Teach For America National AmeriCorps Evaluation: 2017–18 and 2018–19 School Years
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.
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The Reading Partners Effect: Influencing the academic and career pathways of Reading Partners AmeriCorps Alumni
Reading Partners placed AmeriCorps members in California schools to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring for economically disadvantaged students at locations in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Silicon Valley. At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps members were responsible for measurably increasing the literacy skills of at least 1,471 high-need target students. In addition, the AmeriCorps members leveraged an additional 3,500 community volunteers who were engaged in individualized reading tutoring through the model.
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Public Allies External Impact Evaluation
The Public Allies AmeriCorps Apprenticeship program places AmeriCorps members with a variety of philanthropic organizations to develop new systems, conduct community assets and needs assessments, develop partnerships, and improve programming and capacity. The specific services delivered by AmeriCorps members may include:
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Mental Health Task Shifting in Community-Based Organizations
To lower barriers to accessing mental health care and fill gaps in the mental health care workforce, regional governments and coalitions have been exploring new strategies to address mental health care delivery. The Connections to Care (C2C) Collaborative with the Mayor’s Fund for the Advancement of NYC borrowed a concept of delivering care under constrained resources from global health initiatives called “task-shifting” and applied it to low-income communities in NYC.