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Volunteer Services
Community Volunteers
Does your community organization need volunteers? Would you like to volunteer to help an organization needing volunteers? Contact our Community Action Outreach Office and we will help link your organization with a potential volunteer or you with an organization that you can volunteer your time.
Click here to request more information.
AmeriCorps*VISTA
Since 1991, Community Action Partnership of Natrona County has served as an umbrella sponsor for the AmeriCorps*VISTA Program. The members are assigned to the Community Action Outreach Office, ARC of Wyoming, Child Development Center, Community Learning Center, Five Trails Adult Day Care Center, and the Natrona County School District. Activities include: assist in the development of the Homeless Collaborative; create and implement a computer recycling program and technology resource center; develop additional services for persons with developmental disabilities; and, develop and coordinate volunteer programs.
Last year's accomplishments included:
What is AmeriCorps*VISTA?
It's part of the AmeriCorps national network of service programs. AmeriCorps*VISTA has been meeting the needs of low-income communities since 1965, when it was established as Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). Since that time, more than 120,000 committed individuals have joined forces with over 15,000 local sponsors - public agencies and nonprofit groups - to strengthen low-income communities across the nation and carry out the mission of AmeriCorps*VISTA.
- To strengthen and supplement efforts to eliminate poverty and poverty-related problems.
- To encourage and enable persons from all walks of life and age groups, including elderly and retired Americans, to engage in constructive volunteer service.
- To generate the commitment of private sector resources.
- To encourage volunteer service at the local level.
- To strengthen the capacities of local agencies and organizations.
The Method
AmeriCorps*VISTA, with over 1,000 projects and more than 5,000 members, places individuals in disadvantaged communities for a full-time, full-year commitment to build the capacity of small community-based organizations. Members are assigned to local public and private non-profit organizations to work toward meeting the community needs determined by the community itself. The AmeriCorps*VISTA member’s role in addressing the problems of poverty in a particular community are to mobilize community resources, increase the capacity of the low-income community to solve problems, and ensure that activities initiated or expanded by VISTAs are sustained by the community when they leave. The members address issues in the areas of human needs, health, education, public safety, and environment.
Please go to the Applying to AmeriCorps page.
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