ShoreCorps/PALS
Service Partner Sites 2010-2011
ShoreCorps/PALS is currently
recruiting sites for the 2011-2012 program year. If you are part of a
non-profit agency or school and are interested in having an AmeriCorps member at
your site, please complete a
Partnership Packet 2011-2012. Packets will be accepted on a first come,
first serve basis.
Full-time partnership contribution fee (per full-time AmeriCorps
member) will be $8,000.
Part-time partnership contribution fee (per
part-time AmeriCorps member) will be $6,000.
Quarter-time partnership contribution fee (per quarter-time
AmeriCorps member) will be $3,000.
ShoreCorps/PALS Service Sites
2010-2011
Listed below are the member
responsibilities at each of our service sites for
this year. Please refer to the organization's
website for more information about the agency or specific agency
programs.
Dorchester
Mid Shore Community
Mediation Center - Easton, Maryland
~
The primary responsibility of an AmeriCorps member at our site
would be to act as a liaison between home, school, program
staff, and volunteer tutors from the Wicomico Board of Education
to ensure academic success for al school-age children in our
residential program. As a liaison the AmeriCorps member would
monitor students’ academic progress and attendance at the
tutoring sessions. He/she would discuss progress with parents,
work with TLP staff tutors to create action plans for each
child, and involve parents in plans and progress.
www.midshoremediation.org
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Wicomico County
Big Brothers Big Sisters
– Salisbury, Maryland
~ Big Brothers Big Sisters mission is to
help children reach their fullest potential through
professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships and
a full range of youth mentoring programs with measurable impact.
Big Brothers Big Sisters is a private, non-profit agency which
matches adult volunteers with children from single-parent
families. The goal of this friendship is to help the child with
the tough job of growing up, expose him or her to new learning
experiences, and to help strengthen his or her self-esteem.
www.biglittle.org
Center 4 Clean Start
- Salisbury, Maryland
~Care for and interact with infants
and toddlers while the children's mothers are in addictions
counseling. The member will provide general care and supervision
along with foster grandparents (program is part of the Worcester
Health Department).
http://www.worcesterhealth.org/addictions.php
Kids of Honor, Inc.
- Salisbury, Maryland
~Kids of Honor, a youth-based non-profit that empowers youth
to graduate from high school. The member will facilitate
the high school program (Y.E.A.H.) and assist fifteen partner
programs in Wicomico County. Member needs to be available
during after-school hours- 3:00 to 6:30 p.m.- in addition to
other hours during the week.
www.kidsofhonor.org
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Salisbury Promise-
Salisbury, Maryland
~Salisbury’s Promise is a branch of America’s Promise. This
program embodies Five Promises which will help youth become
productive citizens: Caring Adults, Healthy Start and Future,
Safe Places, Marketable Skills and Opportunities to Serve. This
experience provides over 100 local students with Marketable
Skills through effective education about career acquisition
tools and opportunities.
http://www.americaspromise.org/Our-Work/100-Best-Communities-for-Young-People/Past-Winners/2010-Winners/Wicomico-County-Salisbury-MD.aspx
Salisbury Zoological Park - Salisbury, Maryland
~Conduct on-site and off-site Zoo education
programs designed to foster an understanding of and appreciation
for diversity and to encourage environmental stewardship and
community-based action designed to improve the world in which we
live. The member will also assist with the care and
handling of the education animal collection, volunteer
recruitment and training, office tasks and cleaning necessary
for educational programming.
www.salisburyzoo.org
Village of Hope-
Salisbury, Maryland
~The Translational Living Program at
Village of Hope seeks to provide a long-term safe, and
encouraging residential community of women and children who are
striving towards a life of independence and fulfillment. We
provide transitional living housing for homeless women with or
without dependent children. This is a two year program at which
time we provide counseling, individual and group for each women.
The director and the case worker develop monthly programs to
benefit the resident’s transition back into the community such
as; budgeting workshops, parenting classes, nutritional
programs, etc.
www.villageofhope.us
Ward Museum-
Salisbury, Maryland
~The Ward Museum is a crucial interdisciplinary learning
resource for the Delmarva Peninsula. The museum’s Education
Department serves over 19,000 youth and adult students every
year through a variety of dynamic, hands-on programs, tours, and
summer camps that focus on exploring birds in nature,
discovering birds in culture, and creating birds in art. The
museum offers programming to schools, home school, scouts and
other organized groups.
www.wardmuseum.org
Wicomico Mentoring Project
- Salisbury, Maryland
~Assist the mentoring coordinator at Salisbury Middle School
with all duties of the Wicomico Mentoring Project. The
member will interact with students, school staff and volunteers.
http://www.wicomicomentors.org/
Wicomico Partnership for Families
& Children - Salisbury, Maryland
~Perform community and media outreach. Duties to
include creating flyers, brochures, article writing, and overall
event management. Member will also gain professional
contacts and community exposure by talking with community
members about current initiatives, attending collaborative
meetings, working with corporate partners, and organizing
promotions for the local media about community programs.
http://www.wicomicocounty.org/departments/lmb/Default.html
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Worcester County
Delmarva Discovery Center –
Pokomoke City,
Maryland
~The Delmarva Discovery
Center on the Pocomoke River serves as a source of learning and
discovery for the public through the preservation and
interpretation of its cultural and natural heritage.
The member will develop and deliver scientific
presentations, coordinate volunteer scheduling and training,
assist with live animal care and promote publicized program
opportunities.
http://delmarvadiscoverycenter.org/
Worcester County Health Dept. -
Prevention Office - Snow Hill &
Berlin, Maryland
~Assist prevention specialists with the provision of
prevention services specifically directed towards youth.
Serve with specialist to assist youth in several gender specific
groups and after-school programs with a focus on prevention of
risk-behaviors (i.e., tobacco use, alcohol or other drugs,
etc.). Also participate in outreach activities to
disseminate information concerning these risk behaviors.
http://www.worcesterhealth.org/treatment-menu
Worcester County Health Dept.
- Helping Adolescents Recovery Today (H.A.R.T.) - Snow Hill,
Berlin, Ocean City, Maryland
~As
part of the mentoring program the AmeriCorps member will be
assisting in providing social and emotional support, school
assistance, advocacy, personal development, parent support,
linkages to outside resources, career development and cultural
and recreational support and activities. Our mentors do this by
offering friendship, listening, teaching, helping with homework,
assisting families in identifying community resources, talking
about peer pressure, teaching good work habits, praying games,
sports and hosting family dinners.
http://worcesterhealth.info/services/68-teens-menu/207-adolescent-program
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