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AMERICORPS HOPE 2009-2010 ROSTER Healthy Options through Prevention and Education
CENTRAL OFFICE
Statewide Team Leader Position - Position Filled
Member serves as statewide team leader of AmeriCorps HOPE program of 22 members. Team Leader will facilitate communication among team and with staff, including weekly bulletins, monthly newsletters, electronic group, phone, email, and liaison between members and program staff. Frequent travel required for site visits, including extended overnight stays (4-5 days). Keep data, files, and records. Prepare monthly reports. This position is housed w/program manager in central office in Salem.
Statewide Youth Sexual Health Plan/My Future My Choice - Position Filled
OR Dept. of Human Services
Fax: 503-373-7032
Member will do extensive traveling around the state at times by them selves. Member must be comfortable traveling and staying in hotels alone. Member will be "on call" in regard to covering trainings and needs to be able to work with a very flexible work schedule. While traveling member will train and coach peer educators to present My Future My Choice curriculum, facilitate My Future My Choice classes, coordinate and mentor My Future My Choice Teen Advisory Board on individual projects and work with Commission on Children & Families-Positive Youth Development to assists community involvement with the Youth Sexual Health Plan.
ASTORIA
Life Works NW - Position Filled
Member will work with LifeWorks NW staff to provide the programs Friendly PEERsuasion and Strengthening Families 10-14. In addition, the member will conduct community education awareness activities and provide opportunities for youth activism, action, advocacy and community service.
BEND
Deschutes County Health Department - Position Filled
2577 NE Courtney Drive
Fax: 541-322-7465
Member will facilitate My Future My Choice curriculum/classes in Bend / La Pine & Sisters school districts among middle school youth. Assist in recruitment of teens and parents for several programs and activities including a teen and parent group.
Kids Intervention & Diagnostic Services - Position Filled
Member will facilitate and train community in the Darkness to Light curriculum, a child sexual abuse prevention trainings to adults. They will also be an integrul part of recruiting and managing volunteers and organizing the Blue Ribbon Campaign.
Saving Grace - Position Filled
Member will provide violence prevention education to youth using the evidence based curriculum Safe Dates. They will also give community presentations about dating, domestic and sexual violence, and provide out reach to the community at large through the use of media and social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
EUGENE
Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC) - Position Filled Member will assist staff and take lead roles in developing and organizing positive healthy opportunities for youth, families and communities in a variety of activities in diverse settings. Particularly addressing communities where poverty and gender inequities and expectations severely compromise family and community support.
Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) - Position Filled
Member will recruit, train, mentor and support youth volunteers ages 13-17, provide outreach to youth through classroom presentations, school based affinity groups, after school clubs and agencies providing youth services. They will also work closely with the SASS Self Defense Program to provide ongoing self-defense classes and workshops to youth.
GRANTS PASS
Women's Crisis Support Team - Position Filled
Member will schedule public awareness activities, speak at community forums, lead high school and middle school young men's/women's groups through various community outlets and recruit, train and maintain volunteers. They will also work to enhance our relationship with Rogue Community College by providing resources and assistance in maintaining the Women's Resource Center on campus.
HILLSBORO
Washington County Health & Human Services - Position Filled
Member will be supporting the efforts at both of the Teen Clinics in Washington County providing reproductive health education and outreach to almost every teen who visits the clinics. In addition, they will be working with youth leadership councils to support and promote the services of School Based Health Centers.
JOHN DAY
Grant Department of Human Services - Position Filled
Member will facilitate My Future My Choice, implement and recruit volunteers in the Friendly PEERsuasion and SMART reading prgrams, assist in the Lunch Buddy Mentor Program, Soar With Your Dreams event and work with community members to organize prevention events.
KLAMATH FALLS
Lutheran Community Services - Position Filled
Member will facilitate weekly in-school resiliency groups and monthly recreation and community-service activities with at-risk adolescents as well as deliver the Too Good for Drugs program to elementary school classrooms. Member will also work to develop a Youth Advisory Council and recruit volunteers.
MEDFORD
Kids Unlimited of Oregon - Position Filled Members will work with elementary and middle school kids tutoring and mentoring them. They will also be planning quarterly service learning projects and support community outreach and volunteer recruitment.
Planned Parenthood of SW Oregon - Position Filled
Member will be doing community outreach, community networking and organizing, youth development, youth, parent and community education, professional training, and provide information about sexual health in Jackson and Josephine counties.
NEWBERG
Chehalem Youth and Family Services - Position Filled
Member will assist in volunteer recruitment, training, recognition and support. Facilitate the expansion of the TeenScreen program, give presentations to community groups, and participate on the planning team to create new support projects for the TeenScreen and Community Mental Health Outreach Project. Continue work with existing programs such as Boy Scouts Venturing Crew, NW Passage Wilderness Recreation program and the Mentoring Program.
OREGON CITY
Clackamas Co. Office Children & Families - Position Filled
Member will be the lead coordinator of the My Future My Choice program for the county. Responsibilities include: oversight of the My Future My Choice program, liaison/scheduling to school administration, recruitment of teen leaders, coordination of My Future My Choice training to teen leaders and classroom facilitators and be the back up to classroom facilitators when needed.
PORTLAND
Insights Teen Parent Program - Position Filled
Member will be serving teen parents by facilitating a weekly housing support/resource group and returning phone calls to teen parents interested in services. In addition they will conduct sexual health presentations, attend Insights support groups and staff meetings, intake for families of the SEEDS Child Development program, facilitate/support teen parent class and serve on the Oregon Teen Pregnancy Task Force and the Multnomah Network on Teen Pregnancy and Young Parenting.
Volunteers of America - Home Free - Position Filled
Member will recruit, train and support teen volunteers for a newly developed transition mentoring program, develop new information regarding teens and domestic violence to enhance all aspects of our current training materials and create and present a recognition event for all program volunteers. Additionally, the member will give presentations to middle school and high school youth regarding healthy relationships, facilitate support groups for teen survivors of domestic and dating violence, and provide information and encouragement to individual teen grappling with an abusive partner or parent.
Youth Employment Institute (YEI) - Position Filled
Member will recruit & train volunteers to tutor and mentor high-risk youth, increase parental involvement through home visits and monthly parenting nights, teach and develop curriculum for life skills and parenting classes, present on YEI programming at community events and forums, develop a quarterly newsletter with youth writings and photography, and organize an Open House for parents, community members, partners and youth.
PRINEVILLE
Crook County Health Department
Member will be collaborating with the county health department, Commission on Children and Families and the county juvenile department to create the Crook County Partnership for Youth. The program will focus on prevention, self-development, skill building, and teen pregnancy prevention through evidence based programs.
WOODBURN
Woodburn School District - Position Filled
Member will facilitate comprehensive peer-led sex education to 6th grade classrooms; provide in-class presentations on sexuality, pregnancy, STDs/STIs, and teen dating relationships; organize and implement community and school based health campaigns; work collaboratively with local organizations to reduce youth risk taking behaviors; and facilitate support and mentorship groups with high school and middle school students. Spanish speaking preferred.
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