Community Partnerships & Access VISTA

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We Strive for Literacy (WSFL) is building the Vista Literacy Collaborative so schools, families, community organizations, volunteers, and funders can work together to connect more low-income children with timely literacy support. Nearly two-thirds of Vista Unified students are not reading at grade level, leaving many children significantly behind in the foundational literacy skills they need for school success. Families must also navigate disconnected services, making it harder to find timely, effective support. Over three years, the Collaborative expects to benefit approximately 300 low-income children and families by strengthening partnerships, referral pathways, volunteer systems, community awareness, and sustainable resource development. This is a capacity-building service opportunity: AmeriCorps VISTA members create systems, tools, relationships, and documented practices that remain after their service year rather than provide ongoing direct tutoring. Members serve from WSFL's Vista office as part of a three-person VISTA team and receive structured supervision, project coaching, and professional-development support. Further help on this page can be found by clicking here.

Member Duties : Build the partnership and family-access infrastructure. Assess current partners, referral practices, family-access barriers, and community resources; create a partner map and organized pipeline; develop reusable outreach, meeting, and follow-up tools; Develop and pilot meeting agendas, facilitation tools, documentation procedures, and follow-up resources for staff to use in coordinating Collaborative meetings.; establish or strengthen relationships with schools and community organizations; and design, pilot, and improve referral and enrollment pathways with input from families and partners. Evaluate the systems, train designated users, and contribute final tools and lessons learned to the Vista Literacy Collaborative Replication Toolkit. Year 1 targets: Establish or strengthen 10 community partnerships and pilot partnership-engagement, referral, outreach, and collaborative-planning tools with at least four partners, documenting procedures for staff to sustain ongoing coordination. Program Benefits : Living Allowance , Transportation Reimbursement , Education award upon successful completion of service , Relocation Allowance , Training , Childcare assistance if eligible , Health Coverage , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend . For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorpsvista.imglobal.com/. Terms :

Car recommended . Service Areas :

Children/Youth , Community Outreach , Education . Skills :

Business/Entrepreneur , Communications , Community Organization , Recruitment , Leadership , Computers/Technology , Relationship building , Public Speaking , Team Work , General Skills , Education . Refine Search SUMMARY Program Type: AmeriCorps VISTA Program Community Partnerships & Access VISTA Program Start/End Date 09/08/2026 - 09/07/2027 Work Schedule Full Time Education level High school diploma/GED Age Requirement Minimum: 18 Maximum: None Program Locations CALIFORNIA Languages Spanish welcomed Accepting Applications From 08/10/2026 To 12/01/2026 Contact Cortney Wallace 138 Civic Center Dr. Vista CA 92084 760-688-0035 cwallace@westriveforliteracy.org https://westriveforliteracy.org/ Listing ID 130523

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