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Delta Service Corps
New Jersey Youth Corps of Newark
Denver Urban Conservation Corps
Northwest Youth Corps
Donnelly College Urban Youth Corps
Ohio Civilian Conservation Corps
Durham Service Corps
Oregon Youth Conservation Corps
East baton Rouge Urban Corps
Orlando Urban Service Corps
El Paso SELF
Peach State Service Corps
Florida Conservation Corps
Pennsylvania Conservation Corps
Fort Lauderdale Conservation Corps
Pennsylvania Service Corps
Greater Atlanta Conservation Corps
Pennsylvania Summer Youth Service Corps
Greater Miami Service Corps
Philadelphia Ranger Corps
Health Care Volunteers
Philadelphia Youth Service Corps
Iowa Conservation Corps
Region C Service Corps
Kansas City Urban Youth Corps
Sacramento local Conservation Corps
Kickapoo Tribal Nation
San Francisco Conservation Corps
Lane-Metro Youth Corps
San Jose Conservation Corps
Lehigh Valley Youth Service Corps
Seattle Conservation Corps
Maine Conservation Corps
Seneca Nation Language Link Service Project
Marin Conservation Corps
Service Corps of Rochester
Maryland Conservation Corps
Southeast Alaska Guidance Association
McKeesport Youth Service Corps
STEP Youth Corps
Michigan Community Service Commission
Student Conservation Association
Milwaukee Community Service Corps
Suffolk County Conservation Corps
Minnesota Conservation Corps
Topeka Project
Montana Conservation Corps
Urban Conservation Corps of the Palm Beaches
Montgomery County Conservation Corps
Urban Corps of San Diego
Nevada Business Services Youth Corps
Urban Conservation Corps
New Hampshire Conservation Corps
Urban Schools Service Corps
New Jersey Youth Corps
USDA Forest Service Youth Conservation Corps
Vermont Youth Conservation Corps
Volunteer Maryland
Washington Conservation Corps
Washington County Conservation Corps
Washington Service Corps
West Virginia Citizen's Conservation Corps
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Service Corps
Wisconsin Conservation Corps
Wisconsin Service Corps
Year Round Syracuse Corporation
Youth Energy Corps
Youth Resources Development Corp.
Youth Volunteer Corps of America
YouthBuild USA
Billie Ann Meyers
PO Box 1437 Slot 1300
Donaghey Building - Suite 1300
Little Rock, AR 72203-1437
510-682-7540
510-682-6571 fax
CITY YEAR
The ever popular CITY YEAR is probably the best known example of youth corps. It was
created in 1988 and has been the model for several other spin off programs including the DC
Service Corps in Washington DC and Civic Works in Baltimore. City Year is known for its
diverse racial, gender and socioeconomic members who range in age from 16 to 23. Like
other youth corps members receive educational benefits, stipends and a post-service benefit
of $5,000 which is used for educational or job pursuits. Until 1992, City Year was funded
solely by corporate and private donations.
Sixty five percent of the projects City Year is involved with are related to human services.
The remaining effort is divided between housing renovation, and conservation and natural
resource management.
Recently the program "Older Kids Helping Younger Kids" served 2,500 school children
between the ages of 6 and 12 in spring camps and after school programs. Areas of
concentration are violence prevention, community service curriculums, and a hunger
education/food drive.
Michael Brown & Alan Khazei
Co-Directors
11 Stillings Street
Boston, MA 02210
617-451-0699
617-695-0562 fax
WISCONSIN CONSERVATION CORPS (WCC)
A traditional youth corps is the best way to describe the state run WCC. Conservation and
Natural Resource Management constitutes a majority of the corps work although they are
also involved Wisconsin's urban areas. Fifty-three crews made up of between six and nine
members work around the state on projects ranging from trail construction to fish and
wildlife habitat improvement. Created in 1983, the WCC has worked to improve over 350
sites through the service of over 4,000 youth.
The February 93 issue of On Corps!, the monthly newsletter of the WCC, outlines the work
done by the WCC during the Wautoma area tornado in the summer of '92. Crew members
were mobilized and ready to go even before the official request was made. Over 2,600 hours
of service were compiled by nine WCC crews. This was just 1 of 31 occasions where crews
assisted with disaster relief in 1992.
Topf Wells
Executive Director
30 West Mifflin Street #406
Madison, WI 53703-2558
608-266-7730
608-258-4407
YOUTHBUILD USA
Young recruits for YOUTHBUILD come from a background of "poverty and
powerlessness". This national program based in Boston, strives to put the individuals on
track for a more productive future through service to their communities. While involved, the
members primary activities consist of 1) building houses for homeless and low income people
and 2) academic and job skills training and counseling on an alternating work week schedule.
The program lasts one year before the members move on to higher education or construction
related jobs.
There are thirteen components to the youthbuild program that include worksite training,
cognitive skills development to prepare students for the GED, leadership development,
counseling, job placement, and even drivers education training.
Dorothy Stoneman
Executive Director
58 Day Street, 3rd Floor
West Somerville, MA 02144-2800
617-623-9900
617-623-4331 fax
Cities where you can find a YOUTHBUILD program:
Boston MA
Cleveland, OH
Gary, IN
San Francisco, CA
Tallahassee, FL
Atlantic City, NJ
Gretna, FL
Indianapolis, IN
Milwaukee, WI
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
St. Louis, MO
New York, NY
Other state and local Youth Corps:
City Volunteer Corps, Inc.
Albany Service Corps
City Year, Inc.
Arizona Conservation Corps
Civic Works
California Conservation Corps
Colorado Youth Corps
Chatham-Savannah Youth Service Corps
Conservation Corps of Long Beach
Cheektowaga Conservation Corps
Dallas Youth Services Corps
opportunity for youth; 2) implement a more comprehensive program of education and work-
experience training; 3) strengthen and expand youth leadership and 4) increase the presence
and effectiveness of the LACC in working with local community interests and organizations.
Grant total from CNCS is one million dollars.
Three new Commission funded major projects have been developed:
Urban Greening Project In november a project director and corps members were
set into place to supplement existing urban tree planning operations. The members of the
core (coordinating with neighborhood groups) spend alternating weeks on-site and in class.
Tests of this type of approach have shown "marked improvement in the educational gains of
members."
Human Service Delivery Project Corp members, staff and volunteers from
Constitutional Rights Foundation's neighborhood action teams address the issues of civil
disturbances and work to foster better multi-cultural understanding. Currently they are
working on the Neighbor to Neighbor which educates the community about 2 trials related to
the spring '92 disturbances.
Youth Build Project The LACC and Youthbuild (described later) have committed to
work together on construction training and field work for 15 to 18 corps members. This
project is scheduled to begin in April of 1993. The LACC has secured a satellite spot in East
Los Angeles where the project will be implemented.
Martha Diepenbrock
Executive Director
PO Box 15868
Los Angeles, CA 90015
213-749-3601
213-749-3331 fax
DELTA SERVICE CORPS
What makes the Delta Service Corps unique is its three bridge building characteristics.
First, Delta Service Corps is the only community service corps in the country that expands
beyond the borders of a single state; it is a partnership of Arkansas, Louisiana, and
Mississippi. Second, it is multi-generational. Corpsmembers range from age 17 to retirees.
Third, the Delta Service Corps is diverse, composed of men and women from all
backgrounds and all regions of the three states.
Delta Service Corps members will expand the services of existing public and not-for-profit
organizations in the areas of education, the environment, health care, public safety and
human services. For example, a Delta Service Corps member may work with the project
Read to reach adult literacy classes, with habitat for Humanity to rehabilitate homes, or with
an after school program tutoring at-risk youth.
K-12
During grade school years, Service Learning is the catch phrase for community service
initiatives. The idea is to instill a spirit of helping others while a person is still young. This
is done by requiring service projects as part of classroom learning. While the idea seems
simple enough, some critics question its validity - Why try to add another requirement to an
already overcrowded school day? The answer is not to add another program, but combine
the service with the existing curriculum. An example: students adopt senior citizens as
grandparents - related topics of study and discussion could include life expectancy, social
programs, disease and medical technology, and problems of the aging population.
Unfortunately not many states have implemented service learning into their curriculum.
Unless the right person is part of the decision process on a state level, the responsibility lies
on individual school districts and teachers. Eight "Leader States" have been named by the
Commission of National and Community Service, they are: Colorado, Washington DC,
Maryland, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, and West Virginia. Some
model programs are described below.
COLORADO
Elaine Andrus, as Susan Stroud says, is the right person in the right place and this makes all
the difference. While working at the Colorado Department of Education, she has proposed a
statewide service initiative that is not only implemented with the K-12 stream, but integrates
community service in higher education, youth and conservation corps, government agencies
and non profit organizations. Through five regional action teams, one could go to a database
of service activities and match their interests and talents with the right service opportunities.
These regional action teams are part of Serve America which is funded by the Commission
on National and Community Service.
Elaine Andrus
Colorado Department of Education
State Office Building
201 E. Colfax
Denver, CO 80203
303-866-6897
303-830-0793 fax
MINNESOTA
Backed by a strong support on the state level, Minnesota has a model K-12 program. The
Commission on National and Community Service has designated Minnesota as a "Leader
State" and as a result of the funding package there were 23 K-12 grantees in 1992. With
funding from community education, there has been a significant increase in the amount of
school districts offering credit to students for youth service. On the high school level the
number has tripled in the past two years. Overall, 325 of 399 districts offer credit.
Jim Kielsmeier, Director
National Youth Leadership Council
1910 West County Road B
St. Paul, Minnesota 55113
612-631-3672
612-631-2955 fax
WASHINGTON
Washington is an example of a state where no requirement has been set by the state, but
there are many great service learning projects on a district by district basis. The individual
districts often require service hours as a part of graduation. At the Centralia School District,
students must complete 5 hours of service in grades 9-12 as part of the social studies
curriculum. Over 2,000 teachers have been trained through workshops since 1988. Five
other campuses have expressed an interest in what Seattle University and Washington State
University have done already - incorporated a program of service learning to teach in their
pre-service education programs.
Date McPherson, Director
Project Service Leadership
2810 Comanche Drive
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
206-428-7614
206-428-7619 Fax
HIGHER EDUCATION
In the past eight years an enormous number of community service programs have
been established on university campuses that involve hundreds of thousands of college
students in significant part-time service (often full time during summers with some financial
support from the colleges). These programs have grown up on all kinds of campuses-
community colleges, private universities, large public universities, and small liberal arts
colleges. There are multiple programs on each campus. The programs described at each
school are only one program that exists at that campus. All of them require a significant
commitment of time from students as opposed to one time efforts like blood drives of
Thanksgiving food baskets. many of the programs focus on the needs of younger children.
Students are often supported with college work study funds and/or funds raised from local
and private sources.
Two organizations were established in 1985 and have provided leadership for higher
education in driving the community service movement -Campus Compact (a coalition of 325
college and university presidents) and Campus Outreach Opportunity League (works with
students on compass across the country). Contacts: Campus Contact, Nancy Rhodes, Acting
Director, 401-863-1119; COOL, Kristen Parrish, Director, 612-624-3018. A list of Campus
Compact members is attached.
BROWN
For the last six years, the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service has worked closely
with the Rhode Island community to develop programs addressing community needs. The
philosophy of the programs is: 1) students can have challenging educational experiences
while working with communities to address real needs; and 2) real needs can be addressed
and occasionally solved by students and community members working together.
Emphasizing projects where Brown students work with children and adults in literacy and
English as a Second Language programs, the Adult Academy works with and operates
community-based programs, including:
Deaf Literacy - With a part time coordinator and 7 teachers, the deaf literacy helped
36 learners in '91-92 with 100% expressed interest of continuing.
Spanish Literacy - Coordinating with English as a Second Language programs to
teach english in the Spanish-speaking communities of Central Falls.
Mentoring projects are also a big part of the Swearer Center for Public Service. Brown
students are matched one-to-one with "at-risk" kids in local elementary and middle schools.
Another project that has been running for seven years is the South Bronx Summer Project,
which has served the youth of Hunts Point through employment, recreation and mentoring
programs.
MARICOPA
As part of a community college education, the Center for Public Policy and Service at Mesa
Community College, a Maricopa College, seeks to instill a sense of civic responsibility as
central to the students experience.
A student can get involved in several ways that are provided by the center - government
office internships, civic organizations, and neighborhood and citizen advocacy groups.
OHIO WESLEYAN
David Warren, the president of Ohio Wesleyan University, is so committed to community
service that he strongly encourages not only students, but also staff and faculty to get
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SERVE
AMERICA
COMMISSION
CNCS
SERVICE
Serve! America
ON
NATIONAL
COMMUNITY
AND
The Newsletter of the
Commission on National and Community Service
Volume II, No.2
Special Edition - March 1993
Summer of Service
Application Deadline April 1
In a spirited speech on the anniver-
run by partnerships be-
sary of the founding of the Peace
tween institutions of higher
Corps, President Clinton unveiled
education and non-profit
his plan for national service and chal-
organizations. Programs
lenged the nation's youth to answer
will be selected in a com-
his call "to change America for ever
petitive process described
and for the better." Evoking the ide-
in the enclosed application.
alism and commitment of Roosevelt's
The summer program will
Civilian Conservation Corps,
be nine-and-a-half weeks
Truman's GI Bill, Johnson's VISTA
long and will include na-
program, and Kennedy's Peace
tional service and leader-
Corps, President Clinton urged
ship training for staff and
Americans to begin now "to change
participants, at least eight
our country block by block, neigh-
weeks of service, and a clos-
borhood by neighborhood."
ing summit with the Presi-
UNITED
The President outlined two ele-
dent. Summer of Service
ments of his vision of national ser-
participants will receive a
vice. The first is an immediate national
minimum wage stipend
service initiative to engage young
and a $1,000 post-service
President Clinton: "Make this summer a Summer
people in meeting critical community
benefit to be used for edu-
of Service when young people can not only serve
needs - a Summer of Service.
cation and training.
their communities, but build a foundation for a
The Summer of Service will in-
The second aspect of
new national effort."
volve more than 1,000 young people
President Clinton's national
(ages 17 to 25) in serving the educa-
service initiative is a reorientation of
movement, and to unleash the talents
tion, health, public safety and envi-
the nation's student loan program
and energies of young Americans.
ronmental needs of at-risk children
which would allow students to pay
The Commission on National and
in four to ten sites across the country.
off tuition debts by performing pub-
Community Service will select pro-
Summer of Service programs will be
lic service jobs such as assisting in the
grams to receive funding for the
schools, helping community police,
Summer of Service. But the support
and cleaning up the environment.
for national service does not end
In This Issue
The President has asked Congress
there. For those who wish to con-
to provide $15 million in the eco-
tinue serving at the end of the sum-
Excerpts from the
nomic stimulus package for the Sum-
mer, the Commission will assist par-
President's address
2
mer of Service program. Contingent
ticipants in finding year-round, full-
Applying for the
upon Congressional approval, this
time service placements. In addi-
Summer of Service
4
initiative will demonstrate the po-
tion, the Commission may award up
tential of national service to provide
to 25 Service Entrepreneurial Awards
Application Guidelines
tangible and measurable community
for Change to participants who want
and Notice of Availability
benefits, to develop leaders for the
to develop innovative year-round
of Funds
Insert
national and community service
service projects.
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BRIEFING BOOK
YOUTH CORPS
Present day youth corps stem from the older Civilian
Conservation Corps idea. In the 1970's, the youth corps idea was
revived in California and has now spread to 27 states with
fulltine part time
approximately 75 corps enrolling 25,000 young people. Most of
the early corps focused their efforts on conservation work;
increasingly corps are being formed for inner-city moride
human
Corps differ in many ways, but they also share some common
elements. Young people are engaged full-time, either for a summer
or a year, in providing service to their communities and
improving their academic skills through classroom education. In
return, they receive living allowances and may earn scholarships.
Stipends range from $100-$200 a week and post-service
scholarships range from $1,000-$5,000 per year of service. Corps
members are organized into teams and are supervised by a crew
leader. Afway Some programs The are residential. Many of The year round corps summer also run
Youth corps are linked together by the National Association
programs
of Service and Conservation Corps - NASCC, whose primary mission
say,
is to strengthen the quality of existing corps and promote the
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Martha Dipenbrock. The corps goals are to 1) expand in order to
else
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total budget? *
presence and effectiveness of the LACC in working with local
community interests and organizations.
etc.
Grant total from CNCS is one million dollars.
4,880,000
Three new Commission funded major projects have been developed:
with funding
80-100FT
from The
1986 PT
Urban Greening Project In november a project director and
Commission
corps members were set into place to supplement existing urban
tree planning operations. The members of the core (coordinating
with neighborhood groups) spend alternating weeks on-site and in
class. Tests of this type of approach have shown "marked
improvement in the educational gains of members."
Human Service Delivery Project Corp members, staff and
volunteers from Constitutional Rights Foundation's neighborhood
action teams address the issues of civil disturbances and work to
foster better multi-cultural understanding. Currently they are
working on the Neighbor to Neighbor which educates the community
about 2 trials related to the spring ' 92 disturbances.
Youth Build Project The LACC and Youthbuild have committed
to work together on construction training and field work for 15
to 18 corps members. This project is scheduled to begin in April
of 1993. The LACC has secured a satellite spot in East Los
Angeles where the project will be implemented.
Martha Diepenbrock
Executive Director
PO BOX 15868
Los Angeles, CA 90015
213-749-3601
213-749-3331 fax
DELTA SERVICE CORPS
What makes the Delta Service Corps unique is its three bridge
building characteristics. First, Delta Service Corps is the only
community service corps in the country that expands beyond the
borders of a single state; it is a partnership of Arkansas,
Louisiana, and Mississippi. Second, it is multi-generational.
Corpsmembers range from age 17 to retirees. Third, the Delta
Service Corps is diverse, composed of men and women from all
backgrounds and all regions of the three states.
Delta Service Corps members will expand the services of existing
public and not-for-profit organizations in the areas of
education, the environment, health care, public safety and human
services. For example, a Delta Service Corps member may work
with the project Read to reach adult literacy classes, with
habitat for Humanity to rehabilitate homes, or with an after
school program tutoring at-risk youth.
name
ADO ADDRESS
CITY YEAR
The ever popular CITY YEAR is probably the best known example of A
youth corps if not the best known example of any type of domostic,
community service program. It was established in 1988 and has
been the model for several other spin off programs, including the
DC Service Corps in Washington DC and Civic Works in Baltimore.
City Year is known for its diverse racial, gender and
socioeconomic members who range in age from 16 to 23. Like other
youth corps members receive educational benefits, stipends and a
post-service benefit of $5,000 which is used for educational or
job pursuits. Until 1992, City Year was funded solely by corporate
and private donations.
Sixty five percent of the projects City Year is involved with are
related to human services. The remaining effort is divided
between housing renovation, and conservation and Natural Resource
Management. *Recently the program "Older Kids Helping Younger
Kids" served 2,500 school children between the ages of 6 and 12
in spring camps and after school programs. Areas of
concentration are violence prevention, community service
curriculums, and a hunger education/food drive.
Michael Brown & Alan Khazei
Co-Directors
11 Stillings Street
Boston, MA 02210
617-451-0699
617-695-0562 fax
WISCONSIN CONSERVATION CORPS (WCC)
A traditional youth corps is the best way to describe the state
run WCC. Conservation and Natural Resource Management
constitutes a majority of the corps work although they are also
involved Wisconsin's urban areas. Fifty three crews made up of
between six and nine members work around the state on projects
ranging from trail construction to fish and wildlife habitat
improvement. Created in 1983, the WCC has worked to improve over
350 sites through the service of over 4,000 youth.
The February 93 issue of On Corps!, the monthly newsletter of the
WCC, outlines the work done by the WCC during the Wautoma area
tornado in the summer of '92. Crew members were mobilized and
ready to go before. even before the official request was made.
Over 2,600 hours of service was compiled by nine WCC crews. This
was just 1 of 31 occasions where crews assisted with disaster
relief in 1992.
Topf Wells
Executive Director
30 West Mifflin Street #406
Madison, WI 53703-2558
608-266-7730
608-258-4407
YOUTHBUILD USA
Young recruits for YOUTHBUILD come from a background of "poverty
and powerlessness This national program based in Boston,
strives to put the individuals on track for a more productive
future through service to their communities. While involved, the
members primary activities consist of 1) building houses for
homeless and low income people, and 2) academic and job skills
training and counseling on an alternating work week schedule. The
program lasts one year before the members move on to higher
education or constuction related jobs.
There are thirteen components to the youthbuild program that
include from worksite training, cognitive skills development to
prepare students for the GED, leadership development, counseling, end
job placement. and even drivers education training.
Dorothy Stoneman
Executive Director
58 Day Street, 3rd Floor
West Somerville, MA 02144-2800
617-623-9900
617-623-4331 fax
there me
Following is a list of cities c where you can find a YOUTHBUILD
program:
Boston MA
Cleveland, OH
Gary, IN
San Francisco, CA
Tallahassee, FL
Atlantic City, NJ
Gretna, FL
Indianapolis, IN
Milwaukee, WI
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
St. Louis, MO
New York, NY
Other state and local Youth Corps:
Albany Service Corps
Arizona Conservaiton Corps
California Conservation Corps
Chatham-Savannah Youth Service Corps
Cheektowaga Conservation Corps
City Volunteer Corps, Inc.
City Year, Inc.
Conservation Corps of Long Beach
Dallas Youth Services Corps
DC Serv' Corps
Durham Service Corps
East baton Rouge Urban Corps
Florida Conservation Corps
Fort Lauderdale Conservaion Corps
Greater Miami Servie Corps
Iowa ConservationCorps
Kansas City Yrban Youth Corps
Lane-Metro Youth Corps
Legigh Valley Youth Service Corps
Maine Conservation Corps
Marin Conservation Corps
Maryland Conservation Corps
McKeesport Yout Service Corps
Milwaukee Community Service Corps
Minnesota Conservation Corps
Montana Conservation Corps
Montgomery County Conservation Corps
Nevada Business Services Youth Corps
New Hampshire Conservation Corps
New Jersey Youth Corps
New Jersey Youth Corps of Newark
Northwest Yout Corps
Ohio Civilian ConservationCorps
Oregon Youth Conservation Corps
Pennsylvannia Conservation Corps
Pennsylvannia Summer Youth Service Corps
AOD APPENDX B.
Philadelphia Ranger Corps
Philadelpia Youth Service Corps
Region C Service Corps
Sacramento local Conservation Corps
San Francisco Conservation Corps
San Jose Conservation Corps
Seattle Conservation Corps
Service Corps of Fochester
STEP Youth Corps
Student Conservation Association
Urban Conservationcorps of the Palm Beaches
Urban Corps of San Diego
Urban Conservation Corps
USDA Forest Service Youth Conservation Corps
Vermont Youth Conservation Corps
Washington Conservation Corps
Washington County Conservation Corps
Washington Service Corps
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Service Corps
Wisconsin Conservaion Corps
Wisconsin Service Corps
Youth Energy Corps
Youth Volunteer Corps of America
YouthBuild USA
separate page
K-12
During grade school years, Service Learning is the catch phrase
for community service initiatives. The idea is to instill a
BY
spirit of helping others while a person is still young.
requiring service projects as part of classroom learning. While
the idea seems simple enough, some CRITICS question its validity - Why
this needs
try to add another requirement to an already overcrowded school
day? The answer is not to add another program, but combine the
to be to be
service with the existing curriculum. An example: students adopt
? with
senior citizens as grandparents - related topics of study and
discuss on could include life expectancy, social programs,
disease and medical technology, and problems of the aging
population.
Unfortunately not many states have implemented service learning
into their curriculum. Unless the right person is part of the
decision process on a state level, the responsibility lies on
individual school districts and teachers. Some model programs
are listed below.
COLORADO
THIS
MAKES
ALL
THE
DIFFERENCE.
Elaine Andrus / as Susan Stroud says, is the right person in the
right place, While working at the Colorado Department of
Education, she has proposed a statewide service initiative that
is not only implemented with the K-12 stream, but integrates
community service in higher education, youth and conservation
corps, goverment agencies and non profit organizations. Through
five regional action teams, one could go to a database of service
activities and match their interests and talents with the right
service opportunities THese regional action teams are part of
Serve America which is funded by the Commission on National and
Community Service.
Elaine Andrus
Colorado Department of Education
State Office Building
201 E. Colfax
Denver, CO 80203
303-866-6897
303-830-0793 fax
MINNESOTA
Backed by a strong support on the state level, Minnesota has a
model K-12 program. The Commission on National and Community
Service has designated Minnesota as a "Leader State" and as a
result of the funding package there were 23 K-12 grantees in
1992. With funding from community education, there has been a
significant increase in the amount of school districts offering
credit to students for youth service. On the high school level
the number has tripled in the past two years. Overall, 325 of 399
school
districts offer credit
options
servicelearning
Jim Kielsmeier, Director
National Youth Leadership Council
1910 West County Road B
St. Paul, Minnesota 55113
612-631-3672
612-631-2955 fax
WASHINGTON
Washington is an example of a state where no requirement has been
set by the state, but there are many great service learning
projects on a district by district basis. The individual
districts often require service hours as a part of graduation.
At the Centralia School District, students must complete 5 hours
of service in grades 9-12 as part of the social studies
curriculum. CA Over 2,000 teachers have been trained through
workshops since 1988. Five other campuses have expressed an
interest in what Seattle University and Washington State
University have done already - encorporated a program of service
learning to teach in their pre-service education programs.
Date McPherson, Director
Project Service Leadership
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2810 Comanche Drive
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
Co DC MD MN PA
206-428-7614
206-428-7619 Fax
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HIGHER EDUCATION
In the past eight years an enormous large number of community
service programs have been established on university campuses
that involve hundreds of thousands of college students in
significant part-time service (often full time during summers
with some financial support from the colleges). while they are
students. these programs have grown up on all kinds of campuses-
community colleges, private universities, large public
universities, and small liberal arts colleges. There are
multiple programs on each campus. The programs described at each
school are only one program that exists at that campus. All of
them require a significant commitment of time from students as
opposed to one time efforts like blood drives of Thanksgiving
food baskets.) many of the programs focus on the needs of younger
children. Students are often supported with college work study
funds and/or funds raised from local and private sources.
Two organizations were established in 1985 and have provided
the leadership for higher education in driving the community
service movement -Campus Compact (a coalition of 325 college and
university presidents) and Campus Outreach Opportunity League (
works with students on compass across the country). Contacts:
give
Campus Contact, Nancy Rhodes, Acting Director, 401-863-1119;
full
COOL, Kristen Parrish, Director, 612-624-3018.
address
phone
BROWN university (Rhode Island)
fax
For the last six years, the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public
Service has worked closely with the Rhode Island community to
develop programs addressing community needs. The philosophy of
the programs is:that' students can have challenging educat ional
experiences while working with communities to address real needs;
and that real needs can be addressed and occasionally solved by
students and community members working together.
The is the umbrella
Emphasizing projects where Brown students work with children and
for 9 liternalts in literacy and ESL programs, the Adult Academy works with
many es and operates community-based programs,
at The Togther
Deaf Literacy - with a part time coordinator and 7 teachers,
the deaf literacy helped 36 learners in '91-92 with 100%
expressed futhing interest of continuing.
involve 400 Brown and student anish
Literacy - coordinating with ESL programs to teach
english in the Spanish- speaking communities of Central
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another significant fours r
Mentoring projects are also a big part of the Swearer Center for
Public Service. Brown students are matched one-to-one with "at-
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risk" kids in local elementary and middle schools. Another
project that has been running for seven years is the South Bronx
Brown students
Summer Project, which has served the youth of Hunts Point through
as mentors.
employment, recreation and mentoring programs.
MARICOPA Community College (Arizona)
As part of a community college education, the Center for. Public
Policy and Service at Mesa Community College, ai Maricopa College,
system
seeks to instill a sense of civic responsibility as central to
the students experience A student can get involved in several
ways that are provided by the center - government office
internships, civic organizaitons, and neighborhood and citizen
advocacy groups.
OHIO WESLEYAN University (ohio)
JUST
David Warren, the president of Ohio Wesleyan University, is so
WOONDS,
BUT
committed to community service that he strongly encourages, staff
and faculty to get involved themselves. It is said that during
speeches, President Warren mentions service so often, that it is
impossible to keep an accurate count.
Two major initiatives fund service learning programs at this
small liberal arts school. The Fund for the Improvement of Post
Secondary Education (FIPSE) is a cooperative project where Ohio
Wesleyan students Ware trained as mentors to elementary, middle
and high school students enrolled at Columbus Public Schools.
The second initiative is the Ohio Board of Regents' Independent
College Challenge Grant which provides students with classroom
study and on site community field trips followed by a semester of
studying and serving a public agency of the students choice.
Wesleyan also provides e: tracurricular community service
opportunities, curricula : internships and professional field
placements for academic credit.
SPELMAN College (georgia)
At this historically black women's college the Office of
Community Service was established in 1989 to "fully integrate
service into every Spelman woman's education; to enlighten,
challenge and expand every Spelman woman's sense of social
consciousness and social responsibility by presenting her with
nontraditional service opportunities; to build leadership skills
by creating opportunities for students to serve as role models to
poor, disadvantaged children and teenagers in our community; to
encourage Spelman women to work together in their dormitories, in
the classrooms and n clubs and organizations on various short-and
log-term projects to foster a spirit of giving, sharing and a
renewed sense of sisterhood."
Each year Spelman holds a community service awards ceremony to
recognize "outstanding achievements in the participation and
coordination of community service programs and projects."
Moreover, the president of the college, Dr. Johnnetta Cole,
instituted an Outstanding Staff for Distinguished Service award
that is presented at the college's yearly awards and scholarship
convocation.
Families First is a community agency where Spelman students
volunteer to help pregnant and parenting adolescents. Service
includes leading workshops on pregnancy prevention, mentoring
adolescents, and providing infant and child stimulation for the
children of adolescents.
UNIVERSITY ,OCAL OF UTAH (4tah)
Named after a community service legend in Utah, the Lowell
Bennion Community Service Center attributes part of it's success
to its namesake. Celebrating it's fifth year of service to the
community, since it's inception In 1987, the volunteer base has
grown from 545 to 9,000 students in service for 1991-92. Created
by private donors, the purpose of the Bennion Center is to
"involve students in active, meaningful service to their
communities and to equip them with the skills, the interests, the
commitments, and the desire to become engaged in a lifetime of
service."
Through
Fifty-four student run programs are each directed by a University
of Utah student who is completely responsible for implementing,
planning, recruiting for and running) the project. A management-on
the-run-seminar given by the Bennion Center helps prepare the
student directors for the task. Current projects that are part
of this program include: elementary school child mentoring; an
environmental action team; public interest advocacy, befriending
the elderly, and a Utah Navajo development project.
separate page
OTHER - Post College Programs
At this point there are relatively few post-college one year
service programs. Many college graduates interested in public
Jesuit
service pursue opportunities with VISTA, Peace Corps, Teach for
Volunteer
America, or fellowship programs that would support them for a
yearyin public service work. The fellowship programs are usually
corps,
small and often restricted to graduates of the colleges and
Latheran universities that organize the program, eg Gardner Fellowships
Vohnteer are limited to graduates of Stanford and UC/Berkeley.
corps
Federal programs such as Teacher Corps and Public Service
Health Corps enroll only a very small number of students.
VISTA
Created in 1956, VISTA has changed with the times just as all
peak # 5500?
cavently # 3300?
political agencies have change -from administration to
administration. During the Regan years volunteers had to be
recruited from the same communitiy they were to serve. Yet, the
basic premise has remained - to give Americans (not always all
types) the opportunity to volunteer for one year in a low income
community. It is more likely that a VISTA volunteer will work to
solve the underlying problem rather than just rectify the current
situation. This old adage springs to mind - Give a man a fish
and he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he will eat
forever.
Activities performed are overwhelmingly related to literacy, but
also include employment, housing/shelter, health, and economic
development. Volunteers are recruited locally by action and
nationally by ACTION. Project sponsors are organized on a local
level and along with the volunteers, must be aproved by ACTION.
During service volunteers recieve health care and a salary of
105% of the poverty level for a single person. The average length
of service is 18 months, at which time volunteers receive a $95
per month stipend. Although eligible for partial cancellation of
perkins loans, only 22% of VISTA's are recent college graduates.
The average age of a volunteer is 40.
How VISTA differs from our proposed national service plan?
Probably the most asked question by an interested constituent,
savvy to community service programs.
1) Volunteers are of all ages, roughly 1 of 5 are over 55.
2) VISTA is not a higher education progam. Only 22% are recent
college graduates.
2) VISTA post service stipends can be used for anything the
volunteer wishes.
name 3) There are only about 3,400 assigned volunteers.
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TEACH FOR AMERICA
at
In June of 1989 Mobil Corporation rovided a grant of $26,000 for
the development of an then thesis idea. With donated manhattan
office space Teach For America had begun its crusade to provide
every american child an "equal opportunity for a quality
education.
Recent
Volunteers are and required to give a two year commitment to teaching
made
a
college
in the most under-resourced schools in the country. Teach For
graduates
America alumni not only become education advocates, but serve as
a positive role model for teaching to college students and the
public at large.
The recruitment process reaches over 150 colleges and
universities to most diverse and exceptional group of
recent graduates. Volunteers are placed in Baltimore, Houston,
Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland, and
Wahsingron, DC, and in rural areas in Arkansas, Georgia,
Louisiana, North Carolina, and Texas. Training begins with a 6
week pre-service institute and continues throughout the two years
of service with workshops and conferences.
name advers etc.
PEACE CORPS
On March 1, 1961 John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order
creating the Peace Corps as an agency to be funded and operated
within the State Department. We should all be reasured that the
the original task force headed by Sargeant Shriver ( by the way,
am I the only one who thought Sargeant was a title instead of a
first name? ) had difficulty handling all of the mail and phone
calls.
Congress established the Peace Corps Act September 22, 1961 to
promote world peace and friendship by making Americans available
to serve in interested countries. Their mission would be to : 1)
Help the people of these countries meet needs for trained
manpower; 2) Help promote a better understanding of the American
people on the part of the peoples served. 3) romote a better
understanding of other peoples on the part of the American
people. The appropriation for the first fiscal year was $30
million.
The Peace Corp started small and currently has about 6,000
volunteers. In its height 16,000 volunteers served one year
period.
peak,
name etc.
JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS (JVC)
Founded in 1956 the JVC works to 'directly serve the poor in
America. The volunteers are college graduates that live in the
same conditions as the people that they serve. The mission of
the JVC is to always reming the volunteer of the conditions or
the poor and to promote "justice in service of the [Christian]
faith.
"
Local programs of the JVC have grown .0 include the entire United
States with 5 regional offices and 450 member volunteers. Over DURING
the 37 year history over 6,000 have served in 60 locations across
the country. Areas of service are broad and range from teaching
to working with persons with AIDS.
Volunteers to the JVC program undergo 5 different training
meetings throughout the year Suppport sets the program apart,
both on a programmatic and personal level.
name
address etc
past suvies benefit?
3 March 1993
TO:
Jina
FROM:
Susan
RE:
briefing book and database
1.
briefing book
Basically we want to put together a booklet in a soft binder that can be used as a reference
tool by all members of staff. The booklet is divided into four sections (with tabbed
dividers) - youth corps, service programs in schools (k-12), higher education, and an
other category. Each section will contain:
1. a very brief introduction to the "stream" of service; resource organizations,
contact names and phone numbers
2. profiles of 5-6 programs that reflect the diversity of programs in that "stream"
3. appendices that are useful to that section, eg on the youth corps section should
include a list of the 75 youth corps programs
What I had given Kate was an outline like this and 5-6 programs in each category to write
up. We can recreate that. I can help you with the introoductions, resource organizations,
selecting the programs to profile. The job is mostly pulling together information from
other sources. You'll learn a lot about programs and the key service organizations.
2.
database
We need to think through the database of programs. Is there such a database already at
the Commission? If so, how do we quickly access it? Can it be linked to computers
here? I don't think it will ever work if we hae to call them, ask them to search for info,
fax it to us. If we build our own database, we should be careful to decide what
information this office is most likely to need and only do that, eg programs by
congressional districts? programs by issue, eg housing, tutoring, health? by stream? by
city and state?
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The Newsletter of the
AND
Commission on National and Community Service
Volume II, No.1
January 1993
Citizens say 'yes' to national service
first report to Congress and the President on January 14.
The hearings showed the interest in national service
that has escalated since President-elect Clinton an-
nounced it would be a domestic priority. Throughout his
campaign, the President-elect talked about creating a
National Service Trust Fund for young people to pay
back federal college loans through public service.
"Linking national service to student aid is seen by the
public as a means to help millions of Americans afford
higher education, but people in the field view it as
something much larger," says Commission Executive
Director Catherine Milton. "They see the Trust as a way
to increase educational opportunities, but with the po-
tential to revitalize America, civic pride and responsibil-
ity among citizens."
Service advocates David Gaston and Billie Ann Myers
Clinton's transition team is considering options to
testify on the benefits of service to participants as well as
communities at the Commission's national hearings.
expand the President-elect's concept into a broader na-
tional service program. Transition officials participated
in the hearings as panel members, receiving testimony
T
estimony from hundreds of citizen experts on youth
and asking questions.
service reveals overwhelming support for wide-
The hearings took place in Minneapolis, Los Angeles
spread and multiple opportunities in national and
and Washington, D.C. - cities with considerable success
community service.
in engaging youth in community service through school,
The Commission held nationwide hearings last month to gather
college and youth corps programs.
grassroots testimony for recommendations to Congress on na-
tional and community service. The Commission will submit its
See Hearings Page 5
A National Service Model:
The Delta Service Corps
In This Issue
A retired farmer teaches unemployed
These public service providers are
Federal Focus
2
[
young people how to cultivate idle
a few of the first 90 members of the
Service News
3
land for their low-income commu-
Delta Service Corps, one of eight na-
nity. Just out of high school, a teen-
tional service demonstration pro-
Announcements
4
ager pursues a career in geriatrics by
grams that receive Commission sup-
Corps Members' Views
6
coordinating activities at a home for
port.
handicapped elderly. And a recent
The Delta Service Corps (DSC) is
Chair's Message
8
college graduate helps manage a lo-
part of an Arkansas, Louisiana and
Board News
9
cal nonprofit that is rebuilding af-
fordable housing.
See Delta Page 6