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2018-19 Community School Coordinator - Higher Ground VISTA

Higher Ground A Resource Center’s mission is empowering one life at a time to reach, transform, and elevate the community through love and building character. For 10 years Higher Ground has provided behavioral health and social-emotional learning to critically at-risk youth suffering from the effects of childhood trauma and poverty. Higher Ground places VISTA members at schools across Tucson to help transform them into community schools. Community schools are school-based resource hubs that enhance access to services, using an integrated approach to academics, health, social services, youth development, and community engagement. Research shows that this site-based delivery model leads to increased academic performance, higher family engagement, and healthier communities. In 2015, the Tucson Community Schools Initiative was born to address the needs of youth growing up in Tucson. In its first two years the initiative worked with high schools to adopt a community school model, aiming to improve high school graduation rates and connect students to post-graduation opportunities. Now in its fourth year, the initiative has grown into middle schools across the city and local organizations, with efforts focused on combating chronic absenteeism and creating greater opportunities for students in the community.

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Member Duties : The AmeriCorps member will integrate into the school site through attending school-based training and professional development, building relationships with school faculty and leadership, completing a school asset map, conducting a needs assessment, and facilitating a regular meeting of school stakeholders. The School Coordinator will work with a group of chronically absent students at the school site, employing Higher Ground testing, mapping, and coaching methods to better understand students and their influencers, identify student needs, and connect students with services. The AmeriCorps member will reach out and involve the community in order to build up the school site as a one-stop hub for the local population by developing new partnerships to meet identified needs onsite, nurturing existing partnerships, planning periodic resource events, and increasing family engagement.

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

Service Areas : Education , Children/Youth , Community Outreach .

Skills : General Skills , Computers/Technology , Education , Youth Development , Non-Profit Management , Community Organization , Public Health , Social Services , Team Work , Fund raising/Grant Writing , Public Speaking , Counseling , Communications , Conflict Resolution , Teaching/Tutoring .



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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA

Program
2018-19 Community School Coordinator - Higher Ground VISTA

Program Start/End Date
11/13/2018 - 11/12/2019

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
College graduate

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations	ARIZONA

Accepting Applications
From 09/17/2018 To 10/30/2018

Contact	Andris Rapa
101 W 44th St
Tucson AZ 85713
5206221425
andris@higherground.me
higherground.me

Listing ID	84207


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