5 full-tme AmeriCorps members serve as mentors for 10 elementary school youth. Specifically, the Fellows are charged with coordinating Native American Youth Service Day, engaging elementary students in service through a school leadership club, assisting with Upward Bound and Gear Up programs for middle and high school students, organizing the junior summer counselors program, and developing a service-learning class to help high school students fulfill a new service requirement for graduation. Fellows also raise awareness of America's Promise throughout the reservation through community presentations and service activities. Members are recruited from both Indian and Non-Indian communities. Members and community volunteers are serving at shelters for victims of domestic violence, developing tutoring programs in local schools, assisting homebound elders, and rehabilitating housing for low-income families.
Members serve state-wide in a mixture of rural and urban areas.
AmeriCorps members in the Montana Campus Corps program will coordinate volunteers into a variety of service projects addressing community needs such as poverty and education. AmeriCorps members in the Montana Reads program tutor and provide enrichment activities for 500 elementary students in order to increase their reading skills as well as their interest in and enthusiasm for reading. Talk to your local recruiter or complete an application and send it in today. Send us an email.