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| Highway 1 Red Lake AmeriCorps Red Lake, Minnesota 56671 Office: 218-679-2667 218-679-2675 Fax: 218-679-3 |
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| Red Lake Nation Partners In Service to America |
| For more information contact: Myrna Hardy, Director Red Lake Americorps Red Lake Minnesota 218-679-2667/2675 email: americor@mail.paulbunyan.net |
| Partners In service to America 2004-2005 This program year (2004-2005) Partners in Service to America will select 29 (21 Full time, 8 part time) members 17 years or older. A member must have a GED certificate or diploma by the end of the program year. Qualities sought in potential members include: leadership, a positive attitude, willingness to work to accomplish improvements for their community, willingness to be supervised, high energy, assertiveness, initiative, ability to avoid alcohol and drug abuse. Members will provide services to Red Lake Nation at the following service sites: Education Ponemah/Red Lake Elementary/St. Mary's School where members will become trained qualified tutors for students in the elementary schools. Ponemah/Red Lake Head Start where members will provide school enrichment to students. Public Safety Equay Wii Ga Mig Women's Shelter where members will present a domestic violence curriculum to 250 students at three school settings. Jourdain/Perpich Extended Care where members will provide daily activities for the residence. Boys & Girls Club where members will provide non-academic school enrichment to youth in. Community strengthening where members will recruit volunteers from the community to provide services for presented needs. Member Development where members will receive intense training in various areas such as self-esteem, leadership, team building and CPR/First aid. OVERALL: National service began here in 1993 where Members of the Summer of Service cleaned a local creek and created a park around their work. Since those first days, 321 members have served 32,978 children, 933 preschoolers and 2,154 elders. They planted over 8,000 trees, created an interpretive trail, tested water and wild rice in Nett Lake, Minnesota, helping that community to gain drinkable water and eradicate a type of milfoil. They cleaned hundreds of houses for frail elderly and delivered them water and food. They tutored elementary children, helping to raise reading levels and assessment scores. They assisted at the flood disaster in Grand Forks, North Dakota. They were co-planners and presenters of EVERY positive community event. Partners in Service to America is an integral part of life at Red Lake. Red Lake AmeriCorps members are young single women and men, single parents, high school dropouts, college and tech students and are highly respected by their peers. Each year over a 100 applications are submitted for 25 to 30 positions. This year, Americorps will be selecting 29 members. Applications, although currently filled, were being accepted now at the AmeriCorps office. |
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| Email: americor@mail.paulbunyan.net |
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