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Presidential Library Staff.
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Clinton Presidential Records
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National Service
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Rick Allen
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Urban
Corps
Expansion
Project
Suite 300
MEMORANDUM
399 Market Street
Philadelphia PA 19106
215/592/9099
fax 215/592/0069
TO:
Youth Corps Friends and Colleagues
A collaboration between:
FROM: Michael Bailin, President, Public/Private Ventures (P/PV)
Public/Private Ventures
Kathleen Selz, Executive Director, National Association of Service and
Michael A. Bailin
President
Conservation Corps (NASCC) to
The National
Association of Service
RE:
Enclosed Report from the Urban Corps Expansion Project
and Conservation Corps
Kathleen Selz
Executive Director
DATE: January 21, 1993
The Urban Corps Expansion Project, a collaboration of P/PV and NASCC, is
concluding its third year with new urban corps up and running in twelve cities--
Albany, Dallas, Durham, El Paso, Flint, Fort Lauderdale, Kansas City, Miami,
Milwaukee, Newark, Rochester and Savannah. On any given day, over 500 young
people in these cities are serving their communities and continuing their
educations. Now that program development is well underway, we will be moving
forward on the UCEP research agenda--the first comprehensive effort to assess
the urban corps intervention and help us understand how, why and for whom the
youth corps experience makes a difference.
To provide you with a brief picture of the UCEP corps' accomplishments, we are
pleased to enclose Good Practices in UCEP Corps: A Report from the UCEP '92
Conference. While it reflects the 1992 annual UCEP conference, the report is also
designed to share ideas about program practices implemented in UCEP corps
with practitioners, supporters and others interested in the development of service
and conservation corps.
We hope you and your colleagues find the report helpful, and we look forward to
hearing from you with any comments or questions.
Clinton Presidential Records
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A Report
Good Practices
from the
UCEP '92
In UCEP Corps
Conference:
Strengthening
The Urban Corps Expansion Project, designed to test the conviction that youth corps
the Corps
are among the most promising interventions for out-of-school young adults, empha-
sizes the values that have traditionally separated conservation and service corps
Community
from other youth employment and training programs. These include service to the
larger community and a sense of internal community with which corpsmembers
identify and which they use as a base for personal growth. UCEP corps, in addition,
are distinguished from many earlier corps by the emphasis they place on using the
corps environment as the basis for rich educational experiences for corpsmembers,
particularly in integrated work and learning.
The UCEP model includes goals and standards related to these values and a frame-
work that promotes the good practices that can help corps achieve those goals. One
aim of the UCEP '92 Conference: Strengthening the Corps Community, held in Sa-
vannah June 10 to 13, 1992, was to explore some ways this model has taken tangible
shape among the 12 UCEP corps. How, for example, are corps building a sense of
community among the youth in their programs? What strategies are they using to in-
crease the likelihood that corpsmembers will internalize the service ethic and benefit
from doing so? What practices have they implemented that build on the principles of
Practical Education for Citizenship and Employment (PECE)?
Although young-some are still less than a year old-UCEP corps have, in fact, al-
ready developed a number of innovative strategies and good practices. These prac-
tices have evolved in a variety of ways. Some happen because of the concerns and
initiative of a single staff member. Others are one-time activities that occur when a
corps creates or takes advantage of an opportunity. Still others are designed into the
ongoing corps programs.
This report looks at UCEP corps' approaches and practices in four key areas-the
corps as a community, the service ethic, practical education and preparing for life
after the corps. Its aim is to share ideas: in many cases, what has been effective in
one corps can be successfully translated to the particular circumstances of other
corps.
Much of the material presented here was gathered at the UCEP '92 Conference, and
that material was supplemented by reports from site visits by UCEP staff and follow-
up conversations with corps staff. There is also material from two non-UCEP corps
whose staff attended the conference and shared information about some of their pro-
grammatic practices.
Corps programs are constantly evolving, and some of the practices outlined here
The Urban Corps Expansion
will have been modified since this information was collected. More details about
Project
any of these practices are available from the appropriate corps. Their addresses and
399 Market Street, Suite 300
Philadelphia, PA 19106
phone numbers are listed at the end of the report.
215-592-9099/ 215-592-0069 fax
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CONSERVATION
AND SERVICE CORPS
PROFILES
Spring 1991
National Association of Service
and Conservation Corps
Clinton Presidential Records
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YOUTHCAN!
The Newsletter of the National Association of Service & Conservation Corps
Volume III
December 1992
Issue 4
Crew from conference
work project in Balboa
Park, San Diego
Corps Converge in San Diego for NASCC Conference
Approximately 290 corpsmembers, corps staff and other youth conservation and
service corps advocates gathered in San Diego on October 21-24 for the Seventh Annual
NASCC Conference. The four day conference, hosted by Sam Duran and the Urban
Corps of San Diego, featured the third annual Corpsmember Development Institute
(CDI).
The Honorable Paul
This year the CDI, coordinated by Luis Acosta, was planned by NASCC's
McCloskey, Jr.
Corpsmember Council Steering Committee, comprised of six current and former
addresses NASCC
corpsmembers from across the country, along with four members from the host corps.
conferees
A "Leadership - Some Key Ingredients" workshop was facilitated by Jan Hoffman,
Pennsylvania Conservation Corps and Jim Klasen, Public/Private Ventures. Leadership
skills and potential leadership opportunities were identified and ways of enhancing both
were suggested. Corpsmembers reflected on opportunities and challenges of taking
leadership in their own lives outside the corps. Other CDI workshops included
Environmental Education, Fair Supervision, and Team Building. A Cultural Diversity
workshop, was facilitated by Keith Philipson, Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives. After
a discussion promoting knowledge, understanding and respect for the diverse cultural
backgrounds and traditions of corpsmembers and staff, corpsmembers representing 17
corps created a "Unity Quilt".
continued on page 3
Serving Community, Country, Environment