Kathleen Chosa, CalSERVES Program Coordinator
It’s hard to believe but we are already at the mid-point of the program year for most of our AmeriCorps members! Before we know it this program year will be done and we will be looking back at how our members measured up and the goals they accomplished.
We currently have 230 members serving in numerous locations across our state, north from the Sonoma and Napa County areas to the south of San Diego County. As of the end of January our members have served over 177,000 hours, making tremendous strides forward in serving the needs of children and families in some of California’s economically hardest hit communities. They have done so in a wide variety of ways such as developing and organizing on-going volunteer bases for non-profit organizations, offering one-on-one literacy tutoring to elementary school age children struggling to read, and providing 1st-8th grade at-risk students with safe educational/ enrichment/ mentoring after-school programs to attend, free of charge, Monday - Friday.
Our AmeriCorps members in the CalSERVES, the California’s Promise, or the Volunteer Infrastructure Project (VIP) programs are truly measuring up, really "Making a Difference" in the communities in which they’ve dedicated their service.
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