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NYC VISTA - Financial Empowerment VISTA

The NYC Department of Social Services (DSS), which embodies the Human Resource Administration(HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential social service benefits, such a Temporary Cash Assistance. As the largest local social services agency in the country, HRA helps over 3 million New Yorkers through the administration of more than 12 major public assistance programs, with more than 14,000 employees and an operating budget of $9.7 billion. HRA has a wide array of employment programs designed to provide resources and help individual access services to attain economic self-sufficiency and wellbeing. HRA joins the citywide mission to reform policies and procedures to more effectively fight poverty and income inequality. In doing so, HRA is implementing a thorough and comprehensive approach to employment services that more fully recognizes the needs of individual clients in order to more effectively help each of them enter or return to the workforce and build sustainable careers. A component of this progression is to implement financial empowerment services in HRA programming. THE NYC VISTA member will work alongside staff of the Family Independence Administration (FIA). In this role, the NYC VISTA member will support in building and managing capacity of the financial empowerment services offered in partnership with the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs/Office of Financial Empowerment (DCA OFE) to HRA clients.

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Member Duties : You will work to strengthen and further develop financial empowerment services into existing and new HRA Employment Services Programs. Member duties will include developing partnership strategies, building capacity of service models, providing technical assistance to provider staff, developing, maintain data collection systems, facilitating evaluation efforts, analyzing data, conducting literature reviews to identifying, and provide recommendations to meet population specific needs. Additionally, the VISTA will support participatory research projects, such as facilitating focus groups or qualitative interview sessions with youth clients to ascertain client experience and provide recommendations for program development initiatives. Some creative projects may include development of promotional materials, staff development or training materials, and user experience design for online service applications and materials.

Program Benefits : Childcare assistance if eligible , Living Allowance , Unlimited Monthly MetroCard , Health Coverage* , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Training .


*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 .

Service Areas : Children/Youth .

Skills : Social Services , Youth Development , Writing/Editing , General Skills , Team Work , Communications , Public Speaking .



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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA

Program
NYC VISTA - Financial Empowerment VISTA

Program Start/End Date
08/03/2018 - 08/02/2019

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
High school diploma/GED

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations	NEW YORK New York City (inc. Long Island CT NJ NY)

Accepting Applications
From 04/16/2018 To 06/11/2018

Contact	Aaron Miner
253 Broadway
New York NY 10007
212-788-7550
nycvista@cityhall.nyc.gov
www.nyc.gov/service

Listing ID	80166


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