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Fall and Spring Semesters:
Monday - Friday
9:00am - 6:30pm
When classes are not in session:
Monday - Friday
9:00am - 5:00pm
S-343
212-220-8133
Sixteen Bank Street College graduate students (half-time members) serve in three New York City public schools with culturally diverse populations (grades K-5). Members work with students in one or more varied educational formats. They work with students on a one-to-one basis and/or in small groups on reading, writing or language arts. Sometimes they assist classroom teachers during literacy blocks, such as "reading time" and/or during "writer’s workshops."
Some members read novels and lead discussions (to further comprehension) with students in the context of "literature circles." Members meet weekly for training with a Bank Street College of Education staff member who is a literacy specialist. (Participation in this program is limited to Bank Street College students who are currently enrolled in fieldwork.)
Contact: Bank Street College of Education – Graduate School
Ms. Jessica Hirsch
Program Director
610 West 112th Street – 6th Floor
New York, NY 10025-1898
Phone: 212-875-4408
Fax: 212-875-4635
E-mail: jhirsch@bnkst.edu
City Year is a proud member of AmeriCorps and was, in fact, a model for AmeriCorps. City Year works to build stronger communities, a stronger country, and a better world through service. Every small task at City Year is part of this ambitious mission.
City Year brings together young adults, ages 17 to 24, from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds for a demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.
Be between the ages of 17 and 24
Be a U.S. Citizen or Legal Permanent Resident Alien
Be ready to dedicate 10 months to full-time service
Be a high school graduate or GED recipient or agree to work toward high school equivalency while serving at City Year
Have served no more than 2 terms in another AmeriCorps, NCCC, or VISTA program
Agree to a background or security check
Early Application .............. November 30
Winter Application .............. February 15
Spring Application .............. April 15
Summer Application .............. May 31
Please visit: City Year to apply online and for additional information.
AmeriCorps Community Early Intervention Services will utilize members to support our Early Intervention program for young children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum disorder. The AmeriCorps members will work as Teaching Assistants in our Applied Behavior Analysis Program and will also proved support to the children’s families in helping to integrate them into their communities. Members will also provide research assistance, help with our volunteer program and assist in recreation and parent-child groups.
The members will learn how to teach children with Autism Spectrum disorders using one-to-one methods. They will help design the volunteer program, recruit volunteers and assist them in planning community service events. Their assistance in supporting our research efforts will contribute to the sustainability of our multicultural approach to community service in the Early Intervention arena.
Contact: AmeriCorps Community Early Intervention Services
Peter Vietze, Ph.D.
Program Director
465 Grand Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10002-4800
Phone: 212-420-1999, ext. 123
Fax: 212-420-1910
E-mail: vietcoat@verizon.net
AmeriCorps members are placed in community health centers that are located in medically underserved areas throughout the New York City and Albany region. HealthCorps members provide education, information, and outreach to create a responsive medical home for underserved populations. Overall program goals are to increase access and quality of care, and to address poor health outcomes and health disparities.
Members¿ service activities include preventive health care, without regard to income. Service activities include: outreach and enrollment for Medicaid, Medicare, Child Health Plus/Family Health Plus, linking low income patients with social services, medical translation, patient advocacy, health education and health outreach.
Contact: CHCANNYS Community HealthCorps
Ms. Masha S. Feiguinova
Program Director
254 West 31st Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-710-3804
Fax: 212-279-3851
E-mail: mfeiguinova@chcanys.org
AmeriCorps members serve in different CSS Departments and are assigned to varying boroughs as project facilitators, Outreach Specialists, Community Awareness Leaders, Resident Organizers, Literacy Leaders, Financial Literacy Leaders/Tax Counseling Coordinators via Financial Education Program (FEP), Project Coordinators/Liaisons via MentorCHIP (mentoring children of incarcerated parents) and Head Start Community Organizing Assistant Leaders.
Fridays are designated for member development group planning activities, issue oriented discussions on citizenship, training on personal and professional development and team meetings. Members spend one of these Fridays in the field learning about the diverse populations they serve through visits to different neighborhoods and NYC Arts and Cultural institutions. Members are also required to produce a community resource directory that includes volunteer opportunities in the neighborhood where they reside.
Contact: Community Service Society AmeriCorps
Ms. Judy James
Contact Person
105 East 22nd Street
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-614-5413
Fax: 212-598-4782
E-mail: jjames@cssny.org
Cypress Hills Eastern Brooklyn Collaborative for Youth Development (EBCYD) members will increase literacy skills for youth in eastern Brooklyn. Members will expand high quality after-school and summer enrichment programs at three school sites serving predominately at-risk children from high poverty communities.
Among their AmeriCorps services, members will deliver rigorous literacy curricula and homework assistance. EBCYD will provide a minimum of 15 hours of after-school academic enrichment at three sites serving youth ages 5-14 during the school year.
Contact: Eastern Brooklyn Collaborative for Youth Development (EBCYD)
Mr. Rob Abbot
625 Jamaica Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11208
Phone: 718-647-2800
Fax: 718-647-2805
E-mail: roba@cypresshills.org
Red Hook Public Safety Corps members spend a year working with the Red Hook Community Justice Center and local social service agencies creating and implementing projects involving public safety and community strengthening in Red Hook and Brooklyn.
Projects include domestic violence workshops, graffiti and park cleanups, sponsoring a kids’ summer baseball league, tutoring children, and assisting teachers in local public schools, and growing community gardens.
Contact: Red Hook Public Safety Corps
Mr. James Brodick or Ms. Kate Doniger
Contact Person
Red Hook Community Justice Center
88 Visitation Place
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Phone: 718-923-8280 or 718-923-8249
Fax: 718-923-8248
E-mail: jbodick@courts.state.ny.us
E-mail: kdoniger@courts.state.ny.us
AmeriCorps members serve in various sites throughout the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They focus on the initiatives of school success, school readiness, school safety and community collaboration, servicing the children, youth and seniors of the community. Grand Street is an AmeriCorps Program with strong community linkages.
The program provides quality support and guidance to Lower East Side children and youth, by linking the school environment with after-school programming. Services and activities include after-school programs, which include tutoring, and homework assistance and school-readiness programs that stimulate the cognitive, social, motor, and verbal skills of pre-school children.
Contact: Grand Street Settlement Community Builders
Ms. Aileen Moore
Director of AmeriCorps
80 Pitt Street
New York, NY 10002-3516
Phone: 646-201-4206
Fax: 212-505-5660
E-mail: amoore@grandstreet.org
AmeriCorps members provide in-class and after school literacy-based and conflict resolution training for children in Harlem elementary schools, tutor, mentor, instruct in computer skills, improve awareness of health and nutrition, and counsel and support children and families through the Harlem Children’s Zone Project, a neighborhood-based network of services.
These include: The Baby College, a weekly program that provides parents of children ages 0-2 with parent-training; the HCZ Health Initiative, a collaboration between HCZ, Harlem Hospital Pediatrics and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University to identify and link to effective treatments every child in the HCZ who has asthma; and the Renaissance University for Community Education (TRUCE), a year-round, extended day youth development program where members tutor and conduct college preparation activities.
Contact: Harlem Children’s Zone Peacemaker Program
35 East 125th Street
New York, NY 10035
Phone: 212-534-0700
Fax: 212-289-0661 or
Ms. Jasmine Credell or Ms. Erica Terrell
Program Directors
Harlem Children’s Zone Peacemaker Program
1916 Park Avenue, Suite 212
New York, NY 10037
Phone: 212-234-6200
Fax: 212-234-2340
E-mail: jcredell@hcz.org
E-mail: eterrell@hcz.org
URL: Harlem Children's Zone
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