Tribe programs generally prefer to recruit members locally. Other Human Needs AmeriCorps Members serve in one of 8 remote native Athabascan villages to develop youth activities related to the workplace and intergenerational activities which revive the spirit of community and increase cultural awareness in Alaska. Rough Rock is located in a remote section of Arizona on the Navajo Nation. Members are also constructing 2 homes and building 8 bathrooms for houses that lack them. 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 three teams in a isolated, rural area.
30 members ensure that Navajo veterans and their families are accessing and being provided quality care services in the areas of health, education, and other unmet social needs. Members serve in 5 veterans' affairs offices across the Navajo Nation, the largest reservation with teritories in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Environment 20 members conduct environmental activities including restoring and monitoring fish habitat, clearing trails, reforestation, and community beautification projects. Members serve on the remote Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in northern California. Environment Members recover knowledge that is rapidly being lost by using science and technology to identify native plants and connect them to their traditional medicinal, cultural, and spiritual uses in this inter-generational program.