COVID-19 Containment Response Corps (CCRC) was a group of AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Senior volunteers who served as case investigators or contact tracers for the State of Colorado during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the CDC, “Case investigation and contact tracing is a specialized skill.
The Ready to Extend a Caring Hand (REACH) program is based on the Check and Connect model. This model is a mentoring program that aims to reduce the number of student absences from school and increase academic engagement. Students who are at risk of disengagement or dropping out of school are assigned a mentor. Mentors monitor school attendance and academic performance and connect assigned students with resources through one-on-one meetings or in small groups.
Teach For America is a national program that recruits and trains young adults to teach in low-income and disadvantaged communities in the United States to help confront educational inequity through measurable student growth.
The Washington Conservation Corps in partnership with city of Bellingham, established, maintained, and monitored a native plant restoration site near Anderson Creek in the Lake Whatcom watershed for a four-year period from 2018 through summer 2021. At the test site, Washington Conservation Corps applied three site treatments that are restoration methods used by the organization.
The Birth & Beyond (B&B) Family Resource Center Initiative, an AmeriCorps State and National program, supports families at risk of child maltreatment with weekly home visits by AmeriCorps members. AmeriCorps home visitors employ the evidence-based parent education curriculum, the Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP), and assess parents using the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI) to determine the risk of child maltreatment.
The College Possible program supports college admission and success for low-income students through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support by near-peer coaches. The program also supports students to find and enroll in their best-fit college to increase their chances of persisting and graduating college.
Benjamin is AmeriCorps' first chief diversity and inclusion officer. He joins AmeriCorps from the Department of Education, where he was deputy chief human capital officer and worked as a change strategist and executive leader for the agency's operational functions. Benjamin was also the managing executive for the department’s diversity, equity, and inclusion program and led the agency’s Diversity and Inclusion Council.