2. OBJECTIVES
• Discover: What is AmeriCorps?
• Explore: The impact of AmeriCorps in your
community
• Plan: Personal and professional AmeriCorps goals
• Learn: How to complete successfully
• Find out: AmeriCorps benefits
• Commit: The AmeriCorps Pledge
6. AMERICORPS MEMBERS GET
THINGS DONE
Goals of National Service:
Getting things done for America
Strengthening Communities
Encouraging Responsibility
Expanding Opportunity
Method: Grants provided to organizations who help accomplish
these goals
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13. THE LITERACY LAB’S AMERICORPS
IMPACT
• Washington, DC
• Baltimore, MD
• Central VA
• Kansas City, MO
• Western MA
14. THE LITERACY LAB BUILDS
STRONG READERS
Goals:
Help the children we serve improve their literacy skills.
Increase capacity of partner schools to meet student
needs.
Provide tutors with valuable training and experience to
further their professional development and open career
pathways.
Method: Use AmeriCorps program to maximize the amount of
students we can serve and to provide formative experience for
15. OUR IMPACT ON STUDENTS
This year, Literacy Lab
tutors will provide
more than 5,000
students with the
targeted literacy
intervention they
need
19. THE GOALS OF SERVICE
National Service Goals
Getting things done
for America
Strengthening
Communities
Encouraging
Responsibility
Expanding
Opportunity
The Literacy Lab Goals
Help the children we serve
improve their literacy skills.
Increase capacity of partner
schools to meet student
needs
Provide tutors with valuable
training and experience to
further their professional
development and open
career pathways.
20. GOAL SETTING
• Write 2 goals:
• One internal goal: What do you hope to gain from your
service?
Example – Discover if teaching elementary school is
the right career for me
• One external goal: What do you hope your
students/school/community gains from your service?
Example – Help my students gain confidence in
reading
21. KEY TO REACHING YOUR GOALS –
SUCCESSFUL SERVICE
1) Serve at least the 1200 service hours
2) Complete the program requirements
3) Continue serving through the end of your service term
4) Complete end-of-service tasks
22. EXITING SERVICE UNSUCCESSFULLY
• Your students will likely not receive Literacy Lab services if
you leave
• No pro-rated AmeriCorps benefits
• Rare exceptions for compelling personal circumstances
23. BENEFITS FOR
AMERICORPS MEMBERS
INCLUDE:
• Access to AmeriCorps Networks
• Loan forbearance
• Segal Education Award
• Post-service interest payment on loans
in forbearance
• Health Insurance – optional additional
training
• Child Care Benefit – optional additional
training
24. AMERICORPS NETWORKS
• Virginia Office on Volunteerism and Community
Servics (On Facebook as Virginia Service and
Twitter: @VAService
• AmeriCorps Alums
• Service Year Alliance
• Employers of National Service
26. LOAN FORBEARANCE
• Halts the requirement for student loan repayment for the
duration of service
• Only federally backed student loans are eligible
• You can request this benefit through My AmeriCorps as early
as next week
*If your loans don’t qualify for this benefit, you may qualify for
income-based repayment plans. More information about that is
available on the Tutor Resource Site
27. WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT
AMERICORPS BENEFITS?
• Read your Tutor Handbook
• Attend bonus benefit info-sessions throughout the year
• Visit the Tutor Resource Site
And – please – don’t be afraid to ask questions!
28. READY TO GET STARTED?
✔ Discover: What is AmeriCorps?
✔ Explore: The impact of AmeriCorps in your community
✔ Plan: Personal and professional AmeriCorps goals
✔ Learn: How to complete successfully
✔ Find out: AmeriCorps benefits
❑ Commit: The AmeriCorps Pledge
30. THE AMERICORPS PLEDGE
I will get things done for America – to make our people safer,
smarter, and healthier.
I will bring Americans together to strengthen our communities.
Faced with apathy, I will take action.
Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.
Faced with adversity, I will persevere.
I will carry this commitment with me this year and beyond.
I am an AmeriCorps member, and I will get things done.
