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Ashtabula County Community Action Agency VISTA

The Strong Foundations, Successful Futures-Community Learning Center (CLC) is currently an initiative with the Ashtabula Area City School (AACS), Ohio and is being explored for expansion into other school districts. Ashtabula County Community Action Agency (ACCAA) is the lead entity in the partnership and aligns closely with the goals for student achievement and skills attainment, to help people become self-sufficient and improve their quality of life. Developed as a means of enhancing student performance as well as creating a platform for life-long learning and success, the CLC uses the school and/or its facilities as a hub to connect the community and the school. The CLC at AACS, now called the Dragon Empowerment Center (DEC), offers social, health, education, recreational and enrichment activities, support services, and programs. Services that remove barriers, connect students and families to resources, and provide for basic needs. There are many outside factors that impact a student’s ability to come to school “ready-to-learn”. Despite working very hard, many area families are struggling to make ends meet and have some significant basic needs that go unmet. For example in Ashtabula nearly half of all children live at or below the poverty rate and the school qualifies at one hundred percent (100%) free school lunch. Current activities at the DEC include food bags, clothing banks, tutoring, connections to resources, enrichment activities, financial assistance for vision services, mental and behavioral health services, and -new-onsite dental services. Establishing additional CLC’s will require doing a needs assessment and launching a community engagement effort to include all stakeholders, as well as creating an evaluation process for services. Our continued efforts will be to further connect our various communities and their resources to the schools, and create services that aid students and families to move forward successfully.

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Member Duties : The AmeriCorps VISTA will support the current district-wide Strong Foundations, Successful Futures- Community Learning and Resource Center initiative (aka Dragon Empowerment Center or DEC). Will assist the DEC (and future CLC’s) to develop, promote, and further the efficient use of community resources to create positive impact and improve the coordination, integration, accessibility, and effectiveness of services for children and families. Will: Update existing inventory of partnerships; develop tracking of partner and resource activity, assist with reporting; Create communication plan for meetings, events, activities and programs; Assist in coordination and implementation of events, activities and programs, creation/distribution of marketing materials; Develop job roles, recruitment, orientation, training and coordination systems for volunteers; and, Assist in expansion activities of survey development, monitoring, evaluation, survey arrangement plans, summarize and prepare data.

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


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

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

Service Areas : Community and Economic Development , Community Outreach .

Skills : Community Organization , General Skills , Education , Leadership , Public Speaking , Fund raising/Grant Writing , Teaching/Tutoring , Communications , Recruitment , Conflict Resolution , Youth Development , Writing/Editing , Computers/Technology .



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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA

Program
Ashtabula County Community Action Agency VISTA

Program Start/End Date
12/07/2020 - 12/06/2021

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
Associates degree (AA)

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations	OHIO

Accepting Applications
From 08/25/2020 To 11/13/2020

Contact	Carmen Kuula
6920 Austinburg Rd
Ashtabula OH 44004
440-997-5957
aperez@ohiocdc.org
goo.gl/EMgrjJ

Listing ID	71726


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