Host Site Info
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:
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.
If your agency or school district is interested in hosting the service of an
AmeriCorps team, complete and submit a Host Site Application for consideration.
Host Site Resources
2009-2010 Host Site
Application (word)
2009-2010 Host
Site application (PDF)
Host Site Administrator Manual
2009-2010
Service Site
Supervisor Manual 2009-2010
Host Site Manual Example
Forms Packet
AmeriCorps Staff Contact
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