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 Application