Front Steps Keep Austin Housed AmeriCorps members provide intensive mentoring and case management services to adults, families and youth experiencing homelessness in the Austin area. Services are geared toward empowering clients to obtain and/or maintain permanent affordable housing and improve personal stability through the development of effective life skills. The project will place members with existing service providers to carry out their term, which will allow each organization to enhance the level of service provided to its clientele. Members will provide direct mentoring and case management support by assessing client needs, developing action plans to meet goals, and providing intensive life skills education that enable program participants to maintain their housing and increase personal stability. In addition, members will educate the community-at-large on issues related to homelessness and access the support of community volunteers, in-kind donations and financial contributions. Members must be able to establish and maintain professional boundaries as well as feel comfortable working with families, children, adolescents, and single adults in issue areas of shelter and housing, mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, general health, education, and refugee services.
For the 2008-2009 project year, Keep Austin Housed will engage 20-30 individuals (full-time and part-time members) to serve in the Austin community from August 2008 through August 2009. Members will complete a 12-month (40hrs/wk full-time or 20hrs/wk part-time) term while earning a monthly living allowance.
The full time monthly living allowance is $950. The part time monthly living allowance is $502.
As members complete their service term, he/she will be eligible for a $4,725 (full-time) or a $2,362 (part-time) education award to be used on past, current, or future educational expenses at qualifying schools.
Full time members are eligible for health care and child care benefits.
Members must be at least 20 years of age and have completed a minimum of 1 year of college coursework. Work and/or volunteer experience working with homeless populations and/or general service delivery is preferred. Members must be able to establish and maintain professional boundaries as well as feel comfortable working with families, children, adolescents, and single adults in issue areas of substance abuse, domestic violence, shelter and housing, mental health, general health, education, and refugee services. Prospective candidates are pre-screened with an AmeriCorps national application as well as a project specific application. Following pre-screening efforts, candidates will engage in a two-tier interview process that involves project staff, current members, and site-supervisors from each partner site.
Interested candidates can apply online at www.americorps.org or contact project staff to request more information. Please make sure to select the Front Steps Keep Austin Housed AmeriCorps Program on the AmeriCorps web site when applying so that your application is directly sent to us. Please make sure to include three references on your online application.
When your online application is complete and submitted, project staff will email you a project specific application and a Site Selection Form (a list of service sites where members will serve) that you will need to return to the AmeriCorps Coordinator to continue the application process.
Once your online application, project specific application, site selection form, and references are submitted, project staff will contact you to discuss your participation in the project.
For more information please visit our web site at www.keepaustinhoused.org
Bilingual applicants encouraged to apply.
Front Steps Keep Austin Housed is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, citizenship status, or sexual orientation.
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