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APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMER
2010 Term of service to being May 2010
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Keystone SMILES AmeriCorps
Keystone SMILES AmeriCorps serves 17 school districts
and 15 community organizations throughout 9 counties and provides technical
assistance, training, welfare to work and educational support programs
throughout Western Pennsylvania. Keystone SMILES is dedicated to
strengthening communities and sharing resources to provide people of all
ages opportunity to put "learning into action" through service experiences.
It represents making a difference while promoting the values of community,
responsibility, and opportunity. Other programs and services offered through
the Keystone SMILES Community Learning center include:
Keystone SMILES Alternative Education Program / Crossroads
Keystone SMILES Pre-K Program
Keystone SMILES AmeriCorps places members in agencies and school across Pennsylvania. In doing so, it strives to "empower and strengthen people of all ages to enhance the quality of their lives through learning and service."
Members do so with the following objectives:
Host Site
Application
Academic Support - Members will provide tutoring to students, primarily in grade K-8, who have
been identified by teachers, parents, or school administrators as
academically deficient in a target subject area. Services will be
provided in a one-on-one or small group setting, at least 3 times a
week for 20 minutes in before, during and after school session hosted by
school districts and community agencies.
Social / Behavioral Support -
Members will provided social and behavioral enrichment
activities such as teambuilding, mentoring, and study skills instruction to
students, primarily for grades 4 through 10, who have been identified by
teachers, parents, school administrators and / or the juvenile justice
system as being in danger of failing, or being suspended, expelled or
adjudicated. Services will be provided 2-5 times a week for at least
30 minutes in before, during and after school sessions hosted by school
districts and community agencies.
Volunteer Recruitment -
Over the course of the program
year, AmeriCorps member will recruit, train, utilize volunteers and
service-learning participant to support and sustain Keystone SMILES
programming.
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