
$753.60
$4.25
(Min. wage)
benefits
(per mo. for first 4 months of enlistment)
or
$170/wk
or
$728.56/mo
$814.80
or
$8742.72/yr
(per mo. after first 4 months)
E-2
$913.20
(per mo.)
$10,958.40
(per yr.)
E-3
$948.90
(per mo.)
$11,386.80
(per yr.)
Education
$325/mo for less
$6,500
benefits
than 3 yrs of service
for 1 yr of national service
$3,900.00 for
1 yr
$7,800.00 for
2 yrs
$13,000.00
$11,700.00
for
less than 3 yrs
($6,500 for year 1
$14,400.00 for
3 yrs or more
and $6,500 for year two)
The military service educational
benefits payment includes $1,200 contributed
by the recipient at a rate of $100/mo over the
first year of her/his enlistment.
Comparison of first two years in military and national service.
Military
Civilian
$28,191.20
$30,485.44
Benefits Comparison: Military Service and National Service
Military Service*
National Service
Monetary
E-1
$753.60/mo
$728.56/mo
benefits
(1st 4 mos of
(based on 40 hr
enlistment)
@ $4.25/hr)
$818.80/mo
(after 4 mos)
$9,432.80/yr
$8,742.72/yr.
E-2 $913.20/mo
$10,958.40/yr
E-3 $947.90/mo
Education
$325/mo for ea month
$6,500 for 1 yr
benefits
of serv up to 3 yrs
of nat'l serv
or
$3,900 for 1 yr
$13,000 for 2 yrs
$7,800 for 2 yrs
$11,700 for 3 yrs
$400/mo for 3 yrs or
more of mili serv
or
$4,800 for 1 yr
$9,600 for 2 yrs
$14,400 for 3 yrs
* -- The military service education
benefits payment includes $1,200
contributed by the recipient at a
rate of $100/mo during the first
year of her/his enlistment.
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DATE: 5-11-93
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Agenda
Inter-Departmental Working Group On National Service
June 30th, 1993
* Introduction: Peter Edelman
Welcome
Explanation of handouts
Brief description of working group's function
* Status of National Service Legislation: Shirley Sagawa
See Legislative Summary
* Building an Ethic of Service - National Service Program Development
Efforts: Susan Stroud
Overview of program development strategy
Examples of national service placements
* Departments' Role in Program Development: General Discussion
- help determine policy priority areas
- help identify experts and constituencies
- begin to develop/expand programs in own departments
(see handout for funding options)
* Next Steps
See handout on follow-up tasks
Packet Includes:
*
Memorandum to all Chiefs of Staff describing Inter-Departmental Working
Group on National Service.
* Brief description of basic program goals for national service.
*
Summary of National Service Legislation - includes goals of act and
description of placement and model program types.
*
Outline of National Service Legislation.
*
Description of Federal Departments' relationship to national service.
*
HHS memo - model for department involvement.
*
Follow-up agenda for National Service Inter-Departmental Working Group.
* List of Working Group members.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 21, 1993
Memorandum to All Chiefs of Staff
From: Christine Varney
Eli J. Segal
Subject: Forming an Inter-Departmental Working Group for National
Service
Now that national service legislation has been reported to
the floor in both houses of Congress, the White House Office of
National Service has begun to focus on developing implementation
ideas to share with the states and potential applicants as a
guide and a stimulus for thinking. To carry out this task
successfully, the Office of National Service will need the
continued support and assistance of high level officials in the
Cabinet Departments.
To this end, Eli Segal has asked Peter Edelman, Counselor to
Donna Shalala at HHS and a senior policy advisor to Eli Segal at
the White House, to establish and chair an inter-departmental
working group on national service. The group will have two main
functions:
* It will involve department representatives in the process of
building the national service program. Department representatives
will be asked to help identify experts in their fields, both
inside and outside their departments, who can help establish
basic program priorities and guidelines, solicit the advice and
assistance of other experts, and identify the main constituent
groups which can help with outreach and information dissemination
efforts.
Note: As Susan Stroud, Director of Program Development for
the Office of National Service, begins to establish working
groups to help move program development efforts forward, ONS
wants to establish some general policy priorities within the
areas of education, public health, public safety, and the
environment which can be a guide for all those involved.
Since ONS would like the policy priorities in these areas to
be consistent with overall Administration policy priorities,
the first thing we will ask the representatives to do is to
let us know the top policy priorities of their departments
as they are applicable to these four priority areas for
national service. This will help in thinking through
priorities for implementation of national service.
* It will give department representatives the opportunity to
share ideas and information with each other about planned or
existing department-sponsored service initiatives and to
encourage the creation of additional department-based service
initiatives. Drawing upon each other's ideas and experiences,
representatives will help invigorate the ethic of service in the
federal government, in general, and in their own departments, in
particular, by generating new ideas for program development and
additional service components in existing programs, suggesting
ways to increase employee volunteerism, and finding ways to form
partnerships between departments as program planning moves
forward.
Representatives to the working group should be able to
attend meetings at least once a month and do follow-up work on
behalf of the group and their departments when necessary. While
we recognize that most departments have already designated
community service contacts who have helped the Office of National
Service complete an inventory of department-sponsored service
initiatives, the status of these contacts varies in each
department. Please take the time to carefully select the
representative to the working group. The role of the
representative will be quite different from that of the initial
contact who was identified previously. In order to serve
effectively, representatives to the working group must be high
level officials who have policy expertise and a great deal of
experience in their fields.
The first working group meeting will take place on
Wednesday, June 30th at 4:00 in the OEOB room 180. Please select
a representative from your department and call Kate Frucher in
the Office of National Service at (202) 456-6444 with that
person's name and phone number by Friday, June 25th. Once
selected, the representative should fax a list of the service-
relevant top policy priorities of your department (see previous
page) to Kate at (202) 456-6420 before the first meeting.
Thank you for your attention to these matters. Your help has
been and will continue to be greatly appreciated.
NATIONAL SERVICE
BASIC PROGRAM GOALS
THE PRESIDENT'S NEW NATIONAL SERVICE INITIATIVE WILL:
1.
Meet pressing national needs in the areas of education, the environment, human
services and public safety.
2.
Help people pay for post-secondary education by offering a $5,000 education award
to those who complete a term of service.
3.
Bring Americans together by uniting citizens of every race, religion and age in an
effort to rebuild our communities, neighborhood by neighborhood and block by block.
4.
Mobilize people, not bureaucracies, by streamlining government and relying on
locally-driven initiatives, building on existing community efforts instead of displacing them.
5.
Educate Americans for citizenship -- creating the sense of civic responsibility that
our democracy requires.
6.
Encourage young people to become responsible leaders by working to meet needs
in their communities and their country.
7.
Make a cost-effective investment that pays back three ways -- in services provided
communities, in skills given youth during the program, and in education financed afterwards.
8.
Create incentives for excellence through market-like competition, tough performance
goals and evaluation requirements, and flexibility in implementation.
9.
Supplement, not supplant, means-tested education aid as one way to help people
pay for college, joining but in no way replacing Pell Grants and other federal aid.
10.
Not displace or duplicate workers because of tough anti-displacement provisions,
ensuring that national service meets unmet needs.
11.
Support all forms of service at every stage in Americans' lives, including K-12
service learning, college-based programs, the Older American Volunteer Programs, the
Civilian Community Corps, and the Points of Light Foundation.
12.
Grow at an appropriate pace that respects the limits of the budget, the capacity of
the field, and the success of the program in meeting its objectives.
National Service Legislation
The legislation is designed to support service by all
Americans, at all ages, in all forms. It amends two existing
laws, the National and Community Service Act and the Domestic
Volunteer Service Act, and establishes a Corporation for National
Service that combines two existing agencies, the Commission on
National and Community Service and ACTION.
The legislation authorizes the new National Service Trust
program and the school-based and community-based service-learning
programs for youth. It also amends and reauthorizes the VISTA
program and the Older American Volunteer Programs under the
Domestic Volunteer Service Act; reauthorizes the Civilian
Community Corps; and speeds up the implementation of the Stafford
Loan Cancellation program.
National Service Trust Program
The National Service Trust Program will enable Americans to
perform valuable national service while earning educational
awards in return. National service work must meet unmet
educational, environmental, public safety and human needs;
improve the citizenship ethic and skills of those who serve; and
not displace existing workers. In general, Americans over 17
years of age will be eligible to serve in an approved positions
for one or two terms that may be full-time or part-time. While
serving, participants will be provided a living allowance based
at minimum wage, and health care and child care if necessary. In
return for each term of service, participants will receive an
education award of $5,000, payable for current expenses or
against past loans at participating institutions, including trade
and graduate schools, under the Higher Education Act.
Institutions offering national service opportunities may
range from small non-profit organizations to Federal agencies.
Programs engaging participants may range from individual
placement programs for college graduates, to conservation corps
for at-risk youth, to community corps for Americans from a
variety of backgrounds. Diversity of models and participants will
be encouraged.
Programs will be selected on a competitive basis by the
State Commissions on National Service and the Corporation for
National Service. One-third of funds will be allocated to States
on a formula basis; one-third to States on a competitive basis;
and one-third reserved by the Corporation for allocation directly
to national programs and Federal agencies.
Approved programs will be responsible for selecting
participants on a nondiscriminatory basis. The Corporation for
National Service and State Commissions on National Service will
also establish information and recruiting systems for national
service that are easily accessible through job and college
counselling offices, and by other means.
School-based Programs
School-based service-learning enables elementary, secondary
and post-secondary students to perform service and enjoy
educational experiences that are mutually related. Young people
in service learning programs meet unmet needs and develop a
lifelong ethic of service as well.
The Serve-America program offers assistance in order to
establish and expand service-learning programs in elementary and
secondary schools and through nonprofit organizations. The
school-based program encourages partnerships among local
educational agencies and other community partners, and will
support the work of service-learning coordinators who develop
service programs for school-age youth. The program for community-
based organizations offers assistance on a competitive basis to
such organizations that establish service-learning programs.
The Higher Education Innovative Programs offer assistance to
institutions and consortia of institutions of higher education to
establish or expand service-learning programs for their students.
The programs offer funds on a competitive basis, with a priority
for initiatives that demonstrate the strong commitment of the
institution to service and that involve the community served in
planning activities.
The legislation expands the authorization for these service-
learning programs to double the number of volunteers. One-fourth
of funds will be allocated for Higher Education Programs on a
competitive basis. The other three-fourths of funds will be
allocated to Serve-America Programs, with 85 percent for school-
based and 15 percent for community-based initiatives. Three-
fourths of school-based program funds are allocated on the basis
of school-age youth and chapter one populations, one-fourth a
competitive basis.
VISTA and Older American Volunteer Programs
These programs are reauthorized by this Act. VISTA provides
service opportunities to Americans that are particularly targeted
at reducing poverty. The Older American Volunteer Programs engage
half a million older Americans in service, often unstipended,
such as mentoring youth, serving as foster grandparents, and
acting as companions to other seniors.
Civilian Community Corps (CCC)
The CCC will engage military bases no longer in use and
discharged military personnel in the operation of service
programs for youth. The legislation reauthorizes the CCC.
Stafford Cancellation
The Stafford cancellation allows minimum wage participants
in certain types of service programs to receive loan
cancellation. The legislation accelerates implementation of this
provision.
The Corporation for National Service
In order to streamline government and improve efficiency,
the Corporation for National Service combines the Commission on
National and Community Service and ACTION. The Corporation is
designed primarily to "steer," not "row," by establishing
performance guidelines, selecting programs on the basis of
quality, and guarding against waste, fraud and abuse. The
Corporation has a personnel system designed to treat all
employees fairly, ensure merit-based, competitive hiring, and
provide incentives for excellence.
Goals of the Act
This Act has two central goals: (1) to benefit communities
by meeting their unmet environmental, educational, human and
public safety needs; (2) to enhance the lives of participants by
enabling them to develop a service ethic, enhancing their bonds
to their communities and country, improving their skills and, in
the case of the full-time program, providing educational awards.
The Act supports all the "streams of service, amending and
expanding the K-12 service-learning program and the higher
education service program; establishing the new national service
program by combining subtitles C and D of the National and
Community Service Act; amending and reauthorizing the Domestic
Volunteer Service Act, including the VISTA and Older Americans
Volunteer Programs; reauthorizing support for the Civilian
Community Corps and Points of Light Foundation; and speeding up
the implementation of the recently enacted Stafford loan
forgiveness program for community service participants.
Meeting unmet needs
The Committee strongly believes that national service work
must meet unmet needs that would not otherwise be met by the
Government or the private sector. For this reason, national
service cannot displace existing workers; doing so would merely
change the providers of services without providing new benefits.
At the same time national service cannot represent "make-work,"
"picking up gum wrappers," that offers no tangible benefits to
communities.
The Committee is well aware of the failures on both these
accounts, perceived and real, of public sector employment
programs. The Act has a variety of protections to prevent such
problems. Funds are allocated on a competitive basis to ensure
that only the best programs receive support. Measurable goals
must be defined in terms of community impacts, not number of
individuals employed. High performance and independent evaluation
are required. Union consultation and, in some cases, concurrence,
are included to ensure that national service does not become a
source of cheap labor that displaces existing workers. And strong
provisions to prevent waste and fraud are included (see below).
There are four areas in which national service initiatives
may meet unmet needs: education, the environment, human needs,
and public safety. While these areas enable national service
programs to attack a wide range of problems, in every case, work
performed must provide essential services.
The list of vital needs that national service participants
can meet is practically endless. In health care, the youngest and
oldest Americans could gain much from services in this
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initiative. In the field of immunizations, currently only about
half of 2-year-olds are fully vaccinated, with rates as low as 10
percent in inner cities (HHS) Immunizations save money, yet
often shortage of outreach and information is as troublesome as
cost. And among older Americans, nursing home care is the largest
out-of-pocket health care expense, yet many seniors would prefer
to remain at home if care were available (HCFA Office of the
Actuary). National service can provide the outreach and
assistance that Americans young and old need.
In schools, it was reported in 1991 that 27 percent of youth
aged 16 to 24 from low-income families dropped out of school
(Department of Education). In 1992, 72 percent of 8th graders in
disadvantaged urban districts did not achieve at the basic
competency level in math (NAEP) Mentors, tutors, and other
volunteers can provide invaluable aid, yet in a 1990 study, 50
percent of the nation's minority schools reported having no
volunteers at all (Volunteers in Public Schools).
In the area of crime, an astounding 5 million households in
American had at least one member who were a victim of crime
during 1991. Between 1987 and 1991, law enforcement agencies
reported a 29% increase in their violence-related workload; yet
the number of sworn law enforcement offices increased by one
11.5% (National Crime Survey). National service participants can
do more than reduce the overwhelming burden on sworn police
officers; they can provide the community-based assistance that
not only stops crime, but prevents it in advance.
Environmental needs that can be met through service are
well-established. At least a third of the Nation's rivers, half
its' estuaries, and more than half its lakes are unsafe for
swimming, fishing, and other uses (EPA) In perhaps half of our
National Parks, we do not have adequate information to understand
the diversity of life at hand (NPS) And most shocking, 3 million
young children -- one in six -- have toxic levels of lead in
their blood -- impairing IQs, causing behavioral disorders, and
stunting growth. Service corps members can find and reduce the
lead that causes poisoning; they can recognize biodiversity; and
they can reduce pollution, leaving the Nation safer and stronger.
Whatever the measurable benefits that national service can
achieve, there is still something else that service offers
communities. It can foster a new spirit of responsibility that
inspires all the residents to work for an improved future. As
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt stated in testifying
before the Committee:
The presence of volunteers in a community has a ripple
effect that somehow tends to awaken communities toward the
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possibilities of mutuality and reciprocal obligations
It
infuses a remarkable spirit into the community.
Helping participants
With regard to participants, national service can offer a
variety of benefits. The Committee intends for the national
service initiative to include participants with a broad range of
educational attainments, ranging from high school dropouts to
professional school graduates. All these can gain from national
service in different respects.
For those who have not finished high school or have
graduated but not considered post-secondary education, national
service can provide essential skills, ranging from particular
trades to good work habits. In addition, the educational award
can offer much-needed assistance for job training or a two- or
four-year college education. In many cases, the award will
encourage youths who had not considered post-secondary education
to think about and achieve that added education.
Others will mature in a year of service before college,
gaining a self-discipline and sense of purpose that will serve
them well throughout their college years. Joseph Duffey, former
president of American University in Washington, D.C., has
estimated that perhaps one fourth of entering freshmen are
unprepared to gain all they can from college. National service
can help prepare them.
Those who serve after post-secondary education can pay off
outstanding loans or save up awards for post-graduate work, while
also learning about a career path, gaining perspective on their
life options, and meeting important needs in their communities
that require significant education. Through a year or two of
national service, those who serve after college can lighten or
remove the debt loads that otherwise impede too many career
choices.
All those who serve will develop a sense of civic
responsibility. As their ties to their communities grow, their
lives will increase in depth. Those who serve America will learn
the good of helping fellow citizens that transcends race,
religion, gender or income. In service together, they will see
the barriers that separate them from others lower, and feel the
common values that join them strengthened.
Types of national service
A great variety of program models are possible under this
legislation. All must only share the basic goals and features of
national service: meeting unmet needs in one of the four areas;
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possibilities of mutuality and reciprocal obligations
It
infuses a remarkable spirit into the community.
Helping participants
With regard to participants, national service can offer a
variety of benefits. The Committee intends for the national
service initiative to include participants with a broad range of
educational attainments, ranging from high school dropouts to
professional school graduates. All these can gain from national
service in different respects.
For those who have not finished high school or have
graduated but not considered post-secondary education, national
service can provide essential skills, ranging from particular
trades to good work habits. In addition, the educational award
can offer much-needed assistance for job training or a two- or
four-year college education. In many cases, the award will
encourage youths who had not considered post-secondary education
to think about and achieve that added education.
Others will mature in a year of service before college,
gaining a self-discipline and sense of purpose that will serve
them well throughout their college years. Joseph Duffey, former
president of American University in Washington, D.C., has
estimated that perhaps one fourth of entering freshmen are
unprepared to gain all they can from college. National service
can help prepare them.
Those who serve after post-secondary education can pay off
outstanding loans or save up awards for post-graduate work, while
also learning about a career path, gaining perspective on their
life options, and meeting important needs in their communities
that require significant education. Through a year or two of
national service, those who serve after college can lighten or
remove the debt loads that otherwise impede too many career
choices.
All those who serve will develop a sense of civic
responsibility. As their ties to their communities grow, their
lives will increase in depth. Those who serve America will learn
the good of helping fellow citizens that transcends race,
religion, gender or income. In service together, they will see
the barriers that separate them from others lower, and feel the
common values that join them strengthened.
Types of national service
A great variety of program models are possible under this
legislation. All must only share the basic goals and features of
national service: meeting unmet needs in one of the four areas;
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improving the lives of participants by developing their sense of
citizenship; and not displacing existing workers.
Certain models are well-established, such as conservation
corps, youthbuild programs, and individual placement programs
like VISTA. Many other existing programs, while not currently
considered under the national service rubric, can easily be
adjusted to fit within it. Though national service cannot and
should not replace other programs specifically targeted at
particular needs, it can provide essential additional support to
them. It is the hope of the Committee that, in the words of
Martha Diepenbrock of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps,
national service will come to be viewed by professionals and
communities with a variety of concerns as "a way to get our
priorities done."
The Committee believes that a wide variety of national
service programs are desirable, to determine what works best, to
enable diverse participation, and to meet the differing needs of
different areas. The examples that follow, like those in the
legislation, do not exhaust the range of possibilities. They only
indicate the variety of potential program along all their axes:
programs targeting differing needs or a variety of needs at once;
pre-college, post-college, post-graduate and mixed programs;
existing programs, programs currently outside the national
service rubric, and new programs; programs requiring extensive
training and high skill levels, and programs requiring little
training or specialized skill; and programs operated by non-
profit organizations, state or local governments, or federal
agencies.
Public Safety
In cities around the country such as San Diego and Tucson,
police departments are currently developing programs in which
non-sworn police officers contribute significantly to public
safety. Working closely with police departments and public
housing authorities, and also freeing up regular officers to walk
beats, "national service officers" (NSOs) can provide valuable
assistance in non-hazardous public safety services. College
graduates can be trained to handle minor investigations, analyze
crime data, and engage in alternative dispute resolution. NSOs
can also counsel crime victims and mentor gang members, and work
with community groups and school children to organize prevention
efforts, such as anti-drug initiatives and crime patrols.
Other crime-related initiatives could draw on diverse young
people in community-based anti-crime activities. Youth as
Resources and the National Crime Prevention Council are already
engaged in such activities. In close partnership with local
schools and anti-drug professionals, national service
participants could form drug abuse prevention teams to engage in
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a panoply of activities. The teams could include a range of
students, from college graduates trained in psychology to high
school dropouts and recovering crack addicts. Each would offer a
unique perspective. Teams might spend some time developing a
curriculum for drug education during and after school and then
implementing it. At other times, team members might work one-on-
one with at-risk youths. Part of the time, programs could run
after-school programs to keep kids off the streets. At other
times, teams might solicit private sector funding to develop
billboard advertising videos on drug abuse, and other materials.
Education
The Committee expects that there will be many opportunities
for service as service-learning coordinators in elementary and
secondary schools. Working with teachers and community
organizations, trained service-learning coordinators organize
service projects that fit into the broader curriculum. Such
programs have a significant multiplier effect -- a single
coordinator working with a half-dozen classrooms can enable young
students to contribute thousands of hours of service that
enhances their education as well.
There are similar opportunities in the fields of education
and early childhood development. National service participants
could, for example, provide invaluable assistance in Head Start
and other child care programs. After receiving training in the
summer after college, participants would be assigned in groups as
assistant teachers in Head Start centers and other child care
facilities for low-income families. Experienced teachers would
act as mentors, and assistant teachers would work with small
groups of children, developing their cognitive and social skills
through sustained attention and education. In addition, the
participants would provide services to parents -- literacy
training, parenting education, and the like. The assistant
teachers would periodically meet to receive additional training,
and move on to more challenging tasks when suitable.
In Chapter 1 schools that most need help, national service
participants at a variety of education levels and in a variety of
roles could significantly further efforts to improve education.
Some could work with parents to ensure their involvement in their
children's education. Others would serve as math or reading
tutors. A third group would organize afterschool activities to
keep unsupervised children off the streets while enhancing their
education through activities like community service and homework
clinics. Participants who became interested in teaching careers
would be able to receive additional training while serving. A few
certified teachers might enter the schools through professional
corps in fields like special and bilingual education.
Education-related activities, such as mentoring, are
especially suited to part-time national service programs.
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College-age participants in the New York State Mentoring Program
(NYSMP), for example, spend time with at-risk - children in local
elementary and secondary schools, boosting their self-esteem and
broadening their horizons. After learning from their mentors,
many children within NYSMP have improved their school achievement
and aspire to go to college themselves. Full-time national
service participants can also serve in such programs as program
coordinators for schools or colleges responsible for recruiting,
training, and supervising part-time volunteer mentors and
organizing group activities.
Environment
Conservation corps represent a strong existing model for
national service programs. These plant trees, build soil banks to
prevent erosion, develop trails, revegetate heavily visited
areas, and survey flora and fauna. Such programs primarily
involve pre- and non-college participants, but college graduates
with special training often serve as team leaders. The Committee
hopes that this legislation will increase the quality and expand
the scope of existing conservation corps.
There are other new and exciting models which might be
implemented. For example, college graduates could work with
businesses and consumers to devise strategies to reduce waste.
After a summer of training, they would be assigned to cover a
limited area where they would meet with employers, retailers, and
building managers to develop plans for source reduction and
recycling. Participants would continue working with these people,
helping them meet their recycling goals. In areas where there are
legal requirements for recycling, participants could work with
local law enforcement agencies to ensure compliance. The overall
goal of the program, however, would be to help people fulfill
requirements before legal action becomes necessary.
Human Services
In the broad field of human services, there are a broad
variety of possible programs. Health care is a field in which
national service participants can make a particular impact. For
example, national service participants without advanced degrees
could become an integral part of the effort to improve health
care in medically underserved areas. Working with a school of
nursing or public health agencies to provide the training
necessary, nonprofit community health centers could involve young
people in a variety of health-related activities.
Some young people could provide daily services to the home-
bound elderly, enabling to stay at home instead of being forced
to enter a nursing home. These services might include the
administration of medications, meal delivery, light housekeeping,
and companionship. Other youths could provide outreach services
as part of prenatal and immunization programs, making home
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visits, arranging for transportation, serving as translators,
referring parents to substance abuse programs if needed, and so
on. Still other youths could provide administrative assistance
after hours in clinics, enabling them to stay open late to serve
working parents.
There are many opportunities for service in housing and
economic development. Programs like Habitat for Humanity and
YouthBuild are already well-established. The latter, in
particular, provides at-risk youth with remedial education, job
training, and practical experience while building much-needed
shelter for homeless and low-income individuals. By leveraging
non-profit and private dollars, and by converting the "served"
into "servers" in low-income communities, programs like
YouthBuild accomplish greater good at less cost than traditional
programs.
Other housing-related initiatives could include renovation
of abandoned buildings for use as community centers and child
care facilities. Some programs could not only build housing, but
provide essential supportive services like counseling as well.
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(This outline reflects the bill transmitted to Congress in early May. As amended, the
legislation is somewhat different with regard to organization, but the program and
participation requirements are essentially the same.)
OUTLINE OF LEGISLATION
NATIONAL SERVICE INITIATIVE
President Clinton's national service program will expand educational
opportunity, reward individual responsibility, and build the American community
by bringing citizens together to tackle common problems. The President's
support for service extends from the youngest elementary students to our oldest
citizens, and includes everything from part-time volunteer activities to full-time
public service jobs.
The centerpiece of the President's initiative to support service is a new
program to offer educational awards to Americans who make a substantial
commitment to service. In addition to this program, which builds on the youth
corps and demonstration programs of the National and Community Service Act
of 1990, the National Service Trust Act includes:
Extension and improvement of programs in the National and
Community Service Act of 1990 that enhance elementary and secondary
education through community service in schools, support after-school and
summer programs for school-age youth, and fund service programs on
college campuses.
Support for the Civilian Community Corps, to provide service
opportunities in areas adversely affected by defense cutbacks.
Support for the Points of Light Foundation, to support volunteerism.
Extension and improvement of VISTA and the Older American
Volunteer Programs authorized by the Domestic Volunteer Service Act.
Creation of a new Investment Fund for Quality and Innovation to
support model service programs and activities designed to ensure the
development of high quality national service programs.
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NATIONAL SERVICE TRUST ACT
Focus of Service
National service must address unmet educational, environmental, human, or public
safety needs. National priorities may be established within these areas.
National service must improve the life of the participants, through citizenship
education and training.
Participants may not displace or duplicate the functions of existing workers.
Corporation for National Service
Structure
The national service program will be administered by a new government Corporation
for National Service, created by combining two existing independent federal agencies, the
Commission on National and Community Service and ACTION.
The corporation will be responsible for administering all programs authorized under
the National and Community Service Act and Domestic Volunteer Service Act, including
VISTA and the Older American Volunteer Programs. The Corporation will also fund training
and technical assistance, service clearinghouses and other activities.
The investment division of the corporation will administer the new trust program and
programs currently administered by the Commission on National and Community Service.
The operating division will administer programs currently run by the ACTION agency,
including VISTA and the Older American Volunteer Programs.
Flexible and quality-driven personnel policies will include pay-for-performance and a
7-year limit on most tenures.
The Corporation may solicit and accept private funds.
Governance
The corporation will have an eleven-member volunteer Board of Directors appointed
by the President and confirmed by the Senate. It will be bipartisan and include persons
experienced in national service, experts in providing educational, environmental, human, or
public safety service, and representatives of States.
The first Board members will be appointed primarily from the Board of Directors of
the Commission on National and Community Service. Seven Cabinet secretaries will serve as
non-voting ex-officio members.
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The Board will approve grant decisions, develop the corporation's strategic plan,
review other policy and personnel decisions, receive and act on reports from the Inspector
General, supervise evaluations, and advise the Corporation on all issues.
A Chairperson of the Board and a Managing Director for each division will be full-
time employees appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Oversight
An Inspector General will oversee programs to guard against fraud and abuse.
Programs must arrange for independent audits and evaluations, and may also be
required to participate in national or state evaluations.
State Commissions
Structure
In order to receive a grant, each state must establish a commission on national service.
The corporation will provide funding for the state commission.
Commissions will have 7 to 13 members appointed by the governors on a bipartisan
basis. There must be at least one representative of national service programs, one
representative of local governments, and one representative of local labor organizations on
each Board. The remaining members of the Board will be selected from among
representatives of community-based organizations, youth who participate in service, educators,
business, or experts in the delivery of particular services. Not more than 25 percent of voting
members may be state officials, although additional state agency representatives may sit on
the commissions as non-voting ex-officio members. Commissions will elect their own chair.
A representative of the corporation will sit on each commission as a voting member
and act as liaison between the commission and the corporation.
Duties
State commissions will be responsible for selecting programs to be funded under the
state formula allocation, and in any competitive grant states may request.
State commissions must also design strategic plans for service in the states, recruit
participants, and disseminate information about service opportunities.
State commissions may also support clearinghouses, training and technical assistance,
and other initiatives to support service. They may not operate national service programs, but
may use a portion of funds to support programs run by state agencies.
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Transition
For a period of one year, existing state agencies may assume the responsibility of the
state commissions.
The Corporation may approve an alternative agency in place of a commission at a
state's request, if the agency ensures diverse participation in policy making.
Allocation of Funds
States submitting plans approved by the Corporation will receive one-third of funds
according to a population-based formula and one-third on a competitive basis.
One-third of funds will be allocated directly by the corporation. Programs eligible for
priority consideration include federal programs, national nonprofit organizations operating
multiple programs or competitive grant programs, national service initiatives in more than one
state and meeting priority needs, proposals to replicate successful programs in more than one
state, professional corps, and innovative national service programs.
Programs
Goals
Programs must set measurable goals regarding the impact of the service on the
community and on participants.
Eligibility
Programs eligible for national service designation include diverse community corps,
youth corps, specialized service programs focusing on a specific community need, individual
placement programs, campus-based service programs, programs that train and place service-
learning coordinators in schools or team leaders in corps programs, intergenerational
programs, national service entrepreneurship programs, and professional corps.
Programs may be run by non-profit organizations, institutions of higher education,
local governments, school districts, states, or federal agencies.
Programs may not provide direct benefits to for-profit businesses, labor unions, or
partisan political organizations, or involve participants in religious activities.
Selection
Selection criteria include quality (based on criteria developed in consultation with
experts in the field), innovation, sustainability, and replicability of programs.
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Past experience and management skills of program leadership, involvement of
participants in leadership roles, and the extent to which the program builds on existing
programs will also be taken into account.
Programs serving and recruiting participants from communities of need, including
those designated as enterprise zones, community redevelopment areas, areas with high poverty
rates, environmentally distressed areas, and communities adversely affected by decreased
defense spending will also receive special consideration.
Funding
All participants will receive educational awards.
To develop programs, one-year planning grants will be available. To support national
service participants, three-year renewable grants will be available for program expansion or
replication.
Administrative costs will be limited to five percent of all grants other than planning
grants.
Programs must pay 15 percent of the stipend and health care benefits in cash and 25
percent of other program costs receiving federal support. The 25 percent match may be in
cash or in kind from any source other than programs funded under the National and
Community Service or Domestic Volunteer Service Acts.
Federal funds must supplement, not supplant, state and local dollars.
Participants
Eligibility
Individuals may serve before, during, or after post-secondary education.
In general, participants may be age 17 or older. Youth corps participants may be age
16 or older.
Participants must be high school graduates or agree to achieve their GED prior to
receiving educational awards.
Selection
Participants will be recruited and selected on a nondiscriminatory basis and without
regard to political affiliation by local programs designated by states or the federal
government.
A national or state recruitment system will help interested individuals locate
placements in local programs. Information about available positions will be widely
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disseminated through high schools, colleges and other placement offices. A special leadership
corps may be recruited, trained, and placed to assist in the development of new national
service programs.
Term of Service
To earn an educational award, a participant one year of full-time or two years of part-
time service in a program designated by a state or the federal government. An individual
may serve up to two terms and earn up to two educational awards.
Educational Awards
Educational awards of $5,000 will be provided for a term of service. Educational
awards may be used to repay loans for higher education or to pay for higher education or
training.
Educational awards will be federally funded and deposited into a national service trust
on behalf of all participants accepted into the program. Organizations and individuals may
donate funds to support national service participants in the donor's community.
Payments will be made directly to qualified post-secondary educational institutions,
including two- and four-year colleges, training programs, and graduate or professional
programs.
In the case of participants with outstanding loan obligations for qualified educational
activities, awards will be paid directly to lenders.
Awards will not be taxable and must be used within five years of receipt.
Stipends
Programs will set stipends within program guidelines. However, federal support will
be limited to a match of 85 percent of an annual stipend equivalent to benefits received by
VISTA volunteers. Programs may provide additional stipends up to twice this amount, with
no federal match for the portion of the stipend in excess of the VISTA benefit.
In the limited case of designated professional corps in areas of great need, such as
teaching and public safety in underserved areas, participants may be paid a salary in excess of
the guidelines and receive an educational award. However, no federal support will be
available for a stipend, and professional corps will be selected on a case-by-case basis directly
by the Corporation.
Health and Child Care
All participants without access to health insurance will receive health coverage.
Federal dollars will pay up to 85 percent of the cost of these benefits.
Participants will receive child care assistance, if needed.
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Serve-America
The proposal extends and expands the existing Serve-America program for school-age
youth and Higher Education Innovative Projects for Community Service. Modifications to
these programs are described below.
Service-Learning Program
Program Goals
To build a foundation for service among the nation's youth, inspiring them to serve
and instilling in them the values and attitude to serve effectively after graduation.
To create opportunities for all American children to serve our country.
Types of Programs
Programs may be partnerships of local education agencies and community-based
organizations.
Local educational agencies may receive planning grants to hire service-learning
coordinators.
Types of Funding
School-based programs will be eligible for funding through state educational agencies,
partly based on formula and partly through competition.
State educational agencies must develop state plans that indicate programs to be
funded and detail 3-year strategies for service-learning in their states. The Corporation must
approve state plans.
Programs may receive one-year planning grants for school-based programs.
Subgranting to experienced institutions for school-based programs will also be allowed.
All local programs will be required to provide at least 10 percent of total program
costs in the first year of funding, increasing to 50 percent in the fourth. Local programs may
utilize other federal education funds to meet the match requirement.
Training and Technical Assistance
Clearinghouses will be expanded to further enable them to disseminate information
and curriculum materials; train teachers, service sponsors and participants; and provide needs
assessments or technical assistance.
States will also receive additional resources to train and educate state educational
personnel.
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Community-based Program for School-Age Youth
Community-based organizations working with school-age youth may receive grants
from the State Commission for programs to involve such youth in community service.
National non-profit organizations may apply to the Corporation to make subgrants or
run multi-state community-service programs for this population.
Higher Education Innovative Projects
Higher Education institutions, consortia of such institutions, or partnerships of higher
education institutions and non-profit institutions may receive grants from the Corporation for
student community-service programs or programs to train teachers in service-learning
methods.
Funds may supplement College Work-Study funds being used for community service
placements.
Extension of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973
The proposal extends and expands VISTA and Older American Volunteer Programs
authorized by the Domestic Volunteer Service Act. Following a transition period, these
programs will be administered by the corporation for national service.
VISTA
Extends authority for the VISTA program and increases number of VISTA volunteers.
Authorizes new VISTA Summer Associate program.
Authorizes a University Year for VISTA program to encourage student volunteer
efforts addressing the needs of low-income communities.
Removes restrictions limiting the flexibility to manage VISTA, while reaffirming
commitment to recruiting a diverse group of VISTA volunteers including young and older
adults.
Increases post-service stipends by $30 for each month of service. Such stipends are
not available if VISTA volunteer accepts an educational award under the national service
trust.
Continues support for VISTA Literacy Corps.
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Special Volunteer Programs
Provides broadened authority under the Special Volunteer Programs to supporting
demonstrations and innovations, provide technical assistance, and promote other
entrepreneurial activities. Eliminates specific authority for student community service and
drug programs, which are covered under the broadened demonstration authority and under the
National and Community Service Act.
Older American Volunteer Programs
Renames the Older American Volunteer Programs as National Senior Volunteer Corps
and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program as the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program
(RSVP).
Lowers eligibility age for participation in the RSVP program to 55.
Clarifies that Foster Grandparents may work with children with special and
exceptional needs in Head Start programs, schools, and day care centers.
Provides for a new demonstration authority to enrich and strengthen older American
volunteer programs across the country.
Eliminates restrictions that limit the flexibility to administer the program.
Increases the stipend for low-income Foster Grandparents and Senior Companions
once over the next five years to account for inflation.
Administration
Encourages relationships between ACTION and other federal agencies where ACTION
volunteers might help further the purposes of other Federal programs.
Authorizes a Center for Research and Training on Volunteerism to strengthen
volunteer programs across the country.
Provides a technical amendment to restore the crediting of VISTA service for federal
pensions.
Provides copyright protection for the programs authorized under the Act.
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National Service and Federal Agencies
There are many ways that Federal agencies can contribute to
the national service initiative. Four of the most significant
would be the following.
(1) Either from their discretionary funds or through a specific
request to Congress in a departmental budget, Federal
agencies can allocate their own resources to national
service programs. Currently, many agencies fund such service
programs out of their own budgets. Such programs might
conform to the requirements of the new national service
legislation; or, they might not. In any case, agencies could
arrange with the new Corporation for National Service to
supervise the allocation of funds, operation of programs, or
provision of educational awards.
(2) Federal agencies can ask the Corporation to fund their
service initiatives. A small but significant amount of the
Corporation's funding will be available to Federal agencies
on a competitive basis. Because this funding is limited,
agencies should probably expect to use the Corporation's
funding to get new initiatives started -- not to fund them
on a continuing basis.
(3) Agencies not wanting funds will have an important role in
informing their grantees about national service and
encouraging them to apply. The universe of national service
providers needs to expand in order for the program to be a
success. Many of the nonprofit organizations and local and
state governments with which agencies work can become
involved in the national service initiative.
(4) The Corporation for National Service will likely rely on
agencies for advice and assistance in determining national
priorities for service in particular areas (looking, for
example, to Justice for a sense of priority public safety
areas, and Education for priority education areas)
The Corporation will need continuing help in designing
quality criteria and general program guidelines in the
different fields.
SERVICES
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THE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
HEALTH
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Washington, D.C. 20201
June 25, 1993
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Lou Enoff
Olivia Golden
Phil Lee
Terry Lewis
Fernando Torres-Gil
FROM:
Peter Edelman
SUBJECT: Next Steps in Defining HHS Role in National Service
I want to clarify the next steps in our process of defining
HHS' role in the President's National Service initiative which we
agreed to at our June 10 meeting. I am addressing this memo to
those who agreed to take on specific follow-up tasks (for which,
thank you), and "cc"ing the others who were at the meeting, or were
invited and could not attend, or have an interest. I welcome
suggestions from anyone who reads this.
Last week, both houses of Congress marked up the President's
National Service legislation and reported it to the floor. A vote
in the House should be held quite soon, perhaps in the next week,
and a Senate vote is likely to occur before the August recess.
This rapid progress means that we need to move quickly in exploring
and clarifying HHS involvement in National Service.
As you know, the legislation requires service opportunities
in four broad areas, one of which is "human needs." A working
group has been formed to develop service options in each area, and
I am chairing the human needs group. Although this component will
include some efforts which do not implicate HHS, many of the
potential "human needs" projects involve services funded or
provided by HHS. Thus, your ideas will inform the development of
guidelines for projects in this area which are funded by the
Corporation on National Service, as well as providing an outline
for HHS participation.
As I explained at our meeting, our participation could take
several forms. One option, the least likely as a practical matter,
would be for HHS to fund one or more major service initiatives such
as a Health for America Corps. Second, the Corporation on National
Service also is to have some funds which it can allocate to the
agencies, and thus could assist in funding an HHS initiative.
Third, the Corporation or individual state mini-Commissions could
fund initiatives carried out by private groups, but developed with
the help of HHS.
At our June 10 meeting, each of you agreed to consider service
options in the following program areas:
Lou Enoff and
Elderly; disabled (specifically, home
Fernando Torres-Gil
care and assistance for disabled,
elderly, and HIV+ populations)
Olivia Golden
Early childhood (specifically, Head
Start corps and child care
assistance) ; volunteer opportunities
related to youth (youth as both
recipients and providers of service)
Phil Lee
Health (specifically, health outreach
corps, adolescent health issues,
school-based clinics, immunization)
Terry Lewis
Troubled youth; runaway youth
(Also OGC: displacement; confidentiality; liability for
volunteers)
As you assemble your thoughts, it seems to me there are
several issues to consider:
1. Which, if any, HHS program areas are candidates for a
significant HHS initiative of our own (i.e., one that costs
money) Ken Apfel reminded us that we need to keep this
category confined to a very few, if any. A Health for America
Corps (health outreach workers attached to community health
centers) and a Head Start/Early Childhood Corps seem the most
likely; working with the elderly, the disabled, and troubled
youth seem possible.
2.
Which areas make sense for service initiatives that will be
pursued by outside groups? This is presumably the same as the
list just above. How would the service roles be configured
in any given area? What age (or mix of ages) should servers
be and what credentials should they have? Who are potential
applicant organizations? Can we begin to describe training
and TA needs? How many volunteers could be used nationwide
in a given area? By each individual receiving organization?
3. Who are key constituents (e.g., state and local officials,
non-profits, foundations, and service providers) who could
advise us during the planning process?
4.
In what ways could we expand "casual" (i.e., non full-time)
service components in existing HHS programs?
5.
What new opportunities for HHS employee volunteerism exist?
6.
Where could we form effective partnerships with other
departments on service projects?
7.
Also, I need suggestions for people, inside and outside
government, to serve on my working group on human needs.
These need to be people who cut across the spectrum of human
needs and are senior enough and knowledgeable enough to
convene meetings, or otherwise be in touch with constituency
groups in their area of expertise. Can I get thoughts from
anyone who reads this?
Our intent was to meet again within the next month. Thus, I
would appreciate it if each of you could develop your thinking on
these issues by early July, so that we can circulate some specific
recommendations before we talk again as a group.
Can I receive your materials by July 12? We'll be in touch
to schedule another meeting to occur a few days thereafter. Thanks
for your enthusiasm and assistance.
cc: The Secretary
The Deputy Secretary
Ken Apfel
Mary Jo Bane
Jerry Britten
David Ellwood
Nan Hunter
Jerry Klepner
Sarah Kovner
Avis LaVelle
Kim Parker
Wendell Primus
Rich Tarplin
Kevin Thurm
Bruce Vladeck
Cheryl Austine
Marilyn Gaston
Doug Klafehn
Ann Segal
FOLLOW-UP AGENDA FOR NATIONAL SERVICE INTERAGENCY GROUP
1. Help develop agenda for issue-specific outreach to implement the
forthcoming national service legislation:
-- Identify constituency groups to be contacted which can in turn
reach others to encourage organizational applications for national
service slots;
-- Identify individuals inside and outside the government who can
help in the process of contacting and meeting with constituencies,
help to create ideas for service roles and the organization of
service roles, and advise about training and technical assistance;
-- Develop ideas for service roles connected with agency programs
and areas of responsibility, to be shared with outside
constituencies who may apply for national service funds;
-- Suggest agenda items for issue-specific working groups,
including cross-cutting issues like ways to assure diversity; and
-- Suggest challenges the President can make to different sectors
in the society, e.g., schools, businesses, religious groups, to
involve themselves more extensively in service.
2. Begin (or continue) brainstorming within departments and
agencies as to their own role in national service, bearing in mind
the FY 95 budget cycle for any ideas that require new money:
-- Plan for new ideas for service or expansion of existing service
programs within the various departments. The same substantive idea
could take any of three forms:
O A new idea for an agency's own programs, to be funded
out of the agency's own budget;
o Planning for the federal agency competition portion of
the national service legislation, including any technical
assistance the agency needs from the Office for National
Service or the new Corporation on National Service; or
o Ideas that can be shared with constituency groups
which might then apply to States and/or the new
Corporation for funding.
-- Develop ways to incorporate an array of service activities into
current programs that merit inclusion of a service component;
-- Develop ideas for connecting existing service programs more
integrally with the broader national service initiative; and
-- Develop additional and expanded opportunities for employee
volunteer activities.
Inter-Departmental Working Group for
National Service
Action:
William Henry (Hank) Oltman
Phone: (202) 606-4921
Fax:
(202) 606-4921
Agriculture:
Joel Berg
Phone: (202) 720-4623
Fax:
(202) 720-5043
Council of Economic Advisers:
Jonathan Wiener
Phone: (202) 456-5012
Commission on National and Community
Melinda Hudson
Phone: (202) 724-0600
Fax:
(202) 724-0608
Commerce:
Melissa Moss
Phone: (202) 482-4625
Defense:
Amy Hickox
Phone: (703) 695-5261
Debbie Lee
Domestic Policy Council:
Shirley Sagawa
Phone: (202) 456-2369
Education:
Terry Peterson
Phone: (202) 401-3414
Madeleine Kunin
Phone: (202) 401-1000
Energy:
Romulo Diaz
Phone: (202) 586-6210
Anne Elliot
Phone: (202) 586-1400
Fax:
(202)586-6828
EPA:
Allison Rainey
Phone: (202) 260-7960
Fax:
(202)260-0835
HHS:
Peter Edelman
Phone: (202) 690-8157
Fax:
(202) 690-7595
Caitlin Halligan
Phone: (202) 690-6625
HUD:
Andrew Cuomo
Phone: (202) 708-2690
Interior:
Bonnie Cohen
Mike Sweeny
Phone: (202) 208-7551
Fax:
(202) 208-4561
Justice:
L.D. Acheson
Phone: (202) 514-2107
Fax:
(202) 514-1724
Labor:
Isaac Shapiro
Phone: (202) 219-8271
Transportation:
Tim Beltz
Phone: (202) 366-1111
Treasury:
George Munez
Phone: (202)622-0410
Veterans Affairs:
R. John Vogel
Phone: (202)535-7920