AmeriCorps HistoryNational AmeriCorps History:
AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engage more than 50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. AmeriCorps members serve through more than 2,100 nonprofits, public agencies, and faith-based organizations. They tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, and help communities respond to disasters. Created in 1993, AmeriCorps is part of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which also oversees Senior Corps and Learn and Serve America. Together these programs engage more than 2 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service each year.
National AmeriCorps Overview:
Since 1994, more than 250,000 men and women have served in AmeriCorps, providing needed assistance to millions of Americans. AmeriCorps provides trained, dedicated people to help nonprofits accomplish more and make more effective use of volunteers. President Bush has asked AmeriCorps to expand its work in public safety, public health, and disaster relief to assist in homeland security. The President has also proposed expanding AmeriCorps as part of his USA Freedom Corps initiative. AmeriCorps is made up of three programs: AmeriCorps*State and National, AmeriCorps*Direct, AmeriCorps*VISTA, and AmeriCorps *National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC).YiA AmeriCorps Program History:
YiA AmeriCorps is a greater Flagstaff Community Joint Agency Youth Service Initiative designed to provide a mechanism for participating agencies and organizations to pool resources and maximize services and opportunities for youth and young adults. YiA AmeriCorps will facilitate coordinated, proactive solutions to the youth-oriented problems facing the greater Flagstaff community through better coordination of services, enhancement of current programs, and development of new programs.YiA AmeriCorps is the longest running and largest AmeriCorps Program in Arizona, being established in 1994. We are in our tenth year and are using the wisdom of a long standing program to better serve our Members and the community.
Initiative Highlights:
An agreement was entered into between the Flagstaff Unified School District, Northern Arizona University, Coconino County, City of Flagstaff and Coconino Community College creating a partnership to form the Alliance for a Second Century, a coalition for cooperative action focusing on the future of the greater Flagstaff community. Of primary concern to the citizens of this region is the growth and development of our young people. To address this concern the Alliance for a Second Century is committed to fostering positive growth and development of Flagstaff youth; therefore, they established a Flagstaff Area Joint Youth Service Initiative (Youth in Action), whose responsibility is to seek opportunities for youth to develop citizenship and life skills while volunteering service to our community.Quick Links:
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