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WSU VISTA-Rainbows United-Information Technology VISTA

Rainbows United, Inc. enhances the lives of children with special needs and their families by bringing together community resources and providing customized services. Rainbows United serves children birth – 21 with special needs. Some of Rainbows’ services occur in family homes while others are provided in one of our centers. The vast majority of the children we serve cannot be served by other community programs because of the children’s special needs. Currently 993 of the 1448 children being served by Rainbows receive Medicaid funding (69%). The poverty related need that the VISTA will address is the need to collect accurate data to support funding requests to serve children and families of Rainbows United at a time when funding is becoming increasingly scarce. Without strong, accurate data to secure and maintain funding, we risk losing services for our community’s most vulnerable population of children. IT Project VISTA will assist the Technology Team as it builds Rainbows’ capacity to organize data and provide quality services to families experiencing poverty or at risk for income challenges due to the special circumstances of their special needs children. The work will provide Rainbows the technology to track services provided to children who have special needs, in order to ensure accurate data can be used to secure funding that will allow Rainbows’ quality services to continue. Rainbows will see a qualified applicant with analytical skills who enjoys working on a project that will contribute to the greater good. At Rainbows, we make children and families our highest priority and the VISTA would join a team that works continuously to improve all aspects of our business.

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Member Duties : 1. Attend and participate in agency meetings as well as meetings specific to the Technology Project. 2. Attend and participate in trainings required by Rainbows and the Technology Project. 3. Communicate regularly with supervisor, Technology Team, Technology Project Manager, and Program Coordinators. 4. Work with Program Coordinators to identify and understand the current storage system of client information. 5. Assist Technology Program Manager in researching steps to be made in transition of data from old system to new system. 6. Coordinate efforts of inputting data with all members of the data entry team. 7. Provide training to program staff prior to the “Go Live” phase for accurate transfer of children’s data into the new system. 8. Provide ongoing support and coordination to program staff in collecting and inputting accurate and timely data into the new system.

Program Benefits : Living Allowance , Training , Education award upon successful completion of service , Stipend , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Childcare assistance if eligible , Health Coverage* .


*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.

Terms : Car recommended , Permits working at another job during off hours , Permits attendance at school during off hours .

Service Areas : Technology .

Skills : Team Work , Computers/Technology , Social Services , General Skills .



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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA

Program
WSU VISTA-Rainbows United-Information Technology VISTA

Program Start/End Date
11/01/2017 - 11/01/2018

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
College graduate

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations	KANSAS

Accepting Applications
From 09/21/2017 To 11/01/2017

Contact	Debbie Mai
3223 N Oliver St
Wichita KS 67220
(316) 558-3434
dmai@rui.org
RainbowsUnited.org

Listing ID	71479


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