Americorps-Arizona National and Community Service Inclusion Project

The Arizona National and Community Service Inclusion project is a collaboration between the Governor's Office for Children, Youth and Families and the Institute for Human Development at Northern Arizona University. Current funds for the project come to IHD/NAU through the Governor's Office. The project's goal is to promote and support full participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of national and community service through collaboration between individuals with disabilities, disability advocacy and service organizations and national and community service organizations. Project goals include:

• Development of a work group of national service and disability organization representatives to guide the process of making national service programs more inclusive.
• Providing guidance to AmeriCorps*State programs on policy and practice issues related to making national service programs more inclusive.
• Making presentations about inclusion of people with disabilities at conferences on disability issues and participate in AmeriCorps*State program activities.
• Promoting awareness about national service opportunities for persons with disabilities between local and regional service and advocacy organizations.
• Facilitating translation of AmeriCorps*State program recruitment materials into alternative formats.