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AmeriCorps


The Asian Human Services AmeriCorps Program currently has ten full-time members. Our members are assigned to five programs at AHS: Passages Charter School, the Family Health Center, the Literacy Education for Adults and Families (LEAF) Program, Community Health, and WIA Youth Program. Members are engaged in a wide variety of education and health-related services. They tutor children and youth in three different after-school programs (WIA, Passages Charter School and the LEAF Program), work with special needs children at Passages, help adult immigrants acquire English and computer skills and preschoolers acquire school-readiness skills, and do HIV prevention workshops. AHS AmeriCorps members also work as a team to accomplish projects and participate in trainings. Members’ projects include volunteering at a local shelter, organizing an agency wide canned food drive, planting flowers with Passages children. The AmeriCorps team also undergoes training each year: CPR, First Aid, and Justice Talking, a discussion series funded by the Illinois Humanities Council that uses literature to reflect upon civic engagement.

APPLY TO JOIN THE AMERICORPS TEAM AT ASIAN HUMAN SERVICES

Are you a community-minded person interested in making a one-year commitment to social service in the Chicago area? Asian Human Services will be accepting applications between May and August, 2009 for its AmeriCorps Program which will begin in late August, 2009. This is an opportunity for a recent college graduate or other community member to gain a year of experience in volunteering, receive a stipend of $14,000, health insurance and other benefits, and at the end of the term of service, receive an educational award of $4,725 that can be used to help pay for educational expenses. Asian Human Services serves more than 7,000 low-income clients per year. Our largest ethnic population is Asian, but we also serve many Hispanics, Eastern Europeans, Africans and native-born Americans. We are seeking AmeriCorps members for the following programs at AHS: Passages Charter School, the AHS Family Health Center, the Literacy Education for Adults and Families (LEAF) Program, Community Health, and Employment. We anticipate filling ten full-time positions starting in August, 2009. Below are the job titles we expect to have open. If you would like more information about the AHS AmeriCorps Program, or to request an application, please contact Terri Cusick, Volunteer Coordinator, by email at tcusick@ahschicago.org.