Healthy Futures

AmeriCorps enhances Americans' physical and mental well-being by focusing on health care access, aging in place, food security, substance use disorder, public safety, and homelessness. AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers address community health needs, including health education, mental health, and childhood obesity, especially in communities where the need is greatest.

Join AmeriCorps

• AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers provide substance use disorder education, serve as recovery coaches, support anti-drug organizations, build coalitions, and help prevent relapse.
   
• AmeriCorps members increase public safety by organizing community patrols, implementing safe routes to schools for children, securing vacant properties, and more, reducing safety program costs and criminal activity.
   
• AmeriCorps members enhance food security by supplying resources and fostering sustainable food systems to promote community independence.
   
• AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program helps older adults and people with disabilities live independently by providing transportation, delivering meals, assisting with shopping, monitor medication and more while they also provide respite to family caregivers. 
   

Benefits for AmeriCorps Members and AmeriCorps Seniors Volunteers