There are currently Youth Volunteer Corps programs in over 50 communities in the United States. AmeriCorps Members act as service learning coordinators, recruiting and training school-age youth to recognize and address community problems, and provide tutoring, mentoring, and reading support. Members also recruit, lead, and supervise volunteers in youth-generated service projects, while encouraging each volunteer to commit to a lifetime of service. Members are also constructing 2 homes and a teen center, building 8 bathrooms for houses that lack them, and producing a community newsletter. Members will recruit 115 community members including local teens, to assist them in providing youth recreational activities and culture camps after school and in the summer.
Members serve in two teams in an isolated, rural area.
Other Human Needs YouthBuild USA, Inc., is a national non-profit organization that engages educationally at risk youth in a combination of service and youth development activities. The service activities focus primarily on renovating houses and buildings for the homeless and low income families. YouthBuild USA has a substantial number of affiliate organizations across the country. They build awareness of community issues and generate volunteers for local service projects. TFA places a diverse group of recent college graduates as teachers in urban and rural school districts facing critical teacher shortages.