Job Description: AmeriCorps Volunteer (Internship)

• Provide intentional case-management services to a minimum of 5 to 15 economically disadvantaged students who are at-risk of dropping out of school
• Co-facilitate 1 group to address common barriers among students and provide a supportive environment in which students can build relationships, develop critical skills, and learn from the AmeriCorps Member and their peers
• Coordinate services within the CIS Targeted Needs, including Academic Needs, Attendance Needs, Mental & Behavioral Health Needs, Social Service Needs and College & Career Readiness Needs. 
• Participate in weekly supervision sessions and trainings.
• Commit to completing a term of service of 100, 300, 450 or 675 hours and options for both the full school year and by semester.

• Be 17 years or older
• Hold one of the following citizenship statuses: US citizen, US National, Lawful Permanent Resident Aliens
• Pass a national service criminal history check (FBI fingerprinting, state of service check, and national sex offender registry check)
• Received a high school diploma or its equivalent
• Must serve a minimum of 100, 300, 450 or 675 hours according to the service terms listed on the contract. Volunteers must serve for the entire program length. Start and end dates are non-negotiable.

• Attempting to influence legislation;
• Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes;
• Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing;
• Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements;
• Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office;
• Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials;
• Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization;
• Providing a direct benefit to – A business organized for profit; A labor union; A partisan political organization; A nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 related to engaging in political activities or substantial amount of lobbying except that nothing in these provisions shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative; and An organization engaged in the religious activities described in paragraph C. 7. above, unless CNCS assistance is not used to support those religious activities;
• Conducting a voter registration drive or using CNCS funds to conduct a voter registration drive;
• Providing abortion services or referrals for receipt of such services; and Such other activities as CNCS may prohibit.