AmeriCorps Learning and Labor

The AmeriCorps Learning and Labor Program fosters student leadership and encourages students to ‘step-up’ their community service efforts. As a participant in A.L.L, students will engage in orientation, reflection, and leadership activities. Additionally these students will be eligible to receive an AmeriCorps Education Award at the end of their service term. These awards, granted through the Bonner Foundation and funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, treat the students as a part-time AmeriCorps member.

AmeriCorps members are Americans of all ages who have made a commitment to serve their communities and country. Approximately 50,000 people serve in AmeriCorps each year. AmeriCorps members range in age from seventeen to older than ninety. They reflect the diversity of America in age, ethnicity, education, sexual preference, physical ability, gender and religion.

AmeriCorps has four main goals:

• Getting Things Done
  AmeriCorps members help communities solve problems in the areas of education, public safety, the environment, and other human needs (like health and housing) by serving directly and by recruiting other people to serve as volunteers.
• Strengthening Communities
  AmeriCorps members help unite individuals from all different backgrounds—and organizations of all kinds—in a common effort to improve communities.
• Encouraging Responsibility
  AmeriCorps members explore and exercise their responsibilities to their communities, their families, and themselves during their service experience and throughout their lives.
• Expanding Opportunity
  AmeriCorps members receive awards to further their education or to pay back student loans. They also gain valuable job experience, specialized training, and other skills.

At the present time, the A.L.L. program is only avaiable to WAVE tutors over the summer of 2007, and 300 hour opportunities are available. Contact the CSL for more information at (440) 775-8055 or by email at csl@oberlin.edu.