GoodwillNNE’s Public Health AmeriCorps will start summer 2022! This new AmeriCorps program will help build the public health workforce in Maine and New Hampshire. Public Health AmeriCorps – Maine and New Hampshire To learn more about becoming a Granite State Education Corps host site or member, please contact Jen Craven at (603) 703-1811. Host sites include schools like Next Charter School and Kreiva Academy community organizations such as the Dover Housing Authority and Nashua Police Athletic League and afterschool programs like the Boys & Girls Club of Manchester. ![]() Members are placed at host site organizations across the Granite State, from the Seacoast’s Dover and Rochester to Tilton, by the lakes and mountains, to southern New Hampshire’s cities of Concord, Manchester, and Nashua. The Granite State Education Corps aims to introduce stability and positive relationships into the lives of at-risk middle and high school youth by pairing them with AmeriCorps member mentors, who regularly meet one-on-one with a caseload of ten students to increase their resiliency, social and emotional skills, and self-sufficiency-in essence, serving the “whole child.” The good news? The impacts of ACEs can be counteracted, and one of those “counter-ACEs” is relationships. Many Granite State youth have been impacted by trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), which, without proper support, can negatively affect success, health, and functioning long-term. In the Granite State Education Corps, direct service AmeriCorps members serve at-risk youth across New Hampshire. To learn more about becoming a Goodwill VISTA Partnership host site or member, please contact Scott Dupee at or (603) 229-7235. The positive impact VISTA members offer their local communities is remarkable, and continues to build year after year. In 2018, 34 VISTA members provided 3,000 hours of service, working to recruit over 1,405 new volunteers, leveraging over 1.1 million dollars for host-site organizations, and creating 243 new and enhanced systems and business processes. ![]() The diverse work of AmeriCorps VISTA members contributes to the capacity-building and organizational-development goals of Maine agencies which contribute invaluable boosts to the wellbeing of communities. Focus areas of partner agencies include public health, food security, new Americans, environmental justice, educational support, youth development, housing, and more! VISTA Members work to reduce poverty while engaging through a plethora of forms of indirect service, such as creating and running programs, fundraising and grant writing, communications work, increasing social media presence, recruiting volunteers, as well as assisting with community assessments, among other projects. At present, members are placed in partner agencies situated in Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Hancock, Kennebec, Lincoln, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Waldo, Washington, and York counties. ![]() Since 2015, the Goodwill VISTA Partnership has sought to alleviate poverty in communities across Maine, from the most rural areas to the most populous cities.
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