AmeriCorps in Wisconsin
Recruitment Newsletter
June 2022
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AmeriCorps Member Spotlight
Marshfield Clinic Recovery Corps member highlights services to assist others during Alcohol Awareness Month
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With a national focus taking place this April for Alcohol Awareness Month,
While serving at Marshfield Medical Center – Ladysmith, she provides support to “meet people where they are at” in a time of great need. Chelsea is the first recovery coach placed in a host site focused on providing primary health care in conjunction with a hospital, and assisting those in recovery. She is educating health care professionals on the importance of offering support services for people in recovery.
This April, she worked to raise public awareness in multiple ways. Chelsea helped craft a public-facing blog post for Marshfield Clinic’s Shine365 blog called Recovery and sobriety: How they are different. As part of this post, she explained that “Sobriety is day-to-day, short-term, not drinking or using…When you have one or two days sober, you want to get to recovery. This is where you’re living your life, looking long-term with goals to make mental and physical changes to set yourself up for success.”
Chelsea was also interviewed as part of a story on WEAU entitled Doctors say too much alcohol can potentially lead to cancer that discussed how people like she and her fellow Recovery Corps members could be of assistance to those struggling with alcohol abuse. In the interview she described how she works with those on their recovery journey, explaining that “I just sit down with them and just learn like where they’re coming from…Then after that, we kind of go through some sobriety goals and also kind of help push them along a little bit more into recovery to see what they want to become instead of what they have been dealing with.”
In addition to these efforts this April, Chelsea sat down earlier this year to discuss her AmeriCorps service on an episode of The S-Files podcast series entitled Coaching People along the Path to Recovery where she shared about her overall service experience and how she channels her own experience of being in recovery to make a difference for others as they strive to achieve their recovery goals.
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Many AmeriCorps programs recruit year-round. Below are a few openings that are looking for either immediate hiring, or in the near future. All positions provide a living stipend and an Education Award upon successful completion of the term of service. Please email the program affiliated with each position for more information for additional details and benefits! Click here for a more detailed PDF version about each opening.
2022-23 AmeriCorps positions (will start in August or September 2022)
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee – ClubCorps
Become a SPARK tutor with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee – ClubCorps and work with Kindergarten-3rd graders to provide 1:1 early literacy instruction. You choose the hours that work with your schedule during the school day, Monday through Friday, anytime from 8am-4pm, within a Milwaukee school, either in-person or virtually.
College Possible Milwaukee
Serve your community through a year of service with College Possible Milwaukee – a growing nonprofit supporting students from historically underserved backgrounds through college and empowering the next generation of leaders. Through near-peer coaching by AmeriCorps members who are recent college graduates, students are provided with the information and support they deserve to navigate the complex college admission and success process. Open positions for 2022-23 include High School Coaches and College Coaches. College Possible Milwaukee is looking to bring on driven, motivated individuals to join their AmeriCorps team!
Green Bay Conservation Corps
The City of Green Bay is looking to bring on AmeriCorps members to create the first Green Bay Conservation Corps! Members will be responsible for enhancing Green Bay parks and greenways through habitat restoration, trail improvements, and community outreach. Become a member and make a difference!
Marshfield Clinic Health System - Community Corps
Play a vital role in tackling our communities’ most pressing challenges as a Public Health AmeriCorps MCHS Community Corps member with Marshfield Clinic Health System. Serve hand-in-hand with people at organizations working to improve health such as a non-profit, clinic, hospital, coalition, public health department, governmental agency or youth-serving organization. Members may coordinate and work events; provide educational materials and programs; or support organizational activities and operations.
Marshfield Clinic Health System - Recovery Corps
Help tackle the ever-growing issue of substance use as a Public Health AmeriCorps MCHS Recovery Corps member with Marshfield Clinic Health System. Members undergo training in the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) model of recovery coaching and serve as recovery coaches. Recovery coaches reduce prescription drug, opioid, and other substance use disorders through one-on-one contact, outreach phone calls, and community education. Members may work at law enforcement agencies, county jails, public health departments, social service departments, health care organizations, or other nonprofit and government agencies.
Milwaukee Public Library AmeriCorps Program
The Milwaukee Public Library AmeriCorps Program helps help young people develop a love of reading, increase information literacy skills, and establish relationships with youth that bridge the gap between in-school and out of school learning. Members will build developmental relationships with youth during the school day in the classroom, explore STEAM and life skills after school at library branches, and connect students to read for pleasure during the summer. We help Milwaukee students develop 21st century skills and connect with library resources to cultivate a city of lifelong learners.
North Central Community Action Program (NCCAP) AmeriCorps
NCCAP AmeriCorps members provide service through a wide range of activities, including working with students in a school setting or serving at nonprofit organizations. Some NCCAP AmeriCorps members will serve at schools across the Wausau School District, tutoring and mentoring students in grades K-12.
Other NCCAP AmeriCorps members will serve at a variety of nonprofit organizations where they will recruit and manage volunteers, assist the public with referrals to services, and act as mentors and tutors for community members in organizational programs. Members serve with teams of experienced professionals as they learn, grow, and develop their professional and personal resumes, careers, and lives.
Partners for After School Success (PASS) AmeriCorps
Partners for After School Success (PASS) is an AmeriCorps program serving middle and high school youth with the goal of promoting academic achievement. Members provide academic coaching, engage youth in community service projects, and facilitate enrichment programming during after school hours to build social-emotional learning skills. Members serve either 20 or 38 hours a week at school or community center host sites located in Madison and surrounding communities.
Schools of Hope AmeriCorps Project
The mission of the Schools of Hope AmeriCorps Project is to work with school staff to provide literacy tutoring support aimed at improving the academic achievement of kindergarten through fifth grade students in high-needs schools. Each AmeriCorps member is based at a local elementary school to both tutor students and coordinate community volunteers as reading tutors. As part of the Schools of Hope Project you would be part of a team of AmeriCorps members and participate in a widespread community collaboration coordinated by the United Way of Dane County, in partnership with Madison Metropolitan School District, Sun Prairie Area School District, AmeriCorps, and other partners.
Wisconsin Association of Free and Charitable Clinics
The Wisconsin Association of Free and Charitable Clinics is seeking AmeriCorps members to strengthen Wisconsin's Free and Charitable Clinics and Community Health Departments, which provide preventive and primary healthcare services to low-income and uninsured patients. In addition, AmeriCorps members will combat the COVID-19 pandemic, address the worsening opioid crisis as well as strengthening telehealth capabilities, securing grant funding, and procuring volunteers. These openings include positions for both their Public Health AmeriCorps program and for AmeriCorps VISTA members.
763-567-9572 to learn more and apply.
Wisconsin DPI AmeriCorps Farm to School Program
The Wisconsin DPI AmeriCorps Farm to School Program is looking for dedicated service members! AmeriCorps Farm to School members serve their communities by teaching nutrition lessons, connecting local farmers to schools, helping build or maintain school gardens, introducing students to local foods, and promoting volunteerism. Locations with current openings include Bayfield School District (Bayfield), Grow It Forward, Inc. (Manitowoc), Howard Suamico School District (Green Bay), Ithaca School District (Richland Center), Kickapoo Valley School District (LaFarge), Monona Grove School District (Monona), Oregon School District (Oregon), Rooted (Madison), Shell Lake School District (Shell Lake).
WisCorps
AmeriCorps members with WisCorps provide several types of conservation-based service, including completing conservation projects across the state of Wisconsin,
engaging individuals in environmental education programs, and assisting
nonprofit organizations in addressing environmentally-related needs. WisCorps
has openings for multiple positions including for their Fall Roving Crew and for different year-long positions. WisCorps has openings for both Crew Members and the Crew Leader for their Fall Roving Crew, which will complete projects such as new trail construction, trail restoration, bridge/boardwalk construction, reforestation, and invasive species management. WisCorps Nature Teacher's will assist with planning, scheduling, teaching, and general supervision of existing programs and events for K-12 students and adult community members. WisCorps Individual Placement members will be placed at nonprofit locations throughout the state to help those organizations address the community's environmentally-related needs.
2022-23 AmeriCorps VISTA positions (Full-Time 12-Months)
These positions have multiple potential start dates in July or August 2022, as well as dates in October-December if not filled this summer. Applicants need to apply a minimum of 3-4 weeks before the potential start date. Contact VISTA Program Officer Stephanie Jewell at stephanie.jewell1@wisconsin.gov or 608-266-8566 for details about application dates or with questions about individual positions.
Carroll University
The Division of Student Life and Office of Institutional Research at Carroll University seek to provide programs to address the varying needs of today’s college student including those who face poverty and food insecurity. The AmeriCorps VISTA member will address food insecurity and poverty by completing a campus needs assessment, supporting and adjusting current programs (Carroll Cupboard, Community Garden, etc.), and developing and implementing a new free food box program.
COMSA - Program Development
COMSA is a resource center that provides culturally accommodating and customized services for Somali refugee and other immigrant communities in Northeast Wisconsin with the goal of creating a resourceful and prosperous community that contributes to the well-being of its members, and those of the greater community in which they live. The VISTA member will assist in creating project-based research and evaluation that informs decisions for this organization.
COMSA - Resource Development
COMSA is a resource center that provides culturally accommodating and customized services for Somali refugee and other immigrant communities in Northeast Wisconsin with the goal of creating a resourceful and prosperous community that contributes to the well-being of its members, and those of the greater community in which they live. The VISTA member will increase the impact of COMSA by providing resource development.
Fox Cities Salvation Army
Fox Cities Salvation Army assesses needs and delivers programs for its local community. The VISTA member will assist in program development and food pantry research and support.
Girls Scouts - Inclusion Coordinator
This Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes initiative will increase equity and accessibility of Girl Scout programming in communities that Girl Scouts has historically underserved, including the Hispanic and Hmong communities, through critical assessment of organizational policies and procedures, experiences for girls, training and support for volunteers and staff, engagement for families, and community relationship building.
Stepping Stones of Dunn County
Stepping Stones of Dunn County has three major focus areas: Food Pantry, Emergency Shelter and Volunteer Services. We are the primary service-provider for the food insecure and homeless in Menomonie and Dunn County, Wisconsin. The AmeriCorps VISTA member will address food insecurity and homelessness in Menomonie and Dunn County by assessing areas of need, foster relationships with community leaders and agencies of underserved populations, and develop sustainable volunteer practices and structures for outreach and communication with underserved Hmong and Spanish-speaking communities.
Urban Triage - Program Development
Urban Triage seeks to empower and inspire breakthroughs and transformation by way of education and leadership in Black children, Black women, Black men, and Black communities. The VISTA member develop community engagement, outreach, volunteer recruitment, and assist with projects aimed at providing increased access to justice in order to expand the program’s capacity to serve low-income individuals and provide increased access to resources.
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