AmeriCorps Member (Southgate, Detroit, Inkster )

Downriver CARES AmeriCorps at The Guidance Center is currently recruiting for abounding account AmeriCorps account positions.
Downriver CARES (Community, Action, Resources, Education, and Service) AmeriCorps at The Guidance Center provides education, ability allocation and adolescence and ancestors association development for children, adults, and families aural the Downriver, Detroit, and Western Wayne County communities. The affairs aswell encourages the association to abutment these efforts through volunteerism.

The affairs focuses on four key areas: Education, Ability Allocation and Youth/Family and Association Development. Account activities include: accessory programming and out of chic time captivation with preschoolers and academy age youth; developing accumulation mentoring projects for accouchement and/or families; planning account projects with teens; agreeable association volunteers; acknowledging and auspicious parents through play groups and abutment groups; planning amusement activities; activity abilities development for adults and youth; GED preparation; in-home and out of academy tutoring;facilitating groups and added activities that will advance self-esteem and body assets for children, adults, and families; accouterment home-based abutment to families accepting brainy bloom services; confined the abandoned through ability allocation and blockage outreach; facilitating a chargeless apprenticeship based summer affected for at accident youth, and advance application and management. Additional advice about alone programs and placements is available.

Members abutment their sites and placements Monday thru Thursday. Recent academy grads are awful encouraged to apply. Acquaintance in confined the abandoned is awful desirable.

On Friday’s the affairs performs association account projects throughout the Metro Detroit area.

Desired Qualifications Include: acquaintance and/or charge to alive with children, adults, and families; accomplished communication skills; artistic abilities such as arts or music would be advised adorable to enhance articulacy development through non-traditional methods. Contempo Academy Grads are awful encouraged to apply.

Necessary Abilities Include: acuteness to accessible populations; adeptness to plan and adapt activities; adeptness to plan both apart and in the ambience of a group; adeptness to certificate account action and advance appear AmeriCorps goals; alertness and adaptability in acceptable agents to accommodated affairs needs

Benefits to associates cover a allowance paid every two weeks (up to $11,800 for full-time alpha in September 2010), chargeless bloom affliction for full-time members, and adolescent affliction and aliment abetment (if qualified). The apprenticeship accolade ($5,250 for full-time at the achievement of the account year) deferred apprentice loans during account (and absorption paid on able loans) are aswell actual adorable appearance for contempo academy graduates. In addition, adolescent affliction and food abetment are accessible if candidates accommodated assertive accompaniment assets accommodation requirements.

For added advice amuse acquaintance Joe Spain-Program Director 734-785-7705 ext 7209 or jspain@iamtgc.net.